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I bet the greedy c u next tuesday will be on.
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Bottled it... simple as.
I don’t feel like he ever took to us fans in his time here. Why he turned his back on us and walked straight down the tunnel at full time away at Scunthorpe I don’t know. You can celebrate without going over the top. No applause or appreciation, just sulking on the radio telling us to behave and more garbled sound bites.
It’s Holloway’s squad he’s left behind and it’s not good enough to compete at the right end of the table. He didn’t know what to do, he saw his opportunity to walk away with an excuse as to why. We can all see through it.
He should have been able to take us out of this league on his name alone. He doesn’t have the name it would seem and he didn’t have the managerial nouse either.
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I’m not having this at all. Holloway is not a coward, and he did not bottle it.
To suggest he is a coward infers that he was at any point committed to the battle this club faced, and that he simply became scared at the size of the challenge and ran away. But this narrative doesn’t stack up.
He didn’t leave because the challenge had become too big, he left because he no longer had anything to gain. That much is clear now.
Ask yourself this. Why did multi-millionaire and TV personality Ian Holloway want to join struggling and unfashionable Grimsby Town? Why did he want to invest his own money in the club? Why did he want to move 250 miles from his home and family in Bath?
Was it because he was a football purist, who had huge respect for the mad banter of our fans on our epic away days? That he was just hungry to get back in the game at a ‘proper’ club, an underperforming club that could do so much better under his expert stewardship?
This is what we were all led to believe. This is what I believed, even if I was left scratching my head given how little practical sense it made.
This was a sham marriage. I don’t yet know the specifics, but clearly Holloway knew from the outset of the potential Alex May investment and stood to gain financially from it. A man of morals, it transpires, he is not.
Ian Holloway cared for one thing and one thing only - Ian Holloway. If that were not true, why is it that just over a week after the Alex May / Town Centre Living project was outed and thwarted did he resign. What happened to his hopes for the club? For his love of the fans.
They never fúcking existed, that’s what.
This is all now starting to unfurl like some Harchester United-esque storyline. But it’s not over. This needs bottoming out.
John Fenty’s reign has weeks if not days left to run, whether he realises this or not. Once he has been dispatched the true motive behind Holloway’s arrival at this club needs to be discovered, because it is almost certainly scandalous.
I implore anyone currently working at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph to step away from the mundane, click-bait material that has become the norm for digital, local media and do some good old fashioned investigative journalism. Ian Holloway is a national headline - this could be significant for your career in the press.
We are quickly learning that the fans of this great club will not tolerate being taken advantage of for anyone’s own personal gain. John Fenty is learning this first hand right now.
Ian Holloway - you’re next in line. Mark my words. You fúcked with the wrong club mate. Merry Christmas, you cúnt.
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A very interesting post, Poojah. I think it is very true that most were amazed when IH turned up at Grimsby and asked why. In one interview he said he had come for one more adventure and was relishing the challenge. We all asked who had persuaded or invited him to take over. It seemed too good to be true that a nationally known and experienced manager would turn up at BP. To begin with it did look a good move with improved performances and, at one stage, expectations went as high as to mention play-offs.
This week has been so disappointing and left the club in tatters. The future looks bleak at this moment. I agree with you that the supporters deserve to know the truth and I hope that your wish for someone at the Telegraph to investigate is answered. We are all shattered by what has been going on.
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He was needed to be the king of gtfc which was central to the regeneration scheme riches . He was promised the club as his reward .
Alas poor Holloway you were thwarted and you disappeared over the wolds as quickly as you appeared .
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I’m not having this at all. Holloway is not a coward, and he did not bottle it.
To suggest he is a coward infers that he was at any point committed to the battle this club faced, and that he simply became scared at the size of the challenge and ran scared. But this narrative doesn’t stack up.
He didn’t leave because the challenge had become too big, he left because he no longer had anything to gain. That much is clear now.
Ask yourself this. Why did multi-millionaire and TV personality Ian Holloway want to join struggling and unfashionable Grimsby Town? Why did he want to invest his own money in the club? Why did he want to move 250 miles from his home and family in Bath?
