Thetownend.com

On trial with us along with Oliver Risser and Ibrahim Atiku!

Can't believe we've got Knight!

I think he has grown up abit now since playing in NI, dicanio wont stand for any shit from him sn he probly be ok here and score double figures for the season.

Tans will be delighted.

:D 8)

Can't help feeling it of smacks of desperation. The bloke hasn't done anything for at least 5 years.

That's why it's just a trial and we haven't actually signed him.
If he doesn't impress he won't be signing.

He was a good little player a few years ago, if he can find that sort of form again he could be a huge asset in League Two.

He's worth a trail

Di Canio might just be the right person to get the best out of him.

Or it could be a complete disaster and them ending up having a punch up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9YldoWb3-M&feature=player_embedded


Ibrahim Atiku

He looks a quality little player sign him up.

He looks ok in that video, But the Dossevi and Casal videos spring to mind

Surely we can do better than this? We need players with the right attitude we had enough bad attitude last year. He is well past his best

ha ha, where you been Bart?!

priceless.

I hate Knight. One of the biggest cnuts to walk the planet. But I hated him because he was good. If PDC can get goals out of him then he could be worth a punt. My only hope would be we'd get him on a short-term deal or performance-related deal, which is all he deserves.

Pretty much agree with what Juddie says.

And/or a deal where they can fuck him off immediately if he acts like a cunt.

if you ever find me chanting 'Leon Knight, Knight, Knight' then feel free to punch me in the chops. It will be well deserved.

Hopefully he has hit rock bottom and realised that he has wasted what could have been a half decent career.
If he did get a contract here it would be us doing him a favour and not vice versa, Hopefully he realises he is in the last chance saloon

Cunt or no cunt, if he scores goals that gain us promotion then I don't care.

f f s. he's had about 10 second chances in his career. And wasted them all.

 I hoped we'd have more of a plan than to rely on Leon fucking knight.

yes its only a trial. I expect him to do well and be on best behaviour for that.  its the baggage that comes later.

Are we relying on him now?

Aren't we getting a little gazzza-esque batch?

Are you questioning me? That's it I'm off to delete my account :(

:)

My feelings on Knight are strong. He's a waster. I'm surprised he is even on our radar. I'll leave it there.

We are in league 2. Half the cunts playing in league2 are here because they have wasted their careers at some point.

Yes he is a cunt. But if he gets a contract, then he will be our cunt and hopefully score us a bagful.

Anyone thought of any songs yet?  :D

Oh Leon Knight; Used to be a cunt but he's our cunt now...

Would be interested to see the 'get out' clauses we put into his contract if we do offer him one...

"If you are a cunt, or act in a cuntish manner, we have the right to terminate your contract with imediate effect with no compensation"

Would be the first paragraph....

Nick likes this.

The passage of time does strange things to people.  If you had a time machine, went back 7 or 8 years and announced to the Town End that we were keeping tabbs on Leon Knight in 2011, you'd have started a riot.

We'll be having a look at John McGinlay next.

He's had a kid.

That could have sorted him out

This. I will give him a chance if he ends up signing, but I do wonder how many of his goals were penalties, because I know that the season he finished L1's top scorer at Brighton, or near as top, most (15 from recollection) of his 29 goals (I think) were penalties.

Christ, Brighton don't even like the bloke and he was at his best there and should have a similar place in fans hearts to Parkin's here.

It's PdC's shout. If the little cunt impresses and is offered a deal then it's up to the manager to keep him in line.

If he does sign and is successful, all the people complaining now will be happy. Won't they?

Most footballers are egotistical wankers, he may be more of a wanker than most but I'm not really interested in what he says on twitter, I'm more interested in how he plays football.

I hated him when he played against us, but then I usually hate players who are good against us!

I don't think anyone is disagreeing how much of a cnut this bloke is Ardiles, but like PDC's political beliefs I'm willing to put that to one side if he does a job on the pitch. I don't want to be his mate, I want us to get out of League 2. I wouldn't even consider him in L1, but L2? Maybe...

If we do sign him, Watkins et al should ban him from twitter because he's a liability. He makes Simon Ferry look like mother theresa.

Feel free to put me in my place when he's been found getting smashed on a Friday night, fighting with our own fans, calling us all cnuts on twitter or showing us how much we're paying him and having love children with Douglas' missus.

He's one of Phil Spencer's i see...

That's a co-incidence. So is Di Canio...

If we were to sign him then of course I wouldn't be on his back. STFC is more important than that.

