gone.

Been told just now paul has gone to shrewsbury all done and dusted.

Confirmed either tonight or morning.

Source?

Same for me Johnny, heard 15-20 mins ago, reliable info. I wish paul nothing but the best

JT on twitter is now saying his contact is now back tracking about PH leaving.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Been told just now paul has gone to shrewsbury all done and dusted.

Confirmed either tonight or morning.

If true good riddance for me, no good having somebody who does not want to be here. I have been a fan , leaving like this speaks volumes about him. Will be interesting to see how he gets on , our home form was poor and I wish Shrewsbury no joy with him

Probably from the goon who tried to con Fenty a few weeks ago.

JT reported deal was done and then said his source was back tracking.

Hopefully something concrete soon will let us either move on or just carry on.

Heard from a player that he's gone

He's gone.

If true I can't help but think Hurst has made a big mistake career wise.

It's up to the Town board now to find a better replacement (not the cheap option please).

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

Source?

My mum works the corner down freemo.

Believe me Mr hurst has left the building.

Like Forrest Gump once said.....excrement Happens!!

We move on!!

UTM

Quoted from jonnyboy82

My mum works the corner down freemo.

Believe me Mr hurst has left the building.

What's she look like. I might know her 😄

Why the crosses gentleman?! Its the truth, he is no longer GTFC manager

Well if it's true we move on, always replaceable onwards and upwards

Quoted from Hagrid

Why the crosses gentleman?! Its the truth, he is no longer GTFC manager

Source ??

Did a job (of sorts) for us in that he got us back in the league but won very few long-term friends along the way, primarily for playing a defensive set-up, putting square pegs in round holes and refusing to try the youngsters that he awarded contracts to.

I think something has gone on behind the scenes for him to leave to go to Shrewsbury but equally believe that there's sufficient managerial talent out there not to miss him.

Quoted from Hagrid

Why the crosses gentleman?! Its the truth, he is no longer GTFC manager

I heard 15-20mins before you did

Quoted from Civvy at last

What's she look like. I might know her 😄

She's the one with teeth.

I think the word for this is 'Meh'. Good luck to the bloke and thanks for getting us promoted but there are better out there that could hopefully bring excitement back to BP. He stabilised us and now IMO it's time for someone to come in and take us that one step further.

Quoted from Fat Cobra

I heard 15-20mins before you did

Think its for the best all round, the whole situation has been embarrasing

Quoted from jonnyboy82

She's the one with teeth.

Oh

I don't know her then. I don't do the posh ones 😉😄😄

Quoted from jonnyboy82

She's the one with teeth.

Her own?

Tondeur: Right. Paul still #gtfc manager tonight.  Things should be clearer tomorrow.

If true - and it may seem so based on the chatter here - Thank you, Paul Hurst, for giving me a day I`ll never forget at Wembley.
Thank you for setting us up with some good players this season too. May you find success, except against us!
But Shrewsbury? We will never understand that one.

Now - bring on the next manager - we have a lot of good candidates without a job out there. Someone even possibly living close to Grimsby.
This is not the end - it is a new beginning in a season where we won`t be too disappointed by mid-table mediocrity - a perfect time for a change.

UP the Mariners!

We should never try and keep a manager (or player) who does not want to be here anymore.

But there's been no contact. How can this be?

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

We should never try and keep a manager (or player) who does not want to be here anymore.

True.

But we should be compensated where appropriate !!

Quoted from jonnyboy82

My mum works the corner down freemo.

Believe me Mr hurst has left the building.

Is this your mum?

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Quoted from ginnywings

But there's been no contact. How can this be?

Exactly. Some fibs have been told.

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Quoted from jonnyboy82

She's the one with teeth.

If that's the case, say "Hello Daddy "

Quoted from GrimRob

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So have you bet against him leaving mate? Must be a good price?

Quoted from golfer

If that's the case, say "Hello Daddy "

Teeth in or out ?

