Rumour Mill

[Ihearye]

Cundy had a spell at Torquay five years ago under GJ.
Doubt he’s top of many clubs shopping list.

Have to admit, not being on social media etc I may have missed this. But have we heard any interview, statement, thoughts etc with GJ? It is as if he doesn't exist.

[PCrobin]

Cundy had a spell at Torquay five years ago under GJ.
Doubt he’s top of many clubs shopping list.

Have to admit, not being on social media etc I may have missed this. But have we heard any interview, statement, thoughts etc with GJ? It is as if he doesn't exist.

Possibly once, when he first got the job? But definitely nothing since. Takes a lot of time scouting all of those Torquay rejects..

[horlickfanclub]

Cundy had a spell at Torquay five years ago under GJ.
Doubt he’s top of many clubs shopping list.

Have to admit, not being on social media etc I may have missed this. But have we heard any interview, statement, thoughts etc with GJ? It is as if he doesn't exist.

Possibly once, when he first got the job? But definitely nothing since. Takes a lot of time scouting all of those Torquay rejects..

Time well invested if we sign another Jude-Boyd or Archer.

[horlickfanclub]

Have to admit, not being on social media etc I may have missed this. But have we heard any interview, statement, thoughts etc with GJ? It is as if he doesn't exist.

Possibly once, when he first got the job? But definitely nothing since. Takes a lot of time scouting all of those Torquay rejects..

Time well invested if we sign another Jude-Boyd or Archer. P.S. Ex Robin , Defender James Wilson has left Bristol Rovers by mutual agreement.

[Shade]

To be fair, we never heard anything from Micky Moore for a long, long time either. He shouldn't have a lot to say anyway, to be honest. It's up to the manager.

[HamTown]

To be fair, we never heard anything from Micky Moore for a long, long time either. He shouldn't have a lot to say anyway, to be honest. It's up to the manager.

....you'd hope

[Ihearye]

To be fair, we never heard anything from Micky Moore for a long, long time either. He shouldn't have a lot to say anyway, to be honest. It's up to the manager.

I would have hoped that during a year of his appointment he could have uttered a few words on how he thought his purchases went, what plans we have for recruitment this year, how he feels about those who turned down contracts. These we keep being reminded are all in his remit, not the managers

[Jim]

JP confirming an experienced defender and forward to sign on day one of preseason training (i.e. today).

[Ihearye]

Have to admit, not being on social media etc I may have missed this. But have we heard any interview, statement, thoughts etc with GJ? It is as if he doesn't exist.

Possibly once, when he first got the job? But definitely nothing since. Takes a lot of time scouting all of those Torquay rejects..

Time well invested if we sign another Jude-Boyd or Archer.

Would go towards his / their wages I suppose

[Ihearye]

JP confirming an experienced defender and forward to sign on day one of preseason training (i.e. today).

Let's hope they put him thru a stringent medical, or we could be matching up with Oxford and Goodwin - much to Si's delight

[Fuller]

Defender was at training yesterday along with three trialists which included the lad from Gloucester.
No clues yet and I wonder why no one was down at the footpath by Seasons with a pair of binoculars?

[andgarod]

Nobody can be arsed

[Fuller]

JP tweeting striker now signed subject to medical on Monday, but delay with names purely administrative.
Presume that means the defender who took part at training yesterday as well.

[Robin]

Rumours are that Paul G is on holiday so need to wait for him to return to register these new guys. Lot's of names being thrown around but nobody seems to know who they are for certain.

[Ihearye]

Rumours are that Paul G is on holiday so need to wait for him to return to register these new guys. Lot's of names being thrown around but nobody seems to know who they are for certain.

If that is true, it has given me my first laugh of the day

[RS1978]

Rumours are that Paul G is on holiday so need to wait for him to return to register these new guys. Lot's of names being thrown around but nobody seems to know who they are for certain.

Does our professional Football League club not have a contingency in place for exactly this type of thing? Seems a bit tin-pot to be honest

Hopefully Mike Garlick (once the takeover is confirmed obvs.) can put in a CEO/Chief Exec to make us a bit more professional and make sure that these sorts of issues don't fall through the cracks in future.

