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...already a done deal, according to a "reliable" source.

Just something I've heard.  

Queue the "bollocks" and "f*** off you scottish c...." replies.

flip off you scottish crab

Bollock you English ****

That is what  heard at the last match, I hope not.  The only time it seems anythign  like sensible to me, is if we were well adrift at the bottom, ie already down territory.  Whilst we are very much in it, especially after saturday, we need our talisman.

The new man upo front will be signed and will be the next Fjortoft!! honestly I love this new player he will be huge!

hate the words reliable source...cause it never is.

It make's us all worry that it could be true?

I just thought it was my duty to let the good people of the TEF know about such news.

Bollock to you to Yeovil.

good to know you want to inform though i guess jan...

while talking about sources and news, remember old brian hillier? he is aparantley helping calne town out these days with funds.

I hope it isnt true... :cry:

Although never 250k, he only has a few months left on his contract. We'd never get that much

Fuck off you Calne Inbred.

Although £250k is not a bad price to be honest, considering his contract is up in the summer, 5 times more than we paid for him. If we did get an offer of that much I can't see the board rejecting it. It would put us in the shit a bit though.

We'd stop hoofing it for a change.

i reckon that comment includes about 70% of calne.

I vote 1%. Namely Vicky (Pollard) Terrace

aslong as it ain't 15, you can say what you want boy.

Ok, everybody in Vicky Terrace is silly  :mrgreen:

(no reference specifically to 15)

You have GOT to be kidding me! :shock:
Why the heck would they sell our only scorer for that measly sum. We may as well not play the rest of the season if that's true. Soooo hope it's not :o

Johno's biography title -

"Born in Calne, lived in Calne, died in Calne"

Especially if he joins the BNP (Banque Nationale de Paris)

Probably means Jamie Cureton will be getting a phone call...

If he has suddenly remembered how to score, plus we really can get that amount of dosh for Fallon then I don't see it as a bad thing.  Unless Curo comes back here and remains completely cack..

Swindon selling a much needed striker for less than market value? Got to be true :(

In seriousness he might be our only saleabe asset. If he isn't willing to sign a new contract who knows....

This rumour was doing the rounds at the Barnsley game. If it's true I'd assume the logic of the powers that be is if we're going down anyway, we'd better cash in on one of our few sellable players while we still can. Which kind of makes sense, but personally I'd hate to see them surrender like that. Which is what they would be doing - surrendering to relegation and totally undermining any chance Iffy might have of keeping us up.

Why the heck would they sell their only scoring player eh? :? Doesn't make any sense to me, and if they've got any sense they'll be thinking the same.

And anyway, Rory said he wanted to sign a new contract didn't he :D

Rory wouldn't turn down the inevitable longer deal and decent pay rise such a move would bring, I wouldn't have thought

So did Grant Smith!!  Mate footballers will go where the money is.

a football club wouldnt sell Rory, a business would....

time to see what rules here, football or business...

I would hope the board acts in the clubs best interest and sells him for the best possible price, in January.

Try and negotiate a new contract with him now, if he rejects it then we will have to sell him otherwise he'll leave for nothing. :cry:

But if we sell Fallon we are as good as down.  What's better in the long run - 250k for Fallon or staying in this division???

It's better to be in the shit financially and be in League One than be in the shit financially and be in League Two.

Plus, by selling Fallon, the Board are effectively saying our season is over, so they can't complain if only 2,500 punters turn up to hand over their hard earned for the remainder of the season.

Oh yeah i agree with that but at the end of the day the board see it as money which we could do with, id also like him to stay no matter what otherwise we will be down.

on the pitch we arent in a positon to be be selling our players we need them, I mean Iffy wont get any money to spend from it, so selling Fallon will not contribute to keeping us up, the opposite infact.

We'll take 200k and Scott Taylor if things get desperate.

On the other hand, let's not get too worked up about what is, so far, still a rumour. Remember the Wilkins and Wise as managerial team rumour of a few weeks' back? That was crap and this may well be too.

see ya Fallon! good luck! we certainly need when your gone! (im preparing for the worst)

Right! Exactly. And look where he's ended up! Bottom of the league and no regular first team football.
Rory knows he's guaranteed first team football here if he keeps up what he's doing, and I'm sure he's heard how well Parkin's getting on :roll: Why does he have a reason to move just yet? :o End of the season maybe, but not now. This year's been his first real shot at being the #1 striker after being in Sam's shadow for so long. He finally gets his shot and you think he's gonna move somewhere he's probably gonna be stuck on the bench again? :o

Yes, money talks....first team football means sweet fuck all.

