Tom Shutes

FFS the sooner football comes back the better !

Quoted from pizzzza

I'm sure he only has a small involvement.

Very good Pizzza ,appeals to my sense of humour

I've had enough of this chopping and changing -fkuk moving - I've got a nice warm seat with plenty of leg room at B.P. and good view and good company. I don't care if you lot move I'm staying at Blundell Park - it's all I've known

This pipe dream is not going to happen in the foreseeable future. We've had thirty years of this guys - it really is not worth discussing any further. Home is BP & we are now even probably hanging on to that by a thread given the current situation.  Let's hope we can settle down in the Findus or wherever & watch a game of football again.

We are going to have the greatest recession in our history. Talk about building a stadium in the current climate is absurdly stupid. We may not see football 😭 for a while. Let us just concentrate on getting back to normal. This is going to be hard for all of us. Be safe.

So this guy decides to release this statement now in the current climate just shouts “ look at me ... I want to be the saviour of Grimsby ....”

Six months down the road ... “ well I would’ve done it if it hadn’t been for that bloody coronavirus, honest . “

Full of sh.it if you ask me .

I'd settle for jumpers for goalposts at the moment. A new stadium feels about as far away as the Champions League.

I have my reservations over Shutes and his grandiose ideas. If it's the first GTFC have heard of this, then I bet it's the first that ABP, or whoever owns the land, have heard  of it as well.Has Shutes and his team done any feasibility study on this?  The Freeman Street proposal has the backing of the owners of the land, and the council, and it is cleared and ready to go.

As for the financing, do you think for one minute that the board have dreamed up this scheme without looking into how it can be paid for? They will have spent many hours in discussions will the relevant people to come up with a method of financing it, drawing on the experiences of other clubs that have relocated.It's only like you and me buying a house, only there's more noughts on the end. If everyone thought of how much their house costs, nobody would ever buy a house.

We've been crying out for some ideas and imagination. Some fresh blood. We've been stagnating and sinking during this Fenty era.

Shutes comes along — and I get it; none of us truly know what his financial situation is, or how sincere he is about delivering something for the people — but the reaction from some of our fans is to presume he's after something, and he's somehow going to do us over?

Give the bloke a break. We don't know him. I'd love to hear more from him. That's not to say I think we should just drop everything and pile onto what he's proposing.

I don't know about you but I feel a bit uneasy by how all this potential buy-out business has been handled, in the main, by the board. We only know what we know because 95% of the quotes — and any version of the story — has come from the board.

Shutes gives us a few quotes in an article and it's like we're scared of someone who's got a bit of imagination and a bit of ambition.

If more of us were open to change and willing to allow different people with different ideas into our lives then maybe it'd be a bit more vibrant and successful.

But no. The Grimsby way is to shut out anyone from out of town and close down the conversation.

Like I say, I just want to hear more from Shutes. I'd love to hear how he'd answer some tougher questions. I'm not necessarily for his stadium, and his idea. I just want to hear both sides and then make my mind up.

Our board have controlled what we've heard about Shutes' plans so I just feel it's time we heard more from the man himself. Until then I'm not making any decision on whether it's Freemo, the docks or BP.

Quoted from RichMariner

We've been crying out for some ideas and imagination. Some fresh blood. We've been stagnating and sinking during this Fenty era.

Shutes comes along — and I get it; none of us truly know what his financial situation is, or how sincere he is about delivering something for the people — but the reaction from some of our fans is to presume he's after something, and he's somehow going to do us over?

Give the bloke a break. We don't know him. I'd love to hear more from him. That's not to say I think we should just drop everything and pile onto what he's proposing.

I don't know about you but I feel a bit uneasy by how all this potential buy-out business has been handled, in the main, by the board. We only know what we know because 95% of the quotes — and any version of the story — has come from the board.

Shutes gives us a few quotes in an article and it's like we're scared of someone who's got a bit of imagination and a bit of ambition.

If more of us were open to change and willing to allow different people with different ideas into our lives then maybe it'd be a bit more vibrant and successful.

But no. The Grimsby way is to shut out anyone from out of town and close down the conversation.

Like I say, I just want to hear more from Shutes. I'd love to hear how he'd answer some tougher questions. I'm not necessarily for his stadium, and his idea. I just want to hear both sides and then make my mind up.

Our board have controlled what we've heard about Shutes' plans so I just feel it's time we heard more from the man himself. Until then I'm not making any decision on whether it's Freemo, the docks or BP.

Sorry but have you read Phillip Day's statement? What is it that makes you uneasy with the way the board has handled Mr. Shutes proposals?
they repeatedly asked Shutes for information, but he never gave them a reply. The gave him an ultimatum, which he ignored. The board then publicly stated that since Shutes has not been it touch and updated his proposals, they would have no alternative but to assume the deal was dead. What more could they have possibly done in the circumstances? Instead of now getting in touch with the board, Shutes has gone running to the Telegraph with a fancy picture of a stadium and said he still wants to take the club over, and he can deliver this latest proposed stadium. Surely the right thing to do would be to contact the board first, not the local rag.

I for one am uneasy with these proposals and the way the whole thing has been handled by Shutes. It just doesn't add up.