To clarify its not (just) the fact he's a cock that worries me, it whether the disrupts the team or strops off at a crucial point in the season. Its all well and good saying "sack him" at that point. But its not easy to get a replacement in a later date if we do (a la Austin this season).

This just reminded me of Fast Show, the two blokes in the pub.

"Knight, i'd back him if he was a Town player, but if he disrupts the team or strops off at a crucial point in the season, i'd say OI, KNIGHT, NO!"

aren't they all?

someone on twitter compared this to Best Holdings. Can't really compare the two situations, but a bit worrying we seem to be putting most of our eggs in one basket.

It's a tad similar in that one or a group of agents are getting their clients in somewhere they have a strong connection, and in turn are having, one would imagine, a bit of a pay day to boot.

fuck knight.

I still say we chuck some money southends way for Barry Corr.

Leon fucking Knight

fuck off.

I wolud rather have Cureton  ???

He is a proper cunt, but think he has grown up a lil bit now and has tried his best to get back to good fitness and impress, if he scores us the goals to take us up, then great, there's obviously talent inside of him, hopefully Paolo can unleash it

I've heard plenty of stories about what he got up to off the pitch even when doing well at Brighton. Not (m)any are good.

However, IF he is as good as his word and wants to actually show his ability his finishing is way beyond League Two standard. I could just never decide if he was just some sort of loveable but naughty kid who could be kept in line with the right man in charge. He seemed to do ok under Lou Macari of all people at Huddersfield, who I can't see tolerating much.

If you do think he's just a gobby moron he does have a large tattoo of Che Guevara, which at least means he reads and thinks a bit outside football.

On a wider note, I want someone to ask Jeremy Wray about why we have suddenly become so close to one agency, why that one etc? Answers please.

Macari certainly didn't rate his attitude when he spoke at the Trust auction a few years ago. He did say he had a lot of talent, which I think we all pretty much agree on.

He has a tattoo of a brutal mass murderer? Well he'll fit right in then? I might even boycott in protest.

Ah enough said....

On a wider note, I want someone to ask Jeremy Wray about why we have suddenly become so close to one agency, why that one etc? Answers please.


this

I seem to remember that agent saying he had nothing to do with one, or more, of our signings (or people we are looking at). Can't remember which.

I know you're upset, but there's no need for this.

Leon Knight strikes me as the sort of guy that would want to play for someone like Di Canio and not get on his bad side.

This is utter utter shit, and shows our transfer policy is being run by agents.

He is utterly crap now, and always was a complete cunt.

Asides from the fact he hasn't even signed?

There is a reason that he was sacked by R & D

He is known to be a disruptive cause and I for one think we can do better and don't need to take a risk on players like him

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/21/leon-knight-rushden-diamonds-twitter

eeeerrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm


THIS

"Leon's got talent but he doesn't work at it and he's also got a very big chip on his shoulder," said one of his many former managers. "He's a nightmare."

I wonder who he's sharing a tent with on the Italian tour?

Makes the club look a complete joke, even taking him on trial.

It does?

If this day couldn't get any worse. Leon Fucking Knight can fuck off with his mickey mouse darren agent on Twitter. Fuck off.

Are we really this desperate?

Brilliant

If it was any other FL club, Id be laughing.

I can't believe we've signed him. What a disgrace.

Oh wait.

Good one Bart. Original, thoughtful, sensible post.

Leon Knight is going to be like marmite. Some will give him a chance but others won't, that's just the way it is - it'd be boring if we all thought the same. He's made his bed with his behaviour in the past and he'll have to lie in it.

I will say this, though: ignoring the fact that he is a wanker, which is not up for dispute, isn't it a teeny bit ironic for people slating Knight for being a disruptive influence when that was exactly what Dougie was last season?

Dougie is a superb player, no question, but there is no doubt his captaincy was a failure of huge proportions.

discuss.

Would you still be laughing at them if he scored against us? He does seem to have a knack of putting the ball in the net after all.

For the record, I'm a bit wary of it myself. but can see absolutely fuck all wrong with giving him a trial to check where his attitude is.

Well theres twitter for a start?

As for putting the ball in the net? When and where in the last 2 years?

Call me super naive, or whatever, but what is Douglas supposed to have done?

he scored 12 in 22 last year.

There's no denying the lad can hot the back of the net, it's his attitude in question.

