Go John. Enough is enough.

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Surely the team that turns out wearing Town shirts have to shoulder some of their responsibilities as well as JF - time to man up and show some spirit so us fans can get behind them instead of venting our frustrations because of the constant inept performances

Of course they should but then you have to accept who brought in those players because over the past 6 or 7 years we have had some right shite ones, and then you have to ask who brought in the managers.

I understand that JF did not have the deciding vote on Neil Woods but not to give NW his P45 at 5.00pm on that fateful day at Burton was a shocking decision if not well before that day.

And if my memory serves me correctly Newell, Edinburgh, Cooper and Shorty and Shouty never actually applied for the job of manager, we approached them, not sure if Woods ever applied for the position of manager.

In all the job applications we had received at the various times after AB was sacked there must have been someone who really wanted the job and who could possibly have either kept us up or even got us back up.

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

i believe we currently have no chairman.

if there was some mad man out there willing to invest, he would of done this by now...

You need stronger glasses, MP invested £1 million and how was he treated, what was the aftermath.

How about asking Sacha Baron Cohen to buy into his adopted club?

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How about asking Sacha Baron Cohen to buy into his adopted club?

Am sure there are people that would sit down and talk about by the sleeping giant (?) that is grimsby town. There are lesser clubs touted with big cash investment so why not us.

Quoted from barralad

Out of interest what exactly does the "open market" mean.

FWIW I agree with you about ITV Digital being old hat but from memory there wasn't anybody other than JF who did step up to the plate in the wake of that particular crisis-including the board at the time who'd definitely got us into the mess we were in. I wasn't involved at the time but wasn't that when the initial meetings for The Trust came about because a significant number of fans were very worried about the future.

As in FOOTBALL CLUB FOR SALE

Those jumping to the defence of Fenty and stating ITV digital is the reason for our demise, yes it affected us at the time, but it cost other clubs financially too and they are not out of the league!  Only one person can be blamed for the state our club and its non-league status and that is John Fenty and his silent board.  Even the trust members on the board appear to have been gagged, rather than providing a voice for the fans, they appear shackled by controlling Lord Fenty.

Did we ever get anyone willing to pump in millions when we was in the Championship at any given time, when we had players worth millions or hundreds of thousands, when we wasn't make big losses every season?

Don't think we did, so whose going to come in and take over when we are losing 200K+ per season with the competitive budget we have now?

New stadium will probally make the club more desirable than at present, if it can at least break even with a competitive budget.

I have a lot of sympathy for John Fenty. When the Keep the Mariners Afloat campaign was launched the response was underwhelming. The predominant opinion on the old Fishy (it may even have been the Electronic Fishcake) was "why should we stick our hands in our pockets when we have a multi-millionaire on the board and multi-millionaire lottery winners in the town". This was before the big economic crash so things were not as bad as they are now. John continued to put money into the club as the only significant "investor" for years until Mike Parker came along.

When the Trust was first launched, and for several years, no one gave a monkey's cuss, until Mike Parker donated 500,000 shares and subsequent deals put the Trust within touching distance of the Board.

So really we got the person running the club we deserved. John was right the other week. it is all the fans' fault*.


* slightly tongue in cheek  

Having said all that.....despite the concern about not having a competitive budget if John ceases to support the club financially, I'd be prepared to take the risk.

Now that sounds like a very promising offer K.M.