Absolutly shocking

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

No no no!

You do not make things better by artificially hiding things.

Things are not good at GTFC.

The club (well Fenty really) are taking us for mugs.

We are a big club in a ridiculously low position, and we cannot attract an obvious goalscoring striker if our life depended on it.

We are not trying hard enough!!

If we were serious about promotion don't you think we could have bought a couple of players to scare the opposition? We have to finish TOP to go up unless we get lucky in the play off lottery.

Over a decade of spectacular failure and your answer is to close the Fishy?

Getyourfactsright if it is him, needs to know we are not happy. Not happy at all with him.

I will be cheering the team on as ever hoping we can do it, but the owner must realize that when you have the privelege of owning a professional club which is part and parcel of the community it serves, with a rich history, it simply cannot be run as a personal plaything.

We need progress, intent, ambition and a drive to succeed in a very harsh footballing world - it takes a lot of money and a top notch management team to make it work and that is up to one man - does he "get it" or does he hope against hope it might work with the modest aspirations he seems to have?

And no I don't have the money to put where my mouth is; If I did I wouldn't sink it into any football club, but Fenty chose to. It is a big responsibility, but he must be absolutely single minded about getting us back into League football as a MINIMUM requirement and I simply dont see that attitude from the club.  

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

I don't think that people are so much critical of this lad personally as expressing their disappointment with the quality of signings in general. There was a bit of a lift after the first 2 or 3 especially when JF was talking about hair on end and the manager was talking about irons in the fire over a new striker. Expectations were lifted and now they seem to have been dashed. Supporters naturally put 2 and 2 together to make 5 and start to think that JF's promises that money is not an issue is simply not true. They see targets that looked to be in our reach going to rival clubs and they get disillusioned.

It is easy to say real fans shouldn't. It is easy to say real fans should get behind new signings no matter who they are. But fans are the people paying for the privilege of watching their team and if they think their club is lacking the ambition to improve year on year then they are going to say so. Unfortunately this young lad is the victim, the wrong player at the wrong time in the eyes of a good many.

I hope he does well for his own sake, nobody deserves to be personally shot at before they have hardly kicked a ball in anger. But I also think the criticism of the manager and his employer is justified and I will carry on thinking that until they prove otherwise by keeping their word over quality signings.

Quoted from GyMariner

I think the Fishy should close over the summer to prevent all this nonsense and give the moaners a break from moaning. They obviously have no clue on some things. It really progresses from a 'debate' or an 'opinion' into something much worse before a ball is even kicked, often personal. It should then re-open for the first game of the season so the players have a way of defending themselves and at least most of the disscussion can be based on facts.

Quoted from wodewick

I am more shocked about the obvious lack of education today especially spelling.

Welcome Clay.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Against skelmersdale !

Yes he might have been influential.

You have your opinion I have mine the difference is you think yours has the moral high ground and is more important.

Quoted from forza ivano

I despair. You originally posted that Doig n hurst should contact the Worksop manager who could tell them how Shiite clay was.well, my post just goes to prove the Worksop boss did not think he was Shiite, in fact he thought quite the reverse. So it's not a case of taking the moral high ground, it's just a matter of pointing out the facts rather than a load of bloody nonsense as posted by you. As I said try engaging brain before posting and try finding out evidence to back up your claims

Quoted from ackomariner

Think those that have no clue on some things, were proved right last season  

Quoted from geir

No, please don`t close the forum! I have recently discovered that this excellent forum is back and have rejoined proceedings today.

What I don`t understand is, after some excellent signings this summer, why so many people are doom and gloom over one signing that may or may not be of the same quality as the rest. One man can`t destroy Grimsbys season by himself, so please lighten up.

In Paul Hurst I trust! Personally I think he`s the best manager we`ve had since that bald school-teacher! Support the team!!!

Quoted from Marinerz93

Great to see you back geir, if I remember rightly you are Norwegian aren't you.  

Some of the negativity with the recent signing is due to a misquote / taken out of context comment from John Fenty to the local press.  The local press claimed John Fenty said that the new signings will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

John Fenty did not challenge this publication and fans got excited expecting a quality signing/signings that would more or less make us unstoppable.

Quoted from barralad

So where do you stand on slagging off a Town player before a ball has been kicked in anger?