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what do we think about the new signing??!!!??

Shall we wait and see if he signs first?

Is this the same jammy dodger from yellowsforum?

I posted that in the January thread, that quote is golden.

Bit much! I didn't use forums back in the Mooney days but did we over react like this? I just washed my hands of the cunt.

No I think you will find most of those over there are soap dodgers :D

different jammy splodger dodger bodger

Personally think there are better strikers out there that we can go for. All the best to him though!

With Ritchie,Caddis,Rooney,Kennedy etc there will be more crosses than a nuns convention.

Constable will score shitloads for us.

How the fuck did this get in News? Only Monkey should be able to post here, clearly a setting has gone awry.

I was pissed off when Mooney went but not at the club. Afterall Mooney's move was slightly different as he was out of contract. He was just a greedy cunt.

From the scum's point of view they will feel that they shouldn't sell any player to us at any price because of the rivalry. I'd probably be a bit pissed off if we sold one of our players to them.

Anyway deal isn't done yet so let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Im more concerned as to how Connell fits into the equation

I worry he doesn't

You do have to wonder about Connell. Murray to potentially return on loan and Paolo suggesting Bodin to stay. That would leave us with 6 strikers if Constable joins.

Connell could not have done any more to bring himself back in to contention during the last few weeks.  His attitude has been spot on...and has been since he joined (it's just he's finally now getting some recognition.)  But I think it's OK to have 3 or even 4 in form strikers vying for the 2 places in the starting line up.  What I do now want to see is some clearing out.

Interesting one, this.  Feels very Beauchamp/1994 (even though he went via West Ham).  Time will tell, I guess.

Another thought is that we seem to be more predatory in the transfer market now than at any other time I can remember.  It's all very un-Swindon.

Good though, isn't it? :)

It is.

His Wiki page has now been updated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Constable

tweet from the man himself...

James Constable @JamesConstable9 3m
Can't believe some of the things that have been wrote about me on here today, get the facts straight before levelling abuse!! #gutted

  There'll be a few leaving the TEF now, as di Canio was one thing, but a scummer something else altogether.

 My money is on Chalkie's Shorts

Funniest thing I've heard all day  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

if it's true that Magera was offered in part exchange, we know just where he stands. We know where the roof stands also.

Connell will get games. PDC likes him and will pick him to start the games when he is the best peg to fill the hole.

Wonder if Bodin may still go back to Torquay on loan though.

I asked Gary Rose if he knew the fee on twitter...
@luckyluke699 @thewashbag Believed to be 175k, rising to 200k based on promotion.

Not as much as I was expecting!


Oxford fans believe he has a sell on clause to Shrewbury also? (paid 65k +25% sell on clause for him) though that's not confirmed obviously.
http://www.yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=oufcplayers&action=display&thread=7108&page=4

And re edited back again before I got there to have a looky!

i thought PDC wanted him to stay for the end of the season?

bear in mind this came ONLY from one quote on one Poxford forum, no other source so they may be putting 2 + 2 together, Easyjet would be a more likely probability.

^^ Or Kerrouche.

Haha this is all very funny. Constable Thursdays are great

I'm actually liking the prospect of having Constable playing up top for us. He seems a bit Billy Paynter/Sam Parkin esc (On the little I have seen of him....he's probably nothing alike...), and I think things will work really well between him and Connell/Benson, especially with the amount of crosses we pump into the box from either wing.

Exciting times, should he sign.

Fair play to the board for stumping up the cash for both him and Roooooooonaaay, it has to be said!

Hopefully we can offload Kerrouche before the month is out, as well as Esajas, then I think we're looking pretty good.

Timlin, Clark, Evans, Lanzano and Comazzi out, with one or two others to follow, and Constable (Potentially), Benson, Foderingham and Rooney in. Not a bad bit of business, that. Tidy

When Poxford signed Mooney they gloated like there was no tomorrow, so it's completely hilarious for me that we've (probably) signed a 'prized' striker from our hated promotion rivals. I'll be making the most of it.

Ah

Gary Rose tweeting it's cash only.

The funniest thing about the whole Constable saga is that, even if he ends up not coming to Swindon, it will have been rammed home loud and clear to the oxford fans that Swindon are a bigger club who can pick off their best cherries whenever they feel like it.

Have oxford ever bought a player from Swindon? Not counting Mooney who's contract ran out anyway….

Beauchamp

plus, a lot of damage done abnd bridges compleltly obliterated between constaable and the pox fans/club...if this falls through, he is finished at pox surely.

He is finished already i reckon.

What if he fails the medical?

Ooops!

I must admit I am genuinely surprised at how few people are utterly disgusted by the fact we've signed a scummer.

 I can't say I'm over the moon, but there are more important things in life.

Indeed...

It is hilarious though

I actually feel a bit sorry for him.
We make an offer, the scummers accept, and he is left to decide which end of the A420 will hate him for ever.
(not exactly a tricky decision, I know....)

Don't think they've ever paid a fee...back in the early 60's we used to give them players when they started in the league, as a neighbourly gesture....Owen Medlock and John Lloyd spring to mind here. Ken Skeen in the later 60's was another we let them have.

What needs to be taken into account is it is probably 10 years since O*ford sold a player for shall we say £200K..all clubs need to sell players at certain times, for cash  flow reasons, as we know more than most, having done about 4 mill worth of trading in the last 2/3 years.

Constable is probably their only saleable asset and the fact it's to us, helps bump up the fee a bit.

Would they not get a fee for Leven?

Maybe the fact that it's pretty much only you that seems so bothered might tell you something ?

Full meltdown in Poxford.

Spoken to 2 Pox fans now and they are gutted.

It would appear (from a Pox fan) that they have money concerns. Kassam is doing no favours and no let up from rent etc.

I wonder if Kassam and Diamond Mike are business Partners :)

Even if this does not work out its bloody good in Oxfordshire tonight.

Kissing the badge of oxford is enough for me not to like this signing. He can rot in the reserves here for all i care

When a player kisses a badge, he's saying 'This is the organisation that pays my mortgage'.  Nothing more.  It's only fans that 'love' a club.

Maybe it's Paolo's plan to loan him out to Ebbsfleet ?

;)

Thats very true Reg, Pox aren't seen as a nurturing club bringing good players through, not like a lot of lower league sides that get good raw talent from non-league, youth and rejects from higher league sides and selling them on for big money, much as we have done recently with the likes of Henshall, Tozer, Morrisson etc etc.

But then.......

Constable is an STFC fan as well.

Well he was a free in the summer, and ended up at O*ford...can't be seen as that good on the circuit.

Have we actually signed him yet?

Slightly irrelevant to your point, but an important detail nonetheless.

I think he's actually a Yiddo.

Don't think we need him, bit of a waste of money, and won't be much use in L1. But if he scores a fair few and secures us promotion, that'll be nice.

Great news.

He looked pretty lively against us - easy to get fired up for that kind of game, I know especially with everything that went on before but Constable at Paolos fitness standards might be a whole new beast...

Murray coming back on loan too.

Constable: I don't care he's yellow stained, if his goals get us up that is ALL that counts.

He is indeed a Spurs fan but has also attended games at Swindon, that is a fact.

Even if he doesnt hit it off with us we have still slowed down a promotion contender much as Blackburn did with us with Duncan Shearer, I fucking love it.

So thats Magera, Benson, Connell, Bodin, Murray and potentially Constable on our books. 6 strikers in total and that's not incuding Kerrouche. How many does Paolo want?

At least 6 it would appear.

If PDC decides to bring anyone else in, surely the wage bill is getting a little out of hand?

He seems to like different strikers for different scenarios - see his comments about playing Bodin and Benson because Rotherham had two slow CB's. So i guess he needs a variety.

I believe he said he wants 5 strikers in an interview somewhere. Would assume that means Magera will be discarded shortly?

