Statement: Grimsby Town FC – Backing Slade/Wilko

Instead of all these negative vibes and personal insults to the manager and players alike, why dont you just shout "FOCUS"?  The players and manager will see this as support, but it really means "Feck Off Cuz U're Shite"

So the "Hurst out" brigade have turned into the "Slade out" brigade. Strangely a lot of these fickle "fans" thought that the clown Bignot should have lasted longer. This sort of "support" is a cancer to the club - and it's spreading as more jump on the bandwagon without giving serious thought to recent history.The long view, as stated in this board release is quite factual and not just the usual PR blurb meant to placate the outspoken dissident fans.If anything stops me from watching Town it will be because I'm sick of listening to the vitriolic diatribe by so called supporters. The experiment of making a team up of lower league players certainly hasn't worked but saddled us with a few contracted none usables and shows the short comings of previous managers and probably tight purse strings. Russell Slade was well aware of this I'm sure and had little choice but to use a few old hands in the current transition and until the deadwood is cleared out don't expect miracles .It took Hurst 5 years to scrape out the Conference and Fourth division football has never ever been attractive so the obvious answer is as the statement says and EVERYBODY to unite and have some realistic belief.      

Quoted from Stranger in the Park

So the "Hurst out" brigade have turned into the "Slade out" brigade. Strangely a lot of these fickle "fans" thought that the clown Bignot should have lasted longer. This sort of "support" is a cancer to the club - and it's spreading as more jump on the bandwagon without giving serious thought to recent history.The long view, as stated in this board release is quite factual and not just the usual PR blurb meant to placate the outspoken dissident fans.If anything stops me from watching Town it will be because I'm sick of listening to the vitriolic diatribe by so called supporters. The experiment of making a team up of lower league players certainly hasn't worked but saddled us with a few contracted none usables and shows the short comings of previous managers and probably tight purse strings. Russell Slade was well aware of this I'm sure and had little choice but to use a few old hands in the current transition and until the deadwood is cleared out don't expect miracles .It took Hurst 5 years to scrape out the Conference and Fourth division football has never ever been attractive so the obvious answer is as the statement says and EVERYBODY to unite and have some realistic belief.      

A few old hands? Crikey mate. Listen its not the supporters fault so don't start slinging the blame our way.

'We have decided to inject money to help the manager improve the playing squad - whether that is through new additions or reducing in size - to ensure our budget is competitive within our league.'

interesting part of the statement not previously mentioned. the clear inference from this is that the budget wasn't competitive within the league before this new injection

Quoted from Stranger in the Park

So the "Hurst out" brigade have turned into the "Slade out" brigade. Strangely a lot of these fickle "fans" thought that the clown Bignot should have lasted longer. This sort of "support" is a cancer to the club - and it's spreading as more jump on the bandwagon without giving serious thought to recent history.The long view, as stated in this board release is quite factual and not just the usual PR blurb meant to placate the outspoken dissident fans.If anything stops me from watching Town it will be because I'm sick of listening to the vitriolic diatribe by so called supporters. The experiment of making a team up of lower league players certainly hasn't worked but saddled us with a few contracted none usables and shows the short comings of previous managers and probably tight purse strings. Russell Slade was well aware of this I'm sure and had little choice but to use a few old hands in the current transition and until the deadwood is cleared out don't expect miracles .It took Hurst 5 years to scrape out the Conference and Fourth division football has never ever been attractive so the obvious answer is as the statement says and EVERYBODY to unite and have some realistic belief.      

What people like you always forget to mention is the unwavering support the club got the season we went down. Hurst played percentage football and it never gave the fans real belief that we would go up which led to frustration. Bignot was a loose cannon and I don't see how anyone can back Sladeballs style and player acquisition. How many times have we had rally calls only for someone at the club to smash it to pieces. Why did it take Hurst 6 seasons to get us out of non league, and why did he say when he got to Shrewsbury that he was looking forward to working with honest people, the little Napoleon has form for knocking people, remember the comments at Wembley about fans who probably didn't deserve to be there. What you don't get is that the belief isn't there anymore because we have been let down too many times, the club has to back up it's press release, but I won't hold my breath.

First corner we win on Saturday - Please Mr Slade can we leave someone on the half way line.

Quoted from Marinerz93

What people like you always forget to mention is the unwavering support the club got the season we went down. Hurst played percentage football and it never gave the fans real belief that we would go up which led to frustration. Bignot was a loose cannon and I don't see how anyone can back Sladeballs style and player acquisition. How many times have we had rally calls only for someone at the club to smash it to pieces. Why did it take Hurst 6 seasons to get us out of non league, and why did he say when he got to Shrewsbury that he was looking forward to working with honest people, the little Napoleon has form for knocking people, remember the comments at Wembley about fans who probably didn't deserve to be there. What you don't get is that the belief isn't there anymore because we have been let down too many times, the club has to back up it's press release, but I won't hold my breath.

In a nutshell!

"What people like you always forget to mention is the unwavering support the club got the season we went down. Hurst played percentage football and it never gave the fans real belief that we would go up which led to frustration. Bignot was a loose cannon and I don't see how anyone can back Sladeballs style and player acquisition. How many times have we had rally calls only for someone at the club to smash it to pieces. Why did it take Hurst 6 seasons to get us out of non league, and why did he say when he got to Shrewsbury that he was looking forward to working with honest people, the little Napoleon has form for knocking people, remember the comments at Wembley about fans who probably didn't deserve to be there. What you don't get is that the belief isn't there anymore because we have been let down too many times, the club has to back up it's press release, but I won't hold my breath."

Constantly berating your own club in an internet forum will not attract better investors,managers or players and we will soon be another  poisoned chalice that nobody but the desperate will take on .We do not have a divine right to be successful-especially given the obvious budget constraints.Whilst the supporters and and club are so divided (no matter who's fault or history) it will never be successful, Hull being a classic example currently.  

Hull are unsuccesful?

Quoted from Stranger in the Park

"What people like you always forget to mention is the unwavering support the club got the season we went down. Hurst played percentage football and it never gave the fans real belief that we would go up which led to frustration. Bignot was a loose cannon and I don't see how anyone can back Sladeballs style and player acquisition. How many times have we had rally calls only for someone at the club to smash it to pieces. Why did it take Hurst 6 seasons to get us out of non league, and why did he say when he got to Shrewsbury that he was looking forward to working with honest people, the little Napoleon has form for knocking people, remember the comments at Wembley about fans who probably didn't deserve to be there. What you don't get is that the belief isn't there anymore because we have been let down too many times, the club has to back up it's press release, but I won't hold my breath."

Constantly berating your own club in an internet forum will not attract better investors,managers or players and we will soon be another  poisoned chalice that nobody but the desperate will take on .We do not have a divine right to be successful-especially given the obvious budget constraints.Whilst the supporters and and club are so divided (no matter who's fault or history) it will never be successful, Hull being a classic example currently.  

We have had investors and they have left, not because of being berated and mocked on forums but because of someone at the club, who it seems can't relinquish any power, the club has become a poisoned chalice because of someone at the club and how it is managed. The club have released a statement of intent we'll soon see how that pans out and majority of fans will go from there. Where is our budget compared to most in this league because we struggled to compete with Dover in non league regarding budget.