He got us out of the mess Fenty put us in so good luck to the bloke.

We will move onwards and upwards.
UTM

If true I assume Doig will be caretaker manager then.

Quoted from promotion plaice

If true I assume Doig will be caretaker manager then.

Kin ell just the motivating voice needed to bring the lads up.

Heir spot on. I think Hurst has taken us far as he could At times I had to admit it was hard to look at the table but no regrets I wish him well  Fenty needs to look long and hard at the next manager the Club is in a positive frame and it seems back in the fans hearts again. As for going to Shrewsbury either a cry for help or a big fat wad  I will never understand it but a lot people won't be upset about it. On wards and upwards UTM

The King is dead. Long live the King.

Quoted from chaos33

So have you bet against him leaving mate? Must be a good price?

Nope. No data available.

Quoted from promotion plaice

If true I assume Doig will be caretaker manager then.

I think/hope they'll go as a pair.

My main worry is not necessarily about Paul going. Yes, he's done what was asked of him by the fans, and we can only hold him in high regards for that.

But, who will he take with him? Doig? Moore? Etc etc

If and when he goes to shrewsbury, good luck to him but he could of had the bottle to face the media yesterday and admitted he was leaving. Felt the relationship with the fans was always strained anyway and left on quiet a sour note.
We are bigger than any manager and we will always be here after any manager and player. We can progress further now with the right appointment because for me hurst took us as far as he could. Posistive appointment and you watch us step it up to the next level.

UTM

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

My main worry is not necessarily about Paul going. Yes, he's done what was asked of him by the fans, and we can only hold him in high regards for that.

But, who will he take with him? Doig? Moore? Etc etc

Moore has been at the club for 15 years and it's his home town. I highly doubt he'll be leaving.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

My main worry is not necessarily about Paul going. Yes, he's done what was asked of him by the fans, and we can only hold him in high regards for that.

But, who will he take with him? Doig? Moore? Etc etc

Doig will probs go, when hurst asks him because he dosent know a thing about it all, like were thick enough to believe that crap, could of had the tenancy to tell us the truth....moore will stay his town througb and through.

Quoted from chaos33

I think/hope they'll go as a pair.

A pair of what.........

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

My main worry is not necessarily about Paul going. Yes, he's done what was asked of him by the fans, and we can only hold him in high regards for that.

But, who will he take with him? Doig? Moore? Etc etc

Doig, he can go with PH

Moore, he's got the GTFC badge tattooed on the inside of his scrotum

I cannot believe that we are now in the position where Hurst has gone and Neil Woods is the next in command. How the actual intercourse did this happen?

To say I am apprehensive about the next appointment is something of an understatement.

What series of intercourse ups led to this situation I wonder?

Christ.

If he has gone the silver lining for me is no LJL in January ...   

Quoted from mariner91

Moore has been at the club for 15 years and it's his home town. I highly doubt he'll be leaving.

He will take over as c/taker manager if Doig goes as well.

Woods temporary charge at the very most, get on your phone now Mr Fenty and try and get Adkins or Bignot in as soon as possible.

There's alot of bad stuff on twitter all aimed at JF

Quoted from Mariner_09

Woods temporary charge at the very most, get on your phone now Mr Fenty and try and get Adkins or Bignot in as soon as possible.

Please never suggest Woods as temp manager again. The guys is a town great but for everyone's sake keep him where he is good - with the youth team.

Moore in for Saturday if PH has gone, which gives us a good 10-12 days to shortlist and interview.

Quoted from Bigdog

Doig, he can go with PH

Moore, he's got the GTFC badge tattooed on the inside of his scrotum

What an image, not sure I can get it out of my head now it's there either.

Can see it now, trawling through deadline day in january and up pops "shrewsbury bid for newport striker lennell john lewis 😅😅😅😅

Woods isnt even at the club yet

I don't think Woods is even in the building yet. The announcement of his appointment said he'd be starting in a few weeks.

