Freefall

Quoted from HertsGTFC

What really p1sses me off is that clearly the likes of Fenty, Marley and Day don't run their own businesses with such a poor level of investment, management, strategy, governance and regard for key stake holders. So why do they think that they can get away with operating like that with something that means so much to so many.      

Fenty? Fish merchant, everyone eats fish.
Day? Solicitor, charge what they like, take as long as they like
Marley? Accountant, charge what they like, take as long as they like.

Not a clue about looking after paying customers between them. Just blame the fans when things go wrong.

Quoted from bax

Because not only have we not learned a single lesson from 2010, we’ve made exactly the same mistakes. Exactly the same.

Bloated squad full of journeymen and loanees, a manager he should never have appointed in the first place and then sacked far too late.

We haven’t so much managed to sleepwalk into relegation but been in Freefall and it’s all been so utterly predictable and preventative. Instead of leading and taking action the club is too busy policing social media and stalking the fishy dishing out warnings for stuff they don’t like. In fairness the entire board is culpable. All of them.

JF told me personally Operation Promotion was the worst thing that ever happened because of the pressure it put the club under.

That will be nothing to the pressure if he takes us down again. And there’s no blaming the fans for this one John.

So the BEST thing to happen in years both on and off the field was

                                                                            "THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO GTFC"

THANKS, A FECKING LOT FENTY AND CO. WE KNOW WHERE WE STAND bollox well and truly kicked in it won't happen again.

What we see every game is we start ok without looking like scoring, ( normally )

Then we concede and all the experienced players in our team( and there are lots of them) heads go down and we normally concede again.

Well Davies, Clarke, Collins and any other oap in the side start using your experience to gee the team up instead of dropping your heads down,

Do you really want a relegation to non league to be on the bottom of your cv,

Because you will not get another job playing the game,

AND

As for the younger ones show your metal and give everything for every minute you are on the pitch,

Otherwise you will have to get a proper job working 9 to 5 or a lot more on a lot less money,

Now is the time to stand up and be counted.

Quoted from Cod Cheeks

The real question for me at the moment is; how can we get out of this mess?

This is easy.

You cross your fingers we survive this season. Because that's all we can do with the players Jolley has at his disposal.

Then we need a thorough root and branch clearing out of the deadwood both on the pitch and off it. And there's PLENTY of it. There's so much malaise the club is suffering from because it's stale. Everything is done the same way. There's no imagination, no new ways of looking at things. Get people who enjoy their jobs and are paid appropriately for it. Create an ambitious and exciting workplace.

Learn the value of money. It's not just about cold, hard cash. Sometimes you can spend a little and create a lot. And respect the paying customers - they're not all idiots so don't treat them all in the same way.

Don't push people away who bring new ideas and skill sets to the club. I know people who would bring expertise but becasue they can't bring cash the club isn't interested. The club isn't always right. Listen. Invite new blood onto the board and listen to that new blood.

Sadly, none of this will happen and we will continue to be in the cycle of despair we are in right now.

Quoted from Cod Cheeks

The real question for me at the moment is; how can we get out of this mess?

I would try John Fenty at centre forward, with Jackson playing off him.

In other words, I have no idea apart from hoping for the best.

I  like the new Bax  

Imho, the board have an assumption that the support will be there no matter what we division we play in. This lack of respect for anyone that supports the team isdisgusting and what has led the club into where we have ended up. Everyone could see where the club was heading under slade and when the axe fell, it's left us up sh1t creek without a paddle. In fact we don't even have a canoe it seems

Quoted from chrissy

I  like the new Bax  

Well I’m not being warned about what I can and can’t say anymore...🙄

Quoted from bax

Well I’m not being warned about what I can and can’t say anymore...🙄

And that sentence alone tells us all we need to know.  

The whole board spend their entire existence fire fighting. Too much time and energy is wasted desperately trying to put right all the things that go constantly wrong. This obsession with "toxic" fans and trying desperately to lay the blame elsewhere is just so tiresome. They can't see that the fans are the best thing about this club; the only thing about this club in fact, because a team only exists if people turn up to watch it. Sadly, i'm getting to the stage where i will no longer just keep blindly turning up and watching Groundhog Day all over again, and i'm not the only one. The four season ticket holders in my group are at this present time not renewing next season. We've all had enough of the incompetency we see, season after season. The club can blame the Fishy "minority" all they like, but much as everything else, they are totally deluded if they think the feelings and thoughts of the many are confined to just a few on here. The other three i attend with do not use this board and they all feel the same way. They have alienated everyone around them. Fans,  the media, the SLO, the Trust  board members, even our club mascot FFS, and somehow it is all the fault of others.

To be facing our third fight to stay in the Football League in 4 full seasons is staggering in it's ineptitude and as fans, we have no influence whatsoever on the decisions that have taken us there. JF is a nice enough guy, but he is totally deluded and spends his entire time deflecting blame away from himself and his cronies on the board. I can confirm what Bax said about his opinion of Operation Promotion because i got the same impression when i met with him. It may well have put pressure on the club, but it worked didn't it? Maybe now is the time to apply some more pressure, because i can't see me carrying on turning up to BP totally reliant on a board that has produced nothing but relegation after relegation and the three worst winless runs in our history. How have we as a set of fans allowed one man and a couple of million quid ruin what has been such a big part of our lives? We need to take back our club somehow, some way. If it meant ripping it up and starting again from scratch, then that is more desirable to me than this constant inertia we now suffer. If there are not big changes soon, the whole club will implode.