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

Quoted from Green27

The first was Furneaux. The second was both Doug Everritt and Bryan Huxford who cruelly ousted Bill Carr in that season, two people who are astonishingly always omitted from the intercourse up this club is currently in. Those two have a lot to answer for about the clubs predicament they also sacked Buckley from his second spell after a 1-1 with Portsmouth the second game in to the season! A gaggle of sharp objects those two.

Quoted from grimsby pete

As far as my memory tells me ( it's not as good as it use to be ) it lasted for a season,

There were lots of complaints and we were reinstated to our home The Ponny  

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

People in public positions surely accept they might pick up some criticism when things  under their charge go badly. Likewise they'll receive plaudits when things go well. Mr Fenty accepted being hoisted on fans shoulders at Bournemouth when we stayed up so he should accept some criticism as we start a fifth season in the Conference. I'd suggest the vast majority of criticism isn't personal but about how the club, which he heads, have performed. If I said I'd been into a Tesco's and thought it was crap, who thinks the CEO of Tesco would personally tell me to 'Gimp off'?

Read back through what we know are his posts and some of them are extremely confrontational. Is this the best way for him to deal with fans of the club? I accept he shouldn't have to tolerate personal abuse of him or his family or libellous comments but surely that's what the moderation of this board is for. How many posts of that nature are there anyway? This forum is no worse than any other clubs, in fact I'd suspect that in its current form it's better than most. How many other Chairman do you think are squabbling with fans?

I really do think, going forward that when comments annoy him, in the press, on the radio or on here, that the best thing he could do is take a deep breath and be the bigger man, because stuff like this thread are hardly becoming of a man of his age and in his position.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

I'm pretty sure it was for two seasons Pete

85-86 for sure because that was the season when we played Arsenal at home in the cup, a game that certainly sticks in the mind and then we were also in that end for the last game of the season where we beat Norwich with Gordon Hobson scoring against the then champions of the 2nd division

Then the following season although I was living away then and didn't get to too many games I remember being in the Osmond drawing at home to Leeds and also losing at home to Birmingham

Wonder if being at that end of the ground had anything to do with us getting relegated at the end of that season....on second thoughts maybe not.

I think it was all down to Mike Lyons running us aground - JF was blameless back then  

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

I'm pretty sure it was for two seasons Pete

85-86 for sure because that was the season when we played Arsenal at home in the cup, a game that certainly sticks in the mind and then we were also in that end for the last game of the season where we beat Norwich with Gordon Hobson scoring against the then champions of the 2nd division

Then the following season although I was living away then and didn't get to too many games I remember being in the Osmond drawing at home to Leeds and also losing at home to Birmingham

Wonder if being at that end of the ground had anything to do with us getting relegated at the end of that season....on second thoughts maybe not.

I think it was all down to Mike Lyons running us aground - JF was blameless back then  

Quoted from Green27

The first was Furneaux. The second was both Doug Everritt and Bryan Huxford who cruelly ousted Bill Carr in that season, two people who are astonishingly always omitted from the intercourse up this club is currently in. Those two have a lot to answer for about the clubs predicament they also sacked Buckley from his second spell after a 1-1 with Portsmouth the second game in to the season! A gaggle of sharp objects those two.

Quoted from Sigone

Great post  
I remember the club paying massive sums of money to players on loan who couldn't give 2 hoots about GTFC.  Left when we down, left us with no sell on value and very few players.  L.L can take some blame too, the loans were his idea.  The reported 12k + family put up and regular flights back to China that a certain player cost us, also cost us our best player (one of the best we've ever had) in Peter Handyside.  Rated over 1 mil at the time left at the end of his contract cos he couldn't get a game here...Applause for L.L please.  The sacking of A.B was quite frankly embarrassing and made us the laughing stock of football. Even the mention of Huxford makes my blood boil and how he gets away scot free(RATS leaving the sinking ship) is beyond me.  I dont blame J.F, take a look at how far Pompey and Leeds have fallen because of mis-management by a previous board, both far bigger clubs than us with much greater resources to bounce back.  Huxford you will never be forgiven....not by me at least

Quoted from grimsby pete

We paid a Chinese gent £13,000 per week for 3 months,

That's £169,000 , what we could do with that sort of money today.