Then theres the poaching of Mckeown pearson etc

Quoted from 97

I cannot believe that we are now in the position where Hurst has gone and Neil Woods is the next in command. How the actual intercourse did this happen?

To say I am apprehensive about the next appointment is something of an understatement.

What series of intercourse ups led to this situation I wonder?

Christ.

I feel the same. In time it will almost certainly come out that we could have kept him but JF.........

I also think this could be an opportunity for the club but who honestly feels confident about how and who we'll appoint?

Hurst, Doig and Warrington will all leave together. Means Moore and probably a couple of senior pro's in charge till a new man appointed, possibly Dizza and Davies.

Firstly HUGE thanks to Paul Hurst for turning round our rotting club. I for one appreciated the job you have done in stopping the rot and getting us back in the league. I still feel bitter that our ex chairman allowed irelegation to happen and I am also bitter that his stranglehold on our club continues to hold us back.

Maybe Hurst felt he has gone a bit stale and needed a new challenge?

Next iHUGE job is to get the appointment right. It is very unusual for any football club board to get 2 consecutive appointments right let alone our lot so lots of fingers crossed.

Who it should be I don't know, all I want is someone who will work his nuts off to improve us by playing attacking football. If he can have a good relationship with the fans then that is a bonus.

Adkins
Bignot
Evans
Pennock

Whichever way this pans out, staying or going, someone is going to end up with a giant omelette on his face.

Quoted from Cloudy

Pennock

Would be a horrendous appointment. Three years at FGR where they were spending comfortably double what Town were doing (and we had a large budget for that league) and he couldn't get them up. One year he couldn't even get them in to the play offs. They also played a dire brand of football under him. No thank you.

We've no shortage of potential caretakers, several former Town managers lie in waiting. Woods, Rodger, Buckley, also Moore has managed

I dread any sort of in-house option, really hope the board don't go down that route. The problem is caretakers can sometimes win and the temptation is to keep them on.

Would have preferred him to stay but c'est la vie. Good luck Paul and thanks for getting us out of that league.

Regards his replacement I'd prefer an experienced, safe pair of hands like Evans, Stubbs or Cotterill as opposed to a young up and coming manager.

Quoted from GrimRob

We've no shortage of potential caretakers, several former Town managers lie in waiting. Woods, Rodger, Buckley, also Moore has managed

I dread any sort of in-house option, really hope the board don't go down that route. The problem is caretakers can sometimes win and the temptation is to keep them on.

Even if they lose we still employ them

At the end of the day who didn't see this coming? The guy went behind Boston's back to join us and now he's done the same to us. As much as I want him to stay, he has done what he set out to do in getting us promoted. Lets move on, the club will no doubt have seen this coming and pit the relevant things in place.

Thanks for the Promotion and all that though.

If this turns out to be true it will be absolutely wonderful news, a really good thing for the club. Get a proper manager in .

Gosh, a positive post. How will i ever live this this down?

Quoted from Meza

There's alot of bad stuff on twitter all aimed at JF

Not on social media, who is saying what, players, manager, fans?

Quoted from Wrawby_Mariner

At the end of the day who didn't see this coming? The guy went behind Boston's back to join us and now he's done the same to us. As much as I want him to stay, he has done what he set out to do in getting us promoted. Lets move on, the club will no doubt have seen this coming and pit the relevant things in place.

Thanks for the Promotion and all that though.

Also a big thanks must go to the guy who hauled Gowling down in the Braintree game, Hurst or no Hurst without his generous action we could have been home to Ferriby this Saturday

Quoted from Garth

Also a big thanks must go to the guy who hauled Gowling down in the Braintree game, Hurst or no Hurst without his generous action we could have been home to Ferriby this Saturday

No doubt that was a contributing factor.

Can I just plead with Fenty now not to take the cheap easy option please. And when a new gaffer comes in let's back him and update the backroom staff setup as having no fitness/conditioning coach at this level is a urine take to be quite frank.

