I have glad to have expedited the augmentation of your vocabulary. I offer my hearty contrafibularities on this most sumptuous of effectuations.Thanks for my 'word of the day'!
Reminds me of my favourite teacher at school, my English teacher, Mr. Power. He'd start the lesson by ripping the daily 'posh' papers apart, into single pages & handing them out to each one of us. We had to circle five words we didn't know the meaning of, then look them up in the dictionary, then he'd pick a few of us to share one of them with the rest of the class.
Dan Sweeney Off Already?
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Thank you...can't say I quite get the gist of what you're going on about...as like fuck am I spending half of my day look up stuff in dictionaries!
Pink Panther
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He's not going to be a significantly better player now than when he joined us six weeks ago, but he's got a pushy agent. Agents like Finnigan are pests who do no one any real favours except themselves.
StephenMac
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Going by something he's said on Twitter, looks like he's expecting to play tomorrow and is sounding very positive.
You could just watch the Blackadder III episode with Dr Johnson instead.Thank you...can't say I quite get the gist of what you're going on about...as like fuck am I spending half of my day look up stuff in dictionaries!
darryl
this wasn't supposed to happen
Gone to Maidstone: Dan Sweeney Departs - News - Dulwich Hamlet Football Club
StephenMac
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....the sound of the world not giving much of a fuck. Will make for an interesting half page in Gavin's biography if nothing else.
Moroccan Sunset
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To leave three months after joining is a pretty bad show. OK, he's gone up a division but we're top and there's a reasonable chance that in a year's time we'll be playing Maidstone in the league. That's a very poor level of commitment. He was hardly dead focused on our cause if three months after joining Maidstone have come along with a bit more money and he's toddled off.
Unfortunately it felt like the writing was on the wall as soon as that agent crap kicked off and Gav dropped him. I'm just very disappointed that he hasn't weathered the storm and given us a bit longer given that he was nothing special not that long ago. If he goes pro I'll be very surprised.
Get the fuck out and take your agent with you. I look forward to seeing Dean McDonald get a well deserved run in the team.
Unfortunately it felt like the writing was on the wall as soon as that agent crap kicked off and Gav dropped him. I'm just very disappointed that he hasn't weathered the storm and given us a bit longer given that he was nothing special not that long ago. If he goes pro I'll be very surprised.
Get the fuck out and take your agent with you. I look forward to seeing Dean McDonald get a well deserved run in the team.
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Pink Panther
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It's not even three months, his last match for kingstonian was on 6 October. If you want to hyposthesise, Maidstone are second in Conference South just as we're now second in the Isthmian League, so there's a possibility they could be -playing two divisions higher than us next season instread of in the same division.
As you say, this all seemed inevitable as soon as his agent Tony Finnigan started meddling. He has previous for touting our players to other clubs and one former Hamlet manager personally ejected him from Champion Hill when he turned up to one of our matches. From doing a bit of googling, it appears his other clients as an agent include Marlon King. This is also a bloke who got caught with a kilo of heroin in his car and somehow got off with just a fine:
New bairn's drugs shame; Heroin rap for Finnigan. - Free Online Library
There clearly wasn't any real interest from all those League clubs in the first place otherwise Sweeney would have joined one of them instead of Maidstone. He isn't suddenly a better player now than two months ago when he was playing for another team in the same division. He's the sort of big athletic player that prevails in the Conference, solid all round game, consistent, no glaring weaknesses. But if he'd rather play for someone else, that's fine by me, it frees up some resources to bring in someone else more committed to the Hamlet. It's a long time since we lost a player to a 7 day approach from another non-league club. The last one I can recall was Laurent Hamici to Sutton in Ferbruary/March 2009.
pompeydunc
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Not a surprise. There was a good reason to not include him in the 2016 dhfc calendar! Good luck to him. We have plenty of other options in that attacking midfield position in any case. Losing Clunis or one of Pinnock and Drage would be a far greater loss.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Meh. I haven't changed my view on this since it was first suggested he was off so I won't repeat it. He obviously feels he can do better - good luck to him. I won't be following his career though.
blueheaven
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Don't think we can complain too much about his level of commitment. The club didn't commit to him by getting him signed up on a contract, so could have got rid of him at any point, so it works both ways.
It's a short career and he's been given a chance to step up a level, so good luck to him. He's an OK player but far from irreplaceable. I'm happy to see anyone from Dixon/Scannell/McDonald given a chance to take his place now, and there are probably about six or seven other first team players who I'd have been more bothered about losing.
It's a short career and he's been given a chance to step up a level, so good luck to him. He's an OK player but far from irreplaceable. I'm happy to see anyone from Dixon/Scannell/McDonald given a chance to take his place now, and there are probably about six or seven other first team players who I'd have been more bothered about losing.
He didn't want to sign a contract!
blueheaven
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OK, fair enough - but it's still his decision to make and I wouldn't say he's done anything wrong in that. I don't think he owed us anything.
Pink Panther
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I think most of us are being fairly pragmatic about the whole thing. We're just not used to our players jumping ship for the first slightly better looking prospect that comes up, because Gavin has been very successful in persuading our best players to commit themselves at least until the end of the current season or until a much bigger club comes in for them.
The fact that he didn't want to renew his contract at Kingstonian when it expired in the summer, then didn't want to commit to one with us, was a bit of a clue what might happen with hindsight. Would be interesting to know whether he's singed one with Maidstone, or whether his agent will be agitating for another move to the likes of Ebbsfleet or Bromley before the end of the season!
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Yes exactly. There's no point getting annoyed IMO, you can't blame him for moving on to benefit his career, but he won't be remembered at Dulwich particularly (not that he's too bothered I'm sure). Compare him to someone like Rhys Murrell-Williamson who has just as much potential IMO. If he leaves at the end of season we'll all be watching to see what he does next and wishing him the best.
Paula_G
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Quiet a big chunk on the Tony Finnigan story in Ian Wright's biography, always seemed something unsavoury about how he got off so lightly. The Wright Stuff
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