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Money, simple as that. Good riddance to him. Not long ago he was saying how he liked it here and liked our ambition. Hope he rots over there and regrets leaving. Not many go on to better things when turning us down do they?
Drover wrote:Quote5minstogo wrote:QuoteSomething makes me wonder if we ever had any intention of signing him.He has ambition, wants to push on in his career, yet joins a team that finished below us in the league.Strange.When he aggravated that groin injury against Florist I never forgot the look on his face and he stormed down the tunnel without any contact with the bench.I know he may well have just been gutted at the reoccurence of the injury but I could'nt help worrying he was mad at SOD n ROK for playing him too soon after the op.I was shocked when he was named in the team.I thought at the time IF he was angry at SOD n ROK we may never see him in a Rovers shirt again.Its one of the rare occasions that they got a decision wrong and to be fair they admitted that.Did we really want to sign him or are they just saying that we did to try and appease the disappointed fans.I Look on the bright side we had a very decent season despite having long spells without Shackell and without stock.The team coped without them.We've got Shelton who I thought we would not see again and we still might get King Billy and even Gillett?do you not read anything rovers related!shackell was the one who declared himself fit for that game not SOD or ROK shackell made the decision SOD regretted it but he has always let the player make the decision over their own fitness
5minstogo wrote:QuoteSomething makes me wonder if we ever had any intention of signing him.He has ambition, wants to push on in his career, yet joins a team that finished below us in the league.Strange.When he aggravated that groin injury against Florist I never forgot the look on his face and he stormed down the tunnel without any contact with the bench.I know he may well have just been gutted at the reoccurence of the injury but I could'nt help worrying he was mad at SOD n ROK for playing him too soon after the op.I was shocked when he was named in the team.I thought at the time IF he was angry at SOD n ROK we may never see him in a Rovers shirt again.Its one of the rare occasions that they got a decision wrong and to be fair they admitted that.Did we really want to sign him or are they just saying that we did to try and appease the disappointed fans.I Look on the bright side we had a very decent season despite having long spells without Shackell and without stock.The team coped without them.We've got Shelton who I thought we would not see again and we still might get King Billy and even Gillett?
Something makes me wonder if we ever had any intention of signing him.He has ambition, wants to push on in his career, yet joins a team that finished below us in the league.Strange.
I just wish the board would be honest. SOD has confirmed we can't afford anywhere near 500k. Why don't the board just confirm the situation so we don't get our hopes up again.
What's happened to the additional £1.5 - £1.75 million we will earn this year from the restructuring of the parachute payments/ payments to Championship clubs? is this immediately going to be swallowed up by the wage bill?
Well that was my first choice priority signing gone.With the speed of the announcement there doesn't seem to have been any doubt in Shackell's mind, so you have to assume we were not even in the ball park financially.
but worth noting we have not been let down yet and at the start of each season we have always looked strong and got stronger as each season as wore on.