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The board had the bollix to give Jolley a try an almighty gamble but it paid off but to be honest they were forced into it, not just by fan pressure but money.
They left it far too late to make that decision clearly for whatever reason Slade (spit) was still very reluctantly shown the door after such a monumental failure on the pitch then in the Jan transfer window, he lost the dressing room the fans had long given up on him.
Fenty staying quite is the right thing to do leave Jolley to do the P.R. he seems much, much better at it.
Stay off the fishy you just make things ten times worse YOU ARE A LOYAL FAN we all know that and perhaps take most of the flack whilst others on the board remain anonymous.
Want so much to carry on with this good feel factor give Jolley proper contract and a bit of backing he has the fans and the team on his side he is young and ambitious lets go forwards.
If the rumours were true then at best he was 3rd choice?
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Not at all. I'm merely making observations based on the comments on this thread. I actually turned on the ticks/crosses and then compared to similar posts from a couple of months ago and some are a lot closer to parity now. As someone who has a role (for now) in representing the fanbase it is vital (to me at least) that I try to analyse the feelings as presented in face to face discussions and on media such as this.
Most fans are member a hoop that we survived, so of course the social media backlash against the current regime will be more muted and be giving Jolley and his players a lot of credit, but you still don't hear many if any giving any praise to Fenty. Once the season has ended, then I would imagine Town fans everywhere will be clamouring for boardroom changes. Ideally new owners with exciting fresh ideas and the money to back it up, but failing that some personnel changes and statements of intent surrounding the investment in the club in the future. I don't really care who presides over the changes, but changes must be made on and off the pitch to get us running like a proper club with serious ambitions.
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No way should the feeling change towards the current set-up in the corridors at Blundell Park.
Yes it's great that we've turned things around under Jolley and full credit to A) Jolley for transforming the mood B) the players for picking themselves up after how Slade clearly demoralised them and C) for the board not appointing someone from the usual cohort of junk and going something fresh.
But this has all resulted in us surviving relegation, just. 3 weeks ago we looked dead and buried. It's not as if the club are all of a sudden acknowledging all of their previous errors, apologising for them and working to rectify them is it? They got lucky, it's that simple. Lucky that Mitch Rose's long throw hit the Chesterfield defender in the arm, lucky that the Swindon ref saw a trip no-one else appeared to see on Harry Cardwell, lucky that Notts County came here already on the beach and then completely switched off for Matt's injury time winner.
Nothing has changed at the top, it's still the same people that voted for the Check-a-Trade, that sold the fans down the river over bra-gate, that hosted and acted out the Matt Dean bullying job, that called the fans bullies for not going to Check-a-Trade games, that sanctioned the high earning Bignot signings and then hung him out to dry on them before ordering the next manager to do a hatchet job on the team (regardless of the risk), it's the same people that failed to capitalise on the promotion in 2016 and the same people that blamed the fans for raising £100,000+ to boost the budget.
The fact we've survived relegation is embarrassing. It really is. In our last 4 years at this level, 3 we've had to fight relegation. For the sheer amount of income we generate just through gate sales, we should never be consistently in that position. That's down to pure incompetence.
Avoiding the drop was the short-term aim, an essential target that needed meeting. Well done Michael Jolley for achieving that. The long-term future of the club remains in the balance as long as the current set-up are in post. 15 odd years of mis-management and disregard for the fans is not forgotten about simply because Fenty has kept quiet for a few weeks and the club have put season tickets on sale early.
I don't have faith in the current set-up to capitalise on the positive mood after avoiding the drop, I don't trust them to properly give the manager an appropriate budget, I don't trust them to not alienate the fans anymore. I simply don't trust them with anything.
Jolley in charge or not, this club will die a slow and painful death as long as it sits under it's current stewardship.
Thanks for taking the time to remind us why parts of the current leadership HAVE to go. I'm not surprised by a few who still support Fenty, even after being presented with all the facts. The win on Saturday and league 2 survival gets the happy juices flowing and for a few that will be enough. For a fair few others the fear of the unknown (Life without Fenty) and change in general, is too much to bare. They will have the "Better the devil you know" attitude. Others will see the potential in Jolley and will not want to upset his chances for success. They will desperately not want to rock the boat. But the facts are the facts. If you like to admit it or not, the Fenty years have been atrocious by any fair minded, individual’s assessment. In any other business this man would not have survived. Never. He’s received chance after chance, year after year. One embarrassment after the next. Fenty must relinquish his hold over OUR club and for the sake of us all, the sooner the better.
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As a very interested observer I'm struck by the change of tone in this thread from several directions. There has been a softening of the language in some quarters. This has added fuel to the views of those who think that contained within the anti-Fenty rhetoric of a couple of months ago was a fair measure of frustration about matters on the pitch which, now things have at least temporarily been resolved happily has somewhat dissipated. There are far more questioning who is going to fill the gap if/when JF goes (and if the rumours are right he does want out). There are plenty of rumours now circulating about interested parties waiting on the wings. For all those who want him gone it is to be hoped they don't remain backstage for too long.
Living abroad and only getting to see around 30% of our games live by hook or by crook, I probably felt a little more detached than most on Saturday. I wasn't able to see the game live but wore my finger out refreshing Twitter. Obviously over the moon when the winner went in and when the full time whistle went, but as I scoured the internet for every snippet of the game and watching the reaction of our fans, I suddenly found my joy turning into anger as the evening wore on. When you're not walking through the gates at BP I guess you get a different perspective. I looked at all of our fans celebrating staying in the Football League.. again, and my primary thought was, how has it come to this? Surely as a football club we're much better than this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising the celebrations at all, but my god, we've been living off scraps for far too long haven't we?
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If the rumours were true then at best he was 3rd choice?
But rumours aren't worth the paper they are written on !!!
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But rumours aren't worth the paper they are written on !!!
Equally there's clearly more than 3 out of work football managers in the UK and so the point earlier that they had the balls to appoint him still stands...
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But rumours aren't worth the paper they are written on !!!
Erm doesn't mean they weren't true.
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Erm doesn't mean they weren't true.
What's the point you're making??
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If the rumours were true then at best he was 3rd choice?
yesterday the rumour he was second choice by the weekend he will have been a none contender at this rate
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yesterday the rumour he was second choice by the weekend he will have been a none contender at this rate
Don't forget the rumour that he s doing it for free! Booo cheap option
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