Grimsby Town Reaction - Cherries III

Big Steve Fletcher may have scored his 100th League goal to secure 3-vital points for the Cherries, and their League status for anotehr season, but the Cherries hero also put out a plea about the future of the Club.

Speaking in the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Fletcher is quoted as saying: "It's a momentous achievement and I'm just proud to be a part of it. But this club should never have been in the position where it was fighting to stay out of the Conference in its last home game. Hopefully, we will never be in this situation again, it would be catastrophic to think we could. I just hope everything will get resolved now. Don't tell me the majority of those 9,000 spectators can't come here week in, week out to show their support? What's gone on here over the past few months puts a lot of pressure on old shoulders, never mind young ones. We've given it our best and it's paid off. Although it's been like a merry-go-round, the boys have just concentrated on the job in hand and that's been down to Eddie and Jason. They have tried to take our minds off things, even though you can't help but read and hear things. We don't know what's going on from day to day. We hear stories about this and that and about the club possibily going out of business and it's not easy trying to do your job under those circumstances. This is 100 times better than when we escaped relegation in 1995. We didn't have a 17-point deduction to cope with and we weren't staring at the non-league trapdoor. We weren't fighting everything that was going on off the pitch either and we weren't wondering if the club was still going to be here tomorrow. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the boys who were here at the start of the season. It must have been horrible. I came to three games earlier in the season and the negativity around the place was horrible. Even though I wasn't playing, it didn't feel like the Bournemouth I knew and loved. I think everybody seemed resigned to going down".