Or Bodin back to Torquay.

Bodin more likely i'd imagine.

I'm personally not in the slightest bit disgusted. Players and fans live in parallel universes. We eat/sleep/breath our club (and any other bodily functions you may care to mention).

For players, it's ultimately a job. They cannot possibly have the same feelings for their club as we do (you do get the odd exceptions like Henry with Arsenal, Neville at Man U but they are just that - rare exceptions)  Consequently, Constable has no more or less feeling for Oxford than for any other club. He kissed his Oxford badge - big deal - it meant absolutely nothing. It's what players do. It's pantomime. Nothing more, nothing less.

If he comes in and does a job then that's just fine by me. My first thought about this was actually that I feel sorry for Connell. As has already been mentioned, he could not possibly have done any more in the last few games and his attitude has been spot on. Yet he was still only on the bench for the Barnet and Rotherham games. Where this leave him now, fuck knows.

Signing 'scummers' has never been something that bothered me. I remember Mark Jones back in the 80's who did a decent job for us albeit very briefly before injury ended his career and then in the 90's I, like the vast majority of Town fans welcomed Beauchamp with open arms.

I don't really understand why anyone should have a problem with this other than doubts about his footballing ability (something I have no view on at all).

I just think about how they all laugh chortled and guffawed when Tommy Mooney went Yellow.

Super post OST!

Cunt,stable on a piece of string,told me to kick his fooking head in :D

When there was the possibility of PDC to come in as manager, a fair amount of people were not happy about it. Then with the rocky start, people were crying for him to be sacked. You just have to think about the comments after the Leon Clarke incident that were being sent into BBC Wiltshire..
But since he's been doing a sterling job, the critics have been silenced. Everyone is back on his side, because he seems like the right man for the job. If Constable can come in and play a good game, I can't imagine many people wanting him out. It's not about the person, it's about the footballer.

Were Huddersfield in disguise

I sleep soundly in the knowledge that I backed PDC from day 1 and even through the bad start !!

It's people like Paul D I feel sorry for - his views (although I firmly believe misplaced) have stopped him being able to enjoy and get involved in what has to be the most exciting time at STFC since Hoddle was manager

That is a great shame as Paul is STFC through and through......

I won't be wholly suprised if constable rejects a contract

Hmmmm interesting one this...personally I dont think he's better than what we've got, but basing on 1 appearance against us and scoring twice then PDc must see something so I'm backing Paolo on this...and it's nice to wind up the Scum as well in taking their hero  :D

Neither will I but he didn't have to accept discussions with Swindon.

Me neither but if the club are forcing his hand he may have little choice in the matter. Plus his rep has now been a bit tarnished with the scum fans and the abuse he got on Twitter won't help their cause either.

So he scores two goals for every game he plays at the CG.  I'll be happy with that return.

I've got mixed feelings. It'll be great to piss off the yellow scum down the A420, but I remember how Bumchamp performed for us like he couldn't be arsed.

I hope it falls through. There's no scarf over the head yet so there's always hope but I can't see it not going ahead.
Regardless of anything else we should not be giving those cunts money. When I go there I don't buy a program, drink or anything - not to the club, not to anyone in Scumville. Just pay the money to get in and not a penny more. Get in, watch the game and get the fuck out. Don't talk to any of the wankers either.
I can't believe I appear to be in a small minority here.

Sign of the times Chalkies,nothing wrong with being in a small minority.

It's valid and I'm surprised that hasn't been that there much hesitation to embrace this.

Oddly to most, I felt angrier when Christian Roberts joined but I'm from West Wiltshire where I would say Town vs. City/Rovers exceeds the Oxford rivalry.  

As long as people don't see this as an odd excuse to boycott Town...

Furry muff

But if he scores the winner at the Kassam?......

Part of me agrees with you. I won't go to Franchise and will not give a penny of my hard earned cash to them.

Eastwood and McLeod being lined up to replace him, Oxford may well be getting the better deal

In the other news today...Ronan Murray is back until the end of the season!It just shows the attraction of STFC and what we have going right now...brilliant and long may it continue C.O.Y.R!

You can hardly expect Di Canio to say, "Oooooh, I really want to sign Constable, I think he's exactly the player we need to put us over the top but I'm fucked if I'm going to line Oxford's pockets" can you?

I'd be pretty pissed off if he took that attitude. All I care about is 'will this benefit STFC?'. The fact that we're lining Oxford's is of secondary importance. In fact, I couldn't really care less in the great scheme of things.

Yeah and pigs might fly, no way will the Pox for out for McLeod and no way will Eastwood drop down to this league, not gonna happen.

Absolutely spot on.

Calm yourself down JJ ;)

I think Izale McLeod to Oxford is realistic.

Lee Barnard mentioned as well haha.

I refuse to go there. I hate the Scumfucks because of who they are I hate the Franchisefucks because of what they are.

I'm gonna feel dirty supporting an ex scummer. Not exactly something I've had to do in my adult life but if he does the business then he'll have begrudgingly earned my respect.

The head of the nail has buckled due to being hit so hard

Oh I am very calm mate :) , but I can't see McLeod going there when there is a possibilty (albeit very very slim) of getting to Wembley with Barnet and its a sideways step for him, staying in th same league as he would be in next season.

Oh and the fact that Pox needed the money from the transfer :)

Mcloud is going  no place untill the end of the season,he and his agent have stated that.....when bigger fish than us and Oxford will be sniffing in my view.

This is fucking ace. Those cunts down the a420 will be doing their nuts over this. :smugfu:
Couldn't give a shit if he came from those wankers. Taking the striker just rubs their noses in it. Revell in it folks...

I concluded last week that Connell isn't rated by Di canio. He looks for an excuse to drop him rather than play him. He'll be bench warming i think.

Do you feel like this?

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Do you think he'd be ahead of Magera? I hope so.

I like Connell but I think there was more than an element of panic when Town went in for him.

He's worked out okay but PDC probably wanted more.

I think Di canio has given Magera a better crack than Connell and looks to play him when he can. Connell has looked good to me and has not been given a fair run in the side. Scores 3 games on the trot then is an unused sub next time. Poor cunt

No I think it's a good bit of business. Obviously not wanted at Oxford and they're likely to be getting more money from Swindon than anyone else because of who they are. Wouldn't expect too many fans to be happy about it but I'll reserve judgement until the deadline passes and we've finished wheeling and dealing.

That is footy though,Defoe this season has scored loads,keeps getting dropped and often as an unused sub.
Different level of course but this is an England international,the manager has his views on things and  thats it.

Constable has turned us down! Official STFC twitter.

Official_STFC Swindon Town FC
James Constable will not be joining #stfc after the striker turned down the chance to speak to the club about a move to The County Ground

James Constable will not be joining #stfc after the striker turned down the chance to speak to the club about a move to The County Ground

Bumchum was an oxford fan though. You're forgetting that Constable is a Swindon fan..........he'll play his guts out, especially at the triangle in March. I bet he can't wait.

One thing's for sure - it is good to be Town fan tonight. Just imagine what oxford fans are feeling right now. :suicide: It don't get much better than that.......... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

You see I look at that in a different way. I have no time whatsoever for Milton Keynes. However, to me, the most effective way of hurting them is by beating them on the pitch. The best (and only way) for us as fans to positively affect the outcome on the pitch is by turning up in numbers and supporting our team.

I suppose it comes back to the fact that by far the most important thing to me is the success of STFC. Fuck the rest.

Still, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

That's quite funny.  Oh well.  It's been fun for a few hours.

Oh well, that should all be over then. It was fun while it lasted.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


You're kidding right?

Fuck 'im.

Interesting that Oxford are prepared to let him go though.

Garry Rose just twatted it as well.

Dear oh dear.

I think he wants to be hated by both sides! I guess he'll be off somewhere.

