Stockwood pre match

Quoted from headingly_mariner

That's not the same as wanting out of the club is it? And it's something they've said since they took the club over. He's said more about long term plans and improvement than anything else in that interview.

People have their knickers in a twist cos he's said he doesn't read the fishy.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

I have no reason to dislike stockwood infact rather the opposite and I'm very grateful he took the club on BUT on the same hand no one forced him to take this club on .

No one held him at gunpoint when signing the takeover. He chose to take this club on with another investor.  

I am grateful but I also wish he would stop coming across like he's Lord and saviour and using these big words in interviews about his time in investing in companies and like he's not a town fan now , he comes across like he is above the average town fan now.

Jason we are all grateful but we are not going to be on our knees forever, we argue on here but we all love town on here . Owners come and go but you said your one of us so please remember that.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

It’s amazing what a dreadful defeat can do to the minds of people who are normally reasonably sensible posters on the Fishy. To be honest I think Matt Dean gets a minimum of 50% of his questions for Managers and Owners from stuff he’s read on a Fishy thread something he will repeat several times during the transfer window as he regurgitates “fishy rumours”.

All JS is doing is reiterating exactly what he said when taking over the club, he would be Chairman for three years and then review, Chaos sums his position up perfectly above. As for not engaging with the fishy, again as Chaos and others have said, why the hell would he? All he would achieve is another avenue for abuse when things go awry. Not engaging does not mean he doesn’t read it as I am sure Andrew and Debbie do as if you ignore the more venomous trolls you can, on occasions, get reasonable feedback on all things Town.

Christ we now have to wait nearly two weeks for the next match so hopefully a few new faces will arrive to help calm a few contributors down a little.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

It’s amazing what a dreadful defeat can do to the minds of people who are normally reasonably sensible posters on the Fishy. To be honest I think Matt Dean gets a minimum of 50% of his questions for Managers and Owners from stuff he’s read on a Fishy thread something he will repeat several times during the transfer window as he regurgitates “fishy rumours”.

All JS is doing is reiterating exactly what he said when taking over the club, he would be Chairman for three years and then review, Chaos sums his position up perfectly above. As for not engaging with the fishy, again as Chaos and others have said, why the hell would he? All he would achieve is another avenue for abuse when things go awry. Not engaging does not mean he doesn’t read it as I am sure Andrew and Debbie do as if you ignore the more venomous trolls you can, on occasions, get reasonable feedback on all things Town.

Christ we now have to wait nearly two weeks for the next match so hopefully a few new faces will arrive to help calm a few contributors down a little.

Quoted from chaos33

The thing is….the small handful of people who are, as you say dhm, ‘digging him out’ are the usual suspects who post badly written, spiteful cobblers on here on a reasonably regular basis - usually after a substantial disappointment. We all know who they are. 5 or 6 of them. They voted Brexit. They watch GB News. They service some concept of ‘lefty’ as the actual cause of the things they’re socially angry about, despite not realising that nobody remotely left leaning has had any sort of executive power for a decade and a half, and who can’t evolve their opinions and post a cogent argument.

These are the reasons JS has concluded that being on the fishy isn’t a good idea. And he’s right. I wouldn’t touch it if it were me. Not a platform where someone in his position could have a meaningful and positive, informed discussion about key aspects of GTFC, largely for the reasons ((numb nuts posters) given above, but also because of the format - written posts on a thread by an unseen, anonymous contributor, limited in scope for detail and problematic in terms of discerning tone, subtext, context etc. This is really what he was saying. An Internet forum is not the kind of vehicle he favours for helpful, detailed discussion when time is short and pressure is high. Of course, some folk on here will miss this point (deliberately or not) and paint it their own way - calling him names, assuming his meanings, misrepresenting his intent or integrity; which kind of underlines his point doesn’t it.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I’m not bothered whether he engages or not. What bothers me is the ‘intellectual superiority’ that comes over in interviews. It was evident in the Fans Forum too. There’s a lot of bright people who post on here and there’s a lot of bright people who spend a lot of money on GTFC and he might be wise to not take supporters for granted.

As Gary Croft said yesterday, it doesn’t take many drubbings, particularly at home, to reduce gate receipts. Many people are struggling financially at present and twenty quid plus is hard earned, particularly around here.

Quoted from Sandford1981

Let’s say JS starts to engage with people on here, it would just become a stick to beat him with in the future.

‘ JS should spend less time on the fishy and more time sorting the team out…’

‘ insert generic nonsense here with reference to all or some of the following: B corp, Scotch Eggs, The Guardian, Glass Barriers, Main Stand Posts, lefty, Beetroot, Values, education and so on and so forth.

And then some very original and hilarious person will say ‘ when has your owner engaging on the fishy ever won you 3 points on a Saturday afternoon? ‘

Quoted from 123614

Yes you are right, but the trolls just have to find something/one to spout their garbage on here, so they just pick out someone and vomit absolute rubbish.