Redmist1903 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3584877/Garry-OConnor-does-runner-after-drugs-swoop.html Link to comment
Jack_Glass Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 cant be that fit ether if the cops caught up with him, last thing we want is a numpty like that passing on his knowledge/experience of coke to our young ones, not a very good role model no wonder our game is going down the pan in Scotland, too many players think they've made it and let their standards drop, with little cash being invested into the SPL we'll see lots of this from players that are not true professionals as we scrounge around the bottom of footballs scrap-heap picking up players dumped by other clubs Link to comment
Quagmire Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Something not right after he was signed in Jan by Barnsley and released in April? Maybe they knew something already. Anyway, let him do the usual "My drugs hell" story in the NOTW then sign him. Nothing a good pre-season and a frest start in a new city might not sort out. No matter how the tabloids sell it, getting caught with coke isnt a massive deal. Link to comment
Redmist1903 Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 getting caught with coke isnt a massive deal. It is if your a professional footballer / role model to kids. Link to comment
barassie_afc Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 It is if your a professional footballer / role model to kids. WTF ? Anyone who thinks their kids should look up to these cxnts needs their head read, role models ffs Link to comment
Quagmire Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 It is if your a professional footballer / role model to kids. The guy isnt contracted to any club. At the end of the day, after all the mock outrage has died down, its not a massive problem to sort out. I'd still take him, a talking to from Pa Broon and Archie about where his lifes going if he doesn't wise the f**k up and get his head straight and a chance to get his career back on track at Aberdeen would be a chance worth taking. Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Aye Gary O'Connor as a role model, no thanks, total schemie, if he wisna good at football he'd be just like the rest of the pondlife hanging about Leith. Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 The guy isnt contracted to any club. At the end of the day, after all the mock outrage has died down, its not a massive problem to sort out. I'd still take him, a talking to from Pa Broon and Archie about where his lifes going if he doesn't wise the f**k up and get his head straight and a chance to get his career back on track at Aberdeen would be a chance worth taking. Junkies on large contracts is not a road I want us to go down. Young players, fit and aggressive as hell, is what we need. Link to comment
Quagmire Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Junkies on large contracts is not a road I want us to go down. Young players, fit and aggressive as hell, is what we need. Junkie? Come on, I thought you were better than that! I wonder how much Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Junkie? Come on, I thought you were better than that! I wonder how much Link to comment
Quagmire Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I never specifically called O'Connor a junkie, I'm just making a general point that washed up has-beens with far too much cash and spare time, who've possibly taken to the drugs as a result, are not the type of players I want us to sign. I'm sure Gary O'Connor is as pure as the driven snow, and I am in no way suggesting he's a junkie, he disna look like one at all, and all those tattoos and missing teeth are merely a form of self expression. Or merely a target man, who's been bumped about a bit over the years, with a love of body art! Opinions will vary depending on how much of a fish wifey you are. Would you have given Lee Hughes or Marlon King a second chance? Both their actions were far worse imo. Link to comment
boboisared Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 A quick google search will let you know that O'Connor is known to be a total junkie, going back to his time at Hibs. Link to comment
tightbreeks Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 O'conron loved his ectoids, couldn't get enough of them. Link to comment
barassie_afc Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hoovering up the ching wi Deek, likesay eh Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hughes and King are reprehensible characters. I don't care how good they are, once you've done time for serious criminal matters, I don't want you anywhere near AFC. I applaud Dave Whelan's stance re woman beater King, and Hughes got let out far too early, the family of the man killed must despair, he should have had no chance to resurrect his career. What does it say about team spirit when you are entertaining convicts? Link to comment
Crossbow Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hughes and King are reprehensible characters. I don't care how good they are, once you've done time for serious criminal matters, I don't want you anywhere near AFC. I applaud Dave Whelan's stance re woman beater King, and Hughes got let out far too early, the family of the man killed must despair, he should have had no chance to resurrect his career. What does it say about team spirit when you are entertaining convicts? Quite agree. I think there are some standards we should support, and in a professional sporting outfit you really can't condone people who abuse their bodies (which cannot help their on pitch performance over a season) or have no respect for others and commit serious crime. Link to comment
