Checkatrade Trophy boycott - fans game

Has anybody thought King George? Or Bradley? Sorry I've joined this thread late.

maybe we should try and switch the games so the game that matters is at BP and the other is at linden club, more support would want to watch the game that counts, i wont be able to go but will still donate to worth while cause

"edit" sorry missed other threads, send the mariners to PP to play

Quoted from moosey_club

GY Borough and Cleethorpes Town i can sort of see why they may feel this could threaten their relationship with the club after all they have the friendlies each season now that raises funds to help their clubs with games at their pitches...Lucarlys though...??
I cant imagine what Lucarly's stand to lose out of this to even feel threatened/wary.......do the club regularly hire out Lucarly's for functions ? Hire the pitch for training ? Use it as a conference facility ? Does JF use it as a drinking hole ?  What repercussions could there be ?
If anything Lucarlys and McMenemies are both function facilities fighting for business in the same pond arent they ?

Grimsby Borough are now running Lucarly's I believe.

Well, I for one think this is a great initiative and I hope to be there to enjoy it.

We, as football fans, have been let down by those who are supposed to be in charge of the sport we love. The PL is on a quest for world domination and as part of that it's now affecting a competition that has - or should have - nothing to do with them.

Football is for the fans. Clubs are - or should be - run by fans. We are the lifeblood. If we're suddenly taken out of the equation on votes like this Checkatrade charade then that's the sign of a club that's lost perspective of what truly matters to it.

I'm massively disappointed that our board voted in favour of elite under-23 teams joining the Checkatrade. I have no intention of watching any match in this competition and would rather watch a football match that's all about the fans.

Hopefully enough people agree, and enough people come along to watch the fans' match to make other clubs sit up and take note - or, even better, other clubs' fans see what we're doing and start to organise their own fans' match on the same night as their Checkatrade matches.

Excellent Cod Almighty piece today:

http://www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=6392

A section of a piece written on Cod Almighty below that sums up perfectly my feelings re how our club is being run and echoes my concerns for the future. When an incumbent has been in a position for a long time, they begin to think that the organisation they serve and they themselves are one and the same. Something needs addressing as I've never felt so detached from how I feel the club should be run..


"What the boycott match was not about was John Fenty or Grimsby Town. That was unless (as the facts we have presented might suggest) Fenty, and perhaps others at the club, have started using their position to bully community organisations into turning away business.

Fenty has taken to branding his plans to move the club to Peaks Parkway as a "community stadium". What kind of community does he really want to be a part of if one week he is telling a locally owned newspaper it must pay to speak to Russell Slade, and the next he is letting local sports clubs believe they need his permission before they decide to host a charity match? When Fenty talks about "community", I can't help but imagine him in a 17th-century wig, a latter-day Louis XIV, saying: "Les Mariners? C'est moi."

There is no sustainable community model that is based on one person having such power that he can dictate to all others. And there is no future for Grimsby Town if it allows its majority shareowner to treat his personal views and interests as being identical with the club.

For that reason, every Town fan has an important choice to make on 29 August. Missing a Grimsby Town match is a wrench – support is what supporters do – but understand that if you go along to the Checkatrade Trophy match you are supporting those who want to mould the Football League for the convenience of Premier League clubs with more players than they know what to do with. And now, until someone puts an alternative construction on the facts presented above, you will also be complicit in the cowing of grassroots sport."

Quoted from Bigdog

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"What the boycott match was not about was John Fenty or Grimsby Town. That was unless (as the facts we have presented might suggest) Fenty, and perhaps others at the club, have started using their position to bully community organisations into turning away business.

Fenty has taken to branding his plans to move the club to Peaks Parkway as a "community stadium". What kind of community does he really want to be a part of if one week he is telling a locally owned newspaper it must pay to speak to Russell Slade, and the next he is letting local sports clubs believe they need his permission before they decide to host a charity match? When Fenty talks about "community", I can't help but imagine him in a 17th-century wig, a latter-day Louis XIV, saying: "Les Mariners? C'est moi."

There is no sustainable community model that is based on one person having such power that he can dictate to all others. And there is no future for Grimsby Town if it allows its majority shareowner to treat his personal views and interests as being identical with the club.

For that reason, every Town fan has an important choice to make on 29 August. Missing a Grimsby Town match is a wrench – support is what supporters do – but understand that if you go along to the Checkatrade Trophy match you are supporting those who want to mould the Football League for the convenience of Premier League clubs with more players than they know what to do with. And now, until someone puts an alternative construction on the facts presented above, you will also be complicit in the cowing of grassroots sport."

Nail, hit, head

With this current news I will no longer be putting my hard earned money into jf's pocket .... I'm out .... if this is true it is disgusting dictatorial behaviour imo

I kind of have to agree with fleabag... I really hope Fenty hasn't stuck his nose in as it seems, always supported him and everyone at Gtfc but this is not good.

http://imgur.com/a/xE71n


Entirely coincidental