Not being heard.......Don’t line his pockets!!!

Quoted from Maringer

Bournemouth were actually deducted 17 points at the start of the season but managed to finish 5 points above us. Rotherham also started with -17 points but finished 27 points ahead of us (!) but it was Luton that started with -30 points and duly went down.

Good Lord, we were truly shite that season. Can't believe that I was expecting anything better under Newell the next season after we'd won so few games under him the previous one.

Do we really need to keep reflecting on past failures? No we don't. All we need to do is look forward now.

Quoted from 120790

Do we really need to keep reflecting on past failures? No we don't. All we need to do is look forward now.

But looking forward all I can see is failure, doom and a club collapsing.

Quoted from OneLove

But looking forward all I can see is failure, doom and a club collapsing.

Christ on a bike it's the Fishy's answer to a cross between Fraser from Dad's Army and Senna The Soothsayer from Up Pompeii!

Sorry Dad.

What am I allowed to post about on this public forum? Please send me a list of topics which have your approval.

(Comment aimed at Ascend)

Quoted from barralad

Christ on a bike it's the Fishy's answer to a cross between Fraser from Dad's Army and Senna The Soothsayer from Up Pompeii!

Hahaha its how I feel and how the clubs made me feel unfortunately, the doom and gloomster

Quoted from Maringer

Bournemouth were actually deducted 17 points at the start of the season but managed to finish 5 points above us. Rotherham also started with -17 points but finished 27 points ahead of us (!) but it was Luton that started with -30 points and duly went down.

Good Lord, we were truly shite that season. Can't believe that I was expecting anything better under Newell the next season after we'd won so few games under him the previous one.

Thanks for the correct info, was the Borunemouth player embargo lifted towards the end of the season, still they managed 22 points under difficult conditions, I know they lost quite a few players so what they achieved was a mircacle.

Well personally, i feel like it's been almost 15 years of failure, because despite seeing almost every home game in our 6 year non league stint, and apart from a very few exceptions, i hated every minute of it. We should never have been there, and has been pointed out, we had a narrow escape with teams on points deductions, only to learn nothing and get relegated in due course anyway. Non league was dreadful mostly, with some of the games so tedious that i almost fell asleep. Watching us fail to break down teams like Guiseley was interminably dull.

So for me, we should never forget those bad times because if we take our eye off the ball, we will soon be back there. The board talked yesterday in their statement about 2 seasons of mid table stability. I'd like to point out that this season is far from done yet and mid table is not guaranteed.

Quoted from Marinerz93

Thanks for the correct info, was the Borunemouth player embargo lifted towards the end of the season, still they managed 22 points under difficult conditions, I know they lost quite a few players so what they achieved was a mircacle.

I'd forgotten they had an embargo, truth be told. Makes the achievement that season even more impressive. Despite the defeat, I enjoyed the game there where both of us were reprieved from the risk of relegation though we were turned away from half the bars in Bournemouth that night because of reported trouble caused by Town fans the night before!

Just goes to show what can be done with a solid core of players (Fletcher their talisman, as I recall) and a good manager, Howe, who is remarkably still with the club. Oh, just checked and see he decamped to Burnley for a while, but you can see why Bournemouth fans would like him as he's been a great success during both spells with them.

Of course, they've had some serious financial backing to make their way up to the PL, so it's not all just good management.

Quoted from 137

I am privately convinced that at least three of our newer posters - SheepGTFC, pen penfras and gtfc123 - are Fenty 'stooges' trying to put a spin on
15 years of decline. Perfectly entitled to do so, of course.

John - this isn't a passing bad mood that the fans are experiencing - it's 15 years of disappointment and frustration. It's now genuine anger and disillusionment. You can try to control social media, but the truth is that the more loyal Grimsby fans are, the more they're taken for granted and viewed as "sheep with wallets".
We've had enough of that.
I, at least, believe that you're doing the best you can - but how much longer do the fans have to wait before you realise that as a businessman
you were exceptional, but being a football (non-)chairman really isn't working for you is it? And it's the club you love, and its fans, who suffer.

You are NOT alone in that thinking.

Could one of J.F's acquaintances familarise him with Erickson's theory of Ego Integrity v Ego Despair.

He like many of us on here is approaching stage 8 and he needs to reflect which category he falls within.