[Ihearye]

Rumours are that Paul G is on holiday so need to wait for him to return to register these new guys. Lot's of names being thrown around but nobody seems to know who they are for certain.

Does our professional Football League club not have a contingency in place for exactly this type of thing? Seems a bit tin-pot to be honest

Hopefully Mike Garlick (once the takeover is confirmed obvs.) can put in a CEO/Chief Exec to make us a bit more professional and make sure that these sorts of issues don't fall through the cracks in future.

Why did he sign elsewhere? Oh the guy who has the pen is on holiday I refuse to believe this is the actual reason.

[RS1978]

Rumours are that Paul G is on holiday so need to wait for him to return to register these new guys. Lot's of names being thrown around but nobody seems to know who they are for certain.

Does our professional Football League club not have a contingency in place for exactly this type of thing? Seems a bit tin-pot to be honest

Hopefully Mike Garlick (once the takeover is confirmed obvs.) can put in a CEO/Chief Exec to make us a bit more professional and make sure that these sorts of issues don't fall through the cracks in future.

Why did he sign elsewhere? Oh the guy who has the pen is on holiday I refuse to believe this is the actual reason.

Godfrey's taken all the decent pens with him on holiday and all that's left is a half-chewed BIC fished out from the bottom of a drawer

[Shade]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

[ctfc-fan]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

[Shade]

A few people saying, as if it's fact, the striker we've signed subject to Monday's medical is Andy Carroll.

[RS1978]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

I get that Paul G's the best person at the club for this type of job - but why do we have a bare bones staff and (it appears to be) zero contingency for times when Paul G is not available? Is there no assistant club secretary to learn the role and help? What if (touch wood) he gets ill or has a family emergency? What happened to learning from what happened with MM and during Wade's time?

Of course this is all based on the rumour and conjecture from Robin that Paul G's on holiday - which is obviously not true as the Club Secretary's a cyborg

[Ihearye]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Sorry Shade, if anywhere even remotely the truth, it is no way to run a business no matter how cash strapped. Thats why I find it hard to believe. Well on two fronts really a) only one person knows how to do it and b) if a is true, you let that one person take his holidays during transfer time.

[paperboy]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

Seconded.

So, Flynny and GJ etc can go on holiday in the off season, but the club secretary can't?

Woe betide fans who go on holiday during the season and miss matches.

Let's just play the guessing game of our new attacking player who we now know is experienced.

[ctfc-fan]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

I get that Paul G's the best person at the club for this type of job - but why do we have a bare bones staff and (it appears to be) zero contingency for times when Paul G is not available? Is there no assistant club secretary to learn the role and help? What if (touch wood) he gets ill or has a family emergency? What happened to learning from what happened with MM and during Wade's time?

Of course this is all based on the rumour and conjecture from Robin that Paul G's on holiday - which is obviously not true as the Club Secretary's a cyborg

Why would you have multiple secretary’s doing the same job, for the small amount of times we do transfers? It might be the club have to name a dedicated person with the FA, who knows?

[RS1978]

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

I get that Paul G's the best person at the club for this type of job - but why do we have a bare bones staff and (it appears to be) zero contingency for times when Paul G is not available? Is there no assistant club secretary to learn the role and help? What if (touch wood) he gets ill or has a family emergency? What happened to learning from what happened with MM and during Wade's time?

Of course this is all based on the rumour and conjecture from Robin that Paul G's on holiday - which is obviously not true as the Club Secretary's a cyborg

Why would you have multiple secretary’s doing the same job, for the small amount of times we do transfers? It might be the club have to name a dedicated person with the FA, who knows?

You're telling me that Cheltenham Town ( a fully professional football club btw) are so hard up/cheap that they can't afford an assistant for the hardest working person at the club?