Was it because he was a football purist, who had huge respect for the mad banter of our fans on our epic away days? That he was just hungry to get back in the game at a ‘proper’ club, an underperforming club that could do so much better under his expert stewardship?
This is what we were all led to believe. This is what I believed, even if I was left scratching my head given how little practical sense it made.
This was a sham marriage. I don’t yet know the specifics, but clearly Holloway knew from the outset of the potential Alex May investment and stood to gain financially from it. A man of morals, it transpires, he is not.
Ian Holloway cared for one thing and one thing only - Ian Holloway. If that were not true, why is it that just over a week after the Alex May / Town Centre Living project was outed and thwarted did he resign. What happened to his hopes for the club? For his love of the fans.
They never fúcking existed, that’s what.
This is all now starting to unfurl like some Harchester United-esque storyline. But it’s not over. This needs bottoming out.
John Fenty’s reign has weeks if not days left to run, whether he realises this or not. Once he has been dispatched the true motive behind Holloway’s arrival at this club needs to be discovered, because it is almost certainly scandalous.
I implore anyone currently working at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph to step away from the mundane, click-bait material that has become the norm for digital, local media and do some good old fashioned investigative journalism. Ian Holloway is a national headline - this could be significant for your career in the press.
We are quickly learning that the fans of this great club will not tolerate being taken advantage of for anyone’s own personal gain. John Fenty is learning this first hand right now.
Ian Holloway - you’re next in line. Mark my words. You fúcked with the wrong club mate. Merry Christmas, you cúnt.
And I got all sorts of excrement and even more Red Xs than usual for suggesting that questions had to be put to 'wonderful Ollie' to explore the possibility that he might have known about May's involvement long before the excrement hit the fan. It was so obvious to me that he had to have known (from board meetings) whether he was 'involved' (he may have been brought in the give it a sense of respectability) or not I don't know but every sodomist said 'don't upset Ollie, leave it alone, let him get on with the next match' and so on and so on. He was allowed to slink away because no one actually put it to him that he must have known for weeks or even months, not Humberside and not us. Thank you Poojah |
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Maybe his secret plan was to relegate us. He couldn't have done a worse job if he tried over the summer.
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I’m not having this at all. Holloway is not a coward, and he did not bottle it.
To suggest he is a coward infers that he was at any point committed to the battle this club faced, and at simply became scared at the size of the challenge and ran scared. But this narrative doesn’t stack up.
He didn’t leave because the challenge had become too big, he left because he no longer had anything to gain. That much is clear now.
Ask yourself this? Why did multi-millionaire and TV personality Ian Holloway want to join struggling and unfashionable Grimsby Town? Why did he want to invest his own money in the club? Why did he want to move 250 miles from his home and family in Bath?
Was it because he was a football purist, who had huge respect for the mad banter of our fans on our epic away days? That he was just hungry to get back in the game at a ‘proper’ club, an underperforming club that could do so much better under his expert stewardship?
This is what we were all led to believe. This is what I believed, even if I was left scratching my head given how little practical sense it made.
This was a sham marriage. I don’t yet know the specifics, but clearly Holloway knew from the outset of the potential Alex May investment and stood to gain financially from it. A man of morals, it transpires, he is not.
Ian Holloway cared for one thing and one thing only - Ian Holloway. If that were not true, why is it that just over a week after the Alex May / Town Centre Living project was outed and thwarted did he resign. What happened to his hopes for the club? For his love of the fans.
They never fúcking existed, that’s what.
This is all now starting to unfurl like some Harchester United-esque storyline. But it’s not over. This needs bottoming out.
John Fenty’s reign has weeks if not days yet to run, whether he realises this or not. Once he has been dispatched the true motive behind Holloway’s arrival at this club needs to be discovered, because it is almost certainly scandalous.
I implore anyone currently working at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph to step away from the mundane, click-bait material that has become the norm for digital, local media and do some good old fashioned investigative journalism. Ian Holloway is a national headline - this could be significant for your career in the press.
We are quickly learning that the fans of this great club will not tolerate being taken advantage of for anyone’s own personal gain. John Fenty is learning this first hand right now.
