Paynter Leaving

[Simon Pieman]

why will the Paynter back fire?

Well it's already backfired, we wanted to keep Paynter but he didn't stay.

[jonny72]

and we didn't get a transfer fee for him. Hence our player contract strategy back fired.

[magicroundabout]

Well it's already backfired, we wanted to keep Paynter but he didn't stay.

we wanted cox too

[jonny72]

we wanted cox too

That was our player contract strategy working as we got a decent transfer fee for him.

[magicroundabout]

what i'm meaning is life goes on. we never missed cox last year and we wont miss paynter this season

[Simon Pieman]

Whilst I agree, people are still clearly hung up about him ditching us for a bigger team.

I think we'll be better all over the pitch next season, though not as potent up front. But it won't matter if we're still winning games.

I just hope Pericard doesn't get the Paynter treatment all over again.

[magicroundabout]

yeah i don't understand that either. he's left to play championship football. whats the biggy?!

[DiV]

The problem is our fans seem to only remember the negative.

An enigma? He must have got close to 60 goals for us over 3 seasons.

Hardly an enigma. I still maintain he was a good player for us over all 3 seasons. Some better than others naturally but the way some go on you'd have thought he was Tony Thorpe for his first two seasons then fluked 29 goals.

[pauld]

I'm with Dave on this. Which, frankly, worries me

[Colin Todd]

The problem is our fans seem to only remember the negative.

An enigma? He must have got close to 60 goals for us over 3 seasons.

Hardly an enigma. I still maintain he was a good player for us over all 3 seasons. Some better than others naturally but the way some go on you'd have thought he was Tony Thorpe for his first two seasons then fluked 29 goals.

Its not negative, its perspective. We've had better strikers in recent years (only a handful, admittedly but they were still better) and whilst he generally did well in the season playing with Cox it did not warrant a 3 year deal last summer on the type of money that would have made him the highest player in the clubs history.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing

[DiV]

Yes, but I doubt his demands would have been as a high this time last year as they were come January.

[Barry Scott]

Why do we continually debate this whole Paynter contract bollocks? We haven't yet learnt to travel in time and he's gone. I don't see what's there to debate?

[Doore]

Obviously not Dave, because he wasn't worth as much, to us or anyone else.  The fact remains that there weren't that many people who were overly concerned this time last year about whether or not Paynter signed an extension - he didn't have the track record.  By January he did - sometimes life works out like that.  No-one has made a mistake here.  The board and management have moved on - I think maybe you need to do the same.

[DiV]

I have moved on and so has Paynter. Just because he has doesn't mean we should suddenly lable him as crap or try and convince ourselves he had one fluke season and he won't be missed.

[Stegenfreud]

He didn't have a fluke season but he won't be missed.