Cod Almighty | Postbag

Fenty and other four letter words

1 June 2011

This week's postbag picks up where the last left off, with some polite questioning of the directions being taken by John Fenty, Scott and Hurst and Cod Almighty. We've had a few shorter missives as well- thanks to Phil Watson for pointing out a gap in our list of victims of the Grimsby reaper (as he points out, "who wouldn't want the credit for getting Warnock sacked?") and our apologies to Tony Goddard that we don't sell Harry Haddocks.

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Swearing on Cod Almighty

Re the Diary on Thursday 26th may: any article that uses the F word in my opinion is worthless, no matter how well written it is! Sorry but rather than adding maturity to the article it has cheapened it profoundly in my opinion!

from Tom Allen

Letters Ed responds: We explain Cod Almighty policy on swearing here (Scroll down to "There are evil swear words on this website...") The gist is that we allow authors to make their own judgement on what language is appropriate, and its then up to the reader to decide what they think of that judgement. I do have to say, if you are offended by four letter words, its best to avoid Blundell Park on a Saturday, and the Diary on a Monday ... as the

More on Fenty's question time

Hi

Has anyone précised the Q&A sessions with JF? I sent a question or two in but no idea whether it was received and/or answered and now I just can't be bothered to listen to it all (it's a tad dull)

Regards,

from Rich Mills

Letters Ed responds: As you suggest, Rich, we can't bring ourselves to do anything exhaustive although the Diary on Friday 27th May offers an overview, and Dave Wagstaff, who listed his ten questions last week, does report below on the one answer he got ... Hello all, I sent you a copy of the 10 questions I'd emailed to John Fenty. He answered one, the easy one about why he'd said he supported Neil Woods and then immediately sacked him. The q

Impending doom

Dear CA,

Is it just me being miserable (I went to Grimsby at the weekend and topped up) or do you have a sense of impending doom for next season?

I appreciate there are rules about dates by which you tell out of contract players your plans, which is only right, but is it really sensible to tell all of those players who are still under contract to fuck off (sorry "ask them to find another club") when you actually haven't got anyone else lined up to replace them? If my boss asked me to "find another employer" and described recruiting me as "a disaster" in the local paper, would I be "professional" and continue to give 100% if I was called upon to do so because my existing employer suddenly found himself short handed, or would I tell him to go fuck himself? Mmm tricky. Would I ever be able to find myself another employer given such a public humiliation, or would I stay and take what was due to me under my contract whilst doing as little as possible, generally fume, and be a negative influence around the workplace?

I was given no confidence at all by the recent "its not as easy as playing championship manager, but we've made lots of ace phone calls" interview with Scott/Hurst in the Telegraph. And also, why are they even talking about offers for Connell?!!! DON'T YOU GET IT THAT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE WE WANT TO SELL HIM FOR TUPPENCE HAPENNY YOU MORONS!!! Who have you got lined up to replace him exactly? Sam Mulready may need time to develop into a 30 goal a season man, and we all know he will probably not have his contract extended unless of course he scores a hat trick every game right from day 1, in which case he will probably be sold to fucking Hull or someone for three quid and a bag of oven chips.

Fleetwood, as correctly pointed out in CA on 31 May, are well on with their plans, clearly had targets and a strategy in mind if they didn't go up last season, and already look like serious contenders next year. Wasn't it one of our two managers who said in the telegraph recently something like they weren't going to go on holiday until they'd sorted the squad? Now it seems that the squad "won't be complete before pre season". Do I sense a reality check being experienced by the e mailing computer literate Yorkie/Cockney management conundrum? Perhaps it's that pesky maths to be done to work out what the playing budget actually is next season that's taking all the time, and they've had to borrow Fenty's ready reckoner and slide rule.

So rather than working with and continuing to try and develop and encourage players that may be flawed, but ultimately the club has spent loads on, hey presto! they are turned overnight into embittered financial millstones.

Personally, I would rather see a team full of local -ish 18 and 19 year olds get stuffed 5-0 every week than some of the shite we've had at Town in recent years, but as we've got them, perhaps better use could be made of them, or at the very least, their exits could be more skilfully and tactfully managed.

Cheers

from Chris Beeley

Thanks again Chris, and thanks again all. Use postbag@codalmighty.com and speak the literal truth when you say "My thoughts are with you".