We are taking him on trial to see of his attitude really is fixed after he's had a kid and stuff. If he's still a complete tosser then bye bye. If he's not such a knob then we've got a goal scorer.

What's wrong with that.

yes, he's a complete tool on twitter, and ferry hasn't been? i'm assuming the club would monitor his twitter behaviour, like they've promised to do with all players from now on.

Remind me what Sam Parkin's scoring record was like before he came here?

We know he can score in this league and higher...

If, and I'm playing devil's advocate, he doesn't mug fans off on twitter and he scores 25 goals this season. Then what?

Just sayin!

I hate him like the next man, but I'm just saying. Seems a bit extreme to write him off before he's kicked a ball.

I was dreading the thought of him playing for us when the rumours first surfaced, I was hoping it was just a load of bollocks.

But the fact remains that this guy is proven in these leagues.

oohh, he might have sorted his attitude out.

Mugs.

In which case we just say no thanks, innit spencer?

Ferry comes across as a likeable fella. Leon Knight just comes across as an immature, disruptive, moron cunt. No?

Ferry is a funny guy these days, agreed, but you can't deny some of his early postings weren't, shall we say inappropriate! He's followed by loads of fans, young and old and he's only toned it down in the last few weeks cos he's had to.

And Spence, I don't think he'll ever change, but if he scores the goals that get us out of League Two, are we still bothered? I'm still debating in my head... I'm not saying I would like him whether he scored or not, I'm just putting it out there. If he were to score 30 and we finished top of the league, would we all be slating him still?

I'm not sure.

The players responsible for the 'disruption' or whatever you want to call it last season have been shipped out, Di Canio has been making all of the right noises about having a group of players working for each other and getting along - so we take on one of the biggest twats in football.

The man is a laughing stock and his best days are long behind him.

Read my lips


WE HAVE NOT SIGNED HIM - MERELY GIVING HIM A TRIAL

He is on trial?

I agree, but Ferry doesn't come across as a bad influence to have around the club. Whereas Knight has pretty much always fallen out with team mates and managers wherever he's been.

Good luck to him if he falls out with PDC.

the video of atika reminds me of sammy igoe  ???

Michael Rose Version 2

That agent on twitter has just posted a pic of Leon Knight in the dugout at the CG. I think I'm going to be sick!

am I the only one sick to death of hearing about agents...who's running the show here?
(no offence verve, not a reaction to your post)

Leon Knight was on Soccer AM last year, and I wanted to punch the screen with him on it. I remember a few years ago when the Trust held a 'Lou Macari Night' at the Moonies. Lou described him as one of the most talented individuals he'd seen for years, but with the worst attitude. That's probably why so many clubs kick him out !!

I see he is warming the bench already ;)

I know this has been asked time and time again on here... what is this agent's name on twitter?

 A dark day indeed, I can just about live with di Canio as boss, but Knight would be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Here's hoping nothing comes of it.

@AgentDarren

Hmmm, not to sure I would like it if he was to sign for us but i'm sure I would soon change my mind if he started banging them in.

Google search 'mickey mouse agent on twitter' and he's right at the top of the search engine.  :toocool:

He's @AgentDarren

Which is something that he is known to do.

Don't know of that would be worth the possibility of pissing other players off though. Although Di Canio is clearly well aware of the risk.

Which clubs have sacked Douglas in the past?
Has he ever been thrown off the team bus on the way to an away game?
Has a club ever sacked him and held onto his registration to stop him playing in England.

No.

Comparing the two is laughable.

Knight has been fined, sacked and god knows what else because of his behavior and most if not all past managers have had nothing but bad words to say about him. Douglas is just rumours that have little to no foundation what so ever.

So the forum goes into meltdown today. We haven't even started pre-season training yet people. Get a grip some of you. It's like the world is going to end tomorrow reading some of the shit on this thread.

Dicanio has proved himself a great tactician here. Giving Leon knight a trial has made everyone forget he's a fascist and moved the hatred and attention on to a different cunt. Genius!

Juddie, in all fairness, I think Leon knight has a bit more of a past than what Douglas has.

Rumours are rumours but facts are facts.

Think it's quite understandable that people are starting to worry....at least though it should mean that more realistic goals for the season can be set.

He may have "grown up",he may "score goals" but I hate the bloke and always will,dont care if he scores I wont cheer him just like I never cheered Ruddock.Cureton scored goals for us but nobody fucking liked him-including me.Please do not sign this cheating little shitbag.

