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If John Fenty said forget about the loans I will turn them into shares,
Put another million pounds in the pot this season and we got promoted,
There would still be some posters on here calling him,
When anything goes wrong, it's his fault,
The man just can not win on here.
The majority of Town fans know we are better with him than we would be without him.
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| Over 36 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.
68 Years following the Town
Life member of Trust
First game April 1955
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| MuddyWaters |
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That's not fair and you know it.
Yes Mr.Fenty is lucky to have a personal fortune unlike most (all?) of us on here but he himself chose to use it at the football club.
Unfortunately it hasn't gone according to plan though has it, and I don't think you can argue that he has made rather a mess of it; bar keeping us on life support which I suppose is an achievement of sorts.
Us of more modest means pay and have paid for many years (before Mr. Fenty was born) to watch our beloved Mariners, and old codgers like me and Old Codger have every right to be critical just like at every other club in the country where they are underperforming.
Despite being critical, I sincerely hope he can find the magic formula but the facts so far suggest he wont.
We are even behind Eastleigh (!) in the pre season odds. Says it all really.
Ta LCL, if you didn't know Sonik is related to Mr Fenty so his reaction to criticism is understandable. Let's just remember where we were before Mr Fenty took the majority shareholding and appointed Mr Furneaux as chairman. Around 70 places than we are now? |
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If John Fenty said forget about the loans I will turn them into shares,
Put another million pounds in the pot this season and we got promoted,
There would still be some posters on here calling him,
When anything goes wrong, it's his fault,
The man just can not win on here.
The majority of Town fans know we are better with him than we would be without him.
Pete, I admire your loyalty but please look closely at the balance sheet and then tell me that we are in an acceptable financial position. I accept that there other clubs in a financial mess but they are a lot higher up the ladder and more attractive as an investment. |
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| Quagmire |
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Good evening John  Are we any closer to signing these players that will make my neck hairs stand on end? |
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| lew chaterleys lover |
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Ta LCL, if you didn't know Sonik is related to Mr Fenty so his reaction to criticism is understandable.
Let's just remember where we were before Mr Fenty took the majority shareholding and appointed Mr Furneaux as chairman. Around 70 places than we are now?
Yes I understand Sonik is Mr. Fentys brother? I always take the bait I am afraid - I just can't help myself! His posts merrily gloss over the obvious mismanagement of the club on the altar of his brothers financial input - quietly ignoring those 70 league placings. The thing is we will never really know what any alternative would be like. He wont walk away and lose his money (who would?) but nobody with money will bail him out of the mess he has created. Its all a bit depressing really but despite Fenty I will be shouting my head off in the Pontoon as usual hoping against hope that it falls into place on the field. |
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| FishOutOfWater |
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Quoted from 137
For those of us who are fortunate enough to remember the great Buckley sides, there's no doubt that by comparison the
football now being played at BP can properly be termed 'crap'.
BUT
The comparison isn't fair or sensible. We're now in a crap league playing mostly other crap sides - and pointing that out doesn't
help anything or anyone much. I've bought my season ticket expecting to see crap football (compared to Buckley XI's) but
hoping for a bit better than that. We don't have to play great football to get out of this league, just be consistently
slightly less crappy than the opposition. I don't see this as acceptance - just being realistic.
The less you wish for the more likely it is to happen!
Have to agree wholeheartedly with this... Sad to say I've felt for a long time that when watching Town it's more a case of High Hopes than Great Expectations but one day, one day...everything comes to he who waits doesn't it?  |
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Your 'fooked up' brain is your own responsibility though.
 I may have a 'fooked up brain' but at least I have one that can see what's been going on in the last decade or so. People (like yourself) who think Fentys dictatorship has brought anything but abject failure must have no brains at all. |
| In his three stints as Grimsby Town manager spanning over 10 years the club was never relegated and he also guided them to three promotions.
Only 14 managers have reached 1,000 matches in charge of a Football League team by 1998 and Buckley is one of them.
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That should have been an official statement on the OS! |
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| Rob_in_Grimsby |
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I may have a 'fooked up brain' but at least I have one that can see what's been going on in the last decade or so. People (like yourself) who think Fentys dictatorship has brought anything but abject failure must have no brains at all.
Tagg you and others like Old Codger just live in the past and revel in our misfortunes of the last decade. What happened has happened and bringing it up at every opportunity is not going to change that, Why not try support the club we all follow and love and for once try start the season with some positivity rather than hoping we will fail so you can spout this excrement |
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| acko338 |
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I do hope that this run of very heated debate isn't going to halt the Fishy again !!
Not even started the season yet !!
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