Jody Brown wrote:

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I've just been contacted by a friend asking about this all being deleted?
Not sure what's happened.
I had a year to think about it - so those suggesting I didn't think long & hard about speaking out & the opted to remove are very wrong. No 2nd thoughts, everything I wrote was true & I'd happily debate that with whomever.

I feel for you the supporters, and of course i have glanced at this forum over the past 12months - I think we largely misunderstood one another. That's why I posted after all this time.

The reaction to my post was as expected. People know it's likely to be true, yet some will harp on about bitterness, etc.

I had & have good reason to be bitter - not given the facts or treated fairly in the circumstances. (IMO) And left two good jobs to become full time manager. The sacking seriously effected my life.

However, in making a detailed post I think I've cleared my own mind & am focused on my on life. It hurt how I was treated & latterly abused, insulted & laughed at - especially when others at the club seem to not be treated similarly. The fact the club gave no public explanation or thanks following my sacking, left the world to assume I did nothing well & the results spoke for themselves.

I'm confident in my ability, and I also know what I did, and what I didn't do - and why I did it. Sadly, very few other people do.

Good luck to the current manager, good luck to the club, and good luck to Faz in his role as a fitness coach at Dover. That's a line drawn under it for me now.

I will get on with trying to rebuild what had been a positive career prior to the Welling debacle.

All the best.

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Fair enough. However my comments were based on the technical knowledge of who can and can't edit posts. I have no reason to distrust Polo based on his past record so one is left to assume it is the poster or we have a technical loophole.

And the observation was not personal. JgFc has been aware of my views on that sort of thing for a decade and would probably back me up on that (as he has been on the sharp end of it at least once!).

Good fortune in getting your life back on track. It is a valid point that supporters do not readily consider the other aspects of life that require sacrifice in order to take on certain roles in semi professional football and, despite some of my views, I appreciate is also true in the Hobbins case as well.