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Can't really comment on what Marco's old man's reasons were for allegedly saying what he did. He may well just have been asked a question about his kid and that was his response. Maybe he had an ulterior motive, maybe he didn't, I don't know.

As I'm such a nice , trusting person (!), I'll give Tommy Smyth the benefit of the doubt as well. He's a Nix fan and he wanted to let everyone know about how the negotiations were apparently going.
 
If it's true, it's one side of the story, we are never going to get the other side because, quite rightly, the club's management aren't going to be bandying details of contract negotiations around. Sadly, that means that it's open season on Ricki, Terry and the Phoenix management. I would suspect, and hope, that the Club would be doing as much as they possibly can to keep Marco here. 
 
Bottom line for me, is that it should never have been posted on here. At best it's misjudged, at worst it's manipulation of the situation.
 
As far as I'm concerned, Marco is still a Phoenix player and will be until he signs for somebody else. Opening up a can of worms like this doesn't help anybody.
Jag2011-02-15 12:01:44

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Wise words Jag.
This is no place for these discussions.
It is a matter for Marco his dad and the Phoenix.
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Jag wrote:

Can't really comment on what Marco's old man's reasons were for allegedly saying what he did. He may well just have been asked a question about his kid and that was his response. Maybe he had an ulterior motive, maybe he didn't, I don't know.

As I'm such a nice , trusting person (!), I'll give Tommy Smyth the benefit of the doubt as well. He's a Nix fan and he wanted to let everyone know about how the negotiations were apparently going.
 
If it's true, it's one side of the story, we are never going to get the other side because, quite rightly, the club's management aren't going to be bandying details of contract negotiations around. Sadly, that means that it's open season on Ricki, Terry and the Phoenix management. I would suspect, and hope, that the Club would be doing as much as they possibly can to keep Marco here. 
 
Bottom line for me, is that it should never have been posted on here. At best it's misjudged, at worst it's manipulation of the situation.
 
As far as I'm concerned, Marco is still a Phoenix player and will be until he signs for somebody else. Opening up a can of worms like this doesn't help anybody.
 
agreed

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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I bet his dads reading this thinking "umm.. what?"
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Okay, so now can we speculate about some body else?
 
*wracks brain to think of rumour to start*
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Meeki wrote:
Okay, so now can we speculate about some body else?
 
*wracks brain to think of rumour to start*
 
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Jag wrote:
Meeki wrote:
Okay, so now can we speculate about some body else?
 
*wracks brain to think of rumour to start*
 
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then
 
Ooh Jag, where'd you hear that from? His dad?
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Meeki wrote:
Jag wrote:
Meeki wrote:
Okay, so now can we speculate about some body else?
 
*wracks brain to think of rumour to start*
 
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then
 
Ooh Jag, where'd you hear that from? His dad?
 
A guy I met at a bus stop told me that he'd met a guy in a pub whose sister's best mate's boyfrend's sister-in-law's hairdresser had overheard somebody telling somebody else that they thought they'd heard somebody mention it on the Yellow Fever forum.
Jag2011-02-15 13:46:15

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Jag wrote:
Meeki wrote:
Jag wrote:
Meeki wrote:
Okay, so now can we speculate about some body else?
 
*wracks brain to think of rumour to start*
 
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then
 
Ooh Jag, where'd you hear that from? His dad?
 
A guy I met at a bus stop told me that he'd met a guy in a pub whose sister's best mate's boyfrend's sister-in-law's hairdresser had overheard somebody telling somebody else that they thought they'd heard somebody mention it on the Yellow Fever forum.
 
There you go. It doesn't come more straight-from-the-horse's-mouth than that.
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Hard News wrote:
Jag wrote:
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then
 
Or he's got a bigger telly.
 
Spoil our rumour, why don't you.
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No, no, it's just a different rumour.  Either he's bought a new TV because he's staying or he's selling because he's going or it's something else.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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Meeki wrote:
Hard News wrote:
Jag wrote:
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then

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Or he's got a bigger telly.

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Spoil our rumour, why don't you.


Crowther's father told me and the lads in the Hamilton club scene that he had been offered a TV of the exact same size as his last one. If this is true, that is a terrible offer. And I think Ricki, Terry and all of the Phoenix management should be doing everything they can to improve the size of his television.
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So really, Crowther selling his telly could mean ... ANY THING AT ALL!!
 
Speaking of Crowther. I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?
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Luis Garcia wrote:
Meeki wrote:
Hard News wrote:
Jag wrote:
I hear Crowther is selling his telly. He's obviously buggering off then

 

Or he's got a bigger telly.

 

Spoil our rumour, why don't you.


Crowther's father told me and the lads in the Hamilton club scene that he had been offered a TV of the exact same size as his last one. If this is true, that is a terrible offer. And I think Ricki, Terry and all of the Phoenix management should be doing everything they can to improve the size of his television.
 
*snort*
 
I have a strange sense of deja vu ...
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Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?


No
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el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?


No

Unless he gets to Perf and finds out the LOLry already signed three keepers by mistake?

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*sob*
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el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?


No
 
 
The word is that Vuko got shot of his telly weeks ago

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Doloras wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?



No


Unless he gets to Perf and finds out the LOLry already signed three keepers by mistake?

Guess they'll have the team full of keepers then.
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Tommy_Smyth wrote:
Doloras wrote:
Tommy_Smyth wrote:

Roddy is not about trying to get this in the newspaper, he was just telling it to a group of club members.


And one of that group of club members is telling it to the YF forum, where it will be picked up by the media and used in an anti-Terry or anti-Ricki beatup (SKINFLINT GREEK ON BRINK OF LOSING WONDERCHILD), thus shaming the Nix into paying up more. Either Roddy knew that you or someone else would go blabbing, in which case this is a grubby attempt to twist Terry's arm; or he didn't, and he's naive, and you're not helping.

