Reply To: I’ll give you this one for free Peter…

[CaptainCod]

The similarities in both our clubs fall from grace and mismanagement are uncanny.
I actually thought we had the worst chairman in history with Fenty until Swann outdid him.
Relegation from the championship to the national league for the first time in our history but not content with that our self proclaimed saviour managed to do it twice !
Like Swann he blamed the fans for not turning up despite cutting the budget every season and signing dross players and employing poor managers without due diligence .
What sticks in my mind is an interview with Swanny on humberside after the Alex may fiasco last season when Fenty was going to let a convicted fraudster invest in the club .
Swanny got mad and said don’t you dare compare me to Fenty I’m nothing like him .
He’s done exactly the same , if not worse ,resigned from being chairman to take the heat off despite being the owner and still making all the decisions , stopped putting money in and insisted his loans will never be recalled because he loves the club and will leave it in a better position than when he took over .
He even resorted to using Fenty’s common phrase of we’ve not had much “football fortune” as though success is just a matter of luck and not long term planning , strategy and good management .
It took us a long time and a lot of protests to get him out , we had the apologists like uptheiron99 on here standing by him and saying we wouldn’t have have a club if it wasn’t for him putting money in , but like Swann he was paying for his own mistakes .
The new owners had to pay fentys loans off on takeover , despite him insisting they were benign and he wouldn’t call them in . At least he didn’t mortgage our ground though ,the land isn’t worth as much as yours or he probably would have !
Your in a dark place at the minute , we’ve been there but things will get better if you get rid of Swann .
We’ve found an extra 2000 disillusioned fans coming back this season after the ousting of Fenty despite a pretty average campaign in the national league.
The new owners aren’t going to throw money at it , they are just trying to run the club in the right way . We now have hope for the first time in many years .
You’re our closest and biggest rivals but I would hate to see you go under, we are all football fans after all.