Quoted from Mariners_15

Can I just plead with Fenty now not to take the cheap easy option please. And when a new gaffer comes in let's back him and update the backroom staff setup as having no fitness/conditioning coach at this level is a urine take to be quite frank.

I would like to plead with him too. But I doubt he'll take any notice of what you or I say  

Can someone explain to me what the cheap option is?

Quoted from Sigone

Can someone explain to me what the cheap option is?

Hurst staying  

Some fans i assume, are blaming JF for PH leaving and then bringing up the past 10 years.

Why do we always bring up the shite from the past.  Have they forgotten who got PH in the first place.  I just cant stand fickle people drumming on about towns downfall it does my head in.

Hurst gone 6 figure yearly salary apparently 💷💷💷💷

Thanks for the few good memories Mr Hurst but if I'm honest most of them are excrement, and good luck with your sideways move but if I'm honest I hope you fail miserably.

Paul Hurst, sadly in my period of watching Town, has been by far and away our most successful manager. He will leave the club in a position incomparably better than it was when he took over. In my opinion we are forever indebted to him. My sentimental thoughts may not mirror across this forum but I didn’t give two hoots about how we got out of the doldrums that is non-league and I was perfectly happy to give Hursty this year at least. He seems to adapted quite well, we have almost totally carried over our Conference form, we can win away but can’t win at home and we seem to get punished for very little and then create a whole host of chances but fail to take any.

I do not begrudge Hursty’s stubbornness and his dealings with Podge and Arnold as he needed to show who was boss as he did with Thomas, Neilson, Brown and Mackreth. He has shown to be a terrific man manager as players as you never hear of any believable rifts in the dressing room as these things invariably creep out. I also admired his determinism on three occasions.

Firstly, when Shouty got the bullet, he could easily have walked out with him, and that decision seems to have benefitted him in the long run. The second was after the Halifax shenanigans. He was personally insulted with very prominent chants of “Hurst out” and “Hursty is a w*****”which was totally tasteless and uncalled for. I wouldn’t have criticised him in the slightest had he turned round and stuck two fingers up at us and said, “I’m not putting up with that lot”. Thirdly was after Braintree at home that was the lowest I’d ever been, I did begin to think Hursty’s teams were predictable and too many half clever managers had sussed him out. He proved us all wrong with a wonderfully executed tactical masterplan at Braintree, where we exhausted them with midfield dominance and then exploited that tiredness with pace on both flanks. Utter genius. We then completely dominated FGR at Wembley and were in no trouble bar a wonder goal and a ridiculous miss by Parkin.

He was in my opinion totally within his rights to come out with emotions running high and let everyone know how difficult it has been for him personally. He is a human being after all and we shouldn’t forget the amount of abuse he received, no matter how thick his skin, will eventually get through.

After the torrid decade we had endured and the particularly awful 2 years under Newell and then Woody, he and Shouty, came in and steadied the ship, we eventually started to show progress between seasons and he spotted some of the best players that some of us have seen at BP. McKeown, Pearson, Dis, Hearn, Amond, Toto, Arnold, the list goes on. We finally had a team that was evidently trying and played for the shirt and the badge. Then when Shouty left, our footballing style improved exponentially over the coming months and better players were brought in as players weren’t afraid to work for him and not that foul mouthed buffoon, Shouty.

Some of his decisions have been almost instinctively criticised. His decision to repeatedly play John Lewis, was correct, he offered lots to us and we benefitted from his tireless running and his footballing ability is indicative of a number of decisions he has taken. Perhaps the fact we played well at Braintree and Wembley with Monkhouse out the side wasn’t entirely unrelated. We will never know but I have my doubts. Against almost this entire forum’s expectation he achieved what he set out to. He guided us back to where we belong, he stopped the rot that could have continued and made the momentum alter to the other direction.

