Fenty Resigns!!!

How narrow minded are some people? Thinking its just this club and just this chairman, everything Fenty did is because he thought it was for the best. He put trust in managers with his own cash and supplimented there mistakes with yet more cash. He tried to move with the times, had he not he would've been shot down but as it happens he gave it a go and failed. But this season he was trying to turn it around, he was plugging the flipping gap! It's happened all over the country with worse circumstances than this and Fenty is the reason we are not in admin. You can say he's the reason hes were we are now but i'd like to see another guy willing to pump millions in to at least give it a go. Peopl are so set in there minds to be right that they fail to see the bigger picture, have it your way then, Fenty made mistakes and now you can go tell everybody that but dont go up in tears WHEN we go into admin because nobody else had the balls to do what Fenty did. Thankyou for trying John and thankyou for pumping in millions to the club you love to try and give the people of this town success. Most people with half a brain will see you tried your bloody best and we are going to flipping struggle without you! I'm sure everybody knows where the next pound is going to come from now....

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Seeing as I have been arguing on here for ages that JF should step aside I would be a hypocrite not to be pleased with the news.

Nothing personally against Fenty and I have a lot of respect for the way he has bankrolled the club, but like others have said the mess is really of his own making. He has had the opportunity to stand down ever since MP came on the scene. Perhaps this has been forced on him now or perhaps he sees a face saving moment.

Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter. What matters is the future.

Whoever takes over when this is sorted out must -

- guarantee the financial stability of the club
- come up with a viable plan for the future
- bankroll the managers to improve the squad for a promotion push this year if possible and next year as a minimum requirement
- get the fans and the community on board with some good PR straightaway

Thank you JF, you may have made your bravest and best decision as chairman of the club.

UTM

I agree with most of this apart from being brave and his best decision, it seems more like a tantrum and stomping of feet.  JF has a couple of million pegged at the club as a benign debt.  Why not turn some of that benign debt into shares and match MP.  If the club folds in the future then it will be down to pettyness and JF's legacy will be that of someone who killed the club because of ego.

Quoted from pontoonlew

How narrow minded are some people? Thinking its just this club and just this chairman, everything Fenty did is because he thought it was for the best. He put trust in managers with his own cash and supplimented there mistakes with yet more cash. He tried to move with the times, had he not he would've been shot down but as it happens he gave it a go and failed. But this season he was trying to turn it around, he was plugging the flipping gap! It's happened all over the country with worse circumstances than this and Fenty is the reason we are not in admin. You can say he's the reason hes were we are now but i'd like to see another guy willing to pump millions in to at least give it a go. Peopl are so set in there minds to be right that they fail to see the bigger picture, have it your way then, Fenty made mistakes and now you can go tell everybody that but dont go up in tears WHEN we go into admin because nobody else had the balls to do what Fenty did. Thankyou for trying John and thankyou for pumping in millions to the club you love to try and give the people of this town success. Most people with half a brain will see you tried your bloody best and we are going to flipping struggle without you! I'm sure everybody knows where the next pound is going to come from now....

Why has he resigned then? He could have matched Parkers shares by turning his some of his loans into shares. He has not been pushed he is jumping ship, he is no hero and he is the worst thing to ever happen to this club.

Quoted from pontoonlew

How narrow minded are some people? Thinking its just this club and just this chairman, everything Fenty did is because he thought it was for the best. He put trust in managers with his own cash and supplimented there mistakes with yet more cash. He tried to move with the times, had he not he would've been shot down but as it happens he gave it a go and failed. But this season he was trying to turn it around, he was plugging the flipping gap! It's happened all over the country with worse circumstances than this and Fenty is the reason we are not in admin. You can say he's the reason hes were we are now but i'd like to see another guy willing to pump millions in to at least give it a go. Peopl are so set in there minds to be right that they fail to see the bigger picture, have it your way then, Fenty made mistakes and now you can go tell everybody that but dont go up in tears WHEN we go into admin because nobody else had the balls to do what Fenty did. Thankyou for trying John and thankyou for pumping in millions to the club you love to try and give the people of this town success. Most people with half a brain will see you tried your bloody best and we are going to flipping struggle without you! I'm sure everybody knows where the next pound is going to come from now....

