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1 hour ago, capt_oats said:

:lol:

Presumably we haven't announced it out of respect for the fact that Gallagher is still a Livi player...

Tam Wright out there just announcing other folk's business.

Its poor, and crass, from him, and I hope hes just been fed a lie from a journalist to bring the answer about. 

Not his place to announce a move like that at all, and not fair on the player. 

Last time he done it was when Brian Graham went behind his back to speak to County, and continued negotiations with Saints while telling us we were the only club in for him, only to find out he'd been telling County our offer and trying to get them to beat it.

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Much as I love hypocrisy as a football supporter, we can't complain that Wright has taken to announcing our signings, the day after scoffing at the fact that we should have been making courtesy calls to Livi about the same player. 

Would be interesting to know what's gone on to piss him off though...

 

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1 hour ago, Swello said:

Much as I love hypocrisy as a football supporter, we can't complain that Wright has taken to announcing our signings, the day after scoffing at the fact that we should have been making courtesy calls to Livi about the same player. 

Would be interesting to know what's gone on to piss him off though...

100%. It's just quite an amusing contrast. Yesterday St Johnstone were a club who had the courtesy to contact Holt first, today Tam Wright's announcing a transfer before the player himself or the club he's joining.  "Unwritten rules" and all that.

It'd be interesting to know the context though and taken on its own it seems a pretty salty comment from TW. 

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12 minutes ago, capt_oats said:

100%. It's just quite an amusing contrast. Yesterday St Johnstone were a club who had the courtesy to contact Holt first, today Tam Wright's announcing a transfer before the player himself of the club he's joining.  "Unwritten rules" and all that.

It'd be interesting to know the context though and taken on its own it seems a pretty salty comment from TW. 

He generally has a reason for doing things like this, so I imagine we'll find out eventually. 

You'll probably find it's similar to the Graham example where hes been strung along in the dark.

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2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

He generally has a reason for doing things like this, so I imagine we'll find out eventually. 

You'll probably find it's similar to the Graham example where hes been strung along in the dark.

You'll know better than me whether there's ever any reliable stuff on WAP but there's a boy over there suggesting that Gallagher had verbally agreed with your lot then changed his mind and signed with us.

I can see how that would piss on Tommy's chips if it's accurate tbf.

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1 minute ago, capt_oats said:

You'll know better than me whether there's ever any reliable stuff on WAP but there's a boy over there suggesting that Gallagher had verbally agreed with your lot then changed his mind and signed with us.

I can see how that would piss on Tommy's chips if it's accurate tbf.

Its hit and miss on that site, there seems to be a few folk who genuinely are ITK. O'Halloran, Swanson and Callachan were all confirmed about a week before it was announced.

It certainly adds up though, as Wright generally only makes comments like he has if he feels someone was deceived him.

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6 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

Tommy Wright seems to continually get led down the garden path by players.

He treats players with respect, and anticipates it back, that's maybe naive and sees him taken advantage of, but I think its helps with certain players. The likes of O'Halloran, Swanson and Watt have all mentioned it when signing.

It's a shame players like Graham and Gallagher seem to take advantage of that to get better deals elsewhere, but that's where football is just now.

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9 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

He treats players with respect, and anticipates it back, that's maybe naive and sees him taken advantage of, but I think its helps with certain players. The likes of O'Halloran, Swanson and Watt have all mentioned it when signing.

It's a shame players like Graham and Gallagher seem to take advantage of that to get better deals elsewhere, but that's where football is just now.

You mean Swanson who's fucked Tommy Wright about numerous times?

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10 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

You mean Swanson who's fucked Tommy Wright about numerous times?

Tbf I forgot about that :lol: 

Tbf he only done it once, when he joined Hearts. We never offered him a new deal when Hibs came in for him, and he was pretty open about that being a move he couldn't refuse.

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12 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

Tommy has said he is signing for us. Unitl Motherwell or the player confirms that it is all speculation. All we know is St Johnstone will not outbid us.

He said that his agent has informed us hes joining Motherwell.

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10 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

Its poor, and crass, from him, and I hope hes just been fed a lie from a journalist to bring the answer about. 

Not his place to announce a move like that at all, and not fair on the player. 

Last time he done it was when Brian Graham went behind his back to speak to County, and continued negotiations with Saints while telling us we were the only club in for him, only to find out he'd been telling County our offer and trying to get them to beat it.

What a lot of pish.

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3 hours ago, weemac said:

I think what is now becoming clearer each week is that Michael Stewart is ITK as f**k. 

One of the more interesting aspects of the Ally Gorrin Impact is that he's precisely as he was billed by Robinson when he signed ie: he gives us more "ownership" in the midfield.

@well fan for life mentioned it on the match thread in so much as it may well have been by design we've ended up with the Campbell, Gorrin, Turnbull midfield 3 which is probably fair when you consider that win, lose or draw Robinson spent last season banging on about how we needed to "look after" the ball more in possession. Either way Gorrin's probably one of the summer signings worth reappraising.

Ironically, despite him still being our top scorer Danny Johnson's one who's probably gone the other way.

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One of the more interesting aspects of the Ally Gorrin Impact is that he's precisely as he was billed by Robinson when he signed ie: he gives us more "ownership" in the midfield.

[mention=3435]well fan for life[/mention] mentioned it on the match thread in so much as it may well have been by design we've ended up with the Campbell, Gorrin, Turnbull midfield 3 which is probably fair when you consider that win, lose or draw Robinson spent last season banging on about how we needed to "look after" the ball more in possession. Either way Gorrin's probably one of the summer signings worth reappraising.

Ironically, despite him still being our top scorer Danny Johnson's one who's probably gone the other way.

 

Of the summer arrivals I’d be wanting Gorrín on longer terms and Johnson to be packed straight back to Gateshead.

 

Truth be told I love the bold Ally Gorrín. He’s class af in possession but absolutely loves cementing folk in 50/50s. All the time in the world for it.

 

Edit: I reckon what we’ve got with Gorrín is what we thought we were going to get with Bigirimana but that turned out to be a total bust.

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