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....I'm looking forward to this weekend.
Won't be able to make the Cambridge game but will be at Cheltenham. And we've got the Inflasion of Barnet (copyright Paris Mariner) to look forward to.
Whatever happens, whoever comes and goes, whether you agree or disagree with the decisions, us Town fans will still be there. Best foot forward.
Gedinto-um!
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I'm going to be out of the country for two weeks from today. Please have it all sorted by the time I get back. Cheers!
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I'm going away for the weekend, so wouldn't have been there on Friday anyway. I'm quite glad really, as i awoke this morning feeling very annoyed with the situation, especially the prospect of the sludge returning.
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I wish I was going somewhere other than Cleethorpes-but now feel obliged to attend on Friday having disclosed elsewhere on the Fishy that I'd be coming up! However, mercifully, I'll be staying in London overnight on the 29th prior to an early departure from Gatwick on the 30th (en route to Lisbon) and will miss (or rather not 'miss') the last 2 games. Frankly, I can't wait for it all to end now....
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Im in Malaga atm was shocked when i came in from the beach to hear MB was sacked.
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I wish I was going somewhere other than Cleethorpes-but now feel obliged to attend on Friday having disclosed elsewhere on the Fishy that I'd be coming up! However, mercifully, I'll be staying in London overnight on the 29th prior to an early departure from Gatwick on the 30th (en route to Lisbon) and will miss (or rather not 'miss') the last 2 games. Frankly, I can't wait for it all to end now....
Getting there early to plant bugs at the EFL meeting venue?
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Have you got too few seats this time, too many, too few, can't you lot count or something
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Our other temp seating is at the old shared ground and costs too much (40k rumoured) to transport from ground to ground, dismantle and re-erect etc.
Huge kick in the teeth if this turns out to be true.
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Our other temp seating is at the old shared ground and costs too much (40k rumoured) to transport from ground to ground, dismantle and re-erect etc.
Huge kick in the teeth if this turns out to be true.
How many are you short, surely a club with your fanbase could raise enough via kickstarter to transport the old seating, or transport it yourselves as a community project
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That's tough Andy. £40k is about how much your average premier player pays for a watch.
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That's a real pain in the backside Andy. Must be very disappointing. Someone 'in charge' of the club must know the rules though. Makes our omission to re-apply for a licence some years back seem a minor oversight.
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Don't really want to see Slade back here purely because of the bad blood he left behind but having said that it is not up to us it is up to Fenty and the board. Grimsby Town F,C. is and always will be the only team I have loved all my life,that will never change. On the plus side Slade now as bags of league experience,loads of contacts, some decent players here to start with and plenty of time between now and next season to assemble a squad worthy of challenging for a top ten place at least. So if it is Russ mk2 he and the team WILL still get my support as would any other manager brought in. .This does not mean I won't moan from time to time though lol. Whoever it is good luck (and you do need luck) for next season. UTM.
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I agree this might not be as bad as people are fearing.
Was wondering what are peoples thoughts about the players MS has brought into this club and wether who is considered to be good signings? And bad.
Although MB has left the building surely we can take some positives with the players that he's brought in and will help our cause next season? Can we...
Open question really, appreciate the thoughts on this.
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I'm a season ticket holder but don't know if I'll miss my first match by choice. Might stay at home and watch recording of "Sound of Music" I like a nice cup of tea but Slade definitely isn't it. He ought to take his trumpet somewhere else-he's even more opinionated than Bignot. Russell Slade for Russell Slade------No thank you
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Im in Malaga atm was shocked when i came in from the beach to hear MB was sacked.
Must be hell meza. I really feel for you id thoroughly reccommend as Session in La Barra to get over it. Best tapas in Malaga IMHO and classy with it. In one of the alleys near the cathedral.many a happy night has been spent in there
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Must be hell meza. I really feel for you id thoroughly reccommend as Session in La Barra to get over it. Best tapas in Malaga IMHO and classy with it. In one of the alleys near the cathedral.many a happy night has been spent in there
I might just do that Forza before we move to Benalmadina. I was that shocked mate i had to see the valley of the eagles via cable car. Keeping my eyes peeled for 10am announcement 😃
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Don't really want to see Slade back here purely because of the bad blood he left behind but having said that it is not up to us it is up to Fenty and the board. Grimsby Town F,C. is and always will be the only team I have loved all my life,that will never change. On the plus side Slade now as bags of league experience,loads of contacts, some decent players here to start with and plenty of time between now and next season to assemble a squad worthy of challenging for a top ten place at least. So if it is Russ mk2 he and the team WILL still get my support as would any other manager brought in. .This does not mean I won't moan from time to time though lol. Whoever it is good luck (and you do need luck) for next season. UTM.
That's what concerns me. Their track record isn't exactly littered with success in picking managers. Only GTFC could turn a promotion season into a fiasco with 3 managers inside a year.
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it is up to Fenty and the board.
How much input have the board, and particularly the Trust, had in all of this? To me it looks very much like a "what John wants, John gets" appointment. We clearly haven't had time to sift through CV's, and then interview a shortlist. Surely the Trust realise what a divisive appointment this will be. It's a shockingly (yet again!) bad appointment by JF.
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How much input have the board, and particularly the Trust, had in all of this?
To me it looks very much like a "what John wants, John gets" appointment.
We clearly haven't had time to sift through CV's, and then interview a shortlist.
