Peter Thorne was on 10k a goal?

[stan butler]

was the falling out you mention the mark bonner games played bonus

I was thinking Phil Stant but could well be Bonner?
I'm sure Stant left being owed money or not happy about something?

[Fatty Thornton]

Although he was a good player a 10k goal bonus back then was absurd even now it would be ridiculous.
Thorne scored scored 17 goals
Earnshaw on 1k a goal scored 35 goals.
Tan and Hammam are both money wasters but considering Hammam was supposed to be a football man he didn't have a clue.

Fantastic player for us

[stan butler]

You can post about Peter Thorne to your heart's content. In fact, you can post about anything or anyone to your heart's content. You're still a nutter, though.

Being called a nutter is nothing new

[stan butler]

Didn’t PR agree a wage with Dave Jones and when Sam met him he doubled it or something like that.

Rumours Sam paid Shrewsbury around 500k more than what they wanted for Hughes.

[splott parker]

How much has that goal against Bristol and Campbell’s goal against QPR earned the City since?

[stan butler]

Fantastic player for us

He was excellent for us and so was Earnie.

[stan butler]

Thorne was worth every penny, no matter what he was paid. We should be grateful that the club went in for players like that. Him and Kavanagh were instrumental in getting us on the map and establishing our club as a Championship side.

Still doesn't take away the fact we were run like a circus under Hammam ending up in a financial mess.
Tan has run the club like a circus to and has only recently got wiser ..

[dembethewarrior]

How do people know about Alan Lee and what he said in a private meeting?

[2b2bdoo]

Don't know, I wasn't part of the negotiations on that occasion.

I think it was either in Dave Jones book or Peter Ridsdales book.

[Optimistic Nick]

This story is normally told using Seth Johnson moving to Leeds.

Yep:

https://www.planetfootball.com/in-de...ent-struggles/

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

With regards to bonner , who like boland I thought did the dirty work so well for us , he didn't leave because of bonus payments , he left because Dave Arse wanted to dismantle the team and bring in non contract or season long loan players .

The reason I know this was because I was late to an evening game , saw bonner in his car said hello and he was gutted as he had just been told by the club

[life on mars]

Considering he was on that much per goal , he was a very unselfish player.

Perhaps the owner didn't handover the page stating that bit and he just played for out of pure love

[stan butler]

How do people know about Alan Lee and what he said in a private meeting?

Same source has the club basher and staff maybe? 😂

[stan butler]

I think it was either in Dave Jones book or Peter Ridsdales book.

Either of them a good read?

[Hilts]

How much has that goal against Bristol and Campbell’s goal against QPR earned the City since?

I wonder what our history would have been if we hadnt scraped up in the play offs.

We were soon in financial trouble and wed massively overspent including on Thorne.

Would failure to go up that year ended Sams reign at the club there and then. New owner , admin maybe.

We will never know. Debt is good was the line wasnt it?

We later found out it was all bollox.

[2b2bdoo]

Either of them a good read?

I really enjoyed both. More so DJs and what he went through.

[stan butler]

I wonder what our history would have been if we hadnt scraped up in the play offs.

We were soon in financial trouble and wed massively overspent including on Thorne.

Would failure to go up that year ended Sams reign at the club there and then. New owner , admin maybe.

We will never know. Debt is good was the line wasnt it?

We later found out it was all bollox.

The money we had spent we should have walked that division?
Our club nearly went under when he was here so god help if he had stayed an kept borrowing from god knows who.
We would have probably be bought or called Cardiff Fc after he took us under.

[the other bob wilson]

He went through a barren period, not scoring for ages.
But he set up loads for Ernie to knock in.

That was his “barn door” period wasn’t it?

[stan butler]

That was his “barn door” period wasn’t it?

Where did he go after us?

[Hilts]

Where did he go after us?

Wasnt it Norwich for next to nothing?

[the other bob wilson]

Wasnt it Norwich for next to nothing?

Yes, I think it was a free, but we stood to get a couple of hundred grand if they went up and they came something like fourteenth.

[stan butler]

Wasnt it Norwich for next to nothing?

Probably due to his high wages and goal bonus?
Was it around the same time has the Gabbs , Collins , Earnie and Kav firesale?

[Des Parrot]

His bullet like header from Willie bolands superb cross that stuffed the wurzels in the play off semi finals was sheer gold 👌

[The Lone Gunman]

Was it around the same time has the Gabbs , Collins , Earnie and Kav firesale?

Earnshaw was sold in August 2004. Kavanagh was sold in March 2005. Gabbidon and Collins were sold in July 2005.

As fire sales go, it was a pretty slow one.....

[stan butler]

Earnshaw was sold in August 2004. Kavanagh was sold in March 2005. Gabbidon and Collins were sold in July 2005.

As fire sales go, it was a pretty slow one.....

Maybe but we sold our best players within a year due to financial mismanagement.