Stockwood and Artell BBC interviews

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Any chance you can put that through Google translate into English...its made my head hurt....

JS didn’t say The Grimsby Way but he still believes the club should have a footballing identity. I still believe the manager should bring the identity with them not the other way around

Quoted from It Bites

JS didn’t say The Grimsby Way but he still believes the club should have a footballing identity. I still believe the manager should bring the identity with them not the other way around

But our recent history shows that model doesn't work....if you have a preferred style then recruiting players to that helps with continuity and then development and integration of our own youth.
Swapping managers as often as we do you end up with a complete revolving door of players and staff with zero affiliation.

Quoted from It Bites

JS didn’t say The Grimsby Way but he still believes the club should have a footballing identity. I still believe the manager should bring the identity with them not the other way around

He did use the term in one interview, might have even been the fans forum but I might be wrong about that.

Quoted from It Bites

JS didn’t say The Grimsby Way but he still believes the club should have a footballing identity. I still believe the manager should bring the identity with them not the other way around

Very much backwards thinking nowadays, all the top clubs recruit managers to suit the style they want and it helps with player identification. It also helps in turnovers of staff/players as there's no need to be recruiting new staff/players to fit a different identity if a manager leaves.

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Very much backwards thinking nowadays, all the top clubs recruit managers to suit the style they want and it helps with player identification. It also helps in turnovers of staff/players as there's no need to be recruiting new staff/players to fit a different identity if a manager leaves.

Top clubs ? We’re still shopping in the bargain basement

After listening to both Jason's Saturday interview and Artells post match comments over the last few weeks I feel a little more confident in our future after a wretched season.
A few months ago I couldnt listen to him. Mind you a few months ago I thought Thompson flattered to deceive as well so what do I know.
By all accounts Artell is a decent guy and as Jason states the best leaders have a mixture of humility, technical ability and listening skills.
He has a difficult week ahead of him so was pleased it was done and dusted on Saturday.
Think the summer recruitment will be interesting and looking forward to see what sort of team we are aiming for. UTM

A great statement from DA

Quoted from rancido

A great statement from DA

PH always clapped the fans and commented on the good numbers away from home but it felt it was just part of his standard repertoire. With DA I think he was genuinely surprised at the level of backing from the fans, especially away from home. We had 3 long distance trips inside 2 weeks in March averaging over 500 fans making great noise and over 5.5k midweek home to Mk with a great atmosphere, not long after the Donny shambles - I think that really touched him

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

PH always clapped the fans and commented on the good numbers away from home but it felt it was just part of his standard repertoire. With DA I think he was genuinely surprised at the level of backing from the fans, especially away from home. We had 3 long distance trips inside 2 weeks in March averaging over 500 fans making great noise and over 5.5k midweek home to Mk with a great atmosphere, not long after the Donny shambles - I think that really touched him

Hurst gave an interview when he was actually Scunny manager, were he went out of his way to praise the Grimsby fans, esp the away support - cant get less standard repertoire than that. Nothing in it for him at all, in all probability got his own clubs fans backs up. His appreciation of our away following in particular was clearly genuine.

I also remember Doig giving an interview shortly after joining the shrews first time around. The club interviewer said something along the lines of "one thing different for you now is the size of the away support your getting with our fans in league1", said really smugly obviously assuming Doig would lap it up and blow smoke up their bottom. Doig just cut him dead and said "no Grimsbys a big club and got a big away following, so that's no different at all".
I dare say we would have been taking more than them in the conference tbh. You could just tell the interviewer had that grin wiped off his face and he swiftly moved on. But fair play, most assistants would have just followed the party line in that situation and agreed how great the shrewsbury fans were.