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April 20, 2021, 11:14pm
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From Championship to NL, again, via L2 is the achievement of the Fenty years. Failed to invest in the team, failed to invest in the stadium, and failed to have decent training facilities.

His only success is to get all his money back plus the extra £200K of trust shares. What a reward for the failure of Grimsby Town and his lack of care for the club and fans. A load of sh!t.


And he’s got the nerve to call himself a fan
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April 20, 2021, 11:27pm
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One word answer Fenty.

He’s getting every penny back. And more. Shameless.


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For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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Fenty. And Fenty again if we don’t come up next season due to him taking his ball with him. I wish him nothing but failure in both his professional and personal life.


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I’m sorry but it is.

We have not been relegated prior to this season, following our return to the EFL.

We haven’t been promoted either, but we certainly haven’t been relegated, and our club has operated on what has been far from being the 24th worst budget in EFL2. So managers have been financially supported in a manner that would not suggest a relegation was on the cards.

The managers have chosen how to utilise that budget. In this instance, our budget was largely spent by Ian Holloway, with his approach and policies for the season.

Ian Holloway is to blame for spending the majority of the budget on a team void of quality and experience, and for miss-managing the entire Covid situation.

It very definitely has been a one season relegation

People can have opinions of the historyonics of things prior to that, and that’s okay. But it doesn’t change the fact that, even though we don’t have the biggest budget in terms of promotion chasing, neither are we anywhere near the 24th worst budget. Our manager was supported financially and Holloway messed up massively

That’s my opinion


Are you thick or deliberately disregarding your pal's tenure? It's been more than one relegation out of the football league (let alone the near misses and the previous relegations down to the 4th division).


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Shocking and comical reply

Shocking because you have just been highly offensive and directed foul insults at me.

Comical because in your list of reasons why you hate John Fenty, you have the temerity to express dismay that he gave us interest free benign loans. That takes the biscuit

I’d thank you take your insulting and offensive behaviour elsewhere please. I haven’t been foul and abusing towards  you  in my opinion


His insults are born of frustration. People just cannot get through to you. You point blank ignore the evidence, and most of the time when asked a question you completely ignore it and answer a question you haven't been asked. Whilst you haven't used abusive language, your behaviour has been very rude and dismissive and you display a superior attitude. Bad manners all round. If you want to be treated civilly, act civilly. If you can't act civilly, expect to reap what you sow. If you don't like that you can log off and do something else.

Didn't they teach you any real manners at your grammar school?


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Welcome back Jane Austen.

I’ve put your opinion into Google translate and it’s converted it from Jane Austen back into English. It looks like some of your best work.

“In 2018 no one died. In 2019 no one died. In 2020...no one died. In 2021...someone died”.

[url]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs[/url]


Lol that's the funniest thing I've ever read on here 😂
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Without doubt the blame for this clubs Long demise should be laid squarely at Fentys feet , but ......
A mentally unstable Holloway should also be blamed for Kamikaze football in our six yard box , failing to recruit a side until September and continuing to add a player of lesser quality every week after then pissing off just before the transfer window .
Hurst coming in January and telling the players they’re all on their way out from the club and demoralising an already excrement team , recruiting unfit players that needed two months to find match fitness.
The  board ( including trust members ) for not questioning why we’d had no preseason or assembled a squad before the first match of the season .
Finally us the fans for continuing to accept this dross season after season , give him ten games , wait until Christmas , they’ll be alright when players come back from injury , or when players get match fit , we’re not championship anymore ect ect .

It looks like Hurst will take charge again  next season , if I was the chairman or on the board I’d let it be clear that if we’re not in the top 3 after ten games then he’s gone.
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Fenty...no need for debate. In most other countries he’s have been hounded out years ago. He wasn’t. People swallowed his bullshit and those who challenged and spoke out were shot down, sometimes publicly by the very man who’s caused all this.

Holloway to some extent but it’s not fair to bully or call out the mentally ill...


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I think it's fairly obvious who's to blame here... For those who aren't quite sure he has done the following:

- Joined the board in the late 1990s
- Fetched embarrassment onto the club for various reasons, from snapping a fellow fans flag, to inviting convicted fraudsters to the club for a money making scheme.
- Allowing our top scorer for 30+ years leave on a free transfer for giving him a worse contract than he was offered just six months previously.
- Effectively forcing the Mariners Trust to hand him shares, only to make money on those shares around 10 years later when selling the business.
- The "poaching" of Scott/Hurst from Boston, ending up costing nearly 4x the original asking fee.
- Voting for B teams
- That fans forum...
- Calling Stockwood/Shutes/Pettit tyre kickers, whilst behind their back making a business with a convicted fraudster. Nearly 2 years later, Stockwood and Pettit are hopefully going to take over...
- Appointing, in my opinion, various wrong managers, and bringing managers back because they seem to be his "mates"..

And then after that, we have the man who talked a lot of gibberish at times, blamed covid for everything, whilst playing darts and breaking the rules. Are Netflix wanting to make a documentary on it all yet, as it could be an interesting watch?

The only hope we have now is the new takeover does go through, albeit a division below where we had hoped, give them a clean slate, rally behind them like I'm sure we will, and give the town something we can be proud in!
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Now I'm a bit less angry and a bit more reflective we came back into the EFL in 2016 with no real plan to move the club forward on and off the pitch other than the pipedream of the mystical new stadium.

We didn't retain a couple of key players from the promotion side and allowed a decent manager who had the loyalty of his players if not all the fans to leave as there was no plan.  

Other than covering the cost of a massive squad under Bignot I'm not sure where the Bogle money went, it wasn't a massive amount in football terms but used wisely it would have been better utilised.

Slade was a poor appointment as it compounded the folly and Jolley despite a positive start was exposed pretty quickly.

Then came Holloway, recruited in a fanfare but then allowed to practice his lunacy in an environment where the exec of the club had lost sight of the clubs actual purpose.

What was allowed to happen in terms of bizarre recruitment decisions was criminal and if the board of any non football business had have operated like that they would have been fired.

Ironically it was the blindness and arrogance of John Fenty who was so remote from reality that he didn't understand the impact of the engagement if Alex May which all being well will be the catalyst for his long overdue exit from the club.

So in short,

- An owner who didn't have a growth mindset.
- Poor control and recruitment.
- Total lack of understanding what the club is actually there for and what it means to so many.

All being well May 5th will go by as we all hope and there will be brighter times ahead despite the club paying the price for years of "the custodians of the club" not actually doing right by it's stake holders at every level.
            


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