League 2 General Chat Thread

[GTFCfish]

He needs about 15 chances to score one.

Sounds like an improvement on our strikers, we’ll take him.

 

[Son of Cod]

Peter Swann has written off £11,000,000 of debt for Scunny. Haha ELEVEN FUCKING MILLION WTF. I thought we were a shitshow for going down to the Conference for the second time in a decade but imagine spending ELEVEN MILLION POUNDS you don't have and still being 20th in League Two. At least we're going down for free.

 

[Son of Cod]

Sounds like an improvement on our strikers, we’ll take him.

15 chances? If we give him a 3 year deal we might get a goal out of him.

 

[Bottega Don]

This club could be in a really bad way very soon. If we get relegated next season I am not sure we will ever return.

I have no idea what Swann's intentions are but the minute he wants to sell it's going to get ugly.

 

[Shrimper_95]

Stan Collymore’s offer of help lasted less than a week and after a rubbish statement by Ron Martin he has said he’s out because he’s a 50 year old man that doesn’t need to be chasing around a football club. If he can’t get past one statement then there was never a serious offer of help in the first place!

 

[T.A]

Out of the frying pan into the fire with him tbh.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Stan Collymore’s offer of help lasted less than a week and after a rubbish statement by Ron Martin he has said he’s out because he’s a 50 year old man that doesn’t need to be chasing around a football club. If he can’t get past one statement then there was never a serious offer of help in the first place!

Where's his famous dogged determination?

 

[masi51]

Pubs in Morecambe packed out on this glorious Saturday morning

 

[Boz]

Any Tranmere fans here? Fancy taking James Norwood back. The guy is a fraud.

Yes please!

 

[northstandexile]

Pubs in Morecambe packed out on this glorious Saturday morning

Have you took your step ladder to look over the wall on far side from main stand.

 

[RLC]

He used to need about 5 chances to score for us. We used to count his attempts to see if he was due a goal. Once missed over 40 1 on 1s on the run. He found his happy place at Tranmere but now fully understands the meaning of 'the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the tracks' i reckon.

Not really true to be honest.

He was very raw when he first arrived from Forest Green, but his finishing had improved massively by the time he left in 2019, largely due to the work of Mellon and the coaching staff. You don't score thirty plus goals in a season at any level if you are spurning that proportion of chances.

I don't blame him for moving to Ipswich either. They trebled his wages and it was impossible for him to turn down that kind of money, having spent most of his career in non-league.

A cracking player who scored the most important goal in our history, and I would have him back here in a heartbeat.

 

[masi51]

Have you took your step ladder to look over the wall on far side from main stand.

No.......I am sat at home. Just going off my facebook feed

 

[Son of Cod]

Stan Collymore’s offer of help lasted less than a week and after a rubbish statement by Ron Martin he has said he’s out because he’s a 50 year old man that doesn’t need to be chasing around a football club. If he can’t get past one statement then there was never a serious offer of help in the first place!

Sounds like Ollie's investment in us. Like Aunties on Facebook. Completely unaware that there is the option to not be sounding off and making themselves look like absolute dickheads.

 

[Luke Imp]

This club could be in a really bad way very soon. If we get relegated next season I am not sure we will ever return.

I have no idea what Swann's intentions are but the minute he wants to sell it's going to get ugly.

Is it just the stadium or is it the car park and surrounding land as well?

I wasn't sure it was worth £11m but past valuations suggest it's probably not too far off.

 

[Bottega Don]

Is it just the stadium or is it the car park and surrounding land as well?

I wasn't sure it was worth £11m but past valuations suggest it's probably not too far off.

It's everything, he owns it all now.

The land is worth quite a lot, assuming due to it's location next to the motorway.

 

[GTFCfish]

Really sad to hear this, he was only here a month or two but I’m not exaggerating when I say he’s one of the best players I’ve ever seen play for my club.
RIP Zhang.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1387716686531350531

 

[Super_horns]

That is awful news.

RIP.

One day celebrating your birthday , the next dead.

 

[Robshep]

Not really true to be honest.

He was very raw when he first arrived from Forest Green, but his finishing had improved massively by the time he left in 2019, largely due to the work of Mellon and the coaching staff. You don't score thirty plus goals in a season at any level if you are spurning that proportion of chances.

I don't blame him for moving to Ipswich either. They trebled his wages and it was impossible for him to turn down that kind of money, having spent most of his career in non-league.

A cracking player who scored the most important goal in our history, and I would have him back here in a heartbeat.

It wasn't criticism. If you check most strikers goal to shot ratio he actually does very well.

