Cod Almighty | Postbag
The Fenty out special
24 December 2020
Many emails. None of them love letters to John Fenty or Ian Holloway
Conference dread
I am an exiled Mariner and shareholder. I have supported the club for over 50 years. I fully endorse the comments from Pat Bell.
I dread the Conference and would dearly love to see Paul Hurst back, but I don't think that is going to happen.
from Brian Haire
Fenty connections?
I agree 100 per cent with Pat Bell. I thought it a mistake at the beginning to appoint the manager to the board: he is after all an employee, who may need to be disciplined or even sacked. I thought his investment in shares - was it £100,000 - had taken place when he joined the board; now it seems he never made the investment. There are suggestions of other behind-the-scenes financial connections with Fenty. It would be interesting to know.
Many are castigating Holloway for leaving us with a relegation level team. This may be true, but is better not said. Someone has to enthuse the players to raise their game to avoid the dreaded drop. Such criticism won't improve morale.
I know many supporters didn't like Michael Jolley at the end of his time with us, but he did save us from relegation. Perhaps we should turn to him again.
Merry Yule
from Antony Chapman
Letters Ed responds: Since Antony wrote, Michael Jolley has been appointed manager of Barrow
Fenty's gonna Fenty
Looks like Fenty has reverted to type and unilaterally refused the consortium's offer.
We're doomed...
from Mike Revell
What a state
Well what a state our beloved club finds itself in.
I am gutted Ollie has walked away. Yes I thought there was a chance he would because I think he has realised recently that John Fenty is not the person he thought he was, and not to be trusted. As soon as Fenty brought his very undesirable friend to a recent game, the cat was out the gag. He must have been horrified when the supporters and general public found out he was in business with a con man. Fenty knew
it wouldn't be long before his job on the local council came under scrutiny and jumped ship, handing in his resignation.
What now? We as a club are in a desperate situation. Who do we believe? Not Fenty, not the board, and not
Mr Shutes and his consortium... none of them as far as I am concerned. They are all giving out statements, saying all sorts of supposed truths, and all different from each other.
We are a club in dire straits: no manager and only a few weeks to get players in and out. A takeover doesn't happen in a few weeks, which is all we've got to turn this season around.
I have supported GTFC for over 50 years, through good and bad, we have never been in this situation before.
I fear for our team and club.
All Town aren't we.
from David Gunn
Credible?
Holloway left because he did not want to work with the new owners. The club needed a new start. Fenty thought he had a deal to sell his shares but it seems that in putting that deal together he had omitted to sort out the details of the repayment of his "benign loans."
How is any of this remotely credible? These loans were always going to be a sticking point for Fenty. This is not a complex point of detail, it is absolutely central to the sale and yet it suddenly scuppered it after the manager resigned.
So, the upshot of all this is that the manager was only going to stay if the ownership didn't change and now the ownership hasn't changed the manager had gone.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But as a former manager famously said, "You lose the trust."
from Andy Ecelson
The man who is supposed to care
Does this man not realise what the club means to us loyal supporters? All oour lives (50+ years in my case) we put money through the shop and the turnstiles, year after year hoping for sucess only to be failed, it seems, by the man who is supposed to care.
If we had the money he has, we would try to please the fans and keep the decent players that we keep finding and then let go for nothing.
UTM
Season ticket holder.
from Martin Dring
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