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Town to terminate Ranger's contract
           
           


  SWINDON Town are to hold talks with Nile Ranger’s representatives later this week as they prepare to terminate the striker’s contract at the County Ground.

           

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I think that's a real shame. Wonder whether this is what he's been angling for? Disappointed we are not going to make any money out of it. Still, he has scored a few and helped us get into a healthy position until the transfer window opens.

Good biz by the club...end of shelf life...cut loose...

I hope he can turn himself around...  You never know what you've got til it's gone...

I agree with FLash, he did well for us but you don't follow the rules then you have to go. Thanks for the goal vs Shitty, hope you sort your life out in the end and realise you have been a total twat to yourself.

On the bright side if he goes down at least he wont be associated with the club anymore

In vaguely related news, I see Jed has said on twitter.com that he'd have been willing to look at Ched Evans when he is released.

Makes you wonder how everything would have panned out.

Top top top player on the pitch for us this season. He's been so important to us and is miles better than league 1. Shame he's still not sorted himself out yet. Assuming he is innocent then this cant be easy at the moment for him not that its an excuse. Hope he sorts himself out as the guy has real talent.

Must get a target man in now asap. Thomas isn't that though is he?

Thank fuck for that.

I look forward to my taxes supporting the clown through the rest of his days as that's last chance saloon he's just vacated.

About time. He's taken the piss out of us these last few months.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Needs to be done but what a fucking waste of talent :doh:

I wonder if this is partly due to the mobility of footballers these days?

20- 30 years ago, I suspect loan players were put in digs in the area of the club they were at. Contracted players bought or rented a place in the area where they played.

These days, it is not at all uncommon for me to be overtaken on the M4 by someone en route home to London after a match. Timlin was a regular and I often see Mercs that I recognise from the bit of car park outside the trust office bit of the car park.

Makes it more of a chore to turn up for training in Swindon if you have to drive in 40+ miles.

The right decision but it took too long. I doubt he's had much of a negative effect on the rest of the squad and the players but the wages we've wasted over the past month or two could have been used for a less talented but more committed forward.

Bit of a double blow losing Ajose who I've been more and more impressed with every time I've seen him.

A bit surprised to see the negatives appearing on this thread.....the guy is a complete arsehole  no doubts about it but without question a talented footballer - I think he will be missed more than people on here think..... :pint:

Its not about his football ability though is it.

Anyone would think the cunt is Lionel Messi the way some people on here carry on.

L1 is his level, he's a decent L1 footballer but hardly impossible to replace.

That remains to be seen. Remind us of this at the end of january.

In my mind it is.....in Ranger case it is very obvious that the guy is a complete twat however I suspect the team contain quite a number of other twats but not in the same league - I agree it is nice when one `likes` the perceived character of a player but I take the line that as long as who ever it  is playing / performing well who am I to judge their characters.... :pint:

I think he's better than that. Or would be if he committed himself properly.

I think we'll miss him, but not so much if he's only available 1 in 3 due to being a dick.

He proved his worth against Coventry, when he plays he usually contributes and we will miss him on the pitch. No doubt about it.

 Alleged rapist, regular crasher of his car, turns up for training when he feels like it. Someone regularly in trouble should be trying to show how hard they work and what a model pro they are. Look what that cunt does.
Good riddance!

Well no surprise here, a big shame as he suits the style we play and makes a big difference, but let himself down again by his off field behaviour. Hopefully we can use the saving on wages to bring back Ajose or someone else in the no.9 role.

A fucking chore???

I would expect every man jack on here would grab at that 'chore'.

If the lazy-arsed twat can't be fucked to pop in for a couple of hours training 3 or 4 times a week he can fuck right off

I couldn't disagree more. When you have the entire squad pulling in the same direction and busting their balls bar one "exception", what effect do you think it will have long term to see 'the one' walk straight into the team regardless.

Its a green light for the other good players to do the same. Thankfully they thus far have seemed hungry and professional enough not to do so. And how is Cooper meant to pick a team and tactic for a match, and practice that in the week, if the fucker may or may not turn up.

Its not about liking or disliking him or favouritism. I thought he was a dick when he arrived, but was happy enough he had seemed to knuckle down early on.

Its about turning up to do what he is paid to do, and the potential to disrupt the rest of the squad by not doing so. And that isn't judged only on 90 minutes on a Saturday.

What's Sam Parkin up to these days?

We shall see, won`t we in the coming weeks whether or not he will be missed.....I hope you are right but having watched the team with him and without him - we look more likely to win when he has played.....

Sorry that I didn't use  ;) to signify my feeble attempt at satire/ sarcasm......

It's not as simple as whether he's a good player and will be missed. I don't think anybody is suggesting that.

We will miss him as a player. I've no doubt. What I am saying is even so, I still think its the right decision to bin.

