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Hamer’s liability was always his brain, not his feet. You could see he was a level above from the minute he joined the club but had to improve his discipline and decision making. Eccles and Sheaf aren’t the same.

At the end of the day it was the club’s decision, he was under contract for another year and we could’ve rejected any bids. You can’t expect him to sign an extension on half the wages he would get in the premier league with no guarantee he could leave at the end of the year. So the club had a...

Not sure I ever thought I’d see a football song to the tune of Jessie J

Surely it’s more like 20.

It could’ve been you, it could’ve been youuuu, Gustavo Hamer, it could’ve been you!

Simms is shite in almost every way and will have to improve significantly even to be an at all valuable member of the squad.

15? Isn’t it about 20

Is 4-2 a pumping?

Won’t be activating those clauses if he plays like this will he though. But even for the £3.5m initial he’s been very poor. I suppose we’ve paid for his potential.

Why isn’t Wright starting?

I’d have McCallum back

To add to this, you say 200k is a fair wage but when the premier league brings in £5bn a year you would think referees should see a vaguely significant portion of that money. After all, on any given weekend there’s only 80 officials (+ VAR) officiating games. I’ve probably watched too many...

We’re not getting Massengo, he’ll have offers from the Prem, Ligue 1 etc.

Agreed at grassroots. But I think you want to increase it across the board, so it becomes an attractive career option. Even L1/2 standard refs should be getting 50/60k+ IMO. It’s a thankless task to be berated for 90 mins by 5, 10, 20,000+ people.

Is quality officiating not vital to the premier league product, and therefore those revenues?

Pay them more. Some random googling tells me that “top premier league referees” can earn “up to £70,000”. That’s ridiculous when players are earning £10m+ a year.

Usually a no brainier though isn’t it, in this case big spending top half Villa vs relegation fodder Sheff U

Surely if you want to do this you select a home game and arrange to meet in tavern/dhillons I’ll be wearing a pink polo and holding a single rose with a copy of brokeback mountain in my other hand. Catch me if you can boys!

Currently top of the SPL 10 games in to the 2027/28 season with Dunfermline

Obviously the sauce of those rumours wasn’t very reliable