barassie_afc Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Quite agree. I think there are some standards we should support, and in a professional sporting outfit you really can't condone people who abuse their bodies (which cannot help their on pitch performance over a season) or have no respect for others and commit serious crime. Isnt imbibing large amounts of alcohol and smoking abusing one's body ? Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Isnt imbibing large amounts of alcohol and smoking abusing one's body ? Yep. A properly run AFC would not entertain a drinking culture. Link to comment
Crossbow Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Yep. A properly run AFC would not entertain a drinking culture. Absolutely - they are being paid to be fit, not drunk; much of the difference between top players and also rans is attitude and behaviour. Its alsways nice to be brilliant at footie but it helps if you take care of yourself; players last longer and reach higher heights if they train properly and take care of their body. A drinking culture is the embodiement of the opposite and shows disrespect to the club and the fans. Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Which is where we've been at for some time. What hope did we have, for instance, when the biggest alkie of them all was in the dugout, or not there, as happened against Dundee? Or where your director of football props up Soul Bar whilst all around him business empires collapse in a hail of debt and recrimination? Take away the alcohol during the season, no exceptions. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 i reckon we should let them have a few beers before the game. surely canna get any worse. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 can i add that i think oconner looks like an intelligent well-read young gent. Link to comment
Redmist1903 Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 WTF ? Anyone who thinks their kids should look up to these cxnts needs their head read, role models ffs WTF? I never once suggested that anybody should think their kids should look up to this guys, wise up. Whether we like it or not footballers will be idolised or looked up to by young supporters of the team they play for. Are you're saying when you was playing football when you were a bairn you never pretended to be McDougall, Hewitt, Dalglish, etc? Must've only been me then. Link to comment
barassie_afc Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 WTF? I never once suggested that anybody should think their kids should look up to this guys, wise up. Whether we like it or not footballers will be idolised or looked up to by young supporters of the team they play for. Are you're saying when you was playing football when you were a bairn you never pretended to be McDougall, Hewitt, Dalglish, etc? Must've only been me then. Modern equivalents are not O'Connor you are way off the mark, and the days of youngsters (unless they are thick)of idolising mongs like O'Connor are gone, more likely to idolise Rooney, Messi, Ronaldo etc Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 WTF? I never once suggested that anybody should think their kids should look up to this guys, wise up. Whether we like it or not footballers will be idolised or looked up to by young supporters of the team they play for. Are you're saying when you was playing football when you were a bairn you never pretended to be McDougall, Hewitt, Dalglish, etc? Must've only been me then. The obvious difference being that Fergie had an absolute stranglehold on their drinking activities. Drunks were quickly ejected from the squad, as bad for morale and team spirit, as Joe Harper can so bitterly testify. Link to comment
baconman Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 O'connor has the talent he just doesnt have any brains?!! Now his value will have dropped even more. I'd take a punt on him?!! Link to comment
Coopy100 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Thought I heard on the news that o Connery has been released without charge? If so this episode should have no bearing on us signing him. Innocent until proven and all that. Link to comment
Quagmire Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 WTF? I never once suggested that anybody should think their kids should look up to this guys, wise up. Whether we like it or not footballers will be idolised or looked up to by young supporters of the team they play for. Are you're saying when you was playing football when you were a bairn you never pretended to be McDougall, Hewitt, Dalglish, etc? Must've only been me then. What a load of sh*t. Yes i pretended to be footballers in the park when i was young but i wouldnt pretend to be Merson there then go out back horses, bang strippers and blast coke at night. Unfortunately. Dont be deluded enough to think how a footballer acts off the field will affect a young boy. I cant even remember hearing about Merson or anyone else doing that at the time. Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I think we should also go for Derek Lyle, he can take up residence on the wing, and he could supply O'Connor. The sky would be the limit for us then. Link to comment
tup Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 With Lyle supplying O'Connor, I'd be tempted to go for Riordan as well. O'Connor and Riordan make each other tick We'd be dealing with a serious strikeforce then. No more for us just punting the ball aimlessly up the park in a vain attempt to score. We'd be guaranteed a regular fix, of goals obviously, with this trio on board. And I'm not sure how to fit any other drug-dealing cliches in here, so I'll just add contraband from nowhere, left of field. Link to comment
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