To put it another way, if you'd said "this is what I heard, from a trusted source which I can't name", then we might not have believed you but it might not have looked so dodgy.


Obviously you dont know Roddy at all mate so i think you should keep your thoughts to yourself before misjudging his character. As for the marco issue, i wont be posting any more news due to the reaction.
Don't be so sensitive Mr Tommy Smith. You posted what you heard in good faith. None of us know the full story so we are all talking shiite!!!! Thats the fun of transfer speculation.        We are just taking the piss!!!!
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Jag wrote:

Can't really comment on what Marco's old man's reasons were for allegedly saying what he did. He may well just have been asked a question about his kid and that was his response. Maybe he had an ulterior motive, maybe he didn't, I don't know.



As I'm such a nice , trusting person (!), I'll give Tommy Smyth the benefit of the doubt as well. He's a Nix fan and he wanted to let everyone know about how the negotiations were apparently going.
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If it's true, it's one side of the story, we are never going to get the other side because, quite rightly, the club's management aren't going to be bandying details of contract negotiations around. Sadly, that means that it's open season on Ricki, Terry and the Phoenix management.�I would suspect, and hope, that the Club would be doing as much as they possibly can to keep Marco here.�

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Bottom line for me,�is that it should never have been posted on here. At best it's misjudged, at worst it's manipulation of the situation.

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As far as I'm concerned, Marco is still a Phoenix player and will be until he signs for somebody else. Opening up a can of worms like this doesn't help anybody.


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el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?


No

He could always pull a Smeltzy.. get there, think the weathers sh*t / missus doesn't like the shopping etc, so bails out and comes back to the Nix.

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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valeo wrote:

They do get bigger crowds than us...just sayin'

Team     Average     Total
Melbourne Victory     15,234     228,517
Adelaide United     11,552     173,286
Brisbane Roar     9,279     139,182
Perth Glory     8,488     127,322
Newcastle Jets     8,429     126,439
Melbourne Heart     8,312     124,680
Central Coast 8,071     121,068
Sydney FC      8,014     120,207
Wellington Phoenix     7,981     119,716
North Queensland 4,245     63,681
Gold Coast United     3,434     51,505
Totals      8,458     1,395,603

We're the worst in the league after NQ and GC
 
Fair enough. 
 
However, I am reasonably confident that if we were pissing the league and playing like Brisbane, we'd definitely be getting bigger crowds in than they have been, and in a city of less than half the size as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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goldienz wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?


No


He could always pull a Smeltzy.. get there, think the weathers sh*t / missus doesn't like the shopping etc, so bails out and comes back to the Nix.
 
Yeah but he's an Aussie and he's going to Perth ... can't see him fancying Wellington more, can you?
 
Hey goldienz, are you are a fellow Whanganui resident??
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el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?
No
 
OK, but can we please get this confirmed by someone who knows someone who's talked to Vuko's Dad?

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terminator_x wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?
No
 
OK, but can we please get this confirmed by someone who knows someone who's talked to Vuko's Dad?
 
We need to take drastic measures to keep the boy in Wellington. Does he have a girlfriend? Can we find him a Wellington one very quickly?

I'd volunteer but (a) I'm taken (b) I'm too old for him and (c) I don't live in Wellington.
Meeki2011-02-15 16:29:36
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Not that I'm a stalker - but according to facebook he does. Not that I'm a stalker.
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Footpaul wrote:
Not that I'm a stalker - but according to facebook he does. Not that I'm a stalker.
 
Bet she's an Aussie, the slapper.
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Meeki wrote:
Footpaul wrote:
Not that I'm a stalker - but according to facebook he does. Not that I'm a stalker.
 
Bet she's an Aussie, the slapper.


She better not be a Mrs Smeltz...
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Footpaul wrote:
Not that I'm a stalker - but according to facebook he does. Not that I'm a stalker.
 
Stalker.
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Footpaul wrote:

Meeki wrote:
Footpaul wrote:
Not that I'm a stalker - but according to facebook he does. Not that I'm a stalker.

�

Bet she's an Aussie, the slapper.
She better not be a Mrs Smeltz...


She better not be Mrs Smeltz...

that could create some awkwardness


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el grapadura wrote:
Doloras wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Meeki wrote:
I'm still waiting against hope to hear the news Vuko is staying ... Is there any chance at all?



No


Unless he gets to Perf and finds out the LOLry already signed three keepers by mistake?


Guess they'll have the team full of keepers then. Got us to the play-offs
You know we belong together...

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Just bought this off some bloke on TradeMe who called himself "TheCrow20".
 
 
He said he'd upgraded to a new Sony 50" Plasma!  Reckons his employer got him Mates Rates!
 
C-Diddy2011-02-15 19:13:43

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Marco is staying.

I know this because I am linked with the underworld and I know people and they tell me things.

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terminator_x wrote:
Marco is staying.

I know this because I am linked with the underworld and I know people and they tell me things.


Ah, so Ljubo's drug dealer made Marco an offer he couldn't refuse. Gotcha.

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C-Diddy wrote:
Just bought this off some bloke on TradeMe who called himself "TheCrow20".
 
 
He said he'd upgraded to a new Sony 50" Plasma!  Reckons his employer got him Mates Rates!
 



  Superb.

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Notice Chris James replied with a "Possibly.One day at a time is the best approach in football." to someone who asked if he was targetting a-league and that he should trial at the nix.
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Naum Seukolovski released from Perth...chance that Ricki will sign him even though he's kak? High.

a.haak

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