If Leon Knight signs then I will cut all ties with STFC because I don't like him and his don't agree with his antics  ;)

Well said Adje.

Knight is a horrid little man who i'd hate to see playing at the club.Really hope nothing comes of the trial!

I've never disputed that. Far from it! It was Knight's tweet with a picture of all his cash that did it for me. Cockend.

Must say it looks weird him in the dugout at the CG.

I hate the cunt, but, if he does well in his trial and gets a contract, then goes on to scores the goals that get us out of League 2, and scores a couple of winners against The Pox, I may change my mind.

I did.

Leon Knight is a cocky cunt of the highest order. Considering he's done very little in his career, bar cause mayhem for managers wherever he's gone, he shouldn't be so cocksure of himself.

I was there as well. He said in all his years in football he had never seen a player with so much talent, but his deficiencies as a person meant he was never going to make it.

He will never change. The bloke is a moron. Whats all this comparing him to Douglas? Are you completely insane? Dougie was a good bloke.

As for 'Di Canio will sort him out', yeah right, some of the best managers in the football league tried to straighten him out, if he gets a contract, thats it.

whats it?

He'll be here for the length of the contract, or the club will have to pay it up to get rid of him.

What's his twitter account?

We could have a front 3 of Pol Pot, Hitler and Bin Laden, and as long as they scored the goals I wouldn't care.

I love the positivity eminating from this thread!

@cockycunt

I can imagine that now, Bin Laden would be the big target to aim for, Hitler on the right wing and Pol Pot the tricky little left winger.

Am I watching 'Footballs Funniest Defending' at 7:05?

We should deffo sign that centre back up.

Class.

Never mind that. I want that striker who produced the greatest header i've ever seen around about 2 mins 20 seconds in.

They're a bit dead though

Better movement than Pericard though.

Can we get Adam Virgo on trial as well?

He's out of work currently, I would puke with excitement if that deal came off.  ;)

Didn't he sign for Yeovil?

I thought he was on trial, good news if its a permanent though, I would be annoyed if he came here.

Got released last week Onion.

Has signed for walsall or may even be rovers

wovers it is

If Knight has grown up finally then he could be a great acquisition, he can no doubt score the goals if he's anything like his former self when at huddersfield!!!

Hope we get one of the two forwards we are in negotiations with as they need someone to hold up the ball in order to play off, as De Vita doesnt look the type and Knight wont be!

I think Oliver Risser can be the new Marko Tuomela!

Former fans of Lyn in Norway said Risser didn't even hold 2nd division standard in Norway, so I can't really see him cut it at Swindon!

I've just remembered our manager is a racist. On that basis we wont sign him.

Why are they former fans? Did Lyn get a fascist as a manager as well?

No, there was a rumour they were getting Leon Knight on trial.

What's Lee Trundle up to these days?

Maybe PDC plans to throw him off the team plane halfway to Italy?

 :D :D

Corrected that for you Reg you miserable old cunt

Lee Trundle is in Norway preparing to meet Aalesund FK in the European Qualification Cup. He plays for the welsh club Neath FC

Well, Lyn is defuct as a football club now. Although they started up a new team in the lower divisions, so their fans are probably still the same minus a few thousand fairweathers...

18 goals in 29 games. Worth a look on that basis.

I see, are they defunct for financial reasons, or a Franchise style franchise club steal type thing?

Get agent darren on it si

Lee Trundle and Leon Knight up front.

God, we would be hated.

We're quite widely hated already.

...by our own fans for starters :)

Why - we take a proven lower league striker on trial to see if we want to work with him - seems quite sensible to me...


10 goals in 22 games for Coleraine last season doesn't seem too crap to me.

For the record her is an arse (but them most footballers are), but reading on Twitter (so it must be true) couple of things...

1. One of the managers he fell out with was Mark McGhee - that makes him go up considerably in my opinion.
2. So he signed in Rushton on a 3 year deal who then transfer listed him 2 months later then sacked him 2 months later after 'breaches of contract' - how would you feel if you signed a 3 year contract and your employer then tried to offload you after 2 months and then sacked you - but then also went out of their way to stop you working anywhere else - you would be a bit pissed off I suspect.

I am not trying to defend the little git - he is no doubt a arrogant sod, but there are always two sides to any story.

Anyway he is only on trial - assuming he does well we will sign him, he will have a dust up with PdC and assuming they have got the contract right he will bugger off - if this can be after 15-20 goals for us that will do me.

That would be fucking quality....



....in 2004!