Its hard to quantify how much we'll miss him though. He may never have turned up ever again :)

Wasn't he playing for Exeter? And commentating on our JPT matches?

11 years since SSP's debut. How long ago does that feel?

It's not so much what you said - I just cant get my head round what is so intoxicating for him not to bother turning up on a regular basis.

If he was a complete pisshead I could understand it, but spunking away what must be one of the best ways to make a living for a young man does my head in

Bugger me, was I really 12 when I watched that match? That's fucking awful. You Cunt DMR.

What a debut it was too

Me too.

I really do wonder if todays young footballer really does have it too easy?

No boot cleaning duty, no being an older pro's gofer. All treated like fragile little darlings.

No opportunity to weed out those without the 'get stuck in to it' attitude.

A colleague is a Chelsea saeason ticket holder. He is aware of a young Chelsea footballer- nowhere near reserve team, let alone first team status. Always on loan to lower league teams. £14k a week and he is younger than 20 :doh:

About 11 years as it happens...

Nail. Hammer. Head. Naturally you want to pay the top performers, top dollar. All that ends up doing is inflating the mid range players wages to an unsustainable level, and in turn the yoofs are on stupid money before they've earned it.

The Fitton model of performance related pay is good in principle, but you need it to apply across the industry otherwise players will bugger off to whoever pays the most.

14k a week (even if it was a month!). Bloody hell. The football world is mad.

Can't say id turn down 700k a year. You can see why the most promising youngsters go for that and sacrifice their career instead of staying and playing for the likes of Swindon.

But the majority of those youngsters starting at top clubs end up dropping down the leagues anyway. What they earn is irrelevant as long as they apply themselves.

Super Sammy Parkin is a prime example.

this was his final chance, he had a good gig at NUFC getting paid a fair amount for a reserve player, but went and fucked it up too many times. STFC gave him a 7th chance, and he threw it back in the clubs face.

I remember when Milner was here driving a black tarted up focus, leather seats, tv screens and private plate and what was he, 17/18.

If you want to keep talent you have to pay for it and the best we will do is get these guys on loan or find them on the way back up.

Real shame for the club as he was a good player.

You have young pro's at the club champing at the bit...going out on loan and applying themselfs just for a sniff of a chance in the first team.
I think the club should use Nile Ranger as a tenplate of not how to conduct yourself if you are hoping to make a living from playing for a great club like ours.

Alex Henshall being a prime example....now 19, so physically starting to be a man, yet was quickly binned by Rovers, on loan as he presumably wasn't good enough, and they're rubbish.

Could be heading the way of Matty Collins, who left us for Fulham for a similar fee as Henshall...5 years at Fulham, not doing much, the last 3 years in the League of Wales.....Haverfordwest, Neath, Aberystwyth and now Carmarthen Town...still only 27.

If however, you clean up 4 or 5 years of silly Prem money, then you should be able to set yourself up for a comfortable life, even if not making it.

I agree with both camps - I think he could be a very good player /source of profit for us, but he is disruptive to the morale of the team at the moment.
But I think there is an answer which is a compromise :)

Give him time off and tell him to stay away until the trial is over !
It's only natural that this hanging over him and distracting him. Try to imagine if you were a few weeks away from a rape trial - I think you'd agree it would be very difficult to concentrate on anything else !

So, wait until after the trial. If he's found guilty then obviously he is no longer an STFC player. But if he's found innocent it just MAY be that he can relax and begin rebuilding his life, and start to be the great asset to Town that he undoubtably COULD be !

If he then continues to f*%k up then get rid of him then.

Nothing to lose !

You seem to be forgetting that he has plenty of previous for this - without a trial hanging over him.

It's how he is. He will not change.

Its not just this trial, he's been arrested on 7 separate occasions. Now that cannot be a coincidence. He's a bad egg.

he gave imogen thomas one so he didnt do too bad

The henshall at rovers situation wasn't down to ability. Rovers were crying out for a winger and impressed and scored on his debut and was then frozen out. Fans couldn't make it out and assumed he fell out with ward.

exactly. He was the same at Newcastle to the extent they first told him he had to behave and turn up for training on time for six weeks before he played, then was shown the door.

On the pitch he's amazing, that's all I'm bothered about. Personally I think he's better than Austin and Cox, he doesn't get as many goals but he is the complete forward.

Dear me. Someody's been on the hooch early today.

Haven't had a drop yet. He's fast, strong, tall, good finisher, good heading, good at bringing others into play, can hold the ball up, etc etc.

Give me either Cox or Austin every time - forgetting about Nile's off pitch antics

Parkin,  Cox and Austin were all far better at finishing than Ranger. He is far too reluctant to shoot at times..

:funny:
Nile isn't fit to lace Cox, Parkin or Austins boots.

He was a better than average player but not even in the same league.

Fuck me I had a bottle of that a few weeks ago for old times sake. It's so sugary and tastes like that lemon juice you put on pancakes.

