Holloway

Quoted from Meza

   Personally, we are so bloody lucky to have someone of IH ilk, and I felt great times are ahead (maybe a bit harder now).

Exactly what do you mean by that? A man who clearly craves publicity and the sound of his own voice? A man who has a proven managerial record with clubs at the bottom end of the FL? A man with wonderful ideas and crazy dreams?

If half of what he's on about is true and actually happens it will be great I just hope the performance on the pitch bit is included in that half all the other publicity and bluster is secondary. Thats all

i think this first blot on IH's copybook by bigging up the board so much was always going to polarise people, the plaudits he has given to the board and in particular the best run club tag when we know how we have been treated by the board and we clearly aren't the best run club have hit a nerve.
Its a pity as IH had started to galvanise the support a little, Fenty stepping back should also have helped but with the current crisis then all that is forgotten . We are now, just a week or so after IH lauded us as the best run club asking fans to put into a similar crowd fund that a couple of years ago was scoffed at by the board and also now asking staff to take a pay cut.

It would be nice for the EFL to actually make a decision on WTF is going to happen regards the relegations etc so that the season can finally be put to bed and with sport starting to be opened up again we may be able to start talking about a new season and focus on that.

Quoted from monkeyboy

How the holy intercourse can any of our own supporters be negative about ian Holloway? The guys put a buzz back into the club and is a great ambassador for us.
I think it better if you can’t support the club when we have such a positive manager then go find another club to support because you are not a supporter of Grimsby town.
Apart from the current crisis we have no reason to be down about the club.

Monkeyboy, Sir Alex Ferguson could come out of retirement and become manager of GTFC and some would complain. I’ll probably get red crosses galore but I cannot get my head round the fact that a small minority are negative almost for the sake it it. #UTM

Quoted from GrimExile

Monkeyboy, Sir Alex Ferguson could come out of retirement and become manager of GTFC and some would complain. I’ll probably get red crosses galore but I cannot get my head round the fact that a small minority are negative almost for the sake it it. #UTM

Agreed. I have always thought that they are the sort of people you would put up with to be on your quiz team but you wouldn't want them at your party!!

Quoted from GrimExile

Monkeyboy, Sir Alex Ferguson could come out of retirement and become manager of GTFC and some would complain. I’ll probably get red crosses galore but I cannot get my head round the fact that a small minority are negative almost for the sake it it. #UTM

I agree, I despair. I love IH, he has done nothing wrong so far and he’s the best thing that’s happened to us in 20 years. I have really enjoyed Ipswin’s posts for years, I love that he’s a WUM, but if Ian were to read some comments on here and take offence I’d find that unforgivable. We’ll never have a manager like this again.

Quoted from Heisenberg

. We’ll never have a manager like this again.

That is certainly true but I would prefer to remember him for successes he achieved for GTFC on the field rather than all the other stuff surrounding him

Quoted from Ipswin

That is certainly true but I would prefer to remember him for successes he achieved for GTFC on the field rather than all the other stuff surrounding him

Well let’s give him a chance then.

Is this the same Ian Holloway that said the season  ended too soon ........... all these opionions but not one ounce of common sense amongst you

Always interests me the way folk interpret things. I don’t actually think anyone has said they want Holloway to fail nor does anyone not agree that he’s been a breath of fresh air.

However, after years of shite, one good manager in Fenty’s tenure it’s hard to be super positive. Disaster and or disappointment has always lingered around the corner. Even when Slade was on a half decent run we blew it very publicly.

Caution doesn’t mean people don’t support. Just because someone doesn’t want to be a happy clapper or sling some cash in a begging bowl or doesn’t hang on every word the manager says doesn’t make them any less of a supporter. Is the bloke who never cheers or seemingly gets in to a game any less of the bloke who never stops? Of course not.

Holloway needed a job, we needed a manager, both needed a resurrection of some kind. Worked for both parties. Will holloway be a success? Who knows.

His recent press releases, sound bites and what have you have been odd and haven’t really been consistent.

To imply someone isn’t a fan or should keep their mouth shut becauee they don’t want to climb aboard the holloway bandwagon isn’t really necessary though.

Quoted from GrimExile

Well let’s give him a chance then.

I'm giving him a chance, on the pitch. No one has siad he should be sacked. I'm simply as another poster states not jumping on the Holloway bandwagon screaming with delight because he's very different, always (or trying to be) in the limelight off the pitch, giving endless interviews on radio and in the press.

I just want him to get results and change the 'best run club' he's ever been involved with from a music hall joke lower fourth division outfit into the team we, and Holloway, dream of it being. If he can't do that, and yes its very early days, then all the other publicity, bluster and hero worship is irrelevant and wasted