Tomlin Released

[Jursset_BrisCity]

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There’s an article knocking around somewhere about what he was like.

Apparently he turned up to training after signing this new deal in a top of the range Lamborghini (it’s in his tik toks) and Johnson came up to him and said it doesn’t set the right mood for the younger lads etc.

Tomlin said “That’s alright gaffer, let them park next to your old range rover then”.

Then he would go to the nutrition sessions deliberately eating two chocolate bars and put a packet of crisps on the table.

Incredibly talented player but you add all these stories up over several clubs and you quickly come to the view the bloke is a bit of a cock.

[life on mars]

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I hate to say I told you so…

But I told you so!

You don’t get on the wrong side of Eddie Howe, Johnson, Karanka and Warnock and it be all of those blokes with the problem.

And McCarthy , spot on I'd believe them befroe listening to a single word coming out of Tomlin's mercenary mouth :thumbup:

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I know, don’t know what state he’s in but players like him can win a game with free kick or shot, we dont have many of them on show currently do we?

Trouble is, that's exactly why managers give players like him so much slack, a second or third chance. And Tomlin knows it.

[AfricanBluebird]

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Warnock will probably sign him in January if not before.

I thought that any player who's contract is terminated outside of the transfer window, like now, isn't deemed a free transfer and can only sign for a domestic club when the window reopens. Could be wrong though.

[Dave Blue]

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What a day! I will never again read that someone either wants him in the team, wonders why he isn’t picked this week or asks where he is.

[dembethewarrior]

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How do you know he’s suffering with a mental health illness? Where are you getting your information?

Either him or the club said a while back.

These things don't just pass over, he would have had MH issues before and after the statement made a while back ck as well.

[Llandaff Blue]

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How do you know he’s suffering with a mental health illness? Where are you getting your information?

He said so himself a couple of years ago.

[J R Hartley]

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I hate to say I told you so…

But I told you so!

You don’t get on the wrong side of Eddie Howe, Johnson, Karanka and Warnock and it be all of those blokes with the problem.

A player get in the wrong side of Neil Warnock? Or Lee Johnson? Shock horror!

[Jursset_BrisCity]

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He said so himself a couple of years ago.

Looking back to his low period, Tomlin recalled the start of last season when he was out of favour at promoted Cardiff but unable to secure a move.

He said: “The transfer window had shut, the loan window had shut, I couldn't go anywhere. I found it difficult to find purpose.

“Everything that had happened in previous years, I had probably not dealt with properly and it just exploded.

“As you get older you mature and think more and I started focusing on worst case scenarios. For example after football, what do you do then? And life in general, over-thinking everything took its toll on me.

“You always have bad days in football but to think the sort of things I was thinking at the time, it was obviously a lot deeper than that than your average bad day.

“I was sitting in bed at 2am, 3am with the worst thoughts … about hanging myself, slitting my wrists, sitting there crying. I'd have the tablets in my hand.“

[J R Hartley]

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Looking back to his low period, Tomlin recalled the start of last season when he was out of favour at promoted Cardiff but unable to secure a move.

He said: “The transfer window had shut, the loan window had shut, I couldn't go anywhere. I found it difficult to find purpose.

“Everything that had happened in previous years, I had probably not dealt with properly and it just exploded.

“As you get older you mature and think more and I started focusing on worst case scenarios. For example after football, what do you do then? And life in general, over-thinking everything took its toll on me.

“You always have bad days in football but to think the sort of things I was thinking at the time, it was obviously a lot deeper than that than your average bad day.

“I was sitting in bed at 2am, 3am with the worst thoughts … about hanging myself, slitting my wrists, sitting there crying. I'd have the tablets in my hand.“

Anyone who has suffered mental health problems can totally relate to this.

[Jursset_BrisCity]

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A player get in the wrong side of Neil Warnock? Or Lee Johnson? Shock horror!

Well to be fair, it’s not just them two is it.

But on them two, Warnock has arguably the best football league managerial record in the game and Johnson (for all the stuff about him) currently manages the side top of the league and in the last 16 of the League Cup…

[Jursset_BrisCity]

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Anyone who has suffered mental health problems can totally relate to this.

The similarities between him and Gascoigne are clear as day.
He does need some help because I can see him going the same way if he isn’t careful.

Both players easily the most naturally gifted players in all the teams they’ve played in, but unable to handle it.

[stan butler]

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Lets do a swap Mick goes North Neil comes south perfect

You are joking right?

[J R Hartley]

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Well to be fair, it’s not just them two is it.

But on them two, Warnock has arguably the best football league managerial record in the game and Johnson (for all the stuff about him) currently manages the side top of the league and in the last 16 of the League Cup…

What the **** has records got to do with it? We have more than enough experience of Warnock go know he falls out with players easily and has his favourites. His favourites get treated very well and he’s a horrible **** to those who fall out of favour.

He couldn’t have fallen out with Karanka that badly - he signed him for Forest.

[blue matt]

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A great player when fit and wanting to play football, he was in the top % in the EFL in that aspect, could change a game in a blink of a eye and made it look so easy

a real shame though he had his fitness issues, now when he came back from his injury he really was a fat bloke, something like you see waddling down the road from having a afternoon session down the pub, it was a disgrace, I know he was injured, but the club would have seen this happening and told him to watch what he ate, he made the decision to eat what he liked and way too much of it, which to me is very unprofessional

was it a coincidence that when his contract was up for renewal he seemed to get his head right and stay fit and slim, as son as the contract was signed he put the weight back on, this wasn't just at our club either, its been a pattern to his career

but when fit and slim he would have been the 1st player on the team sheet at most EFL teams