To me its common sense

Not really bothered what he does at Swindon he just joins our enormous list of ex's. Time to move on.

Thanks AC... you gave us a good year for nothing , and have given us a good return on your departure...

hope you come back to us with Swindon in the FA Cup and we stuff you...     

Quoted from SNOOZE

HE probably wanted to get away from all you MORONS that slag him off

Where and when did i slag him off?

Quoted from moosey_club

There is....... fans!!

Unfortunately even fans aren't loyal nowadays. If Town are going for the Championship, what do you think the attendances will be at the end of the season compared to a 9/10th place finish. Even some fans will only support success and I know a few myself.

Quoted from 1600

Disappointed fans are turning on Connell - do you really think the club wanted him here on his wages ?  I don't !

In terms of their words and actions they certainly didn't throw the boat out to encourage him to stay.
Bottom line, we could have said "not for sale end of" and we'd have got a good year out of him.

Same old story, blame the player never the club.  

I think that on this instance NOBODY has to take any blame. Alan wanted to play at a higher level and it appears we got a decent fee for a player who only had 1 year left on his contract and had a record of 1 good goalscoring season. He could have scored 10 next year, he could have scored 30, he could have broke his leg. Who knows, it's all a lot of if's,but's and maybe's now.
I don't know if he would fit into this 433 formation that Hurst was going on about in the Gy Telegraph (can't really see him being an Anelka, Drogba or Malouda type player  ) I can see all the other forwards fitting in. (we may very well see Eagle as our own Malouda  )

Quoted from GrimRob

Not really bothered what he does at Swindon he just joins our enormous list of ex's. Time to move on.

GTFC: the footballing slag.

Quoted from tashee69

Unfortunately even fans aren't loyal nowadays. If Town are going for the Championship, what do you think the attendances will be at the end of the season compared to a 9/10th place finish. Even some fans will only support success and I know a few myself.

Well they are not fans are they, fans - short for fanatic , Adj.     1.     fanatic - marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; 2.fanatic - a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); 3.a person whose enthusiasm or zeal for something is extreme or beyond normal limits

the ones you describe are glory hunters, end of. Dont care when they first attended a game its attendance through the barren years that count.

Quoted from mariner91

GTFC: the footballing slag.

I love that !! Worthy of a flag and an unofficial club crest.

Quoted from tashee69

I don't know if he would fit into this 433 formation that Hurst was going on about in the Gy Telegraph (can't really see him being an Anelka, Drogba or Malouda type player  ) I can see all the other forwards fitting in. (we may very well see Eagle as our own Malouda  )

I'd like someone to explain to me how a 4-3-3 formation matters when you've got a striker knocking a large proportion of his goals in from 25+ yards, not that I understand the rationale anyway. Does anybody have any idea why he wouldn't fit into a 4-3-3 ?

As for the GET piece(thanks for reminding me to read), another carefully crafted piece of propaganda with all the right boxes ticked.

"Hurst said: "Alan handed in a transfer request yesterday morning and it moved very quickly from there."

I bet it did !!!  

"There has been a lot of speculation and attention on one player in the media."

A reasonable amount of it was from Hursts own mouth - "Bosses deny issue with top man Alan" indeed !  

"It's possibly been a little unfair on the rest of the team."

Ah well, too late now, he's gone...  

"After Alan had handed in a transfer request, it made it more difficult for us because if we then turn the offer down you are left with a player who doesn't want to be here."

How convenient he put in a tranfer request right at the last minute. Makes you wonder why he didn't before...

"He wouldn't have been in the right state of mind and that's the last thing we wanted."
I just don't buy that - not only was he considered a model professional by many but pretty sure Fenty started the ball rolling by saying words to the same effect at the backend of last season even before Connell said he was happy to stay here at the POTY awards.
Of course I accept it's entirely possible that Alan himself wanted away all along, but again, why didn't he hand in a transfer request beforehand ?

"It's hard to replace those goals if he goes and would cost us a lot of money to do so."
So is you're gonna spend the money why sell in the first place ?
Because he wouldn't have been happy, I forgot.
Well according to his twitter he was happy right up until the moment an acceptable offer came in.
Geez, what a terrible bit of "sods law" bad luck at the last moment for GTFC !

Now I'll be opening myself up for abuse here(doesn't really bother me so fire away if you so wish) but I want to be honest.
I do feel slightly guilty because I know many fans don't agree with me/hate me/like me talking about it, I didn't actually want go on about it all again.
But frankly, giving fans the whole dog and pony show in the media to paint themselves as helpless victims with tied hands makes me slightly annoyed.
And yes, after today it still do still think we'll miss Alan.
For what it's worth, I won't go out of my way to say any more about it unless someone wishes to have a debate (until the fans forum should anything else crop up).
At least that will please most fans.

just because we (may have) made £100k+ for connell doesn't mean it's a good deal for the club.  i'd argue that losing your 30 goal a season striker and best player just before the new season starts is not a good deal whatever the club.  as for fenty being astute, jesus wept...