So, snodgrass

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SydneyTiger14 said:
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?
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Whenever a prominent player gets sold/bought he's invariably paraded in front of the press and is obliged to say something even though he'd probably rather not. Because the press and the fans analyse and twist these statements to death the poor bugger can say nothing approaching the truth which won't cause offence to his old club and teammates or to his new club and teammates. So he says something which is likely to cause the least offence to the most people, which is invariably the kids/family speech.
Think of all the high profile figures who've left their positions to 'spend more time with the family', disgraced politicians, business people caught with their hand in the till, etc, etc.
It's the oldest ploy in the book and should be seen just as that.
 
Plum said:
Whenever a prominent player gets sold/bought he's invariably paraded in front of the press and is obliged to say something even though he'd probably rather not. Because the press and the fans analyse and twist these statements to death the poor bugger can say nothing approaching the truth which won't cause offence to his old club and teammates or to his new club and teammates. So he says something which is likely to cause the least offence to the most people, which is invariably the kids/family speech.
Think of all the high profile figures who've left their positions to 'spend more time with the family', disgraced politicians, business people caught with their hand in the till, etc, etc.
It's the oldest ploy in the book and should be seen just as that.
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As much of a **** as Payet was, when interviewed he was honest about why he left.
 
BrAdY said:
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.
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This... bang on the money...
 
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HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
No it doesn't, someone earning £25000 a year would have to donate over £125 to make a similar percentage donation, how many people on here gave that much, how many gave a token fiver and how many didn't donate at all?

Regardless of how much he earns it was a generous gesture and well above what most on here were willing to give.
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Presume maths isn't your strong point.

If he donated £1500 of a weekly wage of 25k that equals 6%. Someone on 25k a year would only have to contribute less than £30.

Either way it was a nice gesture but he's gone for more money (who wouldn't) but it's the rumours of refusing to train etc that will have pissed everyone off.

Livermore did things the right way.
 
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Plum said:
Whenever a prominent player gets sold/bought he's invariably paraded in front of the press and is obliged to say something even though he'd probably rather not. Because the press and the fans analyse and twist these statements to death the poor bugger can say nothing approaching the truth which won't cause offence to his old club and teammates or to his new club and teammates. So he says something which is likely to cause the least offence to the most people, which is invariably the kids/family speech.
Think of all the high profile figures who've left their positions to 'spend more time with the family', disgraced politicians, business people caught with their hand in the till, etc, etc.
It's the oldest ploy in the book and should be seen just as that.
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He's a millionaire footballer <laugh>
 
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allowentry said:
Presume maths isn't your strong point.

If he donated £1500 of a weekly wage of 25k that equals 6%. Someone on 25k a year would only have to contribute less than £30.

Either way it was a nice gesture but he's gone for more money (who wouldn't) but it's the rumours of refusing to train etc that will have pissed everyone off.

Livermore did things the right way.
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Those rumours about him refusing to train continued, despite him quite clearly being in the club's photos of the team training. <doh>
 
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