Good By My Fishy Friends

Quoted from pontoonlew

John,

Over the past 2-3 seasons, this football club has drained the absolute life out of me. I'll support this club through thick and thin, I travel a 400 mile round trip just to make a home game. I've properly supported this club since that famous day in 98, since then i've seen little success but I tell you what I've seen some passion, some grit and i've been entertained. I've seen players like Pouton bust a bollock for the club, I saw Jevons score 'that' goal at Anfield, I've seen Andy Todd grab the club from certain relegation and I've seen a team do us stupidly proud by over achieving in the Championship year after year. I think deep down we all knew the clubs standing in the Championship wouldn't last forever, I can accept where we are now.

What I cannot accept, is the passion and grit that has been ripped away from it all. The entertainment that the current manager has drained from it, I don't like going to games anymore, I chose to do different things and I feel robbed of the club that I originally fell in love with. I don't really care if i've missed a 1-0 home win against Dover, the chances are I wouldn't had enjoyed it anyway! Then you come on here, you goad the fans who have stuck with this club through everything, you goad those fans who DARE to say they're sick of it. For a club who have fallen so far it's stunning that we're even this patient but I for one am totally sick of it now. I'm sick of going to a game, travelling 400 miles to get there and back, to see a toothless, heartless performance and then to top it all off, the manager comes on the radio and tells me it's my fault! It's my fault he's drained all the entertainment from the club i've supported for the majority of my life, it's my fault he sits back and plays shite, negative boring football week in week out. You and others at the club seem to think that we should just accept that? Who bloody cares if we 'got the result' when the fun isn't there anymore? Unless something changes we'll not have enough to get out of this league.

I have defended you for years, I dread to think where we'd be without you. But to blame the fans after the absolute shite you've overseen in the past 10 or so years is an absolute flipping insult to the time, effort, money and pain i've invested supporting the rubbish currently on show.

Quoted from BIGChris

Yeah, you and me both!

Quoted from barralad

I have a mate who is flying down from Aberdeen to Southampton to be there!

Quoted from gytone

That post is from the heart and exactly how I feel, although I don't travel that far and live locally I've only been to 3 games this season, which for me is unheard of, i dont even listen to the radio anymore when we are away, partly because i cant be bothered to find it ! but I'm afraid I  can't take it,, unfortunately I will continue to pick and choose my games.

Quoted from realist

You are right - post of the year for me. Sums it all up nicely

Quoted from fleabag1970

bang on the money , we are all slowly falling out of love with our club ........................................

Quoted from ivanosandwich

You speak for yourself....not all.

Quoted from fleabag1970

bang on the money , we are all slowly falling out of love with our club ........................................

Quoted from chaos33

I agree with you BC, and might I add what a tawdry f@cking mess this whole thing is. Pathetic. If Town would only stop being sh1t, then we could avoid all of these ugly and unnecessary conflagrations.

I will repeat something I have often said - Grimsby Town are very, very lucky to receive the level of support that they do. If it weren't for the perpetual failures and the insulting comments and lack of commitment, BP would be bustling and rocking. What angers and saddens me is that it is all there for the taking. If only we had people with real ability employed in key positions at the club, and were doing the business on the pitch then this would be some club to play for - going up and going places, instead of sinking like a f***ing stone and cutting our nose off to spite our face.