Kin ell. He wasn't decamped into some Russian Gulag. He was living (I assume, as most Aus imports do) rent free/cheap in one of the club's Appleton houses, on £250,000 or more.
Yeah, it's hell.


For all his performance level, he should be living in one of the less solubrious parts of the town, with a loan shark threatening to break his knee caps, daily.

Oh hell lefty you haven't got a clue have you? Have you ever lived in Appleton? It's tough.
The Primary school has has produced its fair share of malicious nutters.

Even Ray Winston won't go into the Appleton Dingle, without protection. Some of those squirrels can be nasty

Apparently Roberts received a fracture in the game.

The Dingle: I did once get involved in an extremely vigorous game of "kiss chase" there. It started off as "kick can lurky" but one thing leads to another. Yer know.

You cannot roll down piggy nut hill anymore. Things aren't what they used to be.

At least the headmaster of the primary school didn't murder his wife.

What does confuse me is Price said throughout the season he was happy with what he gives the team. Was this just a fib and he was secretly disappointed as he didn't need to say anything.

Coach offering public support to underperforming player is fairly standard, try and bolster his confidence. The alternative would be a Mourinho style public slating, I prefer the former.

Depends how much they're on.

If they are on big wages like Pogba, they won't take any slagging off from a coach who is paid less than them, they will just stir up a mutiny.

Yeah I don't agree with slating in public but was considering whether Roberts was playing to instruction.

It seems our game isn't structured enough for Mr Roberts.
Ah so that's what it was.
He wasn't lazy after all.

Reading back on this topic from the first page it's amazing how bang on those early posts were.
Flying biscuit nails it.

I can’t believe we’re still wasting out time talking about this flop/waster/wage thief... In the words of that great cultural luminary Ariana Grande, “thank u, next”.