Fuck me here is a player that everyone to a man knows is a complete knob.......wasted his talent and all of a sudden the oh he could be good brigade are out because he is on trial for us.
If he was down the road at Oxford all of us would be pissing ourselfs laughing.
Surely we should/could be aiming a little higher than this.....not much higher granted.

Who do you suggest we sign instead then ??

We're in the 4th division.

I suggest we sign Barry Corr from Southend.

Decent player, big, good with his feet, good in the air, will get goals, gets stuck in and realistic target I think...

Yes, but we'd all shitting ourselves come the 21st, because we all know the little bastard would score against us....

Would he be interested?  Seems to me he has settled in to a decent first team spot down there.  He would probably cost a few quid compared to Leon Knight.  We could all pull a name out of the hat - I think we should sign Clayton Donaldson from Crewe.  

While i agree i would love to have him the club took a big hit on him already can't see us doing it again.

Rory Fallon?

I would happily have Corr or Fallon back.

He would just come back here and be permanently injured again

Id trust Barry Corr's fitness over Leon Knight attitude any day of the week!

I dont know? he might be - Southend are still on very dodgy footing financially and we could probably pay him more. Thats enough for most footballers these days.

He might cost a few quid compared to Knight but is younger and probably better. Would be a better investment.

Clayton Donaldson has been attracting attention from all sorts of clubs - so a much less realistic option than Barry Corr.

I'd have Fallon back.

Fallon for sure,Mcloud from Barnet would be a decent shout but would cost a few bob.
Anyway no more whinging from me,said my bit and i dont want to go on and on about it.

Fair enough.  My badly made point was that I'm sure that the board and management know the names of these players - what we don't know is who is available and who is not.  I don't imagine, if they could keep hold of him, that Southend would want to lose Corr to another league 2 team.  

What about that Parkin chap.....  :D

So you like Leon Knight because he scored 10 goals last season for Coleraine (what sort of fucking standard is that anyway), but you wouldnt have Barry Corr who scored 18 goals for Southend in L2?

Footballing wise... I haven't thought about Leon Knight since his Brighton days.

My only memories of him is being loathed, having that one great scoring season (lots of penalties?) and being dealt him during the Play-Off Semi-Final at the Withdean.

FFS did I say that.... no ...... was I taking the piss......yes I would take both of them if they scored fucking goals.

Yes we are all fucking doomed I tell thee - I do think there is a degree of fucking grip getting needed on here at the moment...

You need to get a grip, of the facts.

Ha, Knight no no! But McLeod? Bizarre.

leefer's always on about McLeod.

He must have a thing for him.  :gay:

I think you need to calm down spence a bit mate. Horlock said what most probably think imo. Would i prefer Corr ot Knight it's a no brainer but it's also a massive gamble with corrs injury past.He has probably had more injuries than Knight has had clubs  ;)

I hope we sign him on. The posts on here will make funny reading if those in this one are to go by.

I do have a genuine concern though and that is this agent business. I don't do twitter but is this one guy overseeing all our transfers or something?
If so why?

What facts are they? Knight has been shit, I will have to bow down to your knowledge of this as I haven't been scouting the Irish leagues for the last season.

He's a twat - but he is an available twat whereas as far as we know (but again you have the 'facts' that i don't) Corr isn't - until we know better do we give a trial to the proven (albeit grade A arsehole) goalscorer or instead speculate about players we could sign.

Signing Leon Knight may or may not be good for the club - that's for Mr Di Canio to decide.  One thing is for sure - it's given a shot in the arm to the TEF.  With this and fascist-gate, its been quite lively here recently.

No he has bought us Devera and Leon Knight on trial. Problem is one has loads of league 2 games and got voted player of the year twice so people were happy but now he has bought one on trial who people don't like they want to bring it up again

Agreed and I do think it will be an interesting one to watch - could perhaps have a sweep on how long until they have a punch up!

Dunno.

Does he deal with the English lower leagues plus the Italian and Portuguese (and whatever)?

Doubt it

I look at last seasons facts............Mcloud kept Barnet in the league scoring goals while Knight was playing part time in Ireland...........and 10 in 22 aint no great shakes in that league by the way.

Very Bizarre.

Barry Corr signed a 1 year deal at Southend on July the 8th 2010.

Is the Irish league really no better than D4 - I really don't know which is why I am asking people....

