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1mickylyons
November 5, 2018, 8:13am
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If you just go for season ticket holders then they are very likely to vote for the status quo as they commit to that very status quo! On the other hand, someone who would never buy a season ticket or regularly attend home games, why should they be allowed to vote? But they might be a massive fan! It's really hard to find a fair way to conduct such a poll.

The fairest way I can think of is to announce that anyone who attends a specific game (well in advance) can vote.


Not sure you are right regarding ST holders Rob? I am a STH and have no faith whatsoever in the current board I renewed simply to try and back MJ after I thought he performed a miracle last Season. If people are serious about a poll let`s have some forms before our next home league game outside all turnstiles it wont be too difficult getting 3.5k names.
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I stated that on the strength of the demonstration.
There's no scientific basis just like your assumption after speaking to people who are around you & attend away games.
The demonstration at the home was a decent barometer,it was well publicised and received media attention.
Unfortunately it had very limited effect.
What is strange is that nothing else was done after the end of the season.
It was almost that JF was forgiven,he was praised for appointing MJ and we carried on





Of course it could be that people central to the protest were asked to get behind the team to ensure League 2 survival and following that actually happening they didn`t want to hamper MJ and his efforts? Now with a very disappointing run of results we find ourselves more or less back to where we were last Season. Clearly we need a massive sea change off the pitch I have genuine hope for the Freemo project and GTFC being revitalized but I don`t see JF being any part of that?
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Polls schmolls do you think Fenty is going to take one bit of notice,he'll only put it down to a vocal minority on the Fishy.
The only thing he will take notice of is falling gates,which will injure the club.He is a temporary incumbent whos time will pass.just keep telling yourselves the Club will still be here long after he has gone.

In the absence of a benign millionaire wishing to invest in the club I am afraid we are stuck with him,defeatist I know but that is the reality.  


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Polls schmolls do you think Fenty is going to take one bit of notice,he'll only put it down to a vocal minority on the Fishy.
The only thing he will take notice of is falling gates,which will injure the club.He is a temporary incumbent whos time will pass.just keep telling yourselves the Club will still be here long after he has gone.

In the absence of a benign millionaire wishing to invest in the club I am afraid we are stuck with him,defeatist I know but that is the reality.  


We need to make him listen rather than waiting for something to happen. This is half the problem, people just accept the fact that he’s with us for the foreseeable future. I hope and know that we’ve got it in us to make the noises publicly and not just forum moans.

Let’s not go down without a fight.

GTFC is our club never forget this 💪
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November 5, 2018, 9:49am

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Polls schmolls do you think Fenty is going to take one bit of notice,he'll only put it down to a vocal minority on the Fishy.
The only thing he will take notice of is falling gates,which will injure the club.He is a temporary incumbent whos time will pass.just keep telling yourselves the Club will still be here long after he has gone.

In the absence of a benign millionaire wishing to invest in the club I am afraid we are stuck with him,defeatist I know but that is the reality.  


That is the bit I am having trouble with at the moment.  People seem to think that the lack of protest means that the majority accept the current regime.  Well I for one don't believe that.  It's just that apathy has set in big time. I certainly didn't see anyone standing up for JF and Co at the car park protest last season. !!   I have a genuine fear that if we go down (and if others strengthen in Jan and we don't, it is a possibility), we will end up being another York.  I genuinely can't see more than 1500 season ticket sales if we do go down.  Also, far less than this season even if we stay up but  don't see some kind of hope of improvement.  MJ seemingly performed miracles at the end of last season and I think we all got a bit carried away.  I do have faith in MJ, but can't see him really being given the tools to do the job. I really hope I'm wrong, but I can't see my 18 year old son having half the good times I have had watching Town.
90% of which were pre-Fenty.  


The wife was going away for a girly weekend.
I jokingly remarked  'I don't know whether to spend it watching porn or watching football'
'you may as well spend it watching porn' she replied
That's understanding darling what makes you say that? I asked

She said 'Well you already know how to play football'  
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That is the bit I am having trouble with at the moment.  People seem to think that the lack of protest means that the majority accept the current regime.  Well I for one don't believe that.  It's just that apathy has set in big time. I certainly didn't see anyone standing up for JF and Co at the car park protest last season. !!   I have a genuine fear that if we go down (and if others strengthen in Jan and we don't, it is a possibility), we will end up being another York.  I genuinely can't see more than 1500 season ticket sales if we do go down.  Also, far less than this season even if we stay up but  don't see some kind of hope of improvement.  MJ seemingly performed miracles at the end of last season and I think we all got a bit carried away.  I do have faith in MJ, but can't see him really being given the tools to do the job. I really hope I'm wrong, but I can't see my 18 year old son having half the good times I have had watching Town.
90% of which were pre-Fenty.  


Good post Civvy - I buy three STs and have sponsored a players kit for the past few seasons, all of which is because I love GTFC and have done since 1968. It stopped when we dropped into non-league (I went about 10 times a season) and it will stop again if our inability to improve causes us to drop again.

I feel for Michael Jolley - he's clearly trying to impress and build a career in football management but he must already be frustrated at the task he's been set.
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Quoted from H19P1


We need to make him listen rather than waiting for something to happen. This is half the problem, people just accept the fact that he’s with us for the foreseeable future. I hope and know that we’ve got it in us to make the noises publicly and not just forum moans.

Let’s not go down without a fight.

GTFC is our club never forget this 💪


Sorry but feel he is so obdurate that he only listens to the yes men he surrounds himself with,I think with J.F. the bunker mentality has set in.
The thing is much as I would like it to be at the moment it is not our club,and the only thing Fenty understands is when he is hit in the pocket.


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Have a bit of vision Swin - I accept it might be a pipe dream but our club in a new stadium run by people who want success rather than a return on investment, engaging with the community - even an old curmudgeon like you might forgive the odd wrong decision here & there.


Rather a curmudgeon that being away with the fairies. Firstly we will never get a new stadium, no one is going to invest in any worthwhile amount purely for the love of the Grimsby community and wanting success is totally different to actually being able to achieve it. For all Fenty's faults not wanting success is not one of them, he craves it as much as we do

I ask the question again, where is the money needed to get success through buying better players going to come from unless we find a mad moneybags investor, not from the Trust running things that's for sure

When we are playing at one or two levels down from the FL because there's no money they are not going to come whether its the Trust, Fenty, you or me running the club


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Quoted from MuddyWaters
I feel for Michael Jolley - he's clearly trying to impress and build a career in football management but he must already be frustrated at the task he's been set.


Oh come on!

He must have known exactly what he was getting into. He may be clueless as a football manager but he's not stupid that's for sure.

If the club was fantastically ambitious and was going to pump cash into the team (and manager) he wouldn't have got near the job. There would have been a deluge of more experienced proven managers clamouring for the position



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The club is in the shite. With no ground move there is a pressing need for updating BP. I am not talking about a few quid on toilets etc but there is a huge cost on the horizon that we must find. Without spending we could be have to groundshare.
Who is going to pay for these essential repairs? Straight choice between JF increasing his loans or it comes out of the budget. Either way we are fooked
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