Ian Holloway - you’re next in line. Mark my words. You fúcked with the wrong club mate. Merry Christmas, you cúnt.
You just have this knack Poojah don’t you?? The knack of calling it right. I have a build on this of a similar vein here goes...... All of the above what Poojah says plus, - Holloway thought he’d put £100k in and get a big pay day quickly when the club was sold, clearly he was arrogant enough to believe JF. - He knew about May, why wouldn’t he? No doubt Holloway have been bleating for a bit that as we all know Cheapside is not good enough and we’re led to believe May’s money was it’s replacement. - As soon as the May thing became public Holloway like many in his profession felt something deep inside, his selfish self preservation and survival instincts. - Knowing what happened to the likes of “allegedly” Big Sam, Kevin Bond and many other “brown paper envelope” merchants still in the game he didn’t want to be exposed for being a bent as f**k sporting throwback and very quickly (as I like a few others smugly predicted on here) started to construct and design his exit strategy. The insincerity that he displayed to try and seduce us into believing he came to GTFC for the club, fans, community and our supposed opportunity to make our own history should as quite rightly as many believe he should be exposed as the complete sh1t bag he is. You think we’re feeling it? What about the poor f***ers who signed for him believing the either where good enough, still young enough or ready to play L2 football? He conned everyone in his time here and did it strategically and without any thought for the impact of his actions. Personally the I believe the football authorities from the FA, EFL and LMA should look deeper at Holloway, if they do they might just get a shock about “one of their own”. Thank Buddha for Karma!! |
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IMO he dam well knew about fenty`s bent mate ,, I could not quite get my head around why he came here but it is becoming to come clear . Its what he didnt say that made folk suspicious. not that you could understand him when he did speak. Cant for the life of me understand sports programs entertaining him with this over his head
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And I got all sorts of excrement and even more Red Xs than usual for suggesting that questions had to be put to 'wonderful Ollie' to explore the possibility that he might have known about May's involvement long before the excrement hit the fan. It was so obvious to me that he had to have known (from board meetings) whether he was 'involved' (he may have been brought in the give it a sense of respectability) or not I don't know but every sodomist said 'don't upset Ollie, leave it alone, let him get on with the next match' and so on and so on. He was allowed to slink away because no one actually put it to him that he must have known for weeks or even months, not Humberside and not us. Thank you Poojah
Yeah that’s just because generally you’re a miserable sod and it’s fastest finger first on the Red Cross when ever you comment on a new or existing manager ......... Merry Christmas though the Fishy “arguably” wouldn’t be the same without you ..... kind of 😉 |
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Meh!!! In my book if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sound like a duck, it is a duck.
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Meh!!! In my book if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sound like a duck, it is a duck.
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A comment from the Millwall forum :-
"The excrement head girl privates name should never be mentioned"
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On a serious note how do “us fans” alert the people who are “the custodians” of football to the way Holloway has behaved here?
Away from his apparent attraction to an easy pay day some people other than us have the right to feel angry.
He’s conned us and betrayed us to save his backside, that’s my belief anyway. The football administrators won’t care about that, in reality they’ve never looked after supporters and whilst there is a TV gravy train available they never will.
What about the likes of Tilley, Gibson, Jackson JNR, Spokes and Sissay who amongst others either not good enough or not ready. If we’re lucky enough to get a half decent manager in January and if as Phil says “money is no object (f*****ng bull sh1t BTW) these lads face an uncertain future after being conned by Holloway.
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A comment from the Millwall forum :-
"The excrement head girl privates name should never be mentioned"
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John fenty Alex may phillip day and ian holloway should all be seriously looked at regards this "takeover" as each story contradicts the others and the absolute corruption involved stinks from head to toe.
The more i think about this the more im adamant this was there big master plan gone wrong and holloway couldn't wait to leave a sinking ship once he realised his pockets were not going to be lined.
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John fenty Alex may phillip day and ian holloway should all be seriously looked at regards this "takeover" as each story contradicts the others and the absolute corruption involved stinks from head to toe.