 

[Son of Cod]

We've confirmed in a board statement that we had the 12th highest budget this season in League Two.

Club News - Grimsby Town Football Club

www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk

 

[chipmunx]

We've confirmed in a board statement that we had the 12th highest budget this season in League Two.

it's not the size that matters it's the way you use it.....

 

[Son of Cod]

it's not the size that matters it's the way you use it.....

We couldn't get it up for a while and fell asleep, then woke up in February and went like the clappers but it was too late unfortunately.

 

[Chris FGR]

You could argue it was Grimsby's limp start to the season that cost them, which at least makes a change from the premature ejaculation that used to happen in August.

Seriously though, 12th placed budget surprises me looking at their squad. Can't really see where that moneys gone.

 

[Son of Cod]

You could argue it was Grimsby's limp start to the season that cost them, which at least makes a change from the premature ejaculation that used to happen in August.

Seriously though, 12th placed budget surprises me looking at their squad. Can't really see where that moneys gone.

I'm assuming it was much lower, but that Paul Hurst coming in and bringing in a load of new players is what's bumped us up. The one bit of solace we can take from that statement is this...

"We have paid all of our VAT, PAYE and NI and are completely up to date with these payments. We have not applied for any EFL loan monies. This is in contrast to many League 2 clubs who have deferred the tax payments and others who in addition have had to take up loans. We will complete the financial year with a healthy bank balance to cover expenditure over the summer and to start rebuilding the squad. We will also have the benefit of the parachute payment to assist in this."

We played it safe by gambling on finishing 22nd and it backfired. But still, we go down in fairly decent financial shape by the sounds of it.

 

[chipmunx]

I'm assuming it was much lower, but that Paul Hurst coming in and bringing in a load of new players is what's bumped us up. The one bit of solace we can take from that statement is this...

"We have paid all of our VAT, PAYE and NI and are completely up to date with these payments. We have not applied for any EFL loan monies. This is in contrast to many League 2 clubs who have deferred the tax payments and others who in addition have had to take up loans. We will complete the financial year with a healthy bank balance to cover expenditure over the summer and to start rebuilding the squad. We will also have the benefit of the parachute payment to assist in this."

We played it safe by gambling on finishing 22nd and it backfired. But still, we go down in fairly decent financial shape by the sounds of it.

i don't know what we've done tax wise - but i think we also turned down the EFL loan

 

[dedwardp]

I'm assuming it was much lower, but that Paul Hurst coming in and bringing in a load of new players is what's bumped us up. The one bit of solace we can take from that statement is this...

"We have paid all of our VAT, PAYE and NI and are completely up to date with these payments. We have not applied for any EFL loan monies. This is in contrast to many League 2 clubs who have deferred the tax payments and others who in addition have had to take up loans. We will complete the financial year with a healthy bank balance to cover expenditure over the summer and to start rebuilding the squad. We will also have the benefit of the parachute payment to assist in this."

We played it safe by gambling on finishing 22nd and it backfired. But still, we go down in fairly decent financial shape by the sounds of it.

Sounds the same as what we were saying the other week, only our gamble has just about paid off. Hopefully we can see some benefit of that next season.

 

[shoddycollins]

We've confirmed in a board statement that we had the 12th highest budget this season in League Two.

Club News - Grimsby Town Football Club

www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk

Whoever heard of a club claiming to have a top-half budget? Maybe that's why you went down, get with the programme and start claiming that your budget is 'bottom six for this level' like everyone else does and maybe you'll not sign so many duds.

 

[Son of Cod]

Whoever heard of a club claiming to have a top-half budget? Maybe that's why you went down, get with the programme and start claiming that your budget is 'bottom six for this level' like everyone else does and maybe you'll not sign so many duds.

I don't think 12th is bad considering we brought in about 10/11 players in Jan.

 

[Chris FGR]

FA investigate Forest Green Rovers' allegation player suffered homophobic abuse in Tranmere match

The Football Association is investigating an allegation a Forest Green Rovers player was subjected to homophobic abuse in Saturday's match against Tranmere Rovers.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not great if true, especially after the incident in the Tranmere v Morecambe game earlier this season.

 

[denzel ecfc]

FA investigate Forest Green Rovers' allegation player suffered homophobic abuse in Tranmere match

The Football Association is investigating an allegation a Forest Green Rovers player was subjected to homophobic abuse in Saturday's match against Tranmere Rovers.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not great if true, especially after the incident in the Tranmere v Morecambe game earlier this season.

A points deduction is the only fair punishment in such circumstances...

 

[Chris FGR]

A points deduction is the only fair punishment in such circumstances...

Agreed, about 5 points should do it.