Jason Stockwood on Radio Humberside Weds evening

Quoted from HerveJosse

Clearly all that glitters is gold for most on this site

You obviously prefer the unglittered turd.
Perhaps you’ve got use to it after brown-nosing Fenty for years.

To be honest.. Even if they're going down the same route as JF and want every penny back they're still a massive step forward... Look at all the things that have changed for the positive... Fanzone, interaction with fans, upper barrier, communication with fans, ticketing system plus much more.
If they put £3m or even  £10m in and get it all back in 10-20-30 years time aslong as they've improved the day to day running of the club and brought some pride back.. I'm happy.

To be be fair Luke, the Fanzone and ticketing system were conceived and planned before the takeover. The Fanzone is a Trust initiative so has nowt to do with either Fenty or 1878 beyond them giving approval. I think the ticketing system might have been something that the Trust also actively pushed for.

But I agree on the bigger picture. I’ve always argued that what we need is vision and engagement from the owners, not huge amounts of money. We certainly seem to be getting the vision and engagement. In spades!

Quoted from lukeo

To be honest.. Even if they're going down the same route as JF and want every penny back they're still a massive step forward... Look at all the things that have changed for the positive... Fanzone, interaction with fans, upper barrier, communication with fans, ticketing system plus much more.
If they put £3m or even  £10m in and get it all back in 10-20-30 years time aslong as they've improved the day to day running of the club and brought some pride back.. I'm happy.

In the modern game if you take a club from the 5th tier to the second tier, you are in an arena where £10m doesn't go very far plus you've improved the reach of the club to a point where you can, quite confidently, seek to get your investment back.

If the reverse happens (I appreciate Fenty wasn't at the helm in our Division 1 days) and the club suffers multiple relegations, neglect, constant flirts with relegation and a reputation among clubs, players, agents and fans that the "principle funder" is a bit of a sharp object then receiving any return on the investment, never mind profiting on a £200k gift that fans were essentially blackmailed into voting for, is a miracle.

As Stockwood alluded to the other night, what was the alternative if he, Andrew (and at one point, Shutes) didn't step up? Especially given the "immovable" term regarding player transfers...

Quoted from pen penfras

People at the club. I'm not going to say who I know in the club, because it's not my place to. And the way it's going, they'll all have left soon anyway. Anything that I'm asked not to say, I don't. Anything else I only say to put right the ridiculous statements I see on here. Not that it matters, the lies seem to win every time because they back up the hatred.

It's funny how everybody accuses me of being part of, related to or a friend of the old regime. Yet any facts that I come out with I'm then accused of having no knowledge and making it up (the irony).

Facts? Someone at the club told you and you are claiming it to be fact? I know someone who tells people he has a 10inch d8ck but he is full of sh8t. A bit like you.

My mate told me so it is a fact. Absolutely priceless.

At the risk of generating a lot of red crosses there was some unfished  business on this thread on which we know have further information. The one alleged fact quoted in JFs Sunday morning sermon  was the claim that there was  £800k in the bank at the time of the takeover. I won’t resurrect the rest of the discussion let’s just be happy where we are now

Just re listened to this - this was before our first game. My god we are in such a better place!

    Quoted from pen penfras


    People at the club. I'm not going to say who I know in the club, because it's not my place to. And the way it's going, they'll all have left soon anyway. Anything that I'm asked not to say, I don't. Anything else I only say to put right the ridiculous statements I see on here. Not that it matters, the lies seem to win every time because they back up the hatred.

    It's funny how everybody accuses me of being part of, related to or a friend of the old regime. Yet any facts that I come out with I'm then accused of having no knowledge and making it up (the irony).





a month on and i'm intrigued to know all these people who have left because of their disillusionment with 1878.

perhaps PP can illuminate us?

Quoted from forza ivano

    Quoted from pen penfras


    People at the club. I'm not going to say who I know in the club, because it's not my place to. And the way it's going, they'll all have left soon anyway. Anything that I'm asked not to say, I don't. Anything else I only say to put right the ridiculous statements I see on here. Not that it matters, the lies seem to win every time because they back up the hatred.

    It's funny how everybody accuses me of being part of, related to or a friend of the old regime. Yet any facts that I come out with I'm then accused of having no knowledge and making it up (the irony).





a month on and i'm intrigued to know all these people who have left because of their disillusionment with 1878.

perhaps PP can illuminate us?

Having spoken to a member of staff a few weeks ago, some are just keeping their heads down

Interesting that our dear friend PP intimates that the people who have left shouldn’t have…but they were as culpable as the flipping idiot that owned the club.

People eulogised about Fleming yet in his varying roles he did little to stand up to Fenty or challenge the status quo at the club. The claims he cared about the club are naturally challenged when surely, as we all could, he could see the mistakes being made that cost us dearly. Simple really, grow a pair and challenge or walk away knowing you tried (if you’re any good at your job you’ll find another) or sit there, head down and do very little to stop it, thus making you as culpable as Fenty.

Nobody that has left is missed, the ones gone from the board/offices clearly brought little to the table. If they were integral or effective they’d have been kept on…

PP offers almost a diatribe of nonsense against people who despise Fenty or celebrate the new ownership, makes claims he knows people in the club and they make claims that ‘all is not as it seems’ yet forgets there are people on this very board who know varying staff at the club, have done for years and get the very opposite. Only recently I had a long chat with a long time serving staff member that many of us, if not all town fans will have come across before at the tip and let’s just say they seemed considerably more happy about their work and the club.

Perhaps our Welsh friend just knows the folk who don’t like change and or doing a flipping job properly, or being directed by people that do, choosing the former, to sit and do little whilst Fenty felicitations it all up.

The stuff we’re hearing about the club prior to their purchase is alarming, and I can’t be the only one wondering where that £400k went….perhaps sometimes stockwood, Pettit et al are scratching their heads as they uncover some of this…after all, they bought the club from a proper fan who cared about the club, allegedly…cared so much he took it out the league twice by running it his own incompetent way…

The Fenty brigade are a funny bunch too, it’s as if they can’t see that people in support of the new regime can be anything other than completely head over heels with them, which isn’t entirely the case…am I happy they’ve taken over? Yes. Am I happy with what’s happened so far? Yes. Have the changes made been worthwhile, including staff being moved on? Yes. Are they free from criticism, no, but so far there’s nothing to really truly pick fault with. Am I, along with others still cautious after the last 17 years? Yes and that’s entirely understandable.

Difference this time is that the impression is they will learn from mistakes; own them in fact and I don’t think we’ll get drunken rambling of a mad man on radio Humberside or midnight press releases on the club website because someone dared to challenge them…unlike dear old not so honest John…let’s not forget that, even the most ardent Fenty fans needs to remember that he was working to bring in a convicted (and awaiting deportation) fraudster…he was going to let that man become involved in our club for nothing more than his own gain…remember that…