Voice_of_Reason
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Been appointed assistant Head coach at Forest Green Rovers. Good move.
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Gynnsthetonic
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He followed his manager Chris Burchnall from Notts County who has just been appointed
Voice_of_Reason
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Those who appreciate just what he did helping Sky Blues achieve promotion.
Grendel
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And ignore the fact he was shite in the championship when he was paid handsomely for not achieving
Tommo1993
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Grendel
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doyler lol
Tommo1993
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Doylem lol
Grendel
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Shame it wasn’t Leek Town he signed for you could have gone and watched him
Tommo1993
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While on the job topic, has Kenny Jackett got one yet?
Grendel
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No he was told to go on a training course and cried like a baby as it would take him an hour to get there
Tommo1993
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Grendel
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Doyle was the highest paid player in our squad when he was captain in the championship and he was poor - he was symbolic of our failure - so sorry if I don’t really care if he’s got a job at Forest Green - we’ve been a cash cow to him and he’s made more from us than we’ve benefitted from him
You seem to care a lot about this subject considering your first post said 'who cares'.
SlowerThanPlatt
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Fair analysis but I still hope he does well as I do with all ex players barring complete wasters like Bright and Kastaneer
bawtryneal
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So what, not his problem. He was given a contract and signed it.
bawtryneal
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Are you having your period this week !!
PUSB-We_are_going_up
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Grendel, stop speaking out of your arse, you make good points often but you are in the wrong here Doyle is a club hero, captained us to promotion of which put us on the road back to where we are
Grendel
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And his incompetence and grossly inflated wages helped take us down there in the first place - sorry I’m not a fan
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I’ve not been a fan of his, but you can’t deny the influence he had in getting us off our knees. He may not have been good enough previously, but he’s at least made up for it somewhat when he returned
WGABSOOS
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Sounds like a line from your annual employment review
PUSB-We_are_going_up
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Not really, it was the not replacing loan players and setting targets too high on signings, and losing our players to better teams
Legia Sky Blue
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Utter nonsense
Grendel
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in his first spell his wages would have cost us at least £8 million over that period - he was the poorer partner compared to Hughes
Mccallister as a player when he returned was excellent - he was poor in his first spell so his overall contribution was not great
Doyle wasn’t a championship player and that’s where he played mostly for us
Brighton Sky Blue
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We wasted far more on those who contributed much less even in that era.
Kyle
Clingan
Coleman
McKenzie
Birchall
Eastwood
I could go on
NorthernWisdom
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Doyle was better than those who replaced him.
Grendel
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We didn’t spend anything like the money on them - hardly my point anyway
Voice_of_Reason
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According to Grendel, once a player reaches his prime and their abilities become less, they are rubbish and he doesn't care what they contributed when in their prime. Doyle is a legend, loves CCFC and always says we are his club.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Well on another thread you’ve gone off heaping praise on Wayne Rooney for taking £4 million a year as he helped Derby do sod all except get relegated and put into admin.
Take Kyle as one example, £700k and was on silly money, binned off after 3 years, Eastwood likewise for £1.2m and binned off after 4. Signings like that put us in the crap, not a freebie from Celtic
Grendel
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He was top of the wage bill - it’s not relevant as no one seems to want to make some kind of legend status out of the likes of Kyle and Eastwood
NorthernWisdom
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Worth noting that Doyle's £80k pw came about because each time a club came in for him, instead of letting him go the club gave him a pay rise to get him to stay. So not only we valued him, so did those other clubs.
Central midfield was the least of our worries during those times.
Brighton Sky Blue
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And that would be because they cost hefty sums and contributed very little indeed. It’s just odd that you point the finger at him when he really wasn’t the main reason for our troubles. And unlike most of those characters came back and tried to put it right.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I am willing to concede that 80 grand a week may have been a bit generous
