Lessons learned

Quoted from rancido

IMO £3 million isn't a ridiculous price for a league club with the potential GTFC has, if run properly.

Of course it is. The current administration have unlocked nowt in 20 years. The club needs investment to unlock its potential.

Lesson learned?

Don't buy a season ticket when Slade is the manager.

Maybe we have to learn to endure JSF not as an evil Oyston-esque dictator, but more of a well-meaning yet haplessly self-unaware character, a bit like Roy Chubby Brown's Mayor Vaughan, of Royston Vasey.

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

Maybe we have to learn to endure JSF not as an evil Oyston-esque dictator, but more of a well-meaning yet haplessly self-unaware character, a bit like Roy Chubby Brown's Mayor Vaughan, of Royston Vasey.

Basil Fawlty.

Unlock Town's potential? We only just escaped relegation.If it was as simple as just throwing a few million at it why are there so many clubs struggling to survive. It's probably one of the most toxic business' to be in as very little is predictable and support income can be oh so fickle.Even companies in well worn markets with good income streams suffer from down turns because of unseen influences.The money John Fenty has put into the club is a very considerable amount and way beyond 99.9% of supporters yet a minority still keep harping on as though it is small change,which it certainly is not. As I've stated before  I firmly believe Ramsden (who also didn't have much support from fans) saw him coming and baled out asap. Mr Fenty has his faults -as do all of us- but without his cash input the club probably would have gone to the wall by now.  

Quoted from Stranger in the Park

Unlock Town's potential? We only just escaped relegation.If it was as simple as just throwing a few million at it why are there so many clubs struggling to survive. It's probably one of the most toxic business' to be in as very little is predictable and support income can be oh so fickle.Even companies in well worn markets with good income streams suffer from down turns because of unseen influences.The money John Fenty has put into the club is a very considerable amount and way beyond 99.9% of supporters yet a minority still keep harping on as though it is small change,which it certainly is not. As I've stated before  I firmly believe Ramsden (who also didn't have much support from fans) saw him coming and baled out asap. Mr Fenty has his faults -as do all of us- but without his cash input the club probably would have gone to the wall by now.  

I doubt it. We are too old a club with too many supporters to perish. We would exist in some form, maybe in a worse state than we are now, or maybe in a far better state. People talk like JF is the only custodian this club has ever had, when he's only been around for about 10% of our history. There were people before him and there will be people after him.

The second paragraph in this Codalmighty article puts a different spin on our financial saviour.

http://www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=6711

I can't see how any lessons have been learned. John Fenty's ideas of engagement with fans is to tell them why he made the decisions he did and that they would of done the same in his position.

That was what he essentially was telling fans on Saturday and that is also what the statement is dripping with. His idea of connecting with supporters is telling them why he was right. So Frankly I don't even see the start of any lessons being learnt. I hope to be proved wrong.

As for Fenty keeping this club afloat, look at the number of clubs with similar gates to  ours who are doing better than us, then look at the number of clubs with similar or bigger gates doing worse. The only category in the latter camps I can think of are Chesterfield and Tranmere, while the list of clubs in the former category are quite long.

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

Maybe we have to learn to endure JSF not as an evil Oyston-esque dictator, but more of a well-meaning yet haplessly self-unaware character, a bit like Roy Chubby Brown's Mayor Vaughan, of Royston Vasey.

Not so far fetched as it may seem as JSF & Chubby share a family connection.

Quoted from Caesar

I can't see how any lessons have been learned. John Fenty's ideas of engagement with fans is to tell them why he made the decisions he did and that they would of done the same in his position.

That was what he essentially was telling fans on Saturday and that is also what the statement is dripping with. His idea of connecting with supporters is telling them why he was right. So Frankly I don't even see the start of any lessons being learnt. I hope to be proved wrong.

As for Fenty keeping this club afloat, look at the number of clubs with similar gates to  ours who are doing better than us, then look at the number of clubs with similar or bigger gates doing worse. The only category in the latter camps I can think of are Chesterfield and Tranmere, while the list of clubs in the former category are quite long.

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As far as lessons learned, only lesson i hope has been learned is sign POTY before someone else does.