To the Owners (merged)

Quoted from tarka

Jesus bloody Christ. What a wazzock.

Here's the first one......

Quoted from 1mickylyons

The Grimsby Way haha yes a 3rd relegation to non league. How on earth did this clown get the job your data is excrement so is your recruitment guy your coaches and your new signings. Sack this idiot now tonight and get some fight and passion back in the team.All I saw there was players either hiding of simply not good enough for EFL football and summed Artell up when he brought on the young kid from Coventry before Pyke and Wilson.Artell Out

There literally was no data on Artell he has been out of work for 18 months. We deluded ourselves that he played the Grimsby Way and he told us what we wanted to hear. He struck the jackpot when he got a phone call from us and got a 2.5 year deal. What mugs we were.

If we go down do these ground improvement still need doing ?

I politely asked Andrew petit on leaving ground at 1-4 hie eyes said it all

Quoted from GrimRob

There literally was no data on Artell he has been out of work for 18 months. We deluded ourselves that he played the Grimsby Way and he told us what we wanted to hear. He struck the jackpot when he got a phone call from us and got a 2.5 year deal. What mugs we were.

6 weeks they fannied about and concluded he was the answer. I can't believe I'm typing this but these lot have learnt nothing from Fentys catalogue of errors. I  feel sick.

Certainly cannot blame the fans at 0-2 thought we was fantastic

The club is in freefall, something has to change and quickly.

The owners need to get the coaching team together ( manager and assistants ) and have a no holds barred debate about what's going wrong and hammer out a plan to dig us out of this mess. We can't continue doing the same things over and over again and expect a different outcome.

Between now and the season end, the players will be the same so the coaches have to find a way to get the best out of this group.

The only goal now is to avoid relegation, then there must be a more in depth debate about the club's recruitment strategy (players and coaches) and where this has gone so wrong.

UTM

They need to accept that they’ve made a disastrous appointment in Artell and fire him before the weekend is over.

They also need to accept that they’ve royally ballsed up talking about “the Grimsby way”. There is no Grimsby way. We haven’t played that way for over 20 years. Even Buckley couldn’t get a team playing like that again successfully in his third tenure. The game is too professional, too well drilled and players are too fit. Unless your players are better than the opposition then it not possible to always pass through them and you need the ability to mix it up. I’m sure this misty-eyed, romanticised notion of a “Grimsby way” is what led to Artell’s appointment and it’s been a disaster.

I’m still grateful for what they’ve done but they’ve got to rectify this and quickly or we’re back to square one.

Quoted from mariner91

They need to accept that they’ve made a disastrous appointment in Artell and fire him before the weekend is over.

They also need to accept that they’ve royally ballsed up talking about “the Grimsby way”. There is no Grimsby way. We haven’t played that way for over 20 years. Even Buckley couldn’t get a team playing like that again successfully in his third tenure. The game is too professional, too well drilled and players are too fit. Unless your players are better than the opposition then it not possible to always pass through them and you need the ability to mix it up. I’m sure this misty-eyed, romanticised notion of a “Grimsby way” is what led to Artell’s appointment and it’s been a disaster.

I’m still grateful for what they’ve done but they’ve got to rectify this and quickly or we’re back to square one.

Exactly this.
Look at how other teams have bigger , quicker, more mentally strong characters than us.
All our players look like 7 stone weaklings compared to the likes of Tranmere, Harrogate, and other massive bastions of football.

Quoted from mariner91

They need to accept that they’ve made a disastrous appointment in Artell and fire him before the weekend is over.

They also need to accept that they’ve royally ballsed up talking about “the Grimsby way”. There is no Grimsby way. We haven’t played that way for over 20 years. Even Buckley couldn’t get a team playing like that again successfully in his third tenure. The game is too professional, too well drilled and players are too fit. Unless your players are better than the opposition then it not possible to always pass through them and you need the ability to mix it up. I’m sure this misty-eyed, romanticised notion of a “Grimsby way” is what led to Artell’s appointment and it’s been a disaster.

I’m still grateful for what they’ve done but they’ve got to rectify this and quickly or we’re back to square one.

You’ll get told they never said this but it’s bang on. They’ve said they wanted attractive football a few times. It’s appropriate football we need - and that currently means getting at least a point a game on average for the rest of the season.