Thought he was OOC end 2014?

Lineham won't be leaving but I do worry about Crooks, we should be getting a bigger/longer deal sorted.

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If he has another season like this one he could doubled his salary, if he hasn't signed an extension in a year then worry.

Very good news he's contracted for 2 more years. Not sure there's that much urgency to extend, but obviously this time next year would be hoping to do so.

Lets not start looking for dramas that aren't there.
Think people need to pull together for a while.
FC fans always seem to look for the negative. Contrast that to the Dobbins fans who seem to blindly (or stupidly) put a positive spin on anything that happens at their club.
Crooks and Lineham aren't going anywhere just yet. Lets worry about something else more immediate.

If players are going to get greedy and press to get a huge wedge then I don't care who they are I'd rather we sold them for a decent fee a year (or more) before there contract ends and let someone who wants to play for the club without holding us to ransom.
If you allow players whom think their value is far beyond what is reasonable to dictate matters then that impacts massively on the whole squad make-up (I.E. it restricts whom and the depth we can employ)

This is why some high earners (Ellis for example) take more than their actual worth to the team as a whole.

Either the accountants at some clubs are very imaginitive in their figures so they can employ far greater depth than us or they have a better more rigid pay structure such as at Leeds.

Why? Do we need a decent fee?

Iirc every one of those players you've named were ooc and not sold. Well apart from Brough who was let go & not sold + obviously Cooke because there was never a contract. Who was the last player we sold that we wanted to keep?

its a load of tosh they have shown interest in a winger off us but that was briscoe.

Like for like. Always makes me laugh.

Deary me.

They were, I was making a general statement that we don't replace those that leave when OOC!

A question I'd be asking is why can't we keep hold of the ones we want?

Its not just a question of who we want, its a question of price and what will fit under the cap - obvious to all but the usual drama queens on here.

Nosey Parker in the Sun, so i even had to double check the date printed on the top

Since Tom signed his 4 year deal months ago I see Parker is as on the ball as ever.

Not sure what the rate of inflation is over the last 21 years, but I remember a winger being sold for £440k in 1992

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2g73DESlf So Radford championed him over Youngquest. Another reminder of the pain players go through to take the field.

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... z2g73DESlf So Radford championed him over Youngquest. Another reminder of the pain players go through to take the field.

radders unearthed a gem then instead of another pot aussie take a bow our new head coach!!

Think what has happened in the last week has made me over cynical, but that article had "spin" all over it for me.

The club wheel out one of the crowd's favourite players to big up a coach whose appointment hasn't exactly delighted the fans. Strange we have never previously heard anything about the massive part Radford played in Lineham's rise to first team and Dream Team selection.

I'm glad we didn't get Youngquest. Not the sort of player to take us forward.

Proof that mcrae and gentles recruitment was poor.

Hopefully radfords and tonys will be better.

Shaul has stated a similar case several months ago of how Radford looked after and encouraged him and helped him out when he wasn't getting a game.

Yes you are being cynical. A good news story doesn't always have to be spin.

Gentle would hardly admit that he could've kept Lineham out of the team (and possibly led to him leaving) by signing Youngquest.