Holloways resignation, Twitter

To all the fans,

It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing my resignation as manager of Grimsby Town Football Club.

New wannabe owners are hovering over GTFC and John has told me he is selling his stake in the club. So it’s time for a fresh start across the board for this great club.

As I said recently, I intend to be fully honest with you, the supporters.

Contact was made by the new owners to me on several occasions before the takeover, which I felt was inappropriate, and told them as such. This is the key factor in my decision.

Why? The relationship between the incoming new owners, board and manager is so so important. It needs to be strong for a club to succeed, and we got off on the wrong footing.

Therefore, that relationship will be strained from the off, which is bad for the club.

This is a club that, if everybody has its best interests at heart, can progress onwards and upwards. That is their challenge. That is their honour.

I sincerely wish them all the best going forward and I implore them to communicate regularly and openly with the fans.

For a myriad of reasons, on and off the pitch, it feels like we didn’t get a fair crack together, and I take me share of the blame too. I hoped for this to be a long, serious relationship but it hasn’t worked out that way, and that saddens me

I wish you every bit of success. The fans deserve it. God bless

What rubbish.

No separation for him between manager, Board and current or new owners,  

He is a manager, small-shareholder and a director ( by choice).  

Anyone who says that they want to be fully-honest with you ............generally isn’t.

i do wonder whether Holloway was a bit more knowledgable and involved in the fenty/may/regeneration episode and knows this will come out in due course.equally the holy trinity may have made it clear that his alliance with fenty made him a potential problem

Quoted from forza ivano

i do wonder whether Holloway was a bit more knowledgable and involved in the fenty/may/regeneration episode and knows this will come out in due course.equally the holy trinity may have made it clear that his alliance with fenty made him a potential problem

Up to his neck in it

Quoted from forza ivano

i do wonder whether Holloway was a bit more knowledgable and involved in the fenty/may/regeneration episode and knows this will come out in due course.equally the holy trinity may have made it clear that his alliance with fenty made him a potential problem

The mention of the training facilities in the official club statement this morning suggests you are bang on.

Quoted from forza ivano

i do wonder whether Holloway was a bit more knowledgable and involved in the fenty/may/regeneration episode and knows this will come out in due course.equally the holy trinity may have made it clear that his alliance with fenty made him a potential problem

I think you have hit on something there Forza and that as he didn't get the opportunity to get his £100K in before the prospective new owners arrived his pension plan has now fallen over.

Good riddance to him. All over the place as a man and a football manager.

I think the new owners have told Ollie that things are to change and that he wouldnt have the control that Fenty had given him. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Quoted from davmariner

Good riddance to him. All over the place as a man and a football manager.

The bloke is a fraud, made me cringe (or do I mean pmsl?) whenever he spoke, the only worry is he’ll be back on Quest in the New Year 😩