Not sure if I could stomach Knight and Mcloud though..... we will be signing Lee Hughes and Marlon King next

That's a lot of strikers.  Four up front?

apart from being a cocky little fucker,what has Knight done to provoke such hatred from town fans?
I remember him being a lively little player with bags of talent. If he has grown up then he's worth a shot aint he?

I said weeks ago we should go after Fallon. I think he'd be perfect for us(reckon wages might be the stumbling block though)

Right great sign him up (happy to have him back), but will he not in the abscence of a transfer fee probably end up in D3 at least.

and just as a disruptive cunt as Knight. Amazing what can happen when a L2 club give a chance though....

I'd shoot my load if we had Hughes and King up front. They'd bag a fuck ton of goals.

Knight being a bit of a knobhead can't be compared to Hughes and King... can he?

If people hate Knight then it's down to his behaviour and not his playing ability... and that's fair enough.

Either way, it's just a trial.

There is no hatred from me towards Knight,how can there be?...i dont know him or how he lives.

Look at the last six seasons on wiki and that may give you an idea of why i am not happy...no hatred from me just a serious doubt of what is going on.

Hes scored more than cunting pericard ;)

But it's just a trial! Why aren't you going off on one about Oliver Risser who has spent the majority of his career in the German lowers? He's just a trailist too.

Look i dont care if we get Fucking Laurel and Hardy on trial,why the fuck is a trial needed when he has been playing over ten years,its not like he is not known....unlike the Rizzer who is unknown to most like Dossevi and a trial warranted....so what is he on trial for...attitude, fitness goal scoring prowess....is a few mickey mouse games in Italy going to show anything we dont know.
My point is we should be looking at tried and tested scorers.....at least two come to that,the money raised from past sales should allow us to go out and spend a bit.
Instead of lining the pockets of has beens.......line the pockets of proven strikers.

Have you seen the interview from Di Canio about the trialists?

Maybe a trial is needed to see how his game is now - its been a while since he played at this level.  By having him on trial we get a close look at his condition and ability - something Di Canio may not know that well anyway.  If it doesn't work out, we lose nothing.  What's the harm?

Don't snap at me leefer  :girlgiggle:

I'm not an advocate for Leon Knight... All I know is that he's here to prove himself after 2 years in the wilderness due to whatever happened at Rushden.

He's scored goals in FL and shows that despite being 'just' with Coleraine that he still knows how to do it. Dossevi has never been prolific.

We are clearly struggling to attract players, we're not the only ones.

Let's give the bloke a chance. Atleast he'll add a bit of arrogance and confidence up front that we were lacking last season. As others have said maybe he's matured. I think joey Barton is a good example that cnuts can sort themselves out.

Not the Swindon way I'm afraid. We slate them and generally consign them to the scrap heap before they've even signed, let alone kicked a ball ::)

Reminds of players like Savage.  Twats I'd spit venom over us signing, until we signed them, then I'd be very happy about the fact everyone else didn't have him.  For his failings, I loved having Bullock here!

Well as i said i have said my piece.
In my opinion we need to buy some front players...and now another midfielder.
If he comes good i will be pleased,and thats being truthfull.
I take all your points but for me with the disapointment of Douglas leaving i am just pissed right off and the likes of Leon Knight dosn't do a lot for me.

 :zipped: :zipped: :zipped:...end off argument.

We need a keeper................................  ;) You watch

Lucas has gone awfully quiet :)

Didn't Knight and McLeod line up together for the MK Dongs for a season or two?

Its as if they wanted to be hated more....

Speaking of which, where did Sean O'Hanlon end up?

Maybe he's having a nap?

The issue isn't what he can or can't do with a ball and a trial will not prove anything off the pitch. Maybe Di Canio will give him yet another chance which he may or may not chuck away. The guy is 28, not a youngster who can be taught. I guess the only slim chance he'd not play silly cunt in the dressing room is if he's finally realised his career is short and finite and he'll be a nobody in a few years time. If he's that desperate to play football he may calm down.

If he signs he will get his chance to prove himself without me slating him. My reservations about Di Canio have thus far been unfounded.

I think taking him away to Italy for a week (?) will probably give a good indication. You get to know people fairly well when you're with them 24/7. That week could make or break Knight's career.

The peg sellers from Easter Road.

No, got injured in the warm up to his press conference ;)

Ahhh, Calderwood could always spot a good defender... although he's buggering off to become assistant at Birmingham isn't he?.... I suppose that still counts as a career step up from the position of Hibs manager... :D

Has left after 2 days trainning, just not fit enough.

