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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:36 pm    Post subject: England Football Friendly Reply with quote

How can Steve McClaren keep saying some of his players were off sick and didn't have a good squad when the players last night are nearly on £150k each a week? If they can't perform for England then they shouldn't even play football at all. OK it can be a weak team if you havn't got experienced international players, but I think they are not playing for McClaren. Erikson may of had his faults, but at least they won under his leadership.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark,

That post has seriously annoyed me.

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the players last night are nearly on £150k a week? If they can't perform for England then they shouldn't even play football at all.


Why do you insist on posting about things you do not know about?

150k a week for any top class International side is completely peanuts. Think about what some of the best players are on a week....

And as far as saying if someone isn't good enough to play for England they shouldn't play at all? Mark, I have been very patient with you, but that post is just ridiculous.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

£150k per week = £7.8m per annum. Are many players making more than that per year? I seriously doubt it.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He means the whole team.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

admin wrote:
He means the whole team.


Sometimes it's hard to fathom out what Mark means! Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do hope you can now see why i was annoyed Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All that money for kicking a ball around and spitting Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I can do the spitting can I get half the money? Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you do, can you lend me a fiver til Monday, gov? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd need 85% interest! And what collateral do you have?? Cool
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You mean you could resist that smile Admin?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me, I find it hard to resist anything. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm. I thought Mark meant some of the players were on £150k per week, not the whole team. There's probably one or two on that, isn't there? And his point seems to be that with those wages they should be playing better than they did last night, which I think is fair. If I was earning that much my bosses would expect a superb performance every time.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PAYE - score or they don't get paid. That should shake them up a bit. Imagine going home to the WAG and saying. ''Sorry, darling, no shoes this week''
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!! That is always the problem with Mark........ we are left guessing at what he actually means! Mad
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing to do with footballers, more understanding messages... I received this the other day....


February 1, 2007

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too

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raed tihs forwrad it.


I could read it quite easily! Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
Hmmm. I thought Mark meant some of the players were on £150k per week, not the whole team. There's probably one or two on that, isn't there? And his point seems to be that with those wages they should be playing better than they did last night, which I think is fair. If I was earning that much my bosses would expect a superb performance every time.


They are paid to play for their CLUBS. Why should they risk injury in a meanlingless friendly when they are putting themselves at risk of missing matches in competitive tournaments?


Discuss!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

History has tought us the England ALWAYS lose when Phil Neville plays at Left back.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
Ian Robinson wrote:
Hmmm. I thought Mark meant some of the players were on £150k per week, not the whole team. There's probably one or two on that, isn't there? And his point seems to be that with those wages they should be playing better than they did last night, which I think is fair. If I was earning that much my bosses would expect a superb performance every time.


They are paid to play for their CLUBS. Why should they risk injury in a meanlingless friendly when they are putting themselves at risk of missing matches in competitive tournaments?


Discuss!

I'm not expecting them to go hell-for-leather, but completing a few passes and trying to score would be quite nice. The other side managed it!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
History has tought us the England ALWAYS lose when Phil Neville plays at Left back.

Perhaps they should wear the red shirts & bring back 'world cup willy'. I'm just about old enough to remember him!!! Razz Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

admin wrote:
Mark,

That post has seriously annoyed me.

Quote:
the players last night are nearly on £150k a week? If they can't perform for England then they shouldn't even play football at all.


Why do you insist on posting about things you do not know about?

150k a week for any top class International side is completely peanuts. Think about what some of the best players are on a week....

And as far as saying if someone isn't good enough to play for England they shouldn't play at all? Mark, I have been very patient with you, but that post is just ridiculous.



I beg your pardon you dont have to be so rude. Some of the top english footie players are on around 150k a week. I do know what I'am talking about, and sorry if you disagree, but if they can't play for our english team well then they shouldn't be playing at all. Football is all about money, money now. They all do receive an apperance fee from the FA too.

Thankyou.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alan Shearer was, if memory serves, on around £80K per week in his last season at Newcastle. Not bad for someone I used to see kicking a ball around the back field at Gosforth High School yonks ago. Kieron ("Roasting") Dyer is possibly on something similar. Can't remember what Michael Owen is reportedly getting but I bet it's around the £100K mark now, even if he should be claiming SSP.... Frank Lampard is on around £5.2M pa, plus another £1.2M in sponsorship etc. John Terry's total amount is about £5.8M pa but I'm not sure what the breakdown is.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Evan

I had the t-shirt and the record (by Lonnie Donegan), one of the first World cup songs
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:11 pm    Post subject: Re: England Football Friendly Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
How can Steve McClaren keep saying some of his players were off sick and didn't have a good squad when the players last night are nearly on £150k each a week?


Is this a public quiz that anybody can enter? Do I get a prize for answering correctly?

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ella, The prize is the glory of being the board's football pudit
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

England don't have a God given right to win at football, cricket, rugby or any other sport, they don't go out onto the pitch to play with any other intention other than doing their best to win. Many fans think it is just about winning, well life don't allow you to be a winner all of the time and although I am a football fan who spends time watching football every weekend that I can, it is only a game. Come on, as Tel tells us, nobody died, did they! If we went back to basics and taught the kids that playing and enjoying the game in sports person type manner is what is really important and that winning is the icing on the cake, we may have a few less louts and a lot more well balanced sporting young people, OK.
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