Hahahahahahaha

Well I never wanted the Oxford scum any way.....

Brilliant, I wonder how many of those dick heads are gonna go back and apologise tail between legs.

Same time next thursday chaps?

Haha bottler

Barnet probably.  They'll need a replacement for when Oxford sign McLeod.   ;)

Sorry, but no Swindon fan will dare wear that kit let alone kiss it.

Doesn't really matter though...he's not coming anyway.

That's fucking hilarious.  Tonight has been great fun.

Haha you have to laugh

totally agree. Oxford are not important to me but I loathe Rovers. It doesn't bother me where we get players from if they strengthen our team. Think Constable will continue to bag loads of goals this season and would rather he was doing that for us.

I bet those scum fans who were giving him abuse feel like right twats.

He is bound to fucking score against us again now.

Clearly not it would seem?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: And so concludes another Constable Thursday tune in next week when Di Canio kidnaps Constable forcing him into talks and our A420 yellow chumps down the road go into meltdown again

He will definately leave the club before this window shuts. Just obviously doesn't want to join his boyhood heroes  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Am i the only one who really doesnt care? He's not that good, and we need to be looking for players of league one standard and he has never proved that he is.

He knows he can't cut it in L1. Saved us both the embarrassment. A noble move Mr Constable. Fair play to you.

I think his goals would have been useful. But I'm not convinced he's much better than Connell, just more physical.

Won't lose sleep over it.

Definitely.

Do you love him or hate him?

Fair play to Constable (in a way). Probably did a sensible thing.

Some of their fans will be embarrassed.

Fair play to him for staying put. Do think he has made a bad choice though if we wants to progress. We move on.

love it

Let's go after Leven now then - that will really wind up our yellow friends.

I love what's he done at Oxford and now for clearly stating he won't join Swindon. Is he replaceable? Yes

Thank fuck for that.

Was fun winding them up while it lasted, but let's now go and buy someone half fucking decent.

Get in, back of the net. Thank fuck for that. For me, the best STFC news in fucking ages. Got the wine out - here we go. I am so fucking happy. So very, very happy. I was hoping I'd not have to have a "meltdown" decision and now i haven't. Happy days. Now for that wine.
Now lets sure we keep STFC a scum free zone.
 

Hope that we can now move on and sign a decent striker,i'd rather have Elding or Matt or any number of strikers than Constable.Nothing against him coming from Oxford,just that i don't think he's that good.Surely if we are prepared to pay £200,000+wages we could consider getting Paynter back

Strange turn of events.  

The earlier statement read:
"Oxford United Football Club can confirm they have received a much improved offer from Swindon Town Football Club for James Constable and after discussions with the player have given permission for him to talk to the club,"

yet he then decides he doesn't want to talk to us.
Sounds like decision making isn't a strong point for him.

IF we need another striker then I'm sure there must better around at the price we're reported to have been offering.

Nice one Murray!

 :toocool:

More likely other players under the radar.

Constable has at least shown some loyalty to the Pox.
He will still be on his way I would have thought.

Interesting conversation with the Board and player though. Will be funny for him going back to work tomorrow. :)

Who will we bid for next ?

Oxford basically told him, we've had a damm good offer, go and talk to Swindon and sort it.

He obviously bottled it.

So what do you really think about Constable not signing :hmmm: 8)

The good news is that oxford wont be receiving any money from Swindon. And I doubt that anyone would offer the same as us because, let's face it, it must have taken a bid way over what they wanted for him to persuade them to accept the offer from their superiors. And they obviously needed the money.

So, well done Constable........ :clap:

Delighted that he's turned us down, never rated him.

I'm pretty sure they met at the CG. Either one or both sides must have concluded that is wasn't going to work out.

I am not due to start my new job till the end of the month and have beeen getting a little bored, but boy oh boy, today has been comically good!

In the last 20 minutes on the Scum board Constable has gone from being shit to being the white Pele!

Glad he didnt sign as he is no better than what we already have and I dont think would cut it at league 1 level, and at around £200k I thought that was way to much for him!

But I would like to place on record my thanks to Mr Wray, Mr Watkins and Mr Di Canio for a day of comic gold!

I salute you all!

Fuck it

I don't remember being this entertained over transfers before

Let's try again tomorrow. Whether or not he signs is irrelevant.

Oxford must be trying to get another club to put in a bid.

Why would you announce that the club have accepted a bid and allowed said player to talk if the guy had no interest?

Constable, never wanted him, shit cunt waste of skin. Glad we're not getting the useless twat now, etc., etc. :)


Elding? Are you taking the piss? The bloke couldn't score smack in Glasgow.

And Paynter... No thanks. He had his purple patch and recapturing that would be a very big ask. I'd rather have an unknown that might come good.

Where were you last week then, when Constable Thursday 1 happened?

We could do worse than Constable....oh...yeah....I forgot already....

 He'll be off to Crawley then....

Seconded

Bigger club :)

....and Tubbs to Swindon maybe :sherlock:

 :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:     :bye: :bye: :bye: :bye: :bye:  :beers:

Who was that bloke who played non-league that was averaging a goal a game, for several seasons, that someone (Shady?) used to say we should sign all the time? I think he played down south, near Weymouth or maybe the Isle of Wight or somewhere?!

I don't know, I'm making it up as I type and can't be bothered to delete it now!

He can no doubt score goals at this level but I question if he could cut it in League 1, even the Pox fans themselves don't think he is that good. £200k saved and I'm sure we have lined up option 2 already

Ross Allen at Guernsey?

Also delighted that Poxford gave permission for him to go and so pissing off their own supporters, and then we won't sign him anyway - it's the best of both worlds.

So Paolo got him in for talks & said
"never wanted you to join, just wanted to piss off all the scummers, so fuck off back to Scumville"

Mission accomplished.

:D

Enjoyed all that.

Why the hell Oxford went public with I'll never know. The bloke was getting some disgusting and vile threats on Twitter this afternoon. Oxford fed him to the wolves. They should've kept quiet until the deal was completed or not said anything if he rejected us like he did.

Complete PR disaster for Oxford.  They're now stuck with a want-away player, or will have to accept other bids knowing that their bargaining position is weakened.  What a strange day.

Not quite. Which part of "Constable declines the chance to even speak to Swindon" don't you understand?

And now both sides are claiming victory!

In all honesty if I was James Constable I would be looking at fucking off from Oxford United ASAP. Some of the abuse he received today on Twitter off his own fans is nothing short of disgraceful.

Nope, that's not him. It'll come to me eventually. He was/is 27 or 28 and is seriously prolific.

Serious question. Its great when a player shows loyalty. But what do you make of the fact the board/manager were willing to sell?


I'm sure he's big enough to realise when fans think you are jumping ship to you biggest rival you will get abuse. Oxford saying "following talks with the player...talk to Swindon" did not help the situation either.

As above, I'd be more worried about why he isn't wanted any more.

Do want-away players turn down moves? He'd have gone to Bournemouth if he wanted out.

The threats from his own fans made him walk away from the deal.

There's nothing more to it.

Agreed. And the club seems keen to offload him.

I wonder iif they were trying to play mind games, but they didn't really think it through.

funny day we have managed to pee off the yellow bellies and we still did not end up with a player that most of us did not want in the first place well done PDC. I guess Cuntstable sees himself as a League Two player for the next few seasons and has found his level

I find it so funny that pox fans now think he is some god when they are missing the bigger picture, their board were willing to sell the top scorer and fan idol to their hated rival for just a poxy 175k :D

I read some of the abuse & threats he got on his Twitter from your fans it was pretty bad to be honest

Looking forward to Constable Thursday number 3 now. :D

I have a feeling we may switch our attention to Leven next week.  Or the tea lady.  Or anyone really.

The board aren't in a position to turn down big offers. It was supposedly £200k-£300k, which would have been decent value from our point of view. I've got complete trust in our chairman, he's turned this club around and knows his football and business.

