I think you can drop it down a bit more can't ya? I'm sure he was on around the 40k a week mark? Which is 2mil plus he's a greedy scotch twat!
I think able to give may be more fitting. Anyone / family earning between minimum wage and 25k a year will have all that money accounted for, mortgage, bills, food, may even get to put a bit away for a once a year holiday if lucky. Footballers will / should be able to bank a decent wedge of spare money every week, they may need to as at 35ish their playing days are over and they can't all be TV pundits. Anyway it was an excellent gesture and he rightly deserves credit for it, however he's gone and now he's the enemy, the end.
Patty?? Snodgrass. The way I look at it we were all in the trenches together. He got a better offer from the enemy and crossed no mans land and joined their side cos he thought they had a better chance of winning. He would be right but it's still a ****s trick.
He was being polite, careful and diplomatic. Why would he want to work for such a badly run club? They've driven thousands of fans away and quite a number of employees. The owners appeared keen enough to cash in while they could rather than offer their top scorer an acceptable new deal. So why stay?
If he was Italian he wouldn't fight at all because he doesn't have any Viking blood like east Yorkshiremen. At best he might wave a white flag in lieu with his ancestors.
Neither for me , I'll just ignore him , certainly won't be applauding , I only do that for ex players and managers who achieved consistent good things , don't dislike him enough to warrant booing
My point was he would be on over a million a year with us. The quality of life for his kids is not suffering.
I normally try not to cross-promote much anymore and keep it all in one place, but since this is such a controversial topic, we did discuss it a fair bit on this week's podcast if anyone was interested:
OI !!! OLM!! As a proud East Yorkshire Italian to quote a leading light great thinker and philosopher of our time, .........Bugs Bunny "You realise this means war?"
You said "I've often said I don't begrudge players trying to earn as much as they can" So you are happy enough with players like Snoddy maxing out their money for themselves. Yet you get all uppity when it's for their kids. Being generous, that's a really weird position to take.
Not at all, my point was that the excuse about his kids lacks credibility when what's 3m income to 5m income (or whatever the increase is) from the perspective of his kids? Daddy has another car to drive me to football practice in? I have no issue with him having left. Good luck to him, and as I've said, I don't begrudge players maximising their income, especially Snodgrass with his history of injury. In fact my first response in this thread was to say that his 9 goals this season in the league and cups is a reason not to boo him and to accept his contribution to this club as repayment for his time spent injured. What left a sour taste was when (I think) OLM posted quotes from him saying he made the move to support his kids. If he'd come out and said "Look with all respect to Hull, I wasn't thrilled with the way we started the season with so little in the way of fit players. Look at Mo leaving for Newcastle, he was saying the same thing. It was really tough for us as a group to play week in week out. But I stuck at it because we had a good group of lads there. But coming up to January I made it known I wanted to leave the club because I saw the club as not doing much about the situation it was in, and I want to play my football at the highest level I can. West Ham made me a great offer and it was as simple as that." Something inoffensive but honest. Is that so hard?
Don't forget snodgrass was injured throughout the whole of the last premier league campaign and we got relegated.. so he scored a few goals this season.. he left the ship as soon as he could while adding over £3m to his bank account.. what he really meant was I need to ensure i can live in a huge mansion, take my kids to the maldives for weeks at a time and buy a ferrari or two.... not this security bollocks Useless for scotland Utter waste of wages for us **** him Plus the manager said he refused to train and i believe the manager.