Going back a bit, but do you remember Colt 45?

Who hasn't...


Only the TEF can digress from an AWOL player to alco-pops of yesteryear...

Hardly an alco-pop - an American malty lager at 8%

But I get your point

I still go all misty eyed about the wonder of the blastaway!

I wonder if Cooper asked for an old fashioned no.9, and Power signed someone who goes out a lot and everyone thinks is a selfish arsehole?

If my memory serves me right that was the first of the foreign beers sold in pubs - cans in The Bell, followed by Holsten and then Fosters. Colt 45 was absolute shite.

To mention Nile Ranger in the same breath as Parkin, Cox or Austin is an insult to 3 players who all had good "spells" with us.
Only Parkin though holds legendary status for 3 seasons of magic.
If only we had him now in his prime as he would be scoring for fun.

I am lucky and proud to have his signed shirt and a signed bottle of champaign given to my lad "Sam" when he was born.
Had a beer with him one night and what a terrific bloke he was. Sad that injuries plagued his career at Ipswich particularly that he almost went injury free at Swindon.

Ranger is better than all 3 but you're all blinded by hatred.

Like fuck!

I genuinely don't see how he's anywhere near those three. And if I had the choice of any of them, or even an on form Mooney I'd pick them all over Ranger footballing wise.

Ranger has something. He's a good player when he can be arsed. We don't have anyone as strong or that can play his position up front. But I just don't get the jizzfest over him. Think its going to be very difficult to replace him in the January window though.

You are an absolute clown

 :clap: Best post of 2014 so far.

Ranger isn't even on par with the likes of Billy Paynter and Barry Corr...

Ranger is the best target man we've had since I've been watching town. But to compare him with the likes of cox and Austin is like comparing apples with oranges. Completely different types of players

Absolutely right.

Stop it.

Nope.
Rangers 6 goals will be fondly remembered...
Even more than him being a cunt, not.

Cock off Ranger's as good as Austin or Parkin. No fecking way.

We're talking football here, not cock size...

This is the point for me though having said that, of course, Parkin, Austin and Cox were more special as strikers.

For me, STFCs play as a whole has been significantly more convincing with Ranger starting.

Would be interested to know whether or not this observation, already made by many, is borne out by results

Still reckon Parkin's was bigger.

According to swindon-town-fc.co.uk our success rate with Ranger in the team is 61.1%, P18 W10 D2 L6. I don't know what our success rate is without him in the side, I'll leave that to someone who can do simple arithmetic properly.

Good site to check

Taking your extracted figures, Sonic, STFC has a record without Ranger of Won 4 Drawn 2 Lost 4 as compared to Won 10, Drawn 2 Lost 6 when he has played.

Whether it's new players or new systems that are needed to replace Ranger, the stats as well as our own eyes bear out his worth.

Ducking out of this argument but this does prove that whilst he may be a twat of the highest order - he will be missed  :pint:

Nobody ever denied the fact we'll miss his ability

He turned up at the ground today!

The irony eh! Probably hoping for a game, don't think we were over blessed with striking options so he might have got one too.

Good. They can officially tell him to fuck off then.

I may be in the minority here but I hope Thursdays talks finally hammer home some sense into Ranger. Hoping they give him one final chance instead of tearing up his contract. New year new start and all that. We are much weaker without Ranger that's for sure.

How many more chances does the cunt need? I thought we had a contract so tight that if he farted we could sack him. I agree we're a much better team with him in it but the cunt has to turn up for training. From a managers point of view how do you train the team for the game on Saturday regardless of whether the idle cunt makes an appearance. What do they do in training. Dany can you stand in for Ranger during training but if he turns up on Saturday, you're on the bench.
Unfortunately he's had his chance. We forgave him once when he missed a batch of training. Now he's done it again.
The key here is to get Ranger to recognise his behaviour. Fat fucking chance of that. He's a train crash and if he ain't jailed in January, its delaying the inevitable.

Agree with every last word of the above :nod:

Hear Nile himself is partial to holding a nice Colt 45.

His display at Macclesfield was woeful and then we realised that prior to this he was missing training.
As most have said how many more chances as it's being going on for some time now.

Has he gone yet

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what make this you think this time is different then the other 20 times he's had "talks" at whichever club he's been at.

Your not in the minority. I think most Swindon fans would agree with what your saying but the fact of the matter is he'll only ever realise what he had until it's too late and he's on minimum wage in McDonalds or something.

You haven't been watching the Town for long then

Can I have a pint of what you are drinking? :o

He was brilliant at Coventry, everything just stuck to him like glue.

He could have been a good premiership striker at Newcastle but blew it. He got a second chance to be a good League 1/Championship striker at Swindon and has also blown it.

Good footballer, dreadful person. He's not the first or the last but its long overdue to get rid and use his wage in a more worthwhile manner.

Spot on.