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After the Trust vote

18 March 2012

This belated postbag belatedly covers your responses to the Trust vote. Sorry about that. Next time, your reactions to the release of Paul Reece, the tribunal decision on Kevin Drinkell and Town's attempts to take on a Hungarian coach.

We also heard from Janusz Przenickzny, drawing our attention to the YouTube coverage of Connor Townsend's winning goal against Forest Green.

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The return of the King

Long live the king, Fenty is king again. Well done to everyone on GTST. It just goes to prove that the majority of Town fans don't listen to a few idiots on here.

UTM

from Dave Bell

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The safety of the asylum

I am a member of the Trust and voted "no" to the hand over of 200,000 of Trust owned shares to John Fenty. In 20 years time, if the club survives that long, there is a decent chance that John Fenty will not be in control of the club, and may have no involvement at all. There will though, still be Grimsby Town supporters and, who knows, a Mariners Trust. In a breathtaking example of short-termism, within a few short months of being given the shares, comes the decision, on a postal ballot of members, to give them to John Fenty. No extraordinary general meeting, no debate, no time to campaign for or against, no opportunity to hear the views of other members. I can't quite believe that given the chance for supporters to have some power and to be a serious influence in the club, over 80% of the membership of the Trust would vote to hand control back to John Fenty, the chairman who has overseen the worst decline in the club's history.

It is like that scene in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" where McMurphy realises that everyone else is free to walk out of the asylum if they want to, but they choose to stay. No, better the safety of the asylum.

Try and stay sane ...

from Dave Wagstaff

A turkey writes

Them Turkeys on the front. Why is that funny? Don't you know that John Fenty has single handedly kept this club alive, it's not his fault we are shit and in the BSBP. You are so negative, all you do is have a go at John, haven't you got a job to go to? How come you have all that time to write crappy match reports that don't make sense and then pretend to be different people writing that blog, along with all the other negative stuff. How much do you get paid for writing this rubbish. John Fenty keeps you in a job. You make me sick. If you've got any shares you should give them to John because he will use them properly and Liam Hearn is ace he should be Man of the Match every week even when he isn't playing but oh no you always pick someone like Gary Silk. Picking a defender as MoM, how negative is that? Why do you call Scott and Hurst Shorty and Shouty? which one is which? I want a sandwich, why do dogs have testicles? We should play in chocolate brown and pink hoops like we did in 1745, I know everything about Town me, I do. THEY'RE EATING MY BRAIN. NOOOOOOO STOP. Yours Sincerely

from P Urpleface (as told to Mark Dillerstone)

Thanks P, and thanks Dave and Dave.More letters as we receive them at postbag@codalmighty.com.