Shaun Wright-Phillips was well on his way to being a Man City legend, he played 90 minutes every week. Now he is a bench warmer.....

Shaun Wright Phillips has played in 19 games for Chelsea alone so far this season though, most of them are sub but he's still been playing regularly.

I think first team football does mean something but it's not everything. I can't see Rory signing a new contract, especially not if we're relegated but I'm not sure if he'll go in January unless we're way adrift. If he did I wouldn't expect as much as £250k though.

We're only 13 points off the play-offs for crying out loud! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: We are NOT that adrift yet.

ANYTHING can happen.

I hope we stay up so we can thrash Brighton next year 8)

Actually Wright Phillips has played 21 games this season for Chelsea, 14 of which have been when coming off the bench.

Well thanks for correcting me, although one of those must have been tonight after I posted that surely.

At the end of the day Fallon isn't going to get his career breakthrough in the fucking third division. Unless we stay up he's as good as gone. If it looks unlikely we are going to stay up come January, he will be off as we will want to cash in rather than see him go for free.

Smith is a bit of a strange situation. Many of us TEF thought city would do well this season. Yes, you never can tell, but he's hardly ended up worse off than he was here, in fact he's probably earning more money.

haha wasn't that the gist of last season and our impending romp to the championship this year?

Our best players like "5 good games last season" Igoe and "fatboy the central midfield genius" Howard. not to mention "the half season wonder" Smith

The only player that left on a free in the summer that we actually miss is Heywood.

im not missing Heywood!

 :shake:

The only one we miss who left on a free is David Duke

Bollocks. We miss Heywood on the basis that Ifill wouldnt have to play if he were still here.  Jack Smith is as close we'll get to an almost exact Duke replacement

I miss him and Helwletts constant lack of effort and endeavour, and I especially miss their ability to lose a 90/10 tackle in their favour.

I actually miss the dead ball delivery of Smith, and the defensive common sense of Heywood.

Depends, Heywood has his purposes, ie he was good in the air, but on the floor he was a shocking donkey. If we mix Heywood and Ifil together, we'd have a good centre half

We do miss Duke though, he was never a left back and its the managers fault for playing him out of position, but he was good going forward and created alot of chances for us.

In some ways I agree with you more now VD. Heywood wasnt that bad on the deck, yes he hoofed it but at least he looked up then hoofed it in the vague direction of a Swindon player. Ifill just kicks it as hard as possible in the direction hes facing. Even then it tends to fly off at a 45 dgree angle.

I think we'll all agree that a combination of Heywood and Ifill would be the bollocks in this division, and possibly highrer.

I also agree that duke would have looked a much better player on either wing than he did at left back. On the basis that King constantly played him at left back, and that Nicho seems to have remebered how to play football of late, we dont miss him.

The exit boys weren't world beaters, but the fact of the matter is we let a lot of players go and we are much worse now.

That can't all be down to SSP going can it, or did he carry us that much?

PS. Bet Igoe and Smith regret their moves from a football point of view if not financially.

I can't recall more than 5 Duke assists in his entire STFC career.

Yes, we'd be top 6 at the moment if we still had SSP.

There will be some facts somewhere that tell me you are wrong.

At one point 2 seasons back he was the top assister in the league.

FIND THEM THEN!!

I hated Duke, almost as much as i hated Hewlett.

I dont think I could ever hate a player as much as I hated Hewlett. Ifill is getting close though, the fucking retard.

Totally agree, David "2 steps forward and 5 back!" Duke.

I don't think we'd be top 6 with parkin but we probably wouldn't be in the relegation zone, maybe mid table.

I agree with batch that it was more so many players leaving at once than a couple of ones in particular.

Heywood was a solid enough defender. Igoe, Smith, Howard could all be quality on their day but shit the rest of the time but losing them all at once was a blow.

I still can't decide whether i disliked Bobby Howe more...

I heard he was a big fan of Paula Abdoul :wink:

 :mrgreen: