Gorringe Going

I met Tom G a few times and spent a whole morning with him once discussing the club and how to improve things.When there were dodgy rumours on here I use to contact him to get the facts, and he was always very amiable, and would give me a reasonable answer , sometimes late a night which indicated that he worked long hours for the club. I know Tom G had his ups and downs at the club, but he soon replaced our sad little shop with a much lager more accessible store when he arrived also used sponsorship money to refurbish the bars and introduced a more modern electronic access to The Mem. People criticised him for the south stand issues but the City planning department was in a mess and if the club had waited for them to make a decision the stand may still not have been built now. Tom was involved in negotiations with local groups and the Green party.
I thanked him for all his hard work on behalf of us fans and wished him and his family all the best in the future. I only hope his replacement is as amiable as him and they don't let the progress over the past few years now stagnate. The planning dept went into special measures and may still be supervised by the Government Planning Inspectorate, it will be interesting to see how that impacts, if at all getting permission for the new East stand.

Good luck in your future Tom.

Always thought he gave his best, sadly along with almost everyone else who has tried to make our club better we came up short. But plenty of positives, along with some progress means he leaves with my blessing 👍🏾

Good job no one on here bought a Queen night ticket then?

Mr G ballsed that one up too..... where was the 21st century then?
Deficiency and made us look ridiculous by blaming sag....when they should have been one of the first groups to bring in!

Met Tom at the Mem not long after he first joined... Will never forget it as during our meeting in one of the boxes up in the West stand where Tom was telling me all about his plans and how excited he was to try and drag our club into the 21st century an advertising board fell off of the East stand and came clattering down on to the pitch. He looked over his shoulder to see what had just happened, looked back at me and just said 'See what I mean!'.
It just sort encapsulated the situation at the club at the time, we were a mess off of the pitch.

Whilst there have clearly been mistakes along the way, it is also clear that he has dragged us kicking and screaming into the 21st century and the club is a far more professional outfit now then it was the day he joined.

Of course, you cannot make an omelette without cracking some eggs and Tom certainly upset some along the way (I am led to believe that one or two on this forum had family members indirectly sacked ny TG) . But sadly, football is a business and despite the fact that such a large portion of our fanbase do not like it, it is a fact. We had to modernise or be left even further behind.

The facilities at the stadium, communication and media output from the club all drastically improve under him. He certainly was not everyones cup of tea, but I personally thank him for his efforts here over his tenure and wish him luck with his next venture.

It is a shame that Tom is probably up to his eyes in NDA's, as I for one would love to get his take on the 'new' owners..

Most of the stone island brigade wouldn't have the balls to kick off in a 'family' area..... would they?
If you can't have a fan zone for people to mingle then we may as well give up

A lot of the things we progressed are quite obviously down to his role at the club. On the flip side, the majority of the bad stuff levelled at him is in the main hearsay and assumptions and/or Gaschat facts. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some of it will have at least been partly his fault, but I'm sure a good chunk of it is either inaccurate at best or completely made up at worst.

I think he did his best, no doubt probably made some mistakes along the way, but overall moved the club forward.

Good luck Tom, and all the best for the future.

What about the fact that due to some kind of (alleged) manufacturer issue the actual braille on those shirts were only printed on and so a blind person would not actually be able to feel the words out? 

His surname is one of the few (if any) things that rhyme with "Orange" though - and you'll never be able to take that away from him.

We really do have the most cuckolded of all fanbases.

Will you be rejoining the fanbase now he's gone or will you be another Fordingbridge Pirate and claim your absence is some moral boycott that doesn't end when the reason gets taken out?