Yep & another overseas trialist to fly into the town's training base in Italy next week

Check us out.

Risser being offered a deal

Well, the numbers are certainly increasing now.I don't think Knight is a great loss. Onwards and upwards.

Obviously I'm happy at this news for non football reasons. But if he wasn't up to it for football reasons there can't be any complaints.

Well, well, well! That's a few days of discussion sort of wasted :)

leefer will be happy... Now let us get a centre forward in quick sharp.

He's grown up. He's matured. He really wants to prove himself this time, last chance saloon.

Turns up to training unfit...

Some mature footballer.

Surely the whole point of pre season training is to get fit.  Think there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Its a trifle odd because as people point out, there is along way to the start of the season. I read somewhere that Knight didn't want to go to Italy, and he had other offers. Now I think that this was from the football rumours website so probably BS, but it makes more sense!

Perhaps it was polite speak for his legs have gone.

Why would Knight agree to turn up knowing that the club were going to Italy if he didn't want to go?

I lean towards the notion that he's had a couple of years outside the football league and it's noticeable.

:(

i bet he ends up in league 1

Nah, not unless he looses about 2 stone. You see the shape of him? Right porker.

Nah. Makes perfect sense. A professional footballer would have a core fitness. Pre-season is just to get it back up to speed after a few weeks relaxing.

Knight hasn't been involved at any decent level for so long, he's obviously let himself go. A true professional with ambitions of getting back into league football would have been keeping his levels up.

As di Canio said when he arrived Fitness is a big thing for him, if they aren't fit next year they wont play.

No excuse for not keeping himself properly fit even without a club, Ifil hasn't got a club and I see him every morning either cycling or jogging by my house to keep himself fit.

What position does he play again?

I expect fitness is an indication of attitude as well.

Defence i think,if so be good for cover i assume

can also play in midfield

The Knight naysayers can sleep easy tonight, then!

I wouldn't have minded Jerel coming back. Perfectly suited to League 2.

That's the end of that chapter then!

entertaining while it lasted.

Wouldn't be surprised to see it come up in a "we don't have enough strikers, we should have signed Knight" clusterfuck debate

Think Sky Sports News just said they'll be at Swindon for Pre-Season training in a bit.

just interviewed kate cady and big kev.  will be speaking to PDC at 2 this afternoon

full report Tom

Leon Shite, as we expected. What's the betting he fell out with Ferry or something.

Could have done a job for us ;)

I think it shows lack of ambition from the board jj. Don't they know we have no strikers?

Obviously not, I think we should be looking for a good calibre of striker ASAP.

No they couldn't find a big enough shirt to fit his ego in...

did he fail a drug test?

very good drs, just been announced by adver.

They must be impressed with him to make a decision so quickly

But the the same could be said about Dossier (I've forgotten his name already)

Perhaps Mr Knights decision to tweet when he was supposed to be training didn't go down well... strangely he hasn't tweeted since

*Dossevi :)

Or Dovessi if you're Phil King.

di Canio seems to gauge pretty quickly the character of someone, offering a deal to Risser so quickly and releasing Knight after only a couple of days.
I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but he's decisive nonetheless :)

That's the badger

Am i the only one excited by this Risser guy. Apparently he's getting offered a contract. He sounds like a right beast,something needed for this division. Sounds like a direct replacement for Dougie

Hi newbie.

I am. I mentioned the fact he appears to be like for like in another thread, so could well be a good bit of business. I also like the fact that he'll clearly offer cover at centre half as well. (Not in the Migz sense of course.)

Hi newbie.

Hello and thank you.

Any one Called "The White Warrior" has to be the right move. Dougie will be missed but up and onwards. This guy will give us some muscle where its needed, and has international experience (even if it is with Nambia). He seems to speak perfect English which helps to. Now for some Strikers  :hmmm: 

I notice that many of our new boys are around the 6ft mark, looks like we are building a big team for next year.

An irrefutable logic

Yea some of the new guys do seem to be enforcers. Not to mention this Oakely Kid Bodin was talking about on thisis. 16 and 6 foot 5
 

You know you want the white warrior on your team

clearly not going to be playing football with our feel then eh!?

You recon? :)

Fabrizio Piccareta in his interview said he and PdC want the ball played on the floor not in the air.

Freak!  (That's the Oakley kid, not you.)

What are they feeding him?!

