Time for JF to put his money where his mouth is!

Good post

I think the thing is with JF is that he is a benefactor, in the absence of anyone else. Without him we would be reliant on gate receipts and whatever we can muster in terms of sponsorship deals. None of which I would argue will give us a promotion winning team.

In the absence of a richer benefactor, we are not going to buy our way out of this dreadful, godforsaken league. Therefore we are reliant on a mixture of astute signings at bargain basement prices, and a youth policy paying dividends, to get us back into the league. I'm old enough to remember us doing this before and, I pray, will see it again.

Unfortunately, a lot of this relies on a huge dollop of luck. We didn't get it at Gateshead in the play-offs. Maybe we will this year, who knows. Chances are we aren't going to go up automatically - we haven't the investment - but will make the play-offs.

What we can't do - shouldn't do - is slag off the one benefactor we do have, without whom we would just be Lincoln, Wrexham, Halifax or other former league team without two pennies to rub together!

Quoted from Getyourfactsright

MR PARKER AND MR FENTY HAD AGREED TO PROVIDE LOANS FULL STOP. WHEN MR PARKER LEFT THE BOARD HE DECIDED TO AQUIRE SHARES WITH HIS PORTION OF THE FUNDING. His choice!!

That is not what Mr Parker said in his interview on Radio Humberside that I listened to.

Quoted from arryarryarry

That is not what Mr Parker said in his interview on Radio Humberside that I listened to.

But can we believe everything that comes out of RH?

The only thing that I can think of that has emanated from them with any real "conviction" - I'm not sure even they believed it themselves? - is when Burnsy pontificated a decade or so ago that unless there was a change of tack, we'd end up in the conference....

Who back then ever believed that would be the case?  

Why do we go over the same shite.  Yes I want whats best for GTFC but continually going over old ground just irritates, annoys, upsets me and probably other users just to make everybody known how much we blame someone.  Sometimes I do really wonder if those that can't move on should really be supporting town, maybe its time for a change Cleethorpes Town are on the up.  Sorry for the rant but I'd like to remain positive for the start of the season and you lot are killing that with all your negativity.   New season, new players same old fans.

Get behind the club and do your bit after all that's what we fans do.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

But can we believe everything that comes out of RH?

Considering it was actually Mr Parker that said it, hopefully yes.

It was an interview before an evening match, can't remember which one it was.

Quoted from Belfast Town

What we can't do - shouldn't do - is slag off the one benefactor we do have, without whom we would just be Lincoln, Wrexham, Halifax or other former league team without two pennies to rub together!

You mean floundering around in non league obscurity.

Er hang on a sec.

Quoted from arryarryarry

You mean floundering around in non league obscurity.

But we're not obscure in non-league. We're one of the giants because we have the resources to challenge at the top every season. Every year has arguably also been an improvement on the previous one.

If our funding was suddenly taken away we'd struggle to even finish in the top half, which would mean crowds would drop, and the chances of even making the-offs would be pretty remote.

Quoted from GrimRob

You're not looking very hard! Play-offs the last two years, FA Cup run and FAT successes, most of last season's squad retained, a solid and stable management structure. A board who are putting in more money that they club receive in income. The bookies make us one of the favourites for promotion.

That's far more than most clubs in our division have. Stop moaning and get on with the job of supporting. We haven't played a game yet, there's every reason to be positive!

'Play-offs the last two years' - Still non league so fook all success there then.
'FA Cup run' - Well that seems to have boosted our buying power in the transfer market this season    
'FAT' -      
'A board who are putting in more money that they club receive in income' - Is this not the same at the vast majority of Football clubs?
'The bookies make us one of the favourites for promotion' - Oh well thats us promoted then    
'there's every reason to be positive' - I really wish I could be positive and I will be at BP to support the lads again this season hoping against hope we get out of this excrement non league.
I admire your optimism but I cant share it  

I think making the play offs and then falling in the semis in consecutive years does not constitute improvement. Quite the opposite. It looks like we haven't followed the clues, learned lessons, used our resources wisely enough.