Coupled with the fact that the manager is well aware of Constable's shortcomings, its still a possibility that he will be sold and replaced before the window closes - it now being quite obvious what we're willing to let him go for.

I don't think he wants away but your board seem pretty keen to sell. Seems strange really. Either you're desperate for money or your manager doesn't want Constable anymore. I'm taking a punt on the former.

Can't blame him in the circumstances. I think there's a lot of relief in Swindon as well as Oxford.

Constable's not in a great position that's for sure. Or 'not in a good moment' as Paolo would say.

Next didnt want him here anyway would rather spend the money else were.

Did it surprise you? Football fans are simple creatures, and they all act in the same way.

Correct,not many would have wished Mooney the best of luck on Twitter if it was around then of course when he trotted off to the Yellow Peril.

Not really everyone has knee jerk reactions in life but some of the tweets were pretty OTT.

He had a tweet from an Oxford 'fan' wishing him he'd die of cancer. How he could think of pulling on a yellow shirt again is beyond me

I agree.

Sounds stupid but I sometimes get the feeling that people forget they are messaging the actual person they are abusing on Twitter. Constable could easily involve the police (petty or not) if he wanted too.

I still think that Oxford United screwed the pooch a fair bit by making that statement.

Much as you'd love it to be true, there's obviously more to it than your rather simplistic view. The Oxford board said earlier that they had spoken to the player and AGREED to let him talk to Swindon. It's pretty evident that he was keen to talk to (his favourite team) Swindon at that time.

I agree with the earlier post about him bottling it because of abuse he's received from a few oxford fans (or, more appropriately, morons) on Twitter.

I'd guess he'll be crying himself to sleep tonight wondering what on earth he's just done.

Yeah i saw that & it sickened me

It's a bit of both, though without the desperation part with regard to the finances. See my reply to Batch on the previous page.

Many fans would have him down as an automatic starter, but our manager hasn't been afraid to drop him.

That's strike 3 by my reckoning (2 rejected bids and 1 accepted w/player not wanting to talk)...next target please!

Maybe Im just to reasonable, but when players I like have left I just unfollowed them on twitter and forgot about them?  Is that not the normal reaction?

Not really, I guess it's easy to do that via Social Media.

In the past people would have posted that kind of shite on forums, which the player could easily ignore.

I guess that's what it's like being in the public eye in this day and age.

I would imagine that most of the mongs that tweeted him with that kind of shite, wouldn't have the balls to say anything to his face.

once an Oxford cunt, always an Oxford cunt.

thank fuck he isnt coming here. Still in the obvious minority but glad I'm no longer the only one.

Found him, Stewart Yetton of Truro. 205 in 198.

Seconded.. Cyber-bullies are the lowest of the low

Are oxford fans happy to keep a player with such a blatant lack of ambition?

To be honest i feel for him,he has made it clear he dosn't want the move,been respectfull to us and not slagged the club(even after Paolo's antics earlier in the season)he was probably offered double your money at Swindon but has showed some bollocks in refusing.
I hope he gets a move to Bournemouth or something.

JamesConstable9 James Constable
This has been one of the toughest days I have had in my career, never wanted to leave the football club, it means everything to me! #OUFC ⚽

I hope we can now get on and bring in a much needed creative midfielder to cover Ferry, Leven anyone?

:D they certainly did. He must be wondering what the hell just happened. Now everyone hates him. Oh, I forgot, the oxymorons are more fickle than that aren't they........they'll be loving him again on Saturday.

James Constable @JamesConstable9 Can't believe some of the things that have been wrote about me on here today, get the facts straight before levelling abuse!! #gutted

I'm sure they'll all be cheering you on on Saturday James. After all, Oxford fans are two faced yellow bellies.

Let me give you a run-down of how it happened.

Board: "We've accepted a bid from Swindon for you. We agree that you can talk to them if you like."
Constable: "No thanks."

"Never wanted to leave".

That's complete horse shit and he knows it.

So why not explain that in the initial statement?

Oxford want to offload him maybe? Dirty tricksters..

Fuck knows. I've no idea how football transfers actually work. Just trying to wind up that massive cock.

No, let me remind you of what really happened - AFTER discussions with the player, oxford agreed to let him talk to Swindon.

The "no thanks" came later. Obviously a change of heart. After the abuse that your wonderful fans gave him.

How about
Board:"James we have got a severe cash flow problem, a big club has come in for you and we need the money. Can you go and talk to them"
James:"No i dont want to go to Swindon they are going up and i will never cut it at League 1 level"

Lets face it, Oxford fans are simpler than most.

Ive watched all this with amusement. But it does go against our policy of signing players good enough for the league above.

Swindon fans are not like Pox fans (no threats from STFC fans to burn down his house etc). He still feels comfortable enough to live in Bassett and be proud of it. Good.

Its all very strange. Paolo seems to have a bit of a thing for him, just because of the goals at the County Ground. But its getting a bit rediculous now, we can sign better players.

So why didn't the Pox OS say :

We have accepted a bid from Swindon and given James permission to speak to them.

I think it was more like

Board: "We've accepted a bid from Swindon for you. We think it is in yours and out best interest to go."
Constable: "No thanks. I've got a contract and I'll just let it run down if you force me to go"

Which is subtly different in that the board/manager actively want shot.

Fair enough.

As you were.

Don't think it happened like that. If that happened your board wouldn't have put out a statement like they did. I think Constable was told that a bid had been accepted and then planned to talk to us, meaning your board had to put it out that the transfer was on. If he didn't want to talk to us, you guys would've kept stum.

A big club with 4 stands!

Board: "We've accepted a bid from Swindon for you. We agree that you can talk to them if you like."
Constable: "Okay, I'll talk to them"
Oxford fans on Twitter: "Go there and we'll burn your house down and kill your family"
Constable: "Shit, I better not go there but I'm definitely off now".

Oh and if OF's figure of £200k-£300k is accurate I'm glad we didn't purchase. I thought the reported £175k was a bit OTT to be honest.

Alternative view,

Couldn't agree terms or didn't like the fact that he wouldn't be guaranteed a first team place
He could hardly say "I wanted to go to Swindon", could he?

If he didn't want to talk to STFC he could of mentioned that after the first bid... Not the third.
The fact is James constable bottled it after the disgusting abuse & threats he received. If he wanted to be an Oxford hero he would have said he had no intention of talking to STFC in the first instance... But he didn't.

Our club have stated that Constable rejected the chance to discuss. I imagine that means we didn't have any one-to-one interaction.

He didn't want to join us. That's life.

I think Oxford have gone about it all wrong and I think they're looking to get rid.

Either way Constable Thursdays are a lovely alternative to Statement Fridays.

As far as I can see, Oxford get to indicate he's for sale, how much they want etc and the added bonus of us looking like chumps when he says no.

I remain to be convinced that a few keyboard warriors would put him off if he was keen hours before as has been suggested.

Not happy with the whole saga - I assume we are not throwing around six figure sums just with the intention of taunting the A420 toads and that we actually wanted the player and I can't cold war double think otherwise. We might have doubts about him at L1 level but we have to get there first and if PDC thinks he might get us there then I am prepared to trust his (much improved) judgement.

It's great seeing them go into meltdown....

Just got back from work and have very much enjoyed reading the scums forum and general blather regarding Constable! Pure Comedy

I've been completley unsure about this all day, and have kept out of speculation. But now it's done probably a bullet dodged for all parties, probably literally in Mr Constables case...

Have you seen the oxford fans?

I can understand why he was put off.

Some sense. Thank you.

I still think he will be gone OF.

Just not to us.

He would of joined if he didn't get the abuse simple of that.He was going to talk to us and believe me the next club who bids for him will get him he is fuming with oxford and rightly so.

