Most Embarrassing GTFC Moments

A gobsmacking indictment of the way this club has been mismanaged. The majority of examples from the last 16 years.

We should print the list off and send it to the board room with  a note to say 'This is your legacy'.

Being the first club in the 'second division' to go out of the FA Cup in the first round.

Getting hammered on Boxing Day at Barnsley in the pouring rain on an open stand only to discover that the players had had a massive Christmas Eve party at Crofty's and were all still getting over it.

Blundell Park - it's an embarrassment.

Having a"Chairman" who is formally "Not the Chairman", "Chairman", but behaved as the Chairman still.

An anecdote from just before WW2, or during the start of WW2". Grimsby drew a match in a cup competion.  There was no time to arrange a replay.  The Cup Organisers awarded the tie to our opponents on the basis of an assessment:

"Grimsby would probably have the lost the replay anyway".  

Quoted from Les Brechin

THAT day at Burton.

Firstly the performance of the team on the pitch. I know we would have gone down even if we'd won but the majority of the players played like they couldn't give a toss.

Then the actions of our so-called "fans" after the game. I was certainly embarrassed to be a Town fan that day.

Aye, very difficult to argue with that.  

But for the vast majority of these moments, there's a very common theme running through them all...

Not sure if they've been listed already but just to add:

Our chairman waving like a madman on the touchline to get the game against Rushden & Diamonds called off due to fog.

Our chairman taking the Play Off Trophy in his (presumably not yet scratched) car to the service station on the way to the FA Trophy final, practically sprawling across his bonnet for photos with it in the worst emulation of a Max Power show I've ever seen.

But I think the most cringeworthy moment of the football club has to revolve around a former board member demanding he get some time on the pitch in a competitive fixture...

I'm on a roll now...

Any team Nicky Law put out.

Mike Lyons starting games as a striker.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Having a"Chairman" who is formally "Not the Chairman", "Chairman", but behaved as the Chairman still.

An anecdote from just before WW2, or during the start of WW2". Grimsby drew a match in a cup competion.  There was no time to arrange a replay.  The Cup Organisers awarded the tie to our opponents on the basis of an assessment:

"Grimsby would probably have the lost the replay anyway".  

I've never heard that before, it is true it is f*cking brilliant! Thank you for sharing that. It made me laugh.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Selling Danny (forget surname) because we would not offer about £50 a week more.  He had a very good career at Palace.

Butterfield.

If only we had sold him....

Summer of 2001, Palace made a bid of £1million.  Which we rejected.

Over the course of the next 12 months we failed to make a single offer to renew his contract.  As Butterfield was under 24, the ruling at the time was that to make sure we would receive compensation if he left, we had to evidence we had made an offer to improve his contract.  Even if it was by 1p.

Butterfield was hot property and was always going to leave.  The club decided it wasn't worth trying to keep him so didn't make a single offer to better his contract.  Not even a gesture offer.  Palace picked up him up a on freebie.

Butterfield then went onto miss just a single game in the next two seasons, culminating in Palace reaching the Premier League.  At the same time we had just completed back-to-back relegations into the fourth tier...

Quite a specific time frame for most of these isn’t there?

Quoted from Mallyner

I once heard that JF had complained that his wife took a week to hoover the lounge. So, either he has a massive lounge or she is a Slovak.  

😆 I’m having that one! My wife’s friend is Slovakian so I’ve got the perfect excuse to use it.

This is one of the most entertaining threads I have ever read on the fishy, if you didnt laugh you would cry or worse.
What happened with "the orange" ?