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No idea till now but a quik google search suggests he's not happy at the owners, but he's not planning to leave - which means they've got to pay me off I guess.
To the fans of Grimsby Town Football Club. Let me say, first and foremost, that I’m not going anywhere unless I’m told to. The love that you, the fans, have shown myself and my family since my arrival has exceeded even my highest expectations, on and off the pitch. However, of late, developments away from the football itself have made it increasingly difficult to work to full potential on a day-to-day basis and, most importantly, place this club on an honest, positive, front footing. This is as frustrating to me as much as any fan.
Those who own this club, and those who makes noises about wanting to own this club, have been playing politics with something that is very precious to this community, and it must stop now.
Mistakes have been made, undoubtedly, and while there is certainly enough mud to sling, I instead want to use this chance to appeal to everybody who holds the current and future fate of Grimsby Town in their hands to stand up tall, communicate candidly with the fans and make amends for the past few months. Earn back their trust and respect. This is your challenge.
We are where we are, but I’m not walking away from the fight. However, at the same time, I have been around long enough to know that you, the fans, need to know where I stand. And I stand with you.
Going forward, I shall use my social media more regularly to communicate. As manager of this club, I will now focus solely on the football and I ask all fans to rally behind the players, as I know you will.
It has not been the start to the season we had hoped for, but there is a long way to go, and we must all pull together. I genuinely believe in the potential of this club, but we need to do better, beginning at the top, and that’s the gauntlet I throw down today.
Finally, if speaking this openly brings about my demise then so be it. I’m not here for the money, and I’ve made mistakes in not communicating fully before in my career, and I won’t make that mistake again.
The most important thing to me is that the fans feel that they can trust myself and my team, win or lose, rain or shine. Up The Mariners.
Club’s melting down. John Fenty the owner, now largely hated by the support, has just had to resign from the local council for doing a dodgy property deal with convicted fraudster Alex May - Fenty was deputy leader and oversaw the housing portfolio, eye roll. He’s apparently been trying to get May involved at The football club as well. Holloway was not only appointed manager but also put on the board when he went there, and that now looks like a Paladini-Dunga style move to provide a key deciding vote when the time comes. Ollie, typically, has gone rogue this week, voted against May’s investment, whacked out that statement. Think he’s smelt the coffee this week. Of course the team is also doing dreadfully, many of Holloway’s signings haven’t worked, he effectively sacked two players live on BBC Radio Roverside after a recent 5-0 defeat at Tranmere, and he’s already talking up his traditional huge January transfer window turnover. Fans have turned on him in recent weeks for, wouldn’t you know it, random team selections, substitutions, post match comments and signings. So this is as much a power play from him as anybody, trying to either firm up his position and align with the fans, or secure his reputation so he can glide back into TV afterwards.
Cod Almighty is their LFW equivalent, worth a Twitter follow.
Does anyone else think Olly is a bit bonkers? Not in a ‘play up the madman’ part but actually mentally ill?
Some of the randomness is up there with the most abstract of personalities and the Ollyisms are genuinely odd. The stuff at Millwall away still haunts me as it was down right embarrassing.
Hope he is just Olly but I do worry about Ian Holloway.
I think he should have stuck to the punditry for his own sanity, sounds like he's jumped out of the frying pan and straight into the fire. had no idea what was on going at grimsby
It’s fascinating that most managers seem to have something in their DNA that results in them eventually succumbing to the same downfalls that took them before. Very few ever seem to learn from their weaknesses.
You could say some of the problems are beyond their remit but they do seem to follow them around.
Will be worth clubs keeping a tab on the wage capped leagues one and two in coming years and how individual managers cope with it.
Man, I hope Ollie is ok. Some pretty inane ramblings there as we have seen before.....
Ollie is like an old flame u dumped after you realized she's a full bunny boiler. You still care for her and wish her the best and hope she can be happy going forwards but also hope she doesn't blow her own brains out and everyone else in the vicinity.
I would have him back here tomorrow managing us Don’t get the disrespect he is shown, him and birch did a very good job here imo
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
Dont think anyone connected with QPR disrespects ollie tbh. Well, certainly noone old enough to see him play for us and the passion he had in his first spell in charge for sure.
Cod Almighty. That's a brilliant name. I'll put that as my second favourite after the Darlington fanzine - Through Thin and Thin.
Is Holloway just charmingly eccentric, or stark raving mad? - I suspect he might be sliding further along the scale as he gets older. Hopefully his family will persuade him it's time to retire gracefully.
Holloway has always been about promoting himself irrespective to whom that may effect in the process. His Millwall meltdown that night amounst many others in the past , was all about himself with no respect for the club that were paying his wages at that particular time . I believe that he is unstable and I also believe that he is a very devious person. Due to the present difficult times we are going through and the way he promotes himself with his undying love to QPR and his vision of being some sort of messiah that had in the past been so badly treated by the club on the occasions when he has been released by us. and at those times never excepting any possible flaws in his management that led to those dismissals, it was always something away behind the scenes that led to his demise. I fear we may be hearing a lot more in the Media of his unrest at Grimsby particularly in the event of our results not improving rapidly. As in his unbalanced mind he may be starting to have visions of the possibility of the messiah returning to our club. It only goes to emphasise how important we need to get some positive results very quickly, because the mentioned alternative is unthinkable, I also think Warburton who I consider hasn't done to bad in the past certainly now needs to press the reset button and freshen up his approach to our present situation starting Saturday.
'So this is as much a power play from him as anybody, trying to either firm up his position and align with the fans, or secure his reputation so he can glide back into TV afterwards.'
Hmmm, perhaps.
To be fair to Ian Holloway, though, if there's ever a manager who has the guts and integrity (or stupidity) to stick his head above the firing line and say exactly what he wants to say because he believes it's right and just, it's Ollie. So i have to consider your take on that a bit cynical. This is textbook Ollie. I don't think he thinks like regular people.
Once again, the entire situation with clubs that were around long before any of us is just terribly depressing. Good on him for making some kind of effort to help, even if it's counter-productive.
I know almost nothing about the Premier League even though I try to catch the big games every now and then at the end of the season. But I will say this, Queens Park Rangers is just a fukking sick ass team name. Just sounds so cool.
Anyone who has read Michael Calvin's 'Living on the Volcano' knows that it's football that is mad. The book begins with a description of Martin Ling getting ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) after his mental breakdown at Torquay United.
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