Possibly but I'd still argue that they could have done all of that within one statement that didn't make their fans question the actions of their owners and give their employee abuse of their own fanbase.

If the fee could of been around £300k then quite happy this didn't happen. Was a chat earlier about if we signed him that would 6 or 7 strikers on the books.

Anyway Constable Thursday.2 has been fun. Fair play to him for showing loyalty, just didn't show any ambition.

Yep:

Cuntstubble has been treated badly by the scum from boardroom to their neanderthal followers. Pretty obvious he didn't want to come here. Don't believe for a second that threats on the internet swayed him. Club accepted a bid and he didn't want to move. He might regret that now. Can aways change your mind again James and leave the dark side

Guy seems a hard working professional being put into a unbelievable awkward situation.
Oxford could have dealt with this far far better.
I'd be worried about my board if i was an oxford fan

Yeah I had a look, some thoroughly vile stuff, it's true. But players get god knows what shouted at them during games and so on - and that's person to person. I think they understand abuse often comes with the territory don't they?

Now if he's had phone calls or something else then that would be different.... but we may never know that.

And if they want to get shot of him, and they do, then how bothered are they he's stuck in a tough situation for a few hours?

How depressing to find myself agreeing with Oxford_fan.

I just don't like being rejected by one of their players. It's that visceral.

I think if we were top and 9 points clear he would be here like a shot.

there is a bit more to it than that though, BBC football says he hasn't been at training for the last two days. Will never be the same for him again whether that be with some fans or the board so can't see him staying now regardless of where he ends up.

trying to find this abuse that constable got from the scummers on twitter

I dare say that there have been a fair few messages deleted in the last couple of hours.

It's well back on his timeline, mainly this morning.

Great entertainment!
He never wanted to come to us, it's easy for us to be short sighted but at the first mention of switching to us he re-tweeted his interview that he wouldn't come here. He'll deffo leave though and who wouldn't? There can't be that many cases of club captains that have been top scorers for their clubs for three years on the trot being so publicly ostracised by their club?
It's sensible to move on to another club instead of us and sensible for us to move on to another probably better player. My only fear is that we've now waved some cash about so how many zero's get added to any of our other potential targets?

This will certainly have fucked the Scummers over more than us. We can move on to the next target and the Scummers have one hell of a fucking mess to sort out.

He could be a winston bogarde.

If i was him id just sit and take the money whilst sticking two fingers up..

Probably not true.

Melksham, he's not our captain.

Chalkie, he's in the squad for Saturday. The situation is the same as it was when Bournemouth came asking.

I agree.

I'm not interested in winding there lot up but I genuinely believe that they've really let one of their guys down today.

Oxford fans were the first to criticise PDC when he originally declared his interest but Oxford have gone official and made everything a little awkward for themselves (in my opinion).

I'll be interested to see what happens next with Constable.

No but the Board wanted to sell the fans favourite. Put a price on his head as they needed funds and now they have to respond to the fans questions.
The "intention" is the key here. Willing to sell your best player to your nearest and dearest.

Strange few days at the Pox for sure. Some real bull from your Chairman for sure.

Well I think this rather sorry (albeit slightly funny) episode proves once and for all that James is not a Swindon fan :no:

Never mind.

The board don't "want to sell", but are "willing to sell" for £200k/£300k.

We don't "need funds".

He's not our best player. Top 5 probably.

Melksham, he's not our captain.

Sorry, he was though right? I'm guessing that was Wilder's decision to change captains? It just seems like for whatever reason the manager and player don't see eye to eye. In one respect it's good that the manager's being backed by his board, flipside is that Constable's a bit of a cult hero and if he gets pushed out........the replacement better work. Those kind of decisions change seasons.
 

For me OF this works if we're not your biggest rivals or in L1 (or above).

The combination of accepting a bid from us and being fellow promotion chasers is baffling. Especially if you don't need the funds or want to sell.

I've no intention if a slagging match, I'm just not as convinced by your clubs actions as you are.

Yes he is Paolo said it. If Paolo said it must be true. :) Keep up R Mate :)

Fans favourite and you need funds......

Seeing if he's in the squad or not this weekend would give some indication of what the future holds. Surely for you boys OF, with another striker loaned out today and potentially losing Constable, do you think the club was lining the funds up for a bid that now wont happen?

Who are your top 5? We will buy them all and stick them on the bench for Saturday :)

Why stick them on the bench when they could be playing for the reserves?

We don't have a reserves :)

That was the...   :wink:

This is the thought that I had.  Earlier in the day he agreed to speak to us thinking he could significantly increase his wages but when he heard what we were wanting to offer he did a u-turn as we probably weren't going to break the bank to make him one of our top earners.

Looking forward to Constable Thursday III next week although after that latest tweet hope Paolo and the board see sense and move on to a new target!

He is a big fish in small pond at the pox whereas he would be a small fish in a big pond here, no way he would have been guaranteed a starting place in our squad

Rubbish, as I said he's not an automatic here either. And he actually went to Bournemouth and agreed a contract on a higher wage before rejecting the move, so it's not about that either. Tell yourselves whatever you want but I'll keep knocking the bollocks back at you.

He was, yep. Jake Wright is now, a centre-back. Constable was made captain to calm him down a bit, he used to get loads of yellow cards for descent but the armband made him a bit more responsible and gave him just cause to have constant dialogue with the referee!

I get the feeling that Wilder and Constable aren't exactly best mates, and you're right about any replacement.


I think the chairman and manager would have disregarded the rival thing and been objective about it. We don't need the money in the way that the Duke was suggesting, but we'll readily take hundreds of thousands of pounds for players. Same for the wanting to sell thing; not in the way the Duke claimed but we're also not desperate to keep him, evidently. If that all makes sense.


He'll be in the squad. Bench or 11. Yep Smalley has gone to Bradford on loan, we'd have definitely have been lining something up had both gone through - an imminent quality replacement would have been needed to placate our fans of course.


1. Leven, 2. Clarke (GK), 3. Duberry, 4. Constable, 5. Davis (LB/LM)

I don't care whether Cuntstable comes here or not, but the whole saga is worth it because the reaction from Poxford Fan, and on Poxford forums is comedy gold...

Point taken but it hasn't convinced me if I'm honest. I'd feel the same way if this was the other way around.

I think I've O.D'd on this saga. I'm done.

Next....

Cant see why we want to sign him.

Fair enough he may do a job in league 2, but cant see him doing the business for us in league 1.

We need a striker with a bit of pace, as we dont seem to have that at the moment imo

So then, personal point of view from you OF. Are you glad you've kept him, or would you have preferred to see a new striker to freshen things up?

Oh god, is there another yellow on here making a fool of himself again?

Oxford Fan could you explain why your club said this morning that after speaking to the player they agreed to let him talk to us and accepted our bid? Believe me or not but i guarantee you he was going to join but bottled it.

6 weeks on Saturday until the big day...ticket announcement soon surely?

Scenario....STFC 1-0 up, Constable has a penalty in the 90th min and misses.... :smugfu:

 :fishing:

I'm more than happy with our known quantity for the time being. Getting rid of our main striker mid-season would be a big gamble. Close season is the time to overhaul, if needs be.

How could he have been about to join when he hadn't even spoken to your club? If you think he "bottled it", what do you think he reasons were for doing so? And don't say fucking twitter.

The club did accept the bid, did speak to our player (to tell him about the bid), and did grant him permission to talk to you. The player declined that option.

Why would he contemplate joining Swindon (L2) when he rejected Bournemouth (L1) where he DID agree a contract?

I seem to have missed a fair bit of drama today.

fair enough OF and I guess that's the difference between the two clubs. For you he's a proven goalscorer and well liked. Why try and change that mid season?
For us he's ex Oxford, seems to run hot and cold and if he didn't start scoring quickly, I don't think he would've been given time and encouragement from our fans.
I personally would rather spend the money on someone completely outside of all of this. I wonder what Luke Rooney's made of his first few days?