Good post

Quoted from pontoonlew

How narrow minded are some people? Thinking its just this club and just this chairman, everything Fenty did is because he thought it was for the best. He put trust in managers with his own cash and supplimented there mistakes with yet more cash. He tried to move with the times, had he not he would've been shot down but as it happens he gave it a go and failed. But this season he was trying to turn it around, he was plugging the flipping gap! It's happened all over the country with worse circumstances than this and Fenty is the reason we are not in admin. You can say he's the reason hes were we are now but i'd like to see another guy willing to pump millions in to at least give it a go. Peopl are so set in there minds to be right that they fail to see the bigger picture, have it your way then, Fenty made mistakes and now you can go tell everybody that but dont go up in tears WHEN we go into admin because nobody else had the balls to do what Fenty did. Thankyou for trying John and thankyou for pumping in millions to the club you love to try and give the people of this town success. Most people with half a brain will see you tried your bloody best and we are going to flipping struggle without you! I'm sure everybody knows where the next pound is going to come from now....

here here!!

I dont think MP will get involved on a day to day basis but will appoint/co-opt someone to do so until such time as he has the time and inclination to step into the firing line.

Surprised nobody has picked up on the absence of a regular poster over recent days

Quoted from Kris Mustampa

I dont think MP will get involved on a day to day basis but will appoint/co-opt someone to do so until such time as he has the time and inclination to step into the firing line.

Surprised nobody has picked up on the absence of a regular poster over recent days

I'd like to op out of this because I have been very busy working  

Come on spill the beans, I'm shattered as it is  

To all those celebrating I would say be careful for what you wish for. This could be terminal.

Yeah, like some are saying, we need to wait and see before we class this as a good or a bad thing. It sounds all well and good, getting rid of a chairman that hasn't done a very good job but if it ends up with the club imploding then it obviously isn't.

Hopefully, Fenty wouldn't resign knowing that that could happen though because if he did then all of the money that he put in to save the club will have been for nothing.

Quoted from pontoonlew

How narrow minded are some people? Thinking its just this club and just this chairman, everything Fenty did is because he thought it was for the best. He put trust in managers with his own cash and supplimented there mistakes with yet more cash. He tried to move with the times, had he not he would've been shot down but as it happens he gave it a go and failed. But this season he was trying to turn it around, he was plugging the flipping gap! It's happened all over the country with worse circumstances than this and Fenty is the reason we are not in admin. You can say he's the reason hes were we are now but i'd like to see another guy willing to pump millions in to at least give it a go. Peopl are so set in there minds to be right that they fail to see the bigger picture, have it your way then, Fenty made mistakes and now you can go tell everybody that but dont go up in tears WHEN we go into admin because nobody else had the balls to do what Fenty did. Thankyou for trying John and thankyou for pumping in millions to the club you love to try and give the people of this town success. Most people with half a brain will see you tried your bloody best and we are going to flipping struggle without you! I'm sure everybody knows where the next pound is going to come from now....

I agree yes JF made some strange appointments i.e. were the managers had no experience (Rodger, Groves etc) probably thinking they have played a lot of games and must know something, maybe the applicants were as good as we think, but even managers with experience have also failed the only one i wasn't happy about is Nicky Law.  JF has always backed the managers with a playing budget, yet i feel that some of these managers have to take the majority of the blame because its them that buy the players not JF.  Lok what happened when MN was apppointed yet some applauded him for appointing a successful manager and i'm sure he didn't turn around to JF and say yeah i'll be manager but i dont coach the team, do you really think JF would appoint him if he knew this was the case.  Then when it all goes pear shaped JF is to blame because the buck always stops at the top but in reality he did nothing wrong.  His only weakness was he PR which even i can admit is something i'd hate to do as i know i would be crap at it but sometimes as life as a chairman you have to speak to media there is no shying away from it.