Well What A Season That Was...

                                                                                     

Where do i start reflecting on what has been a season like no other? Most people who know me know most of the story as i pretty much never shut up about it from saturday to saturday in the street, on facebook - twitter, on the club website despite having my accounts deleted by admin at least 6 times & blogs i've written through the season..

I think its best just to sum this past season up as the worst ever season i've experienced since watching football in the early 70's..i've seen some tough times at clubs..diabolical performances and relegations by the bucket load..yes i moan, yes i get pissed off and yes like most passionate football fans i vow to never set foot in the ground again..

One positive to come out of this season is my daughter victoria has now got her confidence back after cracking her forehead open a couple of seasons ago at the wellesley at a pre-season friendly with Lowestoft Town and being too scared to go back ..Its been a great buzz to see her enjoy herself at games and embrace the club as her own..yes she's given them hell from the east stand but today she stood as the players left the field applauding them off and smiling from ear to ear cos her bloaters had won the final game of the season against Newmarket 3-1..Getting relegated although painful and sad for this famous old club was always likely once the current chairman took over in the hot-seat..i'm through trying to tell him, he thinks he knows best so i'll just let him hang himself....NUFF SAID.

Just Like this time last year, a lot of us GYTFC supporters were looking forward to a good positive season with old favourite Paul Tong as manager & Stephen Brierley in the hot-seat...Sadly that plan all went west once Brierley was asked to step down at the clubs AGM..The scene was set from that day and as sure as eggs are eggs it all started going tits up..Tong left, the club was in turmoil after just a few weeks into this season..New manager comes in Mike Derbyshire and a new chapter started..within weeks the playing budget was axed..festering bad blood was all around the club and the atmosphere was pretty shite to say the least..

Weeks paased and christmas approached..The mouthwatering local derby boxing day with gorleston  loomed and after a good battle with them in the norfolk senior cup expectation was high..a 2-2 draw in front of the leagues biggest crowd of the season 342 should have been a win as we were the better side on our own patch..alas it wasn't to be and then THE BOMBSHELL from the chairman that unsavoury proposals and the possibility of the club folding is early january had me having one of those crazy moments i'm sure only football fans have and so SAVE THE BLOATERS was put into action..

Anyway funds were raised, the club got vital sponsorship off the back of THE HELP SAVE THE BLOATERS online campaign..word spread right round the world and to be honest i think at times i was like a zombie on auto pilot trying to take in and maintain interest in our small club on the norfolk coast..Anyway that soon passed as time does and the bloaters although safe were struggling on the field and without a win since september..Its now april 29th the club is relegated, nobody really know what the future is for the club until the AGM, various initiatives have been put in place by the club to bring in money..they are trying to maintain what is a very expensive hobby and if they pull it off it all bodes well for the future..i have my doubts  and have voiced them as is my right to do so, like it or lump it, in most things in life there are only one or two possible outcomes..live or die..We did our best to save the club, had certain idiots not stuck their noses in the club would have gained so much more from myself and my family..they rocked my boat and i dont take no crap from nobody so they lost out..

"WE SAVED THE BLOATERS YES THE DAVISON FAMILY..WE DID WHAT OTHERS WERE TOO PROUD TO CONTEMPLATE OR TOO LAZY TO GET UP AND GO FOR IT..WE TOOK ABUSE AND LIES AND CAME OUT WITH SMILES ON OUR FACES AND PRIDE INTACT & YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE WE WENT THAT EXTRA MILE FOR SOMETHING WE TRULY CARED ABOUT WHEN OTHERS JUST WALKED BY AND TURNED THEIR HEADS"..