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« Reply #15 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 15:03:56 »

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I turned it down because I believe if you are to play full-time and make a career you need to make enough to retire at 35.

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


That's what I have a problem with.

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

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


With the greatest of respect, I think you've missed the point.

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

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

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

I would also add that he has made the same decision as hundreds of other semi-pro footballers around the country who have decided they are much better off long term by playing part-time (and getting pretty well paid for it) and working full time. This is the problem facing a lot of clubs in the 4th Division in trying to sign non-league players. Signing a player from non-league looks simple in practice, you might think they would play for virtually nothing just for the 'glory' of paying league football. In practice though, it's often difficult for them to entice players away.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 15:15:51 »

Dazzza is right.  

Oh no, I've got no time to study beacuse I've got to work for 2 hours a day in a job that pays me £2k a month. At 21. What a cock.
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« Reply #17 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 16:56:04 »

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Dazzza is right.  

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


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

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

I'm pretty certain that if it was that easy then he would combine the two. I suspect though, that he's given it a little bit more thought than you have and has decided that it has to be one or the other.
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 19:44:01 »

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

love of the game?

rush of thousands of people cheering for you?

knob. doesn't deserve to wear the shirt if he doesn't feel passionately about playing football.
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« Reply #19 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:18:16 »

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

love of the game?

rush of thousands of people cheering for you?

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


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

Oh forget it. I fucking give up.
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« Reply #20 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:19:19 »

ohh shaun taylor.you are bang on fella.
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« Reply #21 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:20:37 »

I agree with OST

He's made a sensible and probably very difficult decision.
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« Reply #22 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:20:51 »

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ohh shaun taylor.you are bang on fella.


I'm glad some one else can see it anyway :roll:
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:23:36 »

Its a bit like me really,I'd rather sit around the house smoking fags for a living but theres no money in it so I have to come to work and do it instead.
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:23:48 »

The thing is, he is kind of right, whats a player on at swindon? £1,000 - £1,250 a week, thats enough for a comfortable life while you earn it but no way enough to retire on
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:24:31 »

Id be suprised if its that much for Squad players
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« Reply #26 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 21:26:40 »

plus the irish league is through the summer.that could have played a part in his decision?
the lads just been honest anyway i think and certainly has his head screwed on
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 22:21:34 »

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

the northern irish league runs normally, the republic is summer.
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 22:25:52 »

i stand corrected.for some reason i thought crusaders were a republic team.
but i was aware that the highland league was in scotland.
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« Reply #29 on: Friday, August 10, 2007, 22:45:13 »

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