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Released by the Scotch Jam Tarts last season and had this to say in an interview the cheeky fucker.

Most players would give their left testicle for a shot at full time football and I can understand the Physio bit but surely he could do both or wait until his career is over.  




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What a nob jockey.

Earning £450 - £500 a week at 21 is fine, you work your way up!

I hope he gets injured so he can practice his physiotherpary on himself.

Absolute moron!

I'd have come in my pants to earn the best part of £2k a month at 21 FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL.

What a twat. His hearts not in it so I'm glad we've not signed him

Cunt  :fu:

If he doesn't think he's good enough to use Swindon to get a higher wage here or elsewhere in the future then he's probably doing the right thing.

He's playing for Cove Rangers in the Highland League now !!
Says it all.

Totally wrong attitude, maybe he woudl have fitted in with some of our players! ok not this year but 2 years ago!

Perhaps some of you should try reading that again beause to me, what he is saying makes perfect sense.

I fail to see how any of it makes him a cunt or a nob jockey or a moron :shock:

think its probably the decent club comment.

i cannot see anything wrong with what he said.

That's what I have a problem with.

He was clearly expecting it on a plate. You start at the bottom and work your way up, not go off and cry when you don't get the money you want.

I wanted to earn loads of cash in IT when I was 17 so I got a support job in for £9k a year, I didn't complain and worked my way up and now I earn what I aspired to when I was younger. I didn't think "Fuck I.T, I'm gonna do something else..." and then bitch about it.

But you've got longer to work on an IT career. At 21 in league 2 there's a good chance he could drop down the leagues and the £400-£500 a week is the best he'll ever get. Then at 35 he'll have to find something else.

If he wants a long term career instead of football then fair enough.

But you'd still give it a crack for a couple of years before fucking it off...

There’s no reason why he couldn't be studying for his physo exams while playing full time football.  In fact the two are probably quite complimentary together.  

Seems a bit short sited and comes across as just greed.  A couple of lads at Uni who had just left scholarships at pro clubs carried on playing non-league on top of their course and lets face it the life of the student and footballer are hardly paths where spare time is at a premium.

Take 2k a month and take your chances or play non-league scotch football in the hope that a ‘big’ club is going to pick you up and pay your pension.  Madness, pure madness I tell thee…
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With the greatest of respect, I think you've missed the point.

I don't think he's expecting anyting on a plate. That's why he is going to train as a physiotherapist. That doesn't sound particularly easy to me, that sounds like 'working your way up' in fact.

I would imagine he's realistic enough to realise that only a miniscule amount of people get the chance to earn really big money in football and that in all honesty, he isn't good enough to get into that select group.

He has therefore concluded that his best option, long term, is to play part-time and get a proper profession under his belt.

I would also add that he has made the same decision as hundreds of other semi-pro footballers around the country who have decided they are much better off long term by playing part-time (and getting pretty well paid for it) and working full time. This is the problem facing a lot of clubs in the 4th Division in trying to sign non-league players. Signing a player from non-league looks simple in practice, you might think they would play for virtually nothing just for the 'glory' of paying league football. In practice though, it's often difficult for them to entice players away.

Dazzza is right.  

Oh no, I've got no time to study beacuse I've got to work for 2 hours a day in a job that pays me £2k a month. At 21. What a cock.

So how are you supposed to attend an important lecture or exam at the same time that you should be at training or travelling to a game?

You make it sound so simple. I'd love to hear how it's done.

I'm pretty certain that if it was that easy then he would combine the two. I suspect though, that he's given it a little bit more thought than you have and has decided that it has to be one or the other.

'If you cannot make the money there is no point playing full-time'

love of the game?

rush of thousands of people cheering for you?

knob. doesn't deserve to wear the shirt if he doesn't feel passionately about playing football.

If he didn't love the game he wouldn't bother playing part time would he??!!!!!???

Oh forget it. I fucking give up.

ohh shaun taylor.you are bang on fella.

I agree with OST

He's made a sensible and probably very difficult decision.

I'm glad some one else can see it anyway :roll:

Its a bit like me really,I'd rather sit around the house smoking fags for a living but theres no money in it so I have to come to work and do it instead.

The thing is, he is kind of right, whats a player on at swindon? £1,000 - £1,250 a week, thats enough for a comfortable life while you earn it but no way enough to retire on

Id be suprised if its that much for Squad players

plus the irish league is through the summer.that could have played a part in his decision?
the lads just been honest anyway i think and certainly has his head screwed on

the highland league is a scottish league, is it not?

the northern irish league runs normally, the republic is summer.

i stand corrected.for some reason i thought crusaders were a republic team.
but i was aware that the highland league was in scotland.

crusaders are a northern irish team, he's playing for cove rangers in the highland league

i was aware of who cove rangers were and that they were scottish.
the league the crusaders were in was what i got mixed up.

looks like his decision to pursue another career was an even better move than i previousy thought.

indeed!

i doubt he'll get paid enough to buy a deep fried mars bar playing in the highland league

for some reason i seem to remember an ex town player having played for cove rangers.that or one heading that way after playing here?
either that or i have no idea what i'm talking about :?

I don't know would you not give up your jobs for a crack at pro football?

I'd sell my left nut for a crack for the ability to do something in the game but coordination says no

 As I mentioned above plenty of lads find the time to play semi pro and still undertake full time education. Christ if it takes you 6 years to qualify on £400 a week part time rather than 4 fulltime on a grant then most students would bite your sausage off.

Meh, at the end of the day the fact he pissed on our parade doesn’t endear the lad but his whole attitude just smells a bit to much of the Keiron Dyer for my liking whether it be us or Boston if you have any sort of passion you’d grab it.

I'm not sure what you're getting at Dazza? I thought he was going to play part-time so that he could pursue full-time education? It sort of hints that he couldn't do that whilst playing as a full-time professional.

That's how I read it anyway.

If he doesn't think he can make what is a short footballing career work for him, then fair play on going to get educated. I bet there are a lot of young players who have drifted into the non-leagues who wished they'd done the same thing.

He also hasn't ruled out going back to full-time football at some point if he thinks it's worth it. The whole thing seems pretty sensible to me. Although to be honest, I've never really dreamed of being a footballer. Well I have sort of, but it was never a realistic dream. I mean I'm a fucking brilliant keeper but all you fans would complain when I went off drinking.

I don't really give a toss, as he doesn't want to play here, but aren't I right in saying that a fair number of pros have obtained degrees whilst playing professionally?

I seem to remember a certain Steve Coppell obtaining one while at Man Utd.....

If he could do it at a high profile club, surely this guy could have found the time at Swindon.

Loads of peole train/get degrees while working full time, I would have thought, working the hours of a pro footballer, it would have been easier..............

Ho hum.....................