egg

Agreed. White on red though, that looks fantastic. Would also look good in blue / yellow as an away kit.

Iron

That's a fans perception. In reality, a players value is not the value to the club, it's the price someone is willing to pay. Ultimately, if a player wants to go, he will - bar one or two exceptions, want away players being held to their contracts rarely perform well. Sure, I'd like the kid to stay and if he goes though, I'd want top dollar. However, if he wants out, we ain't gonna get anything like the fans would want us to get.

We can command what we want, but we'll need revenue, and ultimately will have to sell players for the best price we can get. It's wrong to think that we're in the driving seat here. We're now a championship club who'll have a load of players wanting the wages on offer in the premier league. If we get anything like £40m for Alcaraz feel free to tell me I was wrong.

Because he's not worth anything like £40m. Some of the values people put on our players is mental.

Crier

Chest

Cornish

You clearly don't get it mate so it's pointless trying to discuss it with you.

And they've cancelled the John Peel stage at Glastonbury this year too.

Rod

Boat

Yes. And I understood them. You plainly didn't. I see that you're banging on about the pile on club still. It seems like you're the leader of the gang of the 'pile on' support for the bloke. Well done you.

I think it's a case of the more vitriol he fires off, the more wound up he gets. It ain't gonna change a thing on the ground - he's edging himself nearer to a coronary, bit we're still out of the EU. As a wise man said, "what is anger". The answer, of course, "it's a punishment you give yourself for someone else's mistakes".

Uniform

Yep... accuse other people of making assumptions, but make assumptions that fly in the face of facts. I'd love to understand why people are desperate to fight the blokes corner.

And friending the lad when he was a kid, then getting him the job he wanted, then making the first move on him in his dressing room, then lying about it, then conceding that the lad is vulnerable, etc. But yeah, you twist the facts to suit your narrative SoG.

Street

Team

I'm not wrong on any count. My only assumption is that a young man now described as 'vulnerable' by Schofield is likely to have been vulnerable as a kid. Indeed, any young person desperate to get into a career is vulnerable to any person helping them. They're also vulnerable when that person makes a move on them - Schofield says that he made that move. The 'pile on' waffle is odd. People disagree with you. That ain't a pile on. As for the Cheryl Cole thing, that's desperate. She isn't 40 years older than Payne, she didn't befriend him to get him into a job, etc, etc.

Yep. And then there's SoG confused by my post...wtf he's confused about is anyone's guess.

Behave. He friended the lad when he was a kid. Gained his trust. Got him a job. Made the first move. On a kind assessment he abused a position of trust, something he all but acknowledges in the BBC interview. On a balanced assessment he knew exactly what he was doing, and got what he wanted in the end. In the BBC interview he describes the lad as 'vulnerable'. The fact is that the lad always was. Anyone defending this bloke should hang their heads, and playing the homophobia card is pathetic.

Customer

He is class. Has the knack of hitting and not getting hit. My only concern is how he's being managed - he's not been busy enough, and should have had enough bouts by now to be pushing at (or holding) a British or even European title.

Yep. He was in a position of trust. Not quite like the head of a sixth form banging a student he'd taught, but not a million miles away from that.