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Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

The reason people like myself keep having to bring up Fenty is that some ‘fans’ have forgotten what he tried to do to our club.

In a similar vein, there were revisionist posts last week suggesting Holloway wasn’t here solely for nefarious reasons.

The two of them tried to sell our club to a convicted fraudster. God knows what state the club would be in now without the leak.

So no, we are not ‘pretty much back where we came in’.

Nobody sensible on here, including JS and AP, has ever suggested that the two of them were going to come in and sort out all the problems overnight. It could take years to get back to being a stable, upper L1 (or better) club. They might succeed. They might not. I don’t know and neither do they.

Just because JS and AP have had some success in business, it doesn’t mean this long-term project is going to be easy or successful.

I never doubted Fenty when he said it was a difficult, lonely job running a lower league football club. JS and AP are proving it’s not easy. However, I’ve seen nothing from them yet that would suggest they will try to destroy our club, in the same way as Fenty tried to do.  

JS and AP should be challenged, they should be questioned. They shouldn’t be viewed as saints. But the club is in a better state than it was when they joined. It’s a pretty low bar, but I am genuinely worried for anyone who thinks that isn’t so.

Quoted from ska face

On the manager speculation - “…so don’t believe everything you read on social media…thanks John Tondeur” to laughs in the room. Clearly a harmless joke but some of the clowns on here have an axe to grind for some reason.

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

The reason people like myself keep having to bring up Fenty is that some ‘fans’ have forgotten what he tried to do to our club.

In a similar vein, there were revisionist posts last week suggesting Holloway wasn’t here solely for nefarious reasons.

The two of them tried to sell our club to a convicted fraudster. God knows what state the club would be in now without the leak.

So no, we are not ‘pretty much back where we came in’.

Nobody sensible on here, including JS and AP, has ever suggested that the two of them were going to come in and sort out all the problems overnight. It could take years to get back to being a stable, upper L1 (or better) club. They might succeed. They might not. I don’t know and neither do they.

Just because JS and AP have had some success in business, it doesn’t mean this long-term project is going to be easy or successful.

I never doubted Fenty when he said it was a difficult, lonely job running a lower league football club. JS and AP are proving it’s not easy. However, I’ve seen nothing from them yet that would suggest they will try to destroy our club, in the same way as Fenty tried to do.

JS and AP should be challenged, they should be questioned. They shouldn’t be viewed as saints. But the club is in a better state than it was when they joined. It’s a pretty low bar, but I am genuinely worried for anyone who thinks that isn’t so.

Quoted from forza ivano

found it quite dispiriting tbh. reality starts to bite would be my summing up. there is no overnight transformation either on or off the pitch. No outside investment, n it seems the FA cup windfall has ,at best, managed to keep us up with the rest.
It's going to be a long haul
my balloon of 1878 optimism has been spiked, I'm afraid to say!
however, I have to say , i would rather them than anyone else in charge of the club

Quoted from davmariner

Who are you, Stockwood's mum? It was clearly a pointed dig at JT which was reflected in the audience reaction. I thought we'd moved past having a pop at RH journalists at these events.

Quoted from aussiej

Where would we be now if we had not got the FA Cup.money?
If there is no money left where would the 350K for the main stand come from? We are in a pretty poor state on and off the field. What we really need is outside investment but that would be difficult. Maybe its time for us supporters to take the pressure off with another fund raiser for the club and raise some funds for the January window...

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Struggling to comprehend some comments here tonight, i’ve read that Jason had a pop at JT. We’re skint and pretty much copulated and we’re going absolutely nowhere. Maybe some of you are hearing what you want to hear? if you think Jason was having a pop at JT then you are far too easily offended.. quite clearly tongue in cheek. They said we’ll lose close to a million pound this year, yet also said the playing budget this year will not be cut and we at least match this years even without a cup run etc. These are two custodians of our football club, who aren’t stacked with cash and have been honest from day dot. They said they’ll put money into the football club for it to be a self sustainable club and that we’ll always operate within our means. They’ve not promised stadiums or training grounds. They’ve improved what we have, we are an attractive football club to be a part of due to them. We have an infrastructure of staff, we have training facilities that aren’t in the 2000’s anymore and they’re committed to improving the experience at BP despite it being money down the drain. They know it’s not ideal, they aren’t stupid but no L2 football club has 60 million to spend on a stadium. Tottenham Hotspur are still paying there’s off, it’s taken Everton 15 years to move out of Goodison and will be paying it off for a very long time, look at the financial issues it’s caused them. I don’t blame him for coming off social media, because me myself get bored of reading some of the comments never mind if they was directed at me. ATAW