So the Scummers need the money so much they're prepared to pimp their top scorer / cult hero to their main rivals. The Scummer says yes I'd like to go to a team that is going places and I'd like to earn a lot more. The fans he is a cult hero to hope he gets cancer or crashes his car on the way to us ( nice touch that one given the shit Scummers have gone through in this regard ) and he decides not to move to us.
How the fuck is that going to be busniess as usual then OF. How the fuck can he go into the side on saturday and give his best given the knuckledraggers he's got to play in front of. He's turned down 2 moves to better clubs - fuck me, he's a tough date to get isn't he. OUFC have monumentally fucked up and no spin doctor is going to make this look good.

Why would he contemplate joining Swindon (L2) when he rejected Bournemouth (L1) where he DID agree a contract?
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Could be any number of reasons.  Not being impressed by the Bournemouth setup, they may have wanted him to move closer to the area, he feels settled at Poxford, I could go on and on...

The reality is, in any profession, there are likely to be opportunities to move on to competitors and you decide not to because it "doesn't feel right". Doesn't hurt to at least explore the opportunity and negotiate on what you would be after IF you decide to move.  I recently turned down a 50% pay increase offer at a competitor because I didn't get a good vibe about the company.

OF are you naive enough to think he hasn't been spoken to off the record. I have been told by someone who i trust has no reason to lie that he genuinly bottled it when it came down to it.I am more inclined to believe them than a oxford fan getting defensive. I aint going to argue but please explain why your lot would go public after they spoke to him and he said he had no intention of leaving? it doesn't make sense because it didn't happen like that

He is simply a pub league player with balls the size of marbles. This saga has discredited the OUFC board and they have opened up that they are strapped for cash with no ambition to progress.

I understand he met with PDC and then went back.

That would be somewhat more believable if the oxford board hadn't then come out and told the press that he'd allowed Constable to talk to Swindon, having discussed the matter with him. The obvious conclusion is that he told them that he was interested in talking to Swindon.

Some subsequent event, therefore, made him change his mind.

Fucking twitter springs to my mind.......

Thinking about it now i was a bit harsh on the oxford board, It's in the boards interest to show the fans that as a business they are not turning down bids when the money is needed, Whether Constable wanted to talk to us or not is completely irrelevant.

Then why didn't they say we accepted a bid but james doesn't want to talk to them? Because it didn't happen

Of course it's not irrelevant. If he had told the board that he wasn't interested they would not have made the announcement in the way that they did. They could simply have said, and surely would have said if they wanted to make a point to the fans, that a bid had been made that was acceptable to the club but that the player had told them he didn't want to move. If they'd done that they would have come out smelling of roses, as would Constable. As it is they have all been made to look like buffoons.

On the other hand it could have been just one big joke on Swindon........... :-[

Apparently he refused to be quarantined for the mandatory period before being introduced to the rest of the team. Our club Drs. couldn't take the risk once they knew where he was coming from.

I expect at some point today he's agent made a few enquirers and told him to hang fire as there will be a better offer on the way from club x soon.

Im sure he saw the treatment Beauchump got first hand. His dad was a season ticket holder then.

End of the day, blood runs thicker than water, so I hope we still dont boo him at the Kassam. We dont need to anyway.

This still isnt over, he will be leaving the Pox.

I tweeted constable 2 days ago stating "Paolo asked me to ask you which way you want the pitch stripes for Saturday " - he blocked me straight away... Those are not the actions of a person even thinking of a move to us.

If Oxford were loaded and had a sense of humour and the player agreed to be part of the  wind up Then maybe they accepted the offer always knowing constable would turn us down.  The trouble with that plot is that they didn't predict the abuse constable would get.  Additionally, why not just state we accept the bid but beano doesnt want to leave us.

The truth is Oxford hung beano out to dry. They are on the verge of financial meltdown and needed the cash hence why no player exchange was involved.  Beano knows the price of crosssing the divide, is happy where he is (whatever we think of it) and stuck to his guns and for that I salute him

In that case we wouldn't need him would we ?

He didn't come here because he realised that unlike at Oxford, he couldn't just walk into our team and instantly command a starting spot.

If we go up this season then I honestly don't think he's what we would need for League One.

I think that says it ll really

you know what, I agreed with of until this morning. after hearing the words "second thoughts" used when describing the situation I think he must have at least considered it for a bit.

Hahaha some of you lot are hilarious. Bitter or what?

Fair fucks to Constable, he's given us the right old 2 fingers publicly and stuck to his word.

I didn't really want him here anyway, so not remotely bothered it's fallen through.  We've got enough strikers as it is.  However the word farce comes to mind.  Whatever has gone on, too much was stated publicly and I agree with DMR, Constable has had the last laugh by turning us down.   I think we look a little silly tbh, but that's the end if it.  Oxford are left to pick up the pieces, which might take longer.

He's also a cert now to score against us (again) in March...assuming he stays, of course.  It is written.  We're going to need to score more than one at the Kassam to get the points.

Mildly embarrassed :-[

I have to admit that if a Swindon player turned down oxford I'd be chuckling.

Agreed, but also none to chuffed if the board accepted a bid for a first team player from them.

Crawley have had a bid rejected for Constable this morning.

Last night alone was more entertaining than the whole of last season put together

Loving this season. Loving it.

Really?

Yep, gary rose just tweeted it.

Hmmm

Just had a quick look on their official forum.

They have had 2 bids rejected. One for Constable and one for Ryan Stevenson from Hearts, who is a good young player. They seem to have a penchant for Hearts players!!

They also hope Barnett stays with them.

We'll see who has the last laugh tho'. Next season he will be playing in Div 2, & I don't think we will. Reminds me a bit of "Homesick & missing Mummy" Beauchump

Nah, I respect Constable for his stance. He's never publicly said he wanted out of the Scum, in fact the snippets (tweets, facebook) suggest he always  though the opposite.

Now he wants to play for a club that seemingly doesn't want him or need the money. Impossible position for him to come out smelling of roses.

Yeah fair play to him for sticking to his guns, even though his employers have been treating him a bit shitty.

The only ones who come out of this badly are Pox's board and the fans who abused Cuntstubble. We come out of it fine as our bid was excepted, and the player who said no does to.
We move on now with nothing lost whilst they have unsettled a player.

You're trying your best though, aren't you?

At least some of your fans have the brainpower to decipher the complexity of the situation:

Come off it. It's egg on the faces of all our Billy Big Time fans/board/manager who assumed we can go and get who we want.

Until we get out of this cunting league we're no more appealing than any other mugs, thats the bottom line.

But ask Murray, Benson, Wes, Rooney if we are more appealing.

Of course we are.

Bigger stadium, bigger crowds, bigger salaries, bigger matches, under the spotlight more and among the most likely to be playing in the league above next season.

Are you just trolling?

That's all he does isn't it? I thought he was trollbot or something.

The way I saw it was, we all thought it'd be hilarious to get one over the scummers by signing their cult hero. Very few on here were actually raving about his ability.

I know you like playing devils advocate but that is just daft. I don't think anybody assumed we can get who we want.

Your last sentence to some players of course is true to a certain extent though as not all players will be attracted to us. Still more appealing than most clubs in our division i think for sure.

Constable turned us down when he went to Walsall, he's turned us down again.  Who cares, he's just another league two player, who I think will regret his decision in a couple of seasons time.  Don't really give a shit about Oxford, yes it's good to beat them but they really are a shitty little club in a suburb of Swindon.  The old stadium was crap and the new one is a three sided soulless place in the middle of nowhere.

Nah not trolling. Just think people forget we're in League 2 and we're not exactly walking away with it. We're having a decent time of it at the moment but lets get some perspective.