The more i think about this the more im adamant this was there big master plan gone wrong and holloway couldn't wait to leave a sinking ship once he realised his pockets were not going to be lined.
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Gregor Robertson will probably be writing a piece on it this week
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Holloway is a girl private, employed by a girl private and I'm a girl private for believing his horseshit, the girl private. Clearly was more interested in outside interests than the football. How much money do these fornicators want or need?
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Thank Buddha for Karma!!
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Holloway is a girl private, employed by a girl private and I'm a girl private for believing his horseshit, the girl private. Clearly was more interested in outside interests than the football. How much money do these fornicators want or need?
They all sicken me.
I take it you’re not talking about the lowest rank in the female school cadet force. I’ll translate for you. Holloway is a cûnt, employed by a cûnt and I'm a cûnt for believing his horseshit, the cûnt. Clearly was more interested in outside interests than the football. How much money do these fornicators want or need? They all sicken me. |
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I take it you’re not talking about the lowest rank in the female school cadet force.
I’ll translate for you.
Holloway is a cûnt, employed by a cûnt and I'm a cûnt for believing his horseshit, the cûnt. Clearly was more interested in outside interests than the football. How much money do these fornicators want or need?
They all sicken me.
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Buddha didn't invent Karma. Karma, if it exists is a universal law. Buddha only explained it.
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As another fan said at Blackpool he got a percentage of any profit on transfers.
This explains all the non league players he signed hoping to cash in on one or two.
Greedy c u next tuesday.
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He wasn’t ever going to invest his own 100 grand . Just like May wasn’t ever going to invest his own £1m . It was all coming from a certain someone else to make us fools believe they were investing.
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Conman. Liar. Fraud.
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I’m not having this at all. Holloway is not a coward, and he did not bottle it.
To suggest he is a coward infers that he was at any point committed to the battle this club faced, and that he simply became scared at the size of the challenge and ran away. But this narrative doesn’t stack up.
He didn’t leave because the challenge had become too big, he left because he no longer had anything to gain. That much is clear now.
Ask yourself this. Why did multi-millionaire and TV personality Ian Holloway want to join struggling and unfashionable Grimsby Town? Why did he want to invest his own money in the club? Why did he want to move 250 miles from his home and family in Bath?
Was it because he was a football purist, who had huge respect for the mad banter of our fans on our epic away days? That he was just hungry to get back in the game at a ‘proper’ club, an underperforming club that could do so much better under his expert stewardship?
This is what we were all led to believe. This is what I believed, even if I was left scratching my head given how little practical sense it made.
This was a sham marriage. I don’t yet know the specifics, but clearly Holloway knew from the outset of the potential Alex May investment and stood to gain financially from it. A man of morals, it transpires, he is not.
Ian Holloway cared for one thing and one thing only - Ian Holloway. If that were not true, why is it that just over a week after the Alex May / Town Centre Living project was outed and thwarted did he resign. What happened to his hopes for the club? For his love of the fans.
They never fúcking existed, that’s what.
This is all now starting to unfurl like some Harchester United-esque storyline. But it’s not over. This needs bottoming out.
John Fenty’s reign has weeks if not days left to run, whether he realises this or not. Once he has been dispatched the true motive behind Holloway’s arrival at this club needs to be discovered, because it is almost certainly scandalous.
I implore anyone currently working at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph to step away from the mundane, click-bait material that has become the norm for digital, local media and do some good old fashioned investigative journalism. Ian Holloway is a national headline - this could be significant for your career in the press.
We are quickly learning that the fans of this great club will not tolerate being taken advantage of for anyone’s own personal gain. John Fenty is learning this first hand right now.
Ian Holloway - you’re next in line. Mark my words. You fúcked with the wrong club mate. Merry Christmas, you cúnt.
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I’m not having this at all. Holloway is not a coward, and he did not bottle it.
To suggest he is a coward infers that he was at any point committed to the battle this club faced, and that he simply became scared at the size of the challenge and ran away. But this narrative doesn’t stack up.
He didn’t leave because the challenge had become too big, he left because he no longer had anything to gain. That much is clear now.