Ha touche. But nothing to do with my days right now so all I can do is prey for some interesting news or gossip about Swindon transfers. Keeping the faith that someone promising will be coming in soon though

He must be a country boy. Beef and hay, a very stable diet (pun intended)

Damn right....I couldn't have watched a Town team, with that little shit defiling the shirt.

What about every wanker who has left who basically defecated on the shirt all last season!

According to great man himself we tried to hang him out to dry.

Hes sacked agentdarren also :D

what exactly did he say tansinho?

Nothing happened with swindon wasn't the right place for me and they decided to try hang me out to dry. I don't even have to response #joke

From now on don't @ my name alongside @AgentDarren he doesn't work for me no more

Freedom of speech again u mugs better watch out

It's never, ever his fault is it.

Good to see he's matured, not.

He really is a total cunt, could have had a very good career.

There was me thinking he was worth giving a trial to. I will never trust anyone again.Thanks Leon i will now never let anyone in and never trust.

All I can say, thank fuck it was only a trial and we turned him away. In retrospect many of the reactions (including my own) were just but far too OTT.

Least he only made mugs out of you for a day, and not a season.

I like the way he mentioned a child had changed his attitude. :D

What an absolute dickhead the bloke is. His career is nearly over and he's ruined it because he's got a massive bag of chips on his shoulder. What a fat fucking waster. I know dole merchants with more promise.

I hope he doesn't find another club/manager to blame his bad luck on.

?

What's all that hung out to dry bs that he's spouting.

What a fanny.

Spencer is suggesting that many of us were rejoicing such a signing. Whilst some of us (myself included) kindly reminded those who threw a fit that it was just a trial.

Was there a single person that was 'rejoicing' the signing?

There were a few who were warm to the idea.

No, but we weren't all slitting our wrists because we had a player on trial.

I was warm to the idea. Would hardly say i was mugged off though. Just seems Spence has approached that middle aged miserable cunt stage  ;)

He takes fuckwittery to new levels

"He's a cock. But he's scored a few goals and it's only a trial" was about warm as it got.

However

"Oh my fucking god, this is a joke. We are relying on Leon fucking Knight. This proves the agents are running everything. Oh my fucking god. The club is a fucking joke." Was the other side to the argument.

What - ever

Knight in being a knob shocker!

Meh, maybe agent Darren told him he was a shoe in for Town and he burn his bridges at his former club. Actually I don't care if he did.

Well, I was just trying to see the possible positives in his being at the Club, i.e good scoring record in Ireland, maybe he'd learned his lesson (apparently not it would seem) and so on. I believe it's called being open minded :hmmm:

Fucking mug

So much for a more mature and better attitude Leon Knight ey  ;)

Hilarious, the asshole is long gone and we're still all arguing about him!  :D

Yep  :doh:

I don't think Spencer was being to malicious with his post, just saying thank fuck we didn't get him for a whole season because this would always be the outcome.

It's okay to be wrong now and then, don't beat yourselves up about it.

Nah i was taking the piss i know he wasn't.

this is getting silly

Hahaha i find it all rather amusing

you would you simple cunt

Glad you said that D.

I'm seeing the funny side myself again, was getting a little perturbed then for a minute.

Says the one angered by fucking cyclists.

Bloody important issue is that.

Sup, B?

Word, S!

Stop talking like a bunch of Leon Knights

Someone should change the word cunt on here to Leon Knight :D

I know what you're doing and it won't work.

haha.

Followed this dude on Twitter for a few days. His moronic churpings gave me a brain ache. He is chuffed he is still contracted to Coleraine... Deluded fool with a superiority complex.

I did the same last week! Fair play, he talks some crap. I sent him a message of abuse on Friday night at about 4 o'clock in the morning - steaming!! Unfollowed him as of yesterday.

What did the message say?

I can't find it but i'm sure it was along the line of - you're a big time see you next tuesday, talk a load of bs and never derseved another chance in english football.

He's a big boy so i'm sure he can handle it!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15522097.stm

Good to see Leon's still being sensible on Twitter!

Reckon he should come back as replacement for Ranger.

Im going to tweet McCrory and ask if he can get it done.

Nice guy, decent footballer.... 8)

That story is from 2009

That post is from 2011

 :)

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Can someone grab me a sports Almanac?

One from 1985? We'll clean up. Mwhahaha.

Fuck! Always when i'm trying to be the smart one. Fuck you lot!

Being signed on a 6 month deal

 :beers:

 :fishing:

Is he going to work in the TE or the DRS?

what's Steve Lomas upto these days?