He has his faults, undoubtedly. He has prickly demeanour, and when things don’t suit he has a propensity to bite when he possibly shouldn’t. He seems unwilling for one reason or another to give a formation other than 4-4-2 an extended period. I personally believe, Comley and McAllister sitting with Bolarinwa, Vose and Chambers behind Bogle would create havoc in this league. He also never found an effective way to win games like yesterday but I’d rather have been better against good teams than poor ones.

But his pros certainly outweigh his cons. He has a ruthless streak, he didn’t mess about last year, he cleared out the dead wood and didn’t respond the Amond’s gamesmanship off the pitch. He can spot a player and he can set his teams up to be very effective away from home and he got us promoted. I have so many questions I want answering though.

Why Shrewsbury? What is wrong with us now? Why either Mr Fenty, Hursty, Shrewsbury or whoever has let this situation be played out like this? He will now leave with a cloud over him. Some of us were already ambivalent about him and some even want him gone. The concern I now have going forward is that we lost two key players to Hartlepool and a manager to Shrewsbury, is there somebody being too tight, i.e. Mr Fenty, or has he simply decided a change was better for him? Maybe it will be for everyone, someone like Adkins or Bignot could come in and guide us to the next level and hopefully cross paths with Shrewsbury next year.

Quoted from mr b

Hurst gone 6 figure yearly salary apparently 💷💷💷💷

a pay cut then ?

We were paying him a 7 figure sum .. £10,000:00p  

Buckley should be installed as Caretaker Manager. He's an experienced pair of hands and knows the team. It will give us a bit of breathing space to choose the right replacement for Hurst.

No. I've got nothing but respect for him, but Buckley himself acknowledges he's past it, and that he was past it last time he was manager.

Totally agree Dav. AB has watched the team regularly, and has clear insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the players. He knows the game inside out, and is way ahead of the other possibles (with apologies to DM).

I'd hope he knows how to win a game at home, he watched enough of them. Pearson would be straight back in the side as would Bolarinwa and Browne as he'd want proper wingers.

Quoted from wigworld

No. I've got nothing but respect for him, but Buckley himself acknowledges he's past it, and that he was past it last time he was manager.

Didn't say we should bring him back for good. He's a man that has managed over 1,000 FL matches and would provide a bit of stability in a difficult period whilst we look for a replacement. He watches the team regularly so it wouldn't be a group of unknown players. Would rather him than non-entity Doig take care of the team.

Jesus Christ, the AB rubbish has started already. And to think Fenty has been accused of poor choices of manager.
AB has a wonderful place in our history, but that is where he should stay.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Can see it now, trawling through deadline day in january and up pops "shrewsbury bid for newport striker lennell john lewis 😅😅😅😅

Well I flipping hope so. It would serve the girl privates right.

Hurst will have to play the hand he's dealt at Shrewsbury until January. They could be adrift by then. They've looked pretty hapless for a while. Good luck with that.

Quoted from mr b

Hurst gone 6 figure yearly salary apparently 💷💷💷💷

9,000.67?!

He leaves the club in a much better state than when he took over.  It's possible that he even helped save it by eventually getting us promoted back to the league.  He's built a good side.  We should all wish him well.

Quoted from chaos33

Hurst will have to play the hand he's dealt at Shrewsbury until January. They could be adrift by then. They've looked pretty hapless for a while. Good luck with that.

Unless he's guaranteed a tidy sum for the next 18 months, it's a bad move. I can't see him being the man to turn it round quickly.

Quoted from Les Brechin

The King is dead. Long live the King.

We don't have one yet.

Quoted from Wrawby_Mariner

At the end of the day who didn't see this coming? The guy went behind Boston's back to join us and now he's done the same to us. As much as I want him to stay, he has done what he set out to do in getting us promoted. Lets move on, the club will no doubt have seen this coming and pit the relevant things in place.

Thanks for the Promotion and all that though.

That been burning quietly for 6 years?

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

He leaves the club in a much better state than when he took over.  It's possible that he even helped save it by eventually getting us promoted back to the league.  He's built a good side.  We should all wish him well.

I do wish him well.