Fenty Out

Quoted from golfer

I think J.S.F. would have ensured the players wages got paid. He seems that sort of fella.

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

I agree.  For all his faults and as much as I want new leadership at the club, JSF would never withhold wages from club staff.  He is a supporter and a decent person.

Quoted from SomeSanity

Bolton is a completely different situation to ours. JF  would lose his money, and benign loans of town went bust.  Would he be prepared to do that? Nah.

The lack on investment on his side tells me one thing. ( please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong anybody) It looks to me that Mr F is waiting for something to happen. My guess is that the plan is to hold out for a new ground. The land Bp stands on will go to him  to clear off any outstanding benign loans and then houses will be built on it for a profit. Then he will leave with the club in a ‘better’ position because it has a new ground. Just a theory. Why else would you have a football club you are willing to let stagnate?

My big gripe is and always will be the day to day running of the club. Complete shambles.

See you all at County

Quoted from diehardmariner

We've operated like a sack of spuds for the past god knows how many years, seven of which were in the fifth tier where your income is cut off from the tiers above.  We didn't need any bailing out then.  Why would we need it in the future?  It's not a difficult business model.  To an extent there's as close as you can get to guaranteed income every summer and every second week.  There's not too many businesses that have that luxury.

With absolutely no effort at all the club can sell 2,200-2,500 season tickets.   Add another average 1,000 on the gate each home fixture.  Again doesn't matter what effort they make or how well we're doing, those bums will be on seats.  Might be more when it's nice weather, probably less when it's bitterly cold.  It levels out.  You factor your budget around those worst-case scenarios.  If the club is well run it should sell far more tickets, far more shirts, far more pies, pints, programmes...  Heck, if the club looked after its fans there's a chance more people would come and keep coming too!

This idea that Fenty is bailing us out and is safeguarding us from the abyss is ridiculous.  We're at the level we're at because of his mis-management.  The club don't owe him anything.  The money he put in was to cover the shortfall caused by his own failings.  Any suggestion that he has a valid stake in the club is outrageous in my opinion.  Even so, it's what it is.  I truly believe a fan run GTFC would have the ability to pay of John Fenty's loans at an agreed rate should he be prepared to hand it over.

In the past five years there have been countless opportunities to capitalise on genuine interest in the football club from those not already invested.  We've wasted every single one of the those opportunities under the leadership of John Fenty.  That's not a quirk or anomaly, it's a pattern.  A pattern that's based on the fact that he simply is not good enough to run this football club.  We're absolutely stagnant, dead in the water at the minute.  So much so that we're getting overtaken by far smaller clubs with less potential.  flipping Lincoln City dwarf us now! Lincoln!  This club used to have a reach right into the depths of Lincolnshire, our fan base encroached right onto their City borders.  Now they double (could sell more if they had the chance) our gates, treble our ambition and quadruple our actual output.  That's the hotbed of football that is Lincoln City, 4 seasons ago they brought 500 to Blundell Park.  How on earth do you go from that to League Two Champions, new training ground, sell-out fixtures every week?  By having someone with the ability to think beyond their own nose.  They had a bit of this fabled 'football fortune' and they capitalised on it.  

Was it luck or was it well-judged to bring the Cowley's in.  Probably a bit of both.  No-one could have predicted how well they would have done, but it was a good move.  The cup run was fortunate, I'm not denying they didn't deserve their run but it's always good luck to get a cup run.  They capitalised on that.  They built  on that new found interest.  We've had cup runs before, bloody hell we've been to Wembley more times in the last 5 years than most clubs in the league system.  Each time we've taken a minimum of 10,000 - well over half our average home gate.  How many of them did we keep hold of and are now at Blundell Park every other week?  None.  Lincoln were going for promotion and used that as a marketing drive, we were going for promotion 4 seasons running.  I don't remember  our gates shooting up, probably because the club still made you feel like a piece of crap for wanting to watch a game.  Lincoln got promoted and used their momentum to move things forward across all levels of the club.  What did we do?  Sneaked  our season ticket  prices up and told the manager he couldn't have a new fitness coach.  

The worst part of it?  All that has happened during the BEST period of  Fenty's regime.  All those epidemic failures have occurred whilst we've been doing well on the field.  Every time there's a basketcase club that's getting wound up we're told 'just think how lucky we are'.  Are we?  Yeah the likes of the Oyston family and that bloke at Bolton are exactly what you don't want at your football club.  No-one wants them.  But just because there's a few bad owners out there, it doesn't mean we have to settle for absolute failure from the current regime....does it?

Quoted from SomeSanity

Bolton is a completely different situation to ours. JF  would lose his money, and benign loans of town went bust.  Would he be prepared to do that? Nah.

The lack on investment on his side tells me one thing. ( please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong anybody) It looks to me that Mr F is waiting for something to happen. My guess is that the plan is to hold out for a new ground. The land Bp stands on will go to him  to clear off any outstanding benign loans and then houses will be built on it for a profit. Then he will leave with the club in a ‘better’ position because it has a new ground. Just a theory. Why else would you have a football club you are willing to let stagnate?

My big gripe is and always will be the day to day running of the club. Complete shambles.

See you all at County

Quoted from KingstonMariner

And your problem with people who give Fenty stick is what? You even claim to be 'no fan of his' yourself, yet you're always quick to jump to his defence and never deign to criticise the great man. I don't think you're the neutral you clim to be.

To be fair to you, you do comment on other subjects unlike Fishytails and Penfriend.

Quoted from golfer

A lot of people hate people who have different opinions to themselves. They hate for hatings sake. If J.S.F. surrendered his loans and fked off they would say there is some ulterior motive, he's left the club in the shite-the selfish illegitimate etc. Most of them hate people who side with J.S.F. Look at all the stupid hair-brained suggestions they make eg 3000 season ticket holders lumping £1K each to buy him out. I've seen more brains in a pisshowse. It'll be suggested next that we build a stadium on No 1 fishdock,have the car park at P.Parkway and build the houses at Brentford because they will be worth more. And they wouldn't be joking.