Ask yourself this. Why did multi-millionaire and TV personality Ian Holloway want to join struggling and unfashionable Grimsby Town? Why did he want to invest his own money in the club? Why did he want to move 250 miles from his home and family in Bath?
Was it because he was a football purist, who had huge respect for the mad banter of our fans on our epic away days? That he was just hungry to get back in the game at a ‘proper’ club, an underperforming club that could do so much better under his expert stewardship?
This is what we were all led to believe. This is what I believed, even if I was left scratching my head given how little practical sense it made.
This was a sham marriage. I don’t yet know the specifics, but clearly Holloway knew from the outset of the potential Alex May investment and stood to gain financially from it. A man of morals, it transpires, he is not.
Ian Holloway cared for one thing and one thing only - Ian Holloway. If that were not true, why is it that just over a week after the Alex May / Town Centre Living project was outed and thwarted did he resign. What happened to his hopes for the club? For his love of the fans.
They never fúcking existed, that’s what.
This is all now starting to unfurl like some Harchester United-esque storyline. But it’s not over. This needs bottoming out.
John Fenty’s reign has weeks if not days left to run, whether he realises this or not. Once he has been dispatched the true motive behind Holloway’s arrival at this club needs to be discovered, because it is almost certainly scandalous.
I implore anyone currently working at the Grimsby Evening Telegraph to step away from the mundane, click-bait material that has become the norm for digital, local media and do some good old fashioned investigative journalism. Ian Holloway is a national headline - this could be significant for your career in the press.
We are quickly learning that the fans of this great club will not tolerate being taken advantage of for anyone’s own personal gain. John Fenty is learning this first hand right now.
Ian Holloway - you’re next in line. Mark my words. You fúcked with the wrong club mate. Merry Christmas, you cúnt.
I think you may be “crediting” Holloway with too much Machiavellian intellect. You may well be right with the general motives and his bullshit passion for the fans and people of Grimsby, but was he not just taken in by Fenty and the property dividends? Fenty wouldn’t have revealed the dirty money that lay behind it? Once he found out was he not just working out how to exit and save face - and Fenty fed him the bullshit lines? He’s proven to be a fraud but he’s not in Fenty’s league. |
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I think you may be “crediting” Holloway with too much Machiavellian intellect. You may well be right with the general motives and his bullshit passion for the fans and people of Grimsby, but was he not just taken in by Fenty and the property dividends? Fenty wouldn’t have revealed the dirty money that lay behind it?
Once he found out was he not just working out how to exit and save face - and Fenty fed him the bullshit lines?
He’s proven to be a fraud but he’s not in Fenty’s league.
That may be closer to what actually occurred but the fact remains Holloway must have known about it from board meetings long before the excrement hit the fan yet he didn't resign until afterwards. One wonders if it hadn't gone mammaries up whether he would have sat back, voted yes and taken the money instead of thinking up some weak reason to go ten days later |
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That may be closer to what actually occurred but the fact remains Holloway must have known about it from board meetings long before the excrement hit the fan yet he didn't resign until afterwards.
One wonders if it hadn't gone mammaries up whether he would have sat back, voted yes and taken the money instead of thinking up some weak reason to go ten days later
Your second paragraph poses the key question. It might have been as you suggest. Or he might have been keeping quiet and working out how to exit for weeks. His selection and tactical decisions certainly became somewhat bizarre. Or he might have not fully understood the implications of what was being proposed until the excrement hit the fan and suddenly he caught on, caught up and got out. Whatever, the reasons he gave for resigning are total bollox... |
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Your second paragraph poses the key question. It might have been as you suggest. Or he might have been keeping quiet and working out how to exit for weeks. His selection and tactical decisions certainly became somewhat bizarre. Or he might have not fully understood the implications of what was being proposed until the excrement hit the fan and suddenly he caught on, caught up and got out.
Whatever, the reasons he gave for resigning are total bollox...
Equally possible after all he's not the sharpest knife in the box but surely if he did find out some weeks before anyone with even a streak of moral decency would have just gone then (even if he didn't have a fake excuse ready) |
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