Re: Jimmy gone

By Armchair vulture (Armchair Observer)27/3 08:54Fri Mar 27 08:54:41 2026In response to Re: Jimmy gone

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I watched most of the JG era home games and was one of the few who stuck their head above the parapet and criticised his methods and involvement.
He was brought in by the biggest fool in Boro history, Nick Hawkins who waltzed in and told everyone he was the panacea for all the clubs ills. He said Boro fans had told him to bring JG in. My opposition to JG was the fact I never believed he had the ability to run a club at Boros level and that his level was top amateur or bottom level non league. I did give him a chance but what transpired was horrific. First of all the football was appallingly bad - he would sign anyone and his dog and when criticised he would then go on social media and slag the clubs fans off who dared show any unhappiness at what they were paying to watch. This happened after a defeat away to Berkhampstead when he famously told those unhappy to come and see him “ if they knew where the ground was”. He described those who were critical of him as the bastards in his social media posts and he ruled the club as an autocrat refusing to step away from managing as he owned the club. All that was totally unprofessional.
The list goes on.
Some of us at the time took a lot of stick for opposing him - private message insults, social media insults and some apparently were even threatened.
I was told that I wasn’t real Boro fan, that i didn’t attend games and that I never used the kiosk or the club house - I used the kiosk at every game. I even helped design and procure the disabled shelter for the coop for no fee - I was a member of the coop.
Others opposed him such as VS - now me and Vs are polls apart on politics and have had plenty of spats regarding that but everything VS said about the JG tenure was correct.
Sadly while it was all going on plenty of Boro supporters still believed JG was the savour of the club and opposed any criticism of him. They were all proved wrong - the biggest regret from that era is that quite a few long term Boro fans gave up - some have not returned - I’m one of em - after 40 odd years support the whole sorry saga left a bitter taste in my mouth and one or two who were involved in the JG tenure are involved in the new club. That disturbs me in the fact that no adequate explanation has been given into their involvement in what went wrong related to debt and failure to pay the rent. They probably did nothing wrong in which case there is no reason not to tell the truth.
My biggest regret related to the whole sorry saga is that the new club wasn’t begun after Thorne cleared off - we may have been back to where we were when we went under by now- who knows.
Let’s just hope that the days of failure are finally left to the ages.
As for JG - his biggest crime was Hubris - sometimes in life you have to admit your limitations whatever your heart says - sadly for him he didn’t.

Edited by Armchair Observer at 09:00:54 on 27th March 2026

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