Hughes Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 52 minutes ago, peterms said: Apparently failed to turn up for a tour while at Leeds. I thought doing background checks was standard practice when making signings? Exactly, is there no effing due diligence on players? Everyone else buying something for 12 million quid would do intensive investigations. And surely Dr Tony must be extremely embarrassed by this since he said that we would only sign players with the right attitude. You really could not make this shit up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Quite surprised he has made this public unless he is leaving imminently. All a bit strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppy1987 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Absolute joke. A player that describes his greatest attribute as intelligence. Get shot. I'm sick of our football club being held to ransom and dictated to by moronic fools like this. Raus! Edited January 22, 2017 by knoppy1987 punctuation was utter wide gash with extra cheese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 4 hours ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: Even if there are some tubby bastards sitting at home ranting about Ross's fatness, those people aren't professional athletes. I saw a post on Twitter about how 'ironic' it was that Steve Bruce called McCormack unfit. Huh!? Steve Bruce is a 56 year old football manager whilst McCormack is a 30 year old professional footballer. Bruce isn't expected to be fit or in shape. McCormack is. Steve Bruce also had multiple trophies under his belt as a player and a near 20 goal season in the top flight from centre half while playing for the toughest disciplinarian of modern era Ross McCormack career highlight on other hand is player of the year at fulham and leeds 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kurtsimonw Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 5 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: Quite surprised he has made this public unless he is leaving imminently. All a bit strange. Footballers can have a bit of an ego though and it'll give them the fire to want to ram the words down their managers throat. The best way to do it, is publicly. The Doctors tweet is a bit different though. Difficult time in his personal life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 I get what Tony is trying to say, but I don't like the wording. Having personal issues doesn't make somebody less of a man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 27 minutes ago, DK82 said: I get what Tony is trying to say, but I don't like the wording. Having personal issues doesn't make somebody less of a man. I'm wondering if it was something a bit lost in language. I take "personal issues" to mean that the players is having a genuine struggle with something in his life. Maybe Tony means that. Maybe he means personal issue as in that it was McCormack's own issue that his gate wasn't working and a better man would've done something about it. I imagine it's the latter and him not being a native speaker makes it come across a bit odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Yeah, I think he's misjudged personal issues in translation. 'My gate was stuck' doesn't really suggest personal issues as we know it. I'm still struggling to get my head around that as an excuse though. I once got blocked in by a car so couldn't get mine out, I got a taxi to work (was expensive too), with the sort of money they get paid you'd expect a level of effort to get there, so maybe that does suggest there's some depression issues or something? Something like that happening triggering it and draining energy? No idea really, all very strange though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wainy316 Posted January 22, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Thoughts are with Ross at this tough time. Stay strong and I'm sure your gate will be fixed soon. Edited January 22, 2017 by Wainy316 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) I wonder if having his "gate stuck" is a euphemism for what "allegedly" happened to Darren Bent when he entertained Steve Bruce's daughter. Edited January 22, 2017 by Ponky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 13 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Thoughts are with Ross at this tough time. Stay strong and I'm sure your gate will be fixed soon. #prayforrossesgate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dodgyknees Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 The thing is, Tony said he spoke to Ross. Not sure the gate would have been a personal issue if they have spoken? Think we need to back off from insulting Ross at the moment. It could be any number of issues, and as a club it is our duty to look after him. And I honestly hope people do t suggest that because he has lots of money he should be happy, life doesn't work that way. I also trust Xia and Bruce to help Ross. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Clearly the gate is metaphorical, an allegory for some other barrier or impediment to participating in training. Steve seems to have taken it too literally. Obviously the condition of the gate couldn't physically prevent him leaving the house. Or possibly Steve vaulting over the gate was also symbolic, an attempt to encourage Ross by modelling how one can overcome life's challenges. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) 39 minutes ago, DK82 said: The thing is, Tony said he spoke to Ross. Not sure the gate would have been a personal issue if they have spoken? Think we need to back off from insulting Ross at the moment. It could be any number of issues, and as a club it is our duty to look after him. And I honestly hope people do t suggest that because he has lots of money he should be happy, life doesn't work that way. I also trust Xia and Bruce to help Ross. Speculation is he's going through a divorce although that does not excuse his behaviour . Bruce is a football boss not a divorce counselor . Edited January 22, 2017 by Eastie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, Eastie said: Speculation is he's going through a divorce although that does not excuse his behaviour . Maybe she doesn't find him sexually attractive anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 We always sign players that have personal stuff going on, Stan Collymore - depression, unsworth -wife issues, cleverley - wife issues, maloney - home sick, Veretout - gets robbed, must be others I've forgotten too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Boy do we have a knack for finding players with questionable attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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