Stockwood Update

Quoted from ska face

Exactly, and he came in relatively unfancied without any great fanfare after 3 league goals in 32 games for Blackpool. Not saying that relates to any of our players, but there will be players who, in the right system, can do well and may not need paying through the nose. We’ve spent most of the season playing a system built around 2 players who haven’t played a single minute together. Maybe that’s the big problem?

37 goal Padraig Amond wasn't exactly a free scoring striker when he arrived here either.

An overall plan to a healthy sustainable future is key....however that doesn't mean that news we won't be pushing ...or even nudging the boat out a little on a striker is still disappointing in the short term.

Mid term if we don't sign a permanent deal striker in Jan then come the summer  we would likely to be needing to sign two first team strikers with Mcatee gone and Taylor fading/ gone ....if its hard to find one then how hard will it be to find two?      
  ( Yes twice as hard but it was a rhetorical question)

Being a supporter of Grimsby Town is the most frustrating part of my life.
95% disappointment yearning for that 5% of glory.
That glory happened at the end of last season but boy was it worth it!
With our new owners at least we are in a better position than beforehand.
Come on Mighty Mariners let’s have a better percentage of glory 😍

Is JS really going to come out and say they’ll spend more money on a striker than anticipated to get one? If he did the pound signs would be ringing up in the eyes of the agents.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Is JS really going to come out and say they’ll spend more money on a striker than anticipated to get one? If he did the pound signs would be ringing up in the eyes of the agents.

The same applies to the staff turnover question. I think Sam will be sorely missed. The Commercial Manager job advert ends tomorrow and I've seen Debbie and Jo plug it on LinkedIn and GI Media giving it a push on Facebook so I do wonder if we are struggling for decent applicants.

Basically means more of the same... So if you can live with that its ok but if you have any ambition to progress the team it will be a longshot which may come about from cup revenue or transfer revenue if we are lucky... Not impressed at all...

Quoted from aldi_01

There’s a book that is well researched and well written which argues the very opposite. What it does say, however, is that clubs which triangulate a healthy and positive culture, with vale for money wages and realistic ambition tend to succeed.

Spaffing cash on a striker isn’t prudent; he literally referenced a club that did just those things. Clubs with strikers know they’re currently a premium so players and clubs alike use that to their advantage.

Not entirely sure what people wanted him to say. We’re obviously a year or two further on in the club’s strategic plan than expected.

Just enjoy it, Christ, at least what he says is coherent, logical and not all about him…

This post is like finding a nugget of sweetcorn in a festering sea of shït (I’ve only got to page 2 so apologies for anyone who posted something sensible and realistic after that). Lovely stuff Sig.

I honestly believe if Hurst doesn't tinker and sticks with kiernan uptop with mcatee behind these two could score  few between them

8 teams have scored less than us and 3 teams have scored the same amount, puts us around mid table.
17 have conceded more than us and 1 the same (joint 6th best record).

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

This post is like finding a nugget of sweetcorn in a festering sea of shït (I’ve only got to page 2 so apologies for anyone who posted something sensible and realistic after that). Lovely stuff Sig.

I often wonder if people are just a bit dim. The minute a club owner/chairman come out and says what the budget is or gives a roundabout figure, you get exploited. It happened to Lincoln. Scunny splashed cash, it screwed them. Wrexham, for example, pay premium for bang average players and so far it has taken them absolutely no where.

There seems an incessant need to know everything simply because way back when they took over they talked about transparency. That’s great but don’t give away your secrets. There seems an incessant need to moan or pick fault.

Christ, we’ve got a thread comparing this time around to 2016. Who cares? We’re in the football league and we’re comfortable. Significantly, the club is further on and is progressing and the team is. You’d forget that teams have a bad spell. We played a team that’s spent most of the season in the top three and if it wasn’t for a urine poor penalty, we’d have beaten them…they were bang average.

Surely you take the positives? Isn’t it nice to get an update from the club at a reasonable time? Not 21:30 on a Sunday, Merlot sodden and incoherent and only just in English? Isn’t it refreshing to have an update about the club that isn’t a woe is me tirade of cliches and idioms that make zero sense?

So odd…