Feel a bit sick

Look on the bright side,

Next season we will have a bright new manager who has already moved to the area,

He will know loads of good quality young players who were at at premiership clubs who have been released,

Not good enough for the Prem but more than good enough for L2,

They will also move and live in the area instead of being spread all over the place,

By doing that they will feel the love the fans have for the club and will buy into it,

Whether Michael can get these players if we are non league leaves a big question mark,

So we have got to stay up.

I'm fuming, anxious and hurting. Not good for my family despite my efforts to put it out of my mind. It's only division 4 for felicitations sake and we haven't won for 18 games, we haven't won one single cup game since we came back into the league and I think we're going down again. An absolute disgrace, it's beyond belief the same mistakes have been made by John Fenty, I cannot fathom how he sleeps at night.

Let's just dream for a bit.

Gtfc win on Friday and port vale beat chesterfield
Gtfcfight a rearguard action on Monday and draw 0-0

1-1 draw with Chesterfield on April 7th

Half a. Chance of staying up??

Same as everybody I am absolutely gutted after 40 years of loving the team. I go to the home games as a season ticket holder but very few away. I have had a massive change in approach. Firstly, I do not even switch on the radio when we play away. Always, the same a decent 20 mins go behind miss a couple of chances and finish hammered.I watch Jeff Stelling and have a little gamble. My Mrs is amazed and I think thought I was ill when this started.
I am so disillusioned I watch very little football ( from being a fanatic). Basically, to take away how sick this has made me feel I ignore the lot and it works for me. I so hated Slade I even missed home games with a ticket bought.  This is just my way of seeing my main hobby vanish. I know that I will only follow them in non league if at the top of the league and after countless years as a season ticket holder there is no way I will buy one next season as I know I will not go to watch Solihull on a cold Saturday. All the pre season banter in the world will not get me there. Jolly would have little experience at this level and we know how well that works.
Any L2 game I would love to watch as long as we are just very average. I have really low expectations. Finally, if we do fall out of the league I have started planning to do other things on a Saturday afternoon. All part of dealing with this crap.
If by some miracle we stay up ,Jolly will have made a magic and I will unconditionally buy a season ticket , merchandise etc.next season and get my son to come again.
At this point I am ashamed of this proud club , at work we used to talk football. The only guy I speak to now is Charlton fan as we have a shared hatred of Sladeball.
Rant over - like the rest of you I want to stay loyal but we have been pushed too far. I have not enjoyed any of this season and would rank it equal with our last relegation as the worst season I have ever seen. If relegated it will be the worst ever. What use is a hobby that you no longer enjoy. Supporting Town at the moment has no upside and is loyalty that is totally undeserved. When I see the numbers of away supporters this makes me even more sick. 800 to Cov to watch an inevitable hammering - AMAZING SUPPORT , ABSOLUTELY STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT SUPPORT and nothing in return. Personally , I made money on betting on the defeat as it was so certain.
I am desparate to be proud of the mariners again but for me it's  stay up or It's time to part with this miserable hobby UTM

Exactly how i feel Zmariner.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Let's just dream for a bit.

Gtfc win on Friday and port vale beat chesterfield
Gtfcfight a rearguard action on Monday and draw 0-0

1-1 draw with Chesterfield on April 7th

Half a. Chance of staying up??

And that's what we're reduced to. That's the extent of our 'dreams'. We dream of somehow scraping survival in the 4th division. The year or two before I first went to watch Town in 1971, we had to undergo the indignity of re-election. For decades we have talked about re-creating that McMenemy induced feeling from the early 70s.

Well John Fenty has managed to go one better. he has re-created that feeling from BEFORE McMenemy was appointed.

Quoted from ginnywings

Exactly how i feel Zmariner.

and it breaks my heart mate

It's so sad seeing everyone downhearted and upset about OUR Grimsby Town football club.Its so hard to stay positive,but we must make our presense felt and loud.Weve done it before and we will do it again.I know they don't deserve it but we must not go down.The fans made promotion season and can do it again.

Quoted from Zmariner

Same as everybody I am absolutely gutted after 40 years of loving the team. I go to the home games as a season ticket holder but very few away. I have had a massive change in approach. Firstly, I do not even switch on the radio when we play away. Always, the same a decent 20 mins go behind miss a couple of chances and finish hammered.I watch Jeff Stelling and have a little gamble. My Mrs is amazed and I think thought I was ill when this started.
I am so disillusioned I watch very little football ( from being a fanatic). Basically, to take away how sick this has made me feel I ignore the lot and it works for me. I so hated Slade I even missed home games with a ticket bought.  This is just my way of seeing my main hobby vanish. I know that I will only follow them in non league if at the top of the league and after countless years as a season ticket holder there is no way I will buy one next season as I know I will not go to watch Solihull on a cold Saturday. All the pre season banter in the world will not get me there. Jolly would have little experience at this level and we know how well that works.
Any L2 game I would love to watch as long as we are just very average. I have really low expectations. Finally, if we do fall out of the league I have started planning to do other things on a Saturday afternoon. All part of dealing with this crap.
If by some miracle we stay up ,Jolly will have made a magic and I will unconditionally buy a season ticket , merchandise etc.next season and get my son to come again.
At this point I am ashamed of this proud club , at work we used to talk football. The only guy I speak to now is Charlton fan as we have a shared hatred of Sladeball.
Rant over - like the rest of you I want to stay loyal but we have been pushed too far. I have not enjoyed any of this season and would rank it equal with our last relegation as the worst season I have ever seen. If relegated it will be the worst ever. What use is a hobby that you no longer enjoy. Supporting Town at the moment has no upside and is loyalty that is totally undeserved. When I see the numbers of away supporters this makes me even more sick. 800 to Cov to watch an inevitable hammering - AMAZING SUPPORT , ABSOLUTELY STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT SUPPORT and nothing in return. Personally , I made money on betting on the defeat as it was so certain.
I am desparate to be proud of the mariners again but for me it's  stay up or It's time to part with this miserable hobby UTM

Great post that and sums up a lot of what supporters are feeling. I think the club has lost the fans by and large this time around and there simply isn't the hunger to get behind the team. The team itself must deliver from now til the end of the season and give the fans something to get behind.

As for the future - massive, far reaching changes needed on and off the pitch are needed in the close season or the club will be in the wilderness for many more years yet.

Quoted from Zmariner

I know that I will only follow them in non league if at the top of the league

Not totally against the National League then?