Fallon's contract issues

[yeo]

Janaage your deluded me old mate.

[janaage]

We'll see YR.  

To be honest I just don't like the idea of players walking out on a free, when we can cash in now.

[yeo]

I like agreeing with DV even less.

[Ben Wah Balls]

This means there's all the more reason why we should sell him. Anything over £150k and I'd take it to be honest, we can't afford to lose him for nothing. Keeping Fallon is no guarantee of staying up and selling Fallon doesn't have to confirm relegation.

[Johno]

sell him. if need be.

[reeves4england]

I'd wait until we know for sure what Fallon is doing to be honest

[mattboyslim]

True r4e, if he's turned a deal down it suggests he may want out, only then would I sell him.  Once again if this is all true I fear agents at play again, he seemed happy to sign a couple of weeks back, and recent results suggest things are slowly improving yet something seems to have changed.

[yeo]

Fallon has scored 11? goals ths season so far how do you think we will replace these with these?

We lost Parkin and replaced him with 2 proven goal scorers both of whom couldnt score and that was at a time when players werent turned off coming here by our league position.

What decent goal scorer is going to want to join a second division relegation scrap?

If it means losing 100,000 grands worth of player at the end of the season then so be it the cost of relagtion will be much more.

[DV]

Fallon has scored 11? goals ths season so far how do you think we will replace these with these?

We lost Parkin and replaced him with 2 proven goal scorers both of whom couldnt score and that was at a time when players werent turned off coming here by our league position.

What decent goal scorer is going to want to join a second division relegation scrap?

If it means losing 100,000 grands worth of player at the end of the season then so be it the cost of relagtion will be much more.

13 in league and cup.

Otherwise, Spot on Yeovil

[mattboyslim]

Agreed Yeovil, but will his heart still be in it if he knows he off in the summer.  Personally an inform proven goalscorer could be enoguh to save us and he should stay but if he loses the enthusiasm he could become a liability.  Hopefully he wants to stay but it is a consideration if he wants to leave.  Look at Rotherham who've lost their top scorer and the likely departure of McLeod from Franchise, when I see that it gives me a boost, I guess other clubs would think the same if Fallon left us.

[sonicyouth]

anyone got a bit more detail about this story please?

i'm really not sure what to think, i thought it was odd when he delayed signing a new contract until after the new year (i.e. the transfer window) but i think it's fairly obvious why he chose to do that. now that someone has made an offer for him, why would he want to stay?

personally i think he's a cunt for doing that but i don't fancy our chances of staying up without him.

[reeves4england]

Its a tough decision and hard to make judgments when we don't know
a) Why Fallon hasn't signed a new contract
b) Who is interested
c) How much they will pay
d) How much of that would be put into helping us STAY IN THE DIVISION

The way things are lookin we could well be relegated and that is not what a club in our positin needs, it could be a serious problem.

[DV]

If Fallon wants to jump ship to the first team that offer him a better wage, then he might want to talk to his friend cunt smith first :evil:

[Dazzza]

Anyone got anything concrete on this yet that I can read?

Just because he's turned down an offer it doesn't mean the board or the player aren't going to negotiate another.

I've read elsewhere that Sir Les is set to sign on a short term deal until the end of the season with the TV production company spunking up the cash.

Sounds like utter shite but I'd quite like 'Sir Les' on the back of a shirt.

[Dazzza]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/01/06/stfc_060106_feature.shtml

Deal or no deal for Fallon?
Swindon Town deputy chairman Mark Devlin admits if Rory Fallon will not sign a new deal, the club face a decision which could influence whether or not they are relegated.


 
The Robins started contract talks with their top scorer over two months ago, but nothing has yet been agreed.

If Fallon does not sign a deal in the next couple of weeks, Swindon will have to decide whether to transfer him to one of the clubs who have bid for him, or risk losing him on a Bosman free transfer in the summer.

Devlin accepts whatever they do in such a situation will have a bearing on whether or not they survive in League One.

He said: "There will be people who are critical of whatever decision is ultimately made. Whether they are critical of the board or of Rory. Whatever it might be, these are the facts of football.

In an ideal world this would have been put to bed a lot earlier but we don't live in an ideal world. We are damned if we do and damned if we don't.

"At the moment we're focusing on trying to obtain his signature on the contract."