Hardly examples of your apparent 'draw' - all players who weren't getting first team football, expecting to start more games at Swindon, are they not?

I can see the gap in league position between us an Oxford might not be appealing. But the gap between us and a smaller club (e.g.)Barnet) would be. We are in the same league, but have far greater potential to progress upwards.

And?...

Fair play for you defending him buddy but could you answer me this question as you seem to have missed it when i asked earlier. Why did your board say the following

A statement from the U's reads: "Oxford United Football Club can confirm they have received a much improved offer from Swindon Town Football Club for James Constable and after discussions with the player have given permission for him to talk to the club.

So are you saying that the conversation went like this

Chairman:We recieved a bid from Swindon for you
JC:I am not interested
Chairman:They are offering good money though
JC:I don't care i love oxford tell em to do one
Chairman:So let us get this straight you do not want to talk to them whatsoever
JC:Yes that is right
Chairman:Ok that is fine James well if you don't mind i am going to accept the bid anyway and tell our supporters you have decided to go for talks even though it's not true.

I am sure you can see OF how that does not quite add up

You forgotten you called your "cult hero" a cunt then?

I'll take that as a win to be honest, especially as i wasn't fussed on the badge kissing twat anyway.

i agree, They will be in this league for years, no money run of the mill shit club.

I think the chairman told him they had accepted an offer and he should talk to the club concerned.

So why did he not just say no?........


Why was something similar to the above not released?

I think people just need to let this go.

It's over.

Move on.

Agreed, it's getting pathetic and pointless.

He did. Sometimes boards try to force through moves against players wishes. It is quite common.

Agree with Arriba here but also felt all the way through

a) Wilder doesnt fancy him as a hold up player and wants rid
b) Constable would rather stay as he likes it there (hence his dismayed twitter yesterday basically shocked the 'fans' had turned on him when he was being forced out)
and c) we might be being used to set a benchmark price so a and b could both be resolved.

The club say basically your going pal and because they know we want him that sets the price for somebody else to go for him, from their point of view club happy, he would rather stay but now knows he isnt wanted so leaves for a different club not us.

Also agree with an earlier post that if PDC doesn't trust Connell to do the job we need a finisher rather than another 'on the shoulder player'

it is getting boring now, he didn't fancy the aggro and we as fans didnt really want the badge kissing twat anyway so let's all move on and leave them to get on with it.

 :zzz:

Didnt realize it would be such a long thread...ill make the poll available for all to see....interesting

Oxford have signed oli johnson apparently.

Isnt he shit aswell?

He isnt bad at this level in the past with Stockport and we have been linked to him a few times in the past but hes not been very good in the last few years.

Most goals he scored in a season was something like 6 for Stockport.

Thought he was quite good in Frnkie Goes To Hollywood

See Crawley have had a bid turned down for Constable - so he is going somewhere

He scored 4 in his first 4 games for them. Ended up with a record of played 40, scored 6. Clearly not much of a goalscorer.

I seem to remember when we signed Connell, the Pox fans were saying how lame a signing he was based on his poor goalscoring record. I can only assume then that they are equally underwhelmed about Mr Johnson and his inability to find the back of the net. 13 goals in 85 starts, bit shit really.

Although he has 9 in 15 for the footballing giants that are Nostell Miners Welfare.

Oxfords chairman saying hes delighted he stayed.

Erm, didnt he want to sell the fucker ;)

I read that on the Jills club forum about a 2 weeks ago and chuckled then to myself.

Don't want to be dropping the soap in the shower, though.

Uphill gardener

what else could be say;-)

DRS, arriba has already answered your point, but I'll do it again too if you want a direct response.

Despite what you want to think, "discussions with the player" really could refer to anything. In this case the club letting Constable know that an offer has been accepted and he's got the option to talk to Swindon. He turned the option of talking to your club down, as your chairman even says here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16651262.stm

Paolo I retracted my insult, and said it was reactionary. At that stage the player hadn't even been involved in the transfer yet.

What a club says and what actually happened are two completely different things.

How do you know Beano didn't meet for talks with Paolo but then decide he couldn't go through with it ?

It's up to the clubs how they word a statement.

FFS, who cares any more.

He's staying at a club where half the fans think he isn't good enough and, although it would have pissed them off joining us, would quite have liked the money to get someone better.

We were never that chuffed in the first place, apart from pissing Oxford off - hardly a ringing endorsement of the player from either set of supporters.

This thread  :zzz:

Poxford now have a "will he won't he" situation throughout the transfer window, if not to us but to someone else - personally I think the whole saga is great

I was a but indifferent, if he had joined then fine but he didn't so meh.

Hero status for him but I suspect he will be gone in the summer to somebody else.

It's no different to the time a few months back when we accepted an offer for Bournemouth (except he actually went there and agreed a contract), and that didn't affect him, or our club.

Player, club, manager, are all clear on their position. We can't help it if other club's fans can't get their heads round it.

Oh fucking hell. I'm just glad he hasn't signed, Pox still have their idol.

We've got far more important things to worry about. Like Macclesfield.

It didn't affect him or the club because it wasn't Swindon!!

So he's messed Bournemouth about in the past already then?

I think it's time to move on... Right?

when did bournemouth bid??????? :wink:

I think some are having trouble letting go.

Move on now the deal is dead.

Bollocks to stop talking about it,move on blaa blaa blaa
it only happend 24 hours ago and is something to talk about. And you're keeping the thread going by saying stop :doh:

It's all great entertainment.

Can't wait for the Peter Leven episode.

See now Leven is a player I'd gladly have.

Who would you drop to play him.

£250K for the fans idol to your biggest and dearest idols. End of story.
Pox accepted the offer. Nothing more to discuss. Respect to Constable but that is not the issue. Their Board wanted a deal.
Now imagine Caddis, Ferry, Ritchie, Flint, MacCormack etc being sold to Pox for £250K irrespective of the players decision - How would you feel ? Exactly.

Their Board fucked up especially announcing it. All Clubs but Swindon but what about ambition ?

Conclusion - Compare the current standing of our mutual Clubs ? - I know where I would rather be taking away the blinkered rivalry.

Oh just someone from the bench ;)

http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/sport/crawley-town-fc/more_transfer_frustration_for_crawley_town_1_3442321



Looks like Blackpool are after Barnet, hence the bids

I'd laugh my tits off if Constable ended up at creepy.

Each to their own.

I find this meaningless thread extremely boring.

Anyway, COYR tomorrow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How could a thread about bidding for and unsettling our main rival's talisman striker, and freaking out their support, be boring? It's fucking great stuff, all the rivalry and banter, it's a huge part of what football is all about. That yellow lot were in fill meltdown yesterday. That shit is worth paying good money for.

What else should we talk about, the offside rule? Yesterday was one of the most entertaining days I've known in football considering there wasn't even a match being played. Yet we aren't supposed to talk about it?

Banter is a modern term for being a knobhead. It's not for me.

I enjoyed the whole episode, yesterday. Now it's like grasping on for dear life to a joke that was only mildly funny in the first place. Now had he actually signed...

Did you really just say that?

Fucking right. And anyone who finds it boring..........you don't have to read it.
Makes me laugh that the oxford lot are still clutching at straws, desperately trying to make out that he never had any intention of moving to us in the first place when the statement put out yesterday clearly contradicts that.

I think it's a dead cert that he'll be off before deadline day. They even signed his replacement yesterday in anticipation. He's probably pissed them off completely by refusing to come to us.

Yes I did.

Banter is a horrible word, used by people lacking in wit to justify their knobbish behaviour.

Statement friday...

 http://www.oufc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~2583754,00.html

Good Banter Dave.

Oh dear

Good stuff

Nobody else has to read the thread. Especially if you are a little too delicate for banter.

What a complete load of tripe, it says the "decision should be made purely on a business and football basis". So basically they thought they were offered the cash he was worth. No. Well blow down with a feather.

