Jones to Shrewsbury (Merged)

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Shrewsbury flipping Town though.

I know, but as sad as that is, they are a go ahead club pushing for the Championship, so you can't blame him for going.

I'm sooooo mad at tonight's excrement that I'm seriously in danger of spontaneously combusting so I better go to bed before I really say something I shouldn't.....

I've felt for a few days now that the likes of Jones and Dembele are better off away from us. Jones has looked a shadow of the player he was last season. Some of that has to be down to him, but by no means all. I, for one, wish him all the best.

I'm absolutely flipping done.

Quoted from ginnywings

I know, but as sad as that is, they are a go ahead club pushing for the Championship, so you can't blame him for going.

It's not him I'm blaming. How did this come to pass eh? We should have been closing the gap on these, historically smaller clubs. And go check the population of Shrewsbury. Surrounded by countryside.

We should have been building on promotion 18 months ago. Crowds were up, we were heading in the right direction, we were solvent, now look at us. Complete reversal. copulated about getting rid of managers after a few months. Failed yet again to market season tickets. drunk off the fanbase two seasons running by supporting the Checkatwat. Kept quiet when fans were mistreated at Stevenage. Made nonsensical announcement after nonsensical announcement. Engineered a highly respected SLO out of the position that you'd appointed her to (yet somehow 'think' she works for another organisation). Treated the host of the forum with disrespect and acted unprofessionally. Select as developers of the new stadium a no-mark bunch of posh skateboarders who insult your supporters. Keep your mate in post despite his recruitment and retention policy being blatantly aimed at shipping out talent and on-boarding journeymen. Allow players out on loan to rivals in the scrap to avoid relegation.

Fenty sling your hook. You've copulated us up once with non-League football. Now it's happening again. You've cost us far more than the 'benign' loans you've made. Accept you're a failure at running a football club before you totally wreck it.

40+ years I’ve followed Town
Can’t remember been so down
Why oh why have u let our best player go to hurst
RS you are worse than a stain,  you’re a curse
I’ve absolutely had enough u and this terrible mess
Garden Centres and chores now for me on match day I guess
Done with u unless u change it
So hard for me to say this but feel so so sh!t

RIP GTFC 😢😢

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It's not him I'm blaming. How did this come to pass eh? We should have been closing the gap on these, historically smaller clubs. And go check the population of Shrewsbury. Surrounded by countryside.

We should have been building on promotion 18 months ago. Crowds were up, we were heading in the right direction, we were solvent, now look at us. Complete reversal. copulated about getting rid of managers after a few months. Failed yet again to market season tickets. drunk off the fanbase two seasons running by supporting the Checkatwat. Kept quiet when fans were mistreated at Stevenage. Made nonsensical announcement after nonsensical announcement. Engineered a highly respected SLO out of the position that you'd appointed her to (yet somehow 'think' she works for another organisation). Treated the host of the forum with disrespect and acted unprofessionally. Select as developers of the new stadium a no-mark bunch of posh skateboarders who insult your supporters. Keep your mate in post despite his recruitment and retention policy being blatantly aimed at shipping out talent and on-boarding journeymen. Allow players out on loan to rivals in the scrap to avoid relegation.

Fenty sling your hook. You've copulated us up once with non-League football. Now it's happening again. You've cost us far more than the 'benign' loans you've made. Accept you're a failure at running a football club before you totally wreck it.

I'm as hacked off as you that those country bumpkins are a million miles from us, just as locally, Scunny and now Lincoln are looking at us in their rear view mirror. In fact Scunny can't even see us any more, we are that far behind them. I hope the few grand we got for Jones was worth p1ssing the fans off even more, which i didn't think possible until 30 mins ago.

The thought that occurred to me is that the assets are being stripped.  Assuming we got a decent fee (but I can't see Shrewsbury having that much cash). The Bogle money contributed to repayment of some of the loans. As the prospect of the new stadium recedes ('it's all gone quiet over there') maybe the realisation is dawning that the only way to get your loans repaid is to sell your assets.

The other thing that struck me is that, bar Dembele, the only remaining decently-performing players were signed pre-Slade.

Quoted from ginnywings

I'm fooking fuming at this. You said you would bring in quality and not only have you not done that, you have let the only quality players we had left leave. It's symptomatic of the sh1tshow that is GTFC, we are losing our best player to Shrewsbury fooking Town.

Slade is acting like a despot, ridding the entire previous regime from the history books. If we have three better players than Sam Jones, Chris Clement and Jamey Osbourne left on the books, then i'm a fooking Martian.

Edited my original post because what i meant was that i despise what Slade and Wilko are doing on the playing side, not them personally.

If Hurst had come in for him a couple of weeks ago and been keen since then and eventually got Fenty to let Jones go then fair enough but by the sounds of it, that isn't the case. Can't complain at Jones for making a step up. This club has become a joke. I've never once expected another promotion but I did expect some stability and some half decent football and mid table finishes for a couple of seasons... Not much to ask was/is it? Ffs.