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This is ridiculous, as Stevie Saunders said, he walks and we have no club.
Yeh, that's really sensible that is.
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What happened with Aswad's flat?
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Quoted from 75
I'll be at the next forum, if allowed in the ground and Monday to Wednesday.
I've never hidden behind my fishy username and I won't hide behind political half truths either.
Facts are facts.
John Fenty was chairman when this great club were almost relegated from the football league if not for Luton's 30 point deduction.
The following season, Grimsby Town were the 91st of 92 and were relegated out of the league!
5 years on, we are an established non league Conference outfit.
Hull City lie a universe away, they've got their act together so no issues there. I think they'll go down this year, hope so but they'll be looking at Championship football.
But Scunthorpe, who have been at least a division, mostly two, sometimes THREE divisions above us, I can't abide. It embarrasses me, humiliates our club.
I don't doubt JF had done his best but when is your best not good enough?
I've heared what's happened with Azza and his flat by the way.
Ive got no idea how shooting ones self in the foot would solve anything, agreed things are not as we would like them but 4th in the league is better surely than admin FFS |
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The only people in the way are John Fenty and possibly the banks. There is definitely an air of discontentment around Blundell Park from top to bottom. Something is bound to give in a big way very shortly and if somebody doesn't act quickly the club we love will spiral downwards at a rate we may not be able to stop.
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It's true that JF's reign has coincided with our fall from grace, and it's debatable whether he has been a contributing cause, or the primary cause of the situation, or if he is - in context - the club's saviour. I always felt that the new ground project is a huge decade-long distraction from getting the team properly fixed, and that his passion about GTFC is often dissipated by poor PR skills.
But - he puts his money where his mouth is, and abusive rants about the guy who, along with we supporters, is keeping the club afloat is a self-defeating thing.
Come up with a credible alternative plan and everyone will listen. Until you have something constructive to say, this kind of lazy commentary doesn't help anyone.
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The only people in the way are John Fenty and possibly the banks. There is definitely an air of discontentment around Blundell Park from top to bottom. Something is bound to give in a big way very shortly and if somebody doesn't act quickly the club we love will spiral downwards at a rate we may not be able to stop.
Anyone else willing to roll the dice? I don't think too many people with cash are willing to work with JF? I've heared that from many sources, though self made millionaires are probably buggers to get into partnerships with. I'll be clear, the few times I d met John, he's been a gent. I've no problems with the bloke on a personal level but to get my facts right, he was the chairman when we so nearly went out of the football league at Bournemouth, to not learn from that and to be relegated from the football league was and is calamitous. We are not Accrington Stanley (no disrespect). But 5 years later, we are still non league, under his leadership (he speaks for the board, not sure what the CEO Ian Fleming does) and yes had more than a fair crack. He's failed so massively we are two leagues below Scunthorpe. Alfreton are our local rivals now. |
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He hadn't had dogs abuse, honestly I think he has got off lightly. You are talking about a chairman / owner that had taken Grimsby Town OUT of the football league! After a fortuitous reprieve the season before. He has had FIVE years to take this club out of the wilderness. We just get weaker and weaker and more reliant on him. Walk away, the club surely had no value? It loses money every week according to the PLC accounts?
It has no value? I'd like him to state his price for his benign loans, am alone in hearing people will not work with him?
Something has to be done I love this club but can't stand this slow agonizing death much longer. No one has come forward because the club has not been put on the market , you don't sell a car or house before you decide to sell. Mr Fenty or anyone else need to be big enough to admit when they are beaten and look at the bigger picture and do what's right for the club, fans and town. Mr Fenty is not the only one running our club there are other directors and their silence is deafening. |
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I've heard several stories about people not wanting to work for or with him. I've heard lots of reasons (in interviews) why he doesn't command respect etc. I've nothing personal against him and I'm sure that he has tried his best, but, as BPV says, there needs to be an exit strategy because he's had his time and his best has not been good enough.
The bottom line is the £3million benign loan. I've posted too many times on here about what he means by benign. What's the bottom line? What is the price tag for GTFC?
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When you sit in the hot seat at any club in the land you get smoke blown up your rear end when things are great and abuse when it isn't.
Is JF to blame for relegation out of the
Championship, no
League 1, debatable
League 2, most definitely
Failure to make us a force in the conference, most definitely.
Frustrations seem to be spilling over, people may claim he has saved the club and in some respects he did. Others have just the right claim that he has suffocated the life out of the club the way it is at the minute.
I laugh my balderdash off when people cry but who will come in with money, it was claimed at the time that MP joined the board that he was worth 3 times what JF was. Look at the investment by both when they were both involved at the same time and look at the time line of the train crash that was the shares issue.
Regardless of what people want or demand, the state of the club is in Fenty's hands, it's his legacy.
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It is well known that people have tried to invest in GTFC, but won't, or can't if Fenty remains involved. He has dragged this club as low as he could and absolutely needs to walk away before the good times can return. Any business that had performed as we have over the last 10 years would, without doubt demand a change of control. Time to get the Fenty Out signs dusted down, he might go round snapping them though!
Scunny's new ground plan is moving fast, as someone else said, they have a dynamic chairman who it seems is respected by the local council. We have a stubborn & childish chairman, who with his politics, is not helping the club get its support from the council and never will whilst he is involved.
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