Cleethorpes in the Cup

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Funny that because when I've spoken to them in the past they've always wanted a closer relationship with Grimsby.

But if insisting on half of the gate receipts because you need to pay player insurance counts as "looked after them in the past" I suppose they were. The gate money from those games goes a long way for a club like Cleethorpes and the biggest benefit to ourselves is that it gets some vital minutes into our players. If that means we have to pay to play the game, so be it in my eyes.

I’m not sure who at Clee has told you that previously sharing gate receipts was anything to do with player insurance? But I can assure you that has never been the reason.

The club has an annual insurance policy for players that covers them for all fixtures (league/cup/friendlies) and for training. For both home games and away games.

It doesn’t cover medical treatment for any serious or long term injuries, which is something that the club has historically had to look after. There have been occasions where the owner of the club has actually paid personally for serious medical treatment for injuries. Such as the treatment the owner paid out of his own pocket for Josh Gowling

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

I’m not sure who at Clee has told you that previously sharing gate receipts was anything to do with player insurance? But I can assure you that has never been the reason.

The club has an annual insurance policy for players that covers them for all fixtures (league/cup/friendlies) and for training. For both home games and away games.

It doesn’t cover medical treatment for any serious or long term injuries, which is something that the club has historically had to look after. There have been occasions where the owner of the club has actually paid personally for serious medical treatment for injuries. Such as the treatment the owner paid out of his own pocket for Josh Gowling

that the reason he wouldnt stretch to a 2 year contract for Podge, or 50 quid more a week for Nathan Arnold, the list goes on

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

My problem has been the specific things I’ve seen in terms of some people at Clee Town. In respect of them being smiley smiley about GTFC when it suits them, because they are benefitting from something, like a pre season game or a loan player. But then on the other hand they’ve been heard to openly berate and slag GTFC off on occasions, forgetting that there’s big benefits to their club in having a close relationship with us. There’s just no need for that, and over the years, in respect of those individuals, it’s left me quite resentful of how we have looked after them on occasions.

So replace Clee Town with 'Grimsby Town 2004-2021' and GTFC with 'Grimsby Town fans 2004-2021'...then do you see the absolute irony of what you've said?

Knowing what Felipe and his mates and masters were like, you can well understand people at CTFC not being charitable about Grimsby Town.