Shit banter BR

 ::)

 :D

Back to matters tomorrow. Rooney won't be featuring.

Has he changed his mind?

Why?

Has he fucked PDC off already ;)

Yeah, why?

He is looking for a loan move ;)

Why's that then Duke?

Injured aint he

OH NO! WE'VE SIGNED A CROCK  :suicide:

Didn't he have a slight injury anyway, or did I dream that?

Its Milan Misun all over again.

Sack the board.

Agreed. It makes mY skin crawl when I hear it used. Some mongs that I play football with have started abbreviating it to 'bants' or 'he's got ledge bants' - FUCKING IDIOTS

I'm buzzin for their worldy ledge bants. Obviously.

Had a meal in the Greyhound (near Oxford) last night and sat near some Oxford old boys. They were moaning their heads off about their board's lack of ambition and how crap they're playing at the moment, so that cheered me up.

Woah, you is on flames batch.

I've barely understood any of the last few posts.  But then I don't speak Yute.

This thread is well deece.

Top bants jayo

deece = decent?

Reem

This thread is proper Mirren Dench

One would assume so.

How can the word 'banter' be put in the same mould as modern chav-talk words?
Nothing wrong with the word 'banter', and it certainly isn't as annoying as words like Sket,Peng,sick etc.

what's sket?

A slaggy-dirty-rough type girl

ah.

Nothing wrong with the word, more to do with the way it is (ab)used by some

I genuinely heard someone in Asda use wahgwan in normal conversation the other day.

Jeremy Wray just said that the twitter reaction was pretty much the main reason for Constable turning us down.

Bottler

I wonder how Pox hero did today? Not good enough for our team you fucking scum badge kissing wanker!

No surprise I guess

PDC turned you down Beano! You just don't cut it when it comes to commitment son

Ohhhh, that was a very different story to the one Constable painted on his twitter.............."never wanted to leave", bollocks! You were too pussy to go through with it and couldn't handle the abuse. That could be the biggest defining career decision he'll make and it could well be the wrong one!

There are two sides to every story.

The fact of the matter is that we no longer want him and are looking elsewhere for a striker that meets our needs.

Can we now close this chapter and move on.

Yep 

People should stop posting in this thread

Oh

Did us a favour then. If he can't handle a few insults on Twitter imagine how he'd have reacted (if he'd signed for us) in his first game against oxford.

I reckon Paolo will be pretty relieved as well.

There's absolutely no question he bottled it. All the facts support this

* James would have been aware of our first bid & could have put it to bed then.. But didn't

* Oxford stated that after discussions with the player they have aloud him to talk to Swindon... He obviously wanted to discuss terms with us

* Wray had set up a meeting with paolo & Constable in which he asked for more time to consider the move when paola was 2miles from the meet (paolo stuck his fingers up to that)

* Mr Wray himself said Constable was becoming un-easy at the abuse he was receiving on social network sites

The funniest part in this saga is that James Constable dressed it up as if he never wanted to leave Oxford & had no intention of doing so... Clearly this is Bullshit & the dimwits up the road have fell for it completely.

The only thing I find strange is how could Constable ever play for a set of fans that wishes he'd 'crash in his car' & 'die of cancer' etc...

It says a lot about his character & I'm pleased the hole situation didn't materialise

I was expecting the interviewer to tell Di canio to stop talking about it as it was in the past. Then ask him what cheese he likes.....

Why are people still talking about this player?

Di Canio has already answered the cheese question.

If/when crawley sell tubbs i think constable is going to crawley

Yes, today gives you more banter-fuel. Enjoy it.

When we sticking in a cheeky bid?

Who says that we haven't?!!

One stone....... Two birds

Got a text last night from someone who has a contact at the Club.
Was surprised therefore to hear on the way to ground that Rooney was on the bench. Don't know reason why yesterday whether a knock etc.........but boy this lad looks promising.
I can see Di Canio working with him and making him a top signing.
We look to have a real threat now on the left as well as the right.

Fan the flames

Benson and Tubbs.

It's got a ring to it.

The way things are you wouldn't rule it out would you?

Shall we just leave Constable alone now....he was in a no win situation through no fault of his own,he hasn't had a bad word to say against Swindon FC and chose to stay loyal to his club when many would have took the money on the table.

He didn't want to join us and the powers to be at Oxford are the ones who should be taking the flak for selling to there near neigbours for peanuts,not a great fan of his but to be honest i feel that in all honesty he has been let down by his club,his agent and some cretins who think having a Twatter account entitles then to spout shite which obviously hasn't helped his cause.

To be honest if anyone mentions Constable again i shall be calling the police.

So well put. I have a Uncle who unfortunately is a scum fan and he reckons £250K would have been way over the top for the player. He likes him and reckons he works hard but Div 2 the limits.
Reckons they would have benefited to use the cash to boost the squad but the finacial rumours are still not dead.

Constable, Constable, Constable, Constable,

Bid Boo's phone run out of battery?

I DECLARE THIS THREAD OFFICIALLY DEAD - NO MORE JC.

FOREVER ROTTING IN THE 3 SIDED SHIT HOLE.

Probably :)

Looking forward to the Matt Tubbs thread already

:-) Benson and Tubbs will be quality.

Tubbs Tuesday?

The domino effect will result in Oxford fans sending death threats to Tubbs.

Aside from provoking the meltdown that is the Poxford forum I wasn't interested whether we signed him or not - but that apparently some abuse on a social networking site changes his mind demonstrates that he's not the player for us.

I think taking a bit of what each person who was involved in this said will give you the truth.
It nearly happend but didn't. Can we just move on now? for the sake of the children please.
Surely manatees and cheese is more important

Cheese yes,Manatees no.

Benson and Hedges or Crockett and Tubbs - no mixing

I found out tonight that villa fucking hate oxford and are waiting to give them a good slap.

I wasnt overly fussed but i got a pint out of it

My brother-in-law is a villa fan, went to a league cup game between the two at the Kebab stadium with him. A fairly bad tempered match which villa won, after the game the scummers decided to pelt the villa fans with milk bottles, stones and bricks. Utter cunts.

 :nod:

Scary.

They came to Oxford and kicked off, causing trouble all over the place and especially inside the stadium (it's on youtube), if they got a little back after from the locals and don't like it then they shouldn't start in the 1st place. What's the matter with them, don't the big boy bullies like being stood up to by the little clubs? :cry:

omg wot is dis scummer doin on ere? ban him!?!!! !!

What reception did you give Constable yesterday SBanker? Thanks for coming clean!

He's propa nawty.

The fans gave him a very good reception as you would expect. He played quite well, went close with a header and generally did what he usually does well but without scoring (again). Basicially if we had a goalscorer to play alongside Constable then we'd be a very good side but we miss far too many chances to consider going up automatically, play offs at best for Oxford.

We could have told you that...

And.........

and that's it. Play offs at best.

Thanks Meg

Don't mention it.

Anything else we can help you with?

I'll have a think and let you know cheers Meg

one more thing, dont come on here pretending to be a Town fan. You made yourself look like a right cunt.

Now we know his true identity it proves he is a right cunt!!

Good work.

Bump...I see that the great hope of Poxford didn't last long there and jumped ship to York City, a step up in clubs :)

Ha ha, Mug! 

Thought scoring in their cup final might get him a new deal but alas no.

Don't think he has jumped ship, wasn't he released by Oxford?

Yeah he was but still funny :D

Forever in their hearts.

I guess their talisman was released because he knew he had been offered £10k a week here like the rest of our players - and for a club like the Pox, with all their debts, they couldn't meet his wage demands.  LOSER!!!

Forgive me, are some people getting constable and Johnson muddled up?

Yeah, looks like it.

  :clap::fishing: :fishing:

Wasnt the Oli Johnson Transfer a few days ago?

same shite different name