[ctfc-fan]

I get that Paul G's the best person at the club for this type of job - but why do we have a bare bones staff and (it appears to be) zero contingency for times when Paul G is not available? Is there no assistant club secretary to learn the role and help? What if (touch wood) he gets ill or has a family emergency? What happened to learning from what happened with MM and during Wade's time?

Of course this is all based on the rumour and conjecture from Robin that Paul G's on holiday - which is obviously not true as the Club Secretary's a cyborg

Why would you have multiple secretary’s doing the same job, for the small amount of times we do transfers? It might be the club have to name a dedicated person with the FA, who knows?

You're telling me that Cheltenham Town ( a fully professional football club btw) are so hard up/cheap that they can't afford an assistant for the hardest working person at the club?

As a club we are so lucky to have Paul G, his attention to detail is second to none and as soon as you add an assistant in who knows what might happen.

[Shade]

My point is WHY would we need one? It's only a few of you here that are getting stressed about it. The contract is signed, the player is ours, he just hasn't been registered with the EFL yet in order to be confirmed, and that doesn't matter as we don't have a game he would need to be registered for for weeks yet.

[HamTown]

A few people saying, as if it's fact, the striker we've signed subject to Monday's medical is Andy Carroll.

He can be our new Charlie Austin

[Ihearye]

Given he's the club secretary and this is obviously his job, and given we have a bare bones staff behind the scenes in order to squeeze every last penny we can into the playing budget, it's hardly surprising the club don't want to leave the registering of players to someone else who might make a mistake. All the tinpot claims are so tiresome. We're small, trying to get investment to help progress in all departments. Just f#!$ deal with it, children.

Spot on Shade. Paul Godfrey is the person you want to be dealing with footballing matters and he is the company secretary after all.

It’s getting boring now all the silliness.

Seconded.

So, Flynny and GJ etc can go on holiday in the off season, but the club secretary can't?

Woe betide fans who go on holiday during the season and miss matches.

Let's just play the guessing game of our new attacking player who we now know is experienced.

Have no idea when GJ takes his holidays, or, to be honest what he does day to day. As for MF, as he is 100% absorbed during the season and pre- season training / matches. He has a very limited time to take his holiday. Like I said, I can't believe the situation actually exists, because for it to happen would make no sense at all

[Fuller]

A few people saying, as if it's fact, the striker we've signed subject to Monday's medical is Andy Carroll.

Spotted at the Glastonbury Festival yesterday apparently.
Perhaps he popped into Seasons to sign the paperwork on the way there?

[horlickfanclub]

The title of this thread is "Rumour Mill" so no surprise to see a series of rumour posts arguing about other rumour posts . The usual suspects manage to turn it in to slagging off the Club as if it is fact. It is all "Rumour".
I would like to introduce another rumour that might be complete bo**o***. Other F.A's might be involved or contractual clauses at other clubs may be the reason for the delayed naming. More obviously if a player has yet to pass a medical why name him as he is not yet employed?

All will be revealed in time. Happy mithering.

[plymrob]

This 'Rumour' thread has mostly turned into an introspective naval gazing; and, I've got say, quite a big dose of total balls. People should be allowed holidays - maybe some the of 'negatives' do the same but then never go away and remain close to work... (I'm thinking doubtful)?

Long distance observer - but Paul Godfrey is a good guy and a big part of CTFC. For me, the club do not need an assistant to him (But if you do want one, do please offer up the money for that post - anyone?).

I'm still confident our main man (PG) is always on the job... even if he's miles away! I also think he will know better than us all what is going on...

[art vandalay]

A few people saying, as if it's fact, the striker we've signed subject to Monday's medical is Andy Carroll.

Spotted at the Glastonbury Festival yesterday apparently.
Perhaps he popped into Seasons to sign the paperwork on the way there?

More chance of Lewis Carroll.

[TheTownClub]

I forgot how funny it can get around here. The idea that we are missing out on signings because the club secretary has his "Out of office" on is an amusing one. Twenty plus years he's had that job, and never once have I heard of a signing missed because the paperwork didn't go through. Unless, of course, there's been a problem the other parties.