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RoboCod
April 19, 2019, 10:33am
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when he asked Dave Burns “I’m sorry what’s your name?” after the Wycombe game and followed it up with “Pirlos wasn’t available for selection today” personally I think it’s quite funny.

Yes, that's humour. Not at all comparable to getting arsey with the local media as in this case. I'm hoping MJ was just having an offday so no storms/teacups to see here but I have the right to remain vigilant and see if the next step in the erosion of our once great club is happening, a fresh faced manager full of ideas and vigour slowly worn down by the out of date, disrespectful and frankly cantankerous Fenty board.

More unnecessary and distracting crankiness for a dismayed and jaded fanbase to digest...
MJ has a plan and should be allowed to get on with it to be honest.


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Quoted from RoboCod
when he asked Dave Burns “I’m sorry what’s your name?” after the Wycombe game and followed it up with “Pirlos wasn’t available for selection today” personally I think it’s quite funny.

Yes, that's humour. Not at all comparable to getting arsey with the local media as in this case. I'm hoping MJ was just having an offday so no storms/teacups to see here but I have the right to remain vigilant and see if the next step in the erosion of our once great club is happening, a fresh faced manager full of ideas and vigour slowly worn down by the out of date, disrespectful and frankly cantankerous Fenty board.

More unnecessary and distracting crankiness for a dismayed and jaded fanbase to digest...
MJ has a plan and should be allowed to get on with it to be honest.


Almost as cranky as “once great club” quotes.....

I seem to remember driving away from the Wycombe game last season listening to the Dave Burns interview with the impression MJ wasn’t being humorous but it was alright then wasn’t it as we didn’t expect anything?

I guess as the season winds down the conspiracy theorists ramp up their efforts.

Matt Dean has a really interesting interviewing style in that when he asks a question and doesn’t get the answer he tries to rephrase the question which is a bit patronising to the person being interviewed TBH. He also as MJ points out asks the same questions week in week out.




"Crombie you would have got to that if you weren't such a fat ba%$@rd" - George Kerr, inspiration from the dug out 70s style  
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It's obvious the manager has hit the same brick wall that many other managers before him (and some players come to that).

The club is light years behind the rest of football in the 21st century, but a manager eager to make his way in the game would see a club with our tradition and history as a great first step, but then they come up against the immovable object of John Fenty and his "board."

We have no ambition, no plan, no investment and are basically stuck in a time warp unable to go forward. I feel for the manager, but the greater tragedy is that the board cannot even see that they are to blame for the clubs stagnation. They probably feel they are doing a good job. Laughable.
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We either need a "football fortune" or a board who know how to grow a business.


Something like a recent promotion, or sale of a striker to a championship club, maybe?
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Lew Chaterley's Lover is spot on - couldn't agree more
We are run like a 1970s fifedom - I'm of an age when I can remember people like Bob Lord at Burnley; ruling the roost  for the sake of 'ruling the roost' and seemingly oblivious to changes in the game etc

99% of success these days (and perhaps it's always been the case) is built upon investment, a bit of luck (Lincoln spring to mind with Cowleys being appointed and 'once-in-a- century' FA Cup run) and good management on and off the pitch... you have to keep moving forward and adapting to changes in the game

I think GTFC managers are under extra pressure - a large section of the supporters remember the 'glory days' under Buckley (Forest have same issue with legacy of Cloughie) and struggle to accept where we are now

Which is an under-funded club (in terms of being able to seriously compete), in a deprived area (hard to attract quality players - as confirmed to me by a leading light in the Mariners Trust), no sign of a new stadium, and a board with a very insular and old-fashioned attitude.

Unless we unearth a few gems in the summer window I cannot reasonably see how we can expect to be anything much better than mid-table for the foreseeable future - although like all fans I remain hopeful and optimistic
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I don’t see it as being out of order for Matt Dean to ask awkward questions. I often wish JT were more direct after games.

Similarly, in terms of achievement, I think it’s ok to ask about where we do stand compared to budget. If the limits of the budget is to be a mid table League 2 club then patience will run very thin...I remember Mr Day professing Championship football in 5 years and that was over a year ago!
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I don’t see it as being out of order for Matt Dean to ask awkward questions. I often wish JT were more direct after games.

Similarly, in terms of achievement, I think it’s ok to ask about where we do stand compared to budget. If the limits of the budget is to be a mid table League 2 club then patience will run very thin...I remember Mr Day professing Championship football in 5 years and that was over a year ago!


What Mr Day said is a perfect example, if any were needed, how the board members are completely detached from reality. Not just a bit adrift, but oceans apart.

There is not one shred of evidence to support the claim he made that day. He may well have said we will win the Champions League in a few years; it is difficult to comprehend a board member saying anything like he did, after nearly two decades of being in League 2 and non league and not even making a success of that.

It is beyond reasoning he would say such an idiotic thing, when he himself has done absolutely nothing, ever, to get us one inch closer to any success whatsoever, despite being at our lowest ebb.

We cannot organise ball boys or turnstile operators or a permanent sound system; perhaps Mr Day will come on here and tell us in his own words how we can go from that to have the serious investment of millions of pounds to even get to the upper reaches of league 2?  

It is beyond bizarre what has happened to GTFC. We will never progress until the current board are gone.  
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Radio Humberside are a media/entertainment/ media company so it is their job to report on news, if when a Jolley worked in the city earning his millions and he Financial Times new about a takeover but didn't report it would he have been happy with them?


Jolley was never earning 'millions' doubt he was earning six figures either...
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Jolley was never earning 'millions' doubt he was earning six figures either...


He’ll soon be earning eff all 😡
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Well the post match interview wasn’t any more exciting. How much difference is there between last season and this, what’s going on?
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