Surely the Trust realise what a divisive appointment this will be.
It's a shockingly (yet again!) bad appointment by JF.
Think the Trust rep is on holiday so i am told?
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There's an irony here. Bignot was "bigged up" massively before he arrived yet failed badly and now all the fans who were taken in by his bullsh*t are finding it hard to admit and so take it out on Slade.So if Slade fails and town sink will these "fans" then be happy.Together with Wilko ,we now have management with loads of league experience which we need to move forward.No matter how much Bignot bigged up his passed achievements in very lower circumstances he was just playing at being a league manager-and how it showed! In any form of management you are only as good as the job you are holding down.
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There's an irony here. Bignot was "bigged up" massively before he arrived yet failed badly and now all the fans who were taken in by his bullsh*t are finding it hard to admit and so take it out on Slade.So if Slade fails and town sink will these "fans" then be happy.Together with Wilko ,we now have management with loads of league experience which we need to move forward.No matter how much Bignot bigged up his passed achievements in very lower circumstances he was just playing at being a league manager-and how it showed! In any form of management you are only as good as the job you are holding down.
Firstly, it's only bullshit if you think it is. I didn't, so don't feel taken in at all. Secondly, very lower circumstances was the league below ours. Hardly a massive jump. And no, i won't be happy if Slade fails as it will just be another in a long line. I want him to succeed because i want the team to succeed. Whether he does, only time will tell. The same applies to any manager. I hate it when posters write "fans". Implying that they are not.
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It was a much lower level, all of his achievements came at tier 6. And whilst what he did at Solihull was impressive, it took him five years to get them promoted at a semi-professional level. The first four of those seasons they came 19th, 9th, 8th then 12th which is hardly pulling any trees up at a semi-professional level. When he left Solihull they were in the bottom half of the table so whilst not terrible, it was hardly impressive.
At the same time Slade finished 7th, 3rd (league one), 11th and 8th (Championship). So higher finishes in the respective leagues and either three or four divisions higher. Baffles me that some fans think MB would have done better than RS purely because he had one promotion even though it was in a semi-professional league.
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He also lost Bogle at solihul and then again here but then again-if you don't think Bogle would make a difference----
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It was a much lower level, all of his achievements came at tier 6. And whilst what he did at Solihull was impressive, it took him five years to get them promoted at a semi-professional level. The first four of those seasons they came 19th, 9th, 8th then 12th which is hardly pulling any trees up at a semi-professional level. When he left Solihull they were in the bottom half of the table so whilst not terrible, it was hardly impressive.
At the same time Slade finished 7th, 3rd (league one), 11th and 8th (Championship). So higher finishes in the respective leagues and either three or four divisions higher. Baffles me that some fans think MB would have done better than RS purely because he had one promotion even though it was in a semi-professional league.
I'm baffled too as i could swear you were an MB advocate not so long ago? I also swear you said we could do better than Slade in a post t'other day. Now you are singing his praises too.
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When MB came in I thought he was a breath of fresh air. He said all the right things and, like many, I got carried away with his enthusiasm. The early results, using Hurst's team were also promising. However, after a while it became pretty obvious that he spoke a lot but said little. The team seemed to be going backwards and my first concerns were raised in the Accrington game. Although we won, we were very poor and I said as such, trawl back through the posts if you don't believe me. Real concerns were raised at the debacle that was Stevenage where not only was the performance abysmal but the tactical decisions made by MB during the game were Sunday league. Then followed a multitude of poor performances interspersed with the odd four or five goal drubbing with very few good performances to ease the concerns.
At the same time, rumours of discontent with the players and interviews that were getting stranger and more contradictory by the week were starting to sound off alarm bells. I'm normally one to give a manager time but I've said in private for the last month or so that if I was the board I would get rid before the summer to allow a proper manager to assess the squad and have pre-season with them. MB had shown nothing to foster any faith in his abilities and I feared that losing our better players (Andrew seemed a lot less keen to sign than previously for example) would see us in real trouble next season. I never expected the board to make what is a brave decision but I'm glad they have.
As for Slade, could we do better? Of course we could. He's not a perfect manager, far from it and is certainly divisive given his history with us. But a lot of his former players speak very well about him, he gets team organised and plays to their strength and I'd be surprised if we lose more than we win next season. The addition of a quality coach in Wilkinson is a huge positive and between them they have far more experience and contacts in the football league than MB and his team.
I'm not saying I think we'll run away with he league next season with Slade in charge. But I was extremely worried about next season and now I'm quietly looking forward to it.
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Fair enough '91. It wasn't any kind of accusation i was making, so not going to trawl through your posts. We say it how we see it and i've made no secret of my wish for MB to have been given more time. Perhaps it just took me longer to see the light because i really didn't like Hurst and so wanted MB to succeed. I really thought he could be the next Buckley but am not too proud to say i was wrong.
It's time to forget the whole MB experiment and get behind the new duo, which i will do and hope next season, the team go out and do us proud. I really hope that these two unite the players and the fans, as it seems a long time since we had a manager that everyone got behind without question.
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Think the Trust rep is on holiday so i am told?
Oh good! Scope for more conspiracy theories on the timing.
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When you look at NL success, the Cowley brothers have a far more impressive record over time.
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Think the Trust rep is on holiday so i am told?
He might think Marcus is still in charge then, He will get a shock when he returns.
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Hear hear Ginny, onwards and upwards.
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