We’ve got the players our budget deserves.!

It might turn out that we have the manager our budget deserves

How the hell fans can lay today at JF’s door is unbelievably naive IMO, firstly, I though FGR were excellent and really controlled the game. I have repeatedly said I have never heard a Grimsby manager accuse JF of not backing him with player signings, MB a perfect example who was backed to 5he hilt, and it was not JF who picked Dixon & Woolford today nor him that gave away two goals.

Not saying a JF is the leader the club needs but to suggest everyone we sign is bargain basement is ridiculous. There will always be a budget & the Manager determines how to spend this I.e. 24 players or 18 better quality players and reliance on loans/academy players and keeping them fit.

Like MJ but today thought he got selection wrong and personally not keen on 3 at the back not with players a la Clifton played out of position which totally exposes the formation.

Not going to panic, last year we won 3-1 and look how that turned out so let’s get a bit further into the season before panicking and let’s look at the Manager rather than the non Chairman as the reason for today’s result. Sure MJ will turn it around and all part of the learning process.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

How the hell fans can lay today at JF’s door is unbelievably naive IMO, firstly, I though FGR were excellent and really controlled the game. I have repeatedly said I have never heard a Grimsby manager accuse JF of not backing him with player signings, MB a perfect example who was backed to 5he hilt, and it was not JF who picked Dixon & Woolford today nor him that gave away two goals.

Not saying a JF is the leader the club needs but to suggest everyone we sign is bargain basement is ridiculous. There will always be a budget & the Manager determines how to spend this I.e. 24 players or 18 better quality players and reliance on loans/academy players and keeping them fit.

Like MJ but today thought he got selection wrong and personally not keen on 3 at the back not with players a la Clifton played out of position which totally exposes the formation.

Not going to panic, last year we won 3-1 and look how that turned out so let’s get a bit further into the season before panicking and let’s look at the Manager rather than the non Chairman as the reason for today’s result. Sure MJ will turn it around and all part of the learning process.

It would be incredibly naive of any GTFC manager to accuse JF of not backing them in public, especially if he wanted to stay in his job..

Quoted from Bigdog

It would be incredibly naive of any GTFC manager to accuse JF of not backing them, especially if he wanted to stay in his job..

Concur with you on that but my comment refers to the period after that have left the club not whilst still in charge. Accept today was pretty bad but normal overreacting to one game’s result by a significant number of our fans.

They may be right and I may be over optimistic but I am still confident this season will prove much more fruitful then last year.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Concur with you on that but my comment refers to the period after that have left the club not whilst still in charge. Accept today was pretty bad but normal overreacting to one game’s result by a significant number of our fans.

They may be right and I may be over optimistic but I am still confident this season will prove much more fruitful then last year.

I think much depends on between now and when the loan transfer window closes. At least three in and one left wing back out on loan hopefully..

You are probably not far off with that assessment. On seeing us today I would suggest a simple switch to 4 at the back, Dixon and Woolford replaced and a decent striker should see us more than decent.

3 at the back may work but not with Clifton & Dixon in the wide roles it won’t

Every season we start with 3 at the back we always end up going back to 4. PH tried it one year and it was soon forgotten.

Can't understand us changing from a flat back four thought Fox and RHJ finished the season strongly as full backs and gave us energy getting forward too..

I blame Fenty because he is to blame, as simple as that. Jolley got it wrong today, but he is just the latest in a long line of managers who don't have the budget to attract the best players. People say why would players come to a club like Grimsby, yet all those FGR players would have loved to have played in front of that partizan, noisy crowd out there today, up to half time anyway. The reason they choose to play for a club in a village with tiny gates is of course money.  

Very few of us know the run down on all available players, and when we do sign someone we naturally hope for the best. However, it has been proven season after season we do not have one of the best budgets to compete for the top spots - even when in the conference.

Fenty cannot secure any worthwhile investment, and naturally doesn't want to risk his own fortune so until he goes it seems we will try manfully to compete, but if today's evidence is anything to go by we are quite a way behind an ambitious but limited club in a village.

On a more positive note I am sure Michael Jolley will learn from today, and as daft as it sounds saying it, we will not be playing sides of the calibre of FGR every week.

Quoted from TwoLeftFeet

Can't understand us changing from a flat back four thought Fox and RHJ finished the season strongly as full backs and gave us energy getting forward too..

Agreed. It was a completely unnecessary fuc.k up from Jolley.