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dapperz fun pub	May 6, 2016, 10:16am
Special Brew Drinker Posts: 9,357 Posts Per Day: 1.59 Reputation: 84.95% Rep Score: +37 / -6 Approval: +10,017 Gold Stars: 83	Widely reported 14 of the 16 Braintree players are back to work today can our players really regard themselves as professional athletes or just non league plodders mugging a living ? I just can't get my head around how they seemed so lively compared to us
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grimps	May 6, 2016, 10:18am
balderdash Whiskey Drinker Posts: 4,459 Posts Per Day: 0.79 Reputation: 57.6% Rep Score: +21 / -19 Approval: +5,136 Gold Stars: 46	I'd be guessing more half a dozen of ours will be looking for jobs outside of football next week
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dapperz fun pub	May 6, 2016, 10:23am
Special Brew Drinker Posts: 9,357 Posts Per Day: 1.59 Reputation: 84.95% Rep Score: +37 / -6 Approval: +10,017 Gold Stars: 83	Time to let the likes of venney,Clifton have ago these lads look hungry for it as opposed to sulking or tossing it off
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GrimRob	May 6, 2016, 10:42am
Moderator Posts: 12,684 Posts Per Day: 2.12 Reputation: 69.92% Rep Score: +76 / -34 Approval: +13,432 Gold Stars: 113	It's not just us, they did finish third after all and nearly everyone in the league is full-time. The top part-time players are obviously as good if not better than the worst pros. It's a good way to earn two incomes so it must appeal to some people. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.   ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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dapperz fun pub	May 6, 2016, 10:42am
Special Brew Drinker Posts: 9,357 Posts Per Day: 1.59 Reputation: 84.95% Rep Score: +37 / -6 Approval: +10,017 Gold Stars: 83	Absolutely  rob. Clearly they are as good as us football wise (maybe better) but guys training full time should be fitter imo than guys training twice a week doing in some cases manual jobs, we didn't look fitter
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Rick12	May 6, 2016, 10:45am
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,155 Posts Per Day: 1.15 Reputation: 91.04% Rep Score: +42 / -3 Approval: +255 Gold Stars: 45	Quoted from GrimRob It's not just us, they did finish third after all and nearly everyone in the league is full-time. The top part-time players are obviously as good if not better than the worst pros. It's a good way to earn two incomes so it must appeal to some people. In a better position than the full time pros as well.They have jobs they can fall back on if they get the sack.Hence if players get the sack at our club the lives and that of there family's are affected. Eg looking for new clubs,potentially uprooting any kids/family etc.I prefer my boy though to be in a  Braintees players shoes as opposed to Towns though.Life is all about money at the end of the day and at our level clubs cant provide financial/job security for players if there doing it at as a sole source of income .Eg  £35 k on a 1-2 year deal and then what? One life,one love .
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barralad	May 6, 2016, 11:15am
Mariners Trust Posts: 13,808 Posts Per Day: 2.32 Reputation: 79.47% Rep Score: +85 / -22 Approval: +9,295 Gold Stars: 127	A friend of mine was talking to the Braintree supremo after the game in the Notts last night. Apparently when they played Barrow in a night game recently they arrived back home at 6 a.m. and 13 of their 16 players were at work at 8 a.m. (**Gulp**) The aim of argument or discussion should not be victory but progress. Joseph Joubert.
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Rick12	May 6, 2016, 11:21am
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,155 Posts Per Day: 1.15 Reputation: 91.04% Rep Score: +42 / -3 Approval: +255 Gold Stars: 45	Quoted from barralad A friend of mine was talking to the Braintree supremo after the game in the Notts last night. Apparently when they played Barrow in a night game recently they arrived back home at 6 a.m. and 13 of their 16 players were at work at 8 a.m. (**Gulp**) Thats mad.Health is everything and sleep deprivation is one of the worst. One life,one love .
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LH	May 6, 2016, 11:40am
Moderator Posts: 11,481 Posts Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 71.54% Rep Score: +30 / -13 Approval: +18,555 Gold Stars: 174	Surely they slept on the coach? Unless one of them is a coach driver..
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grimsby pete	May 6, 2016, 11:45am
Exile Posts: 55,711 Posts Per Day: 9.80 Reputation: 81.7% Rep Score: +126 / -28 Location: Suffolk Approval: +17,800 Gold Stars: 222	Braintree are a well organised fit team and deserve to be where they are, ( gulp I hate saying that ) but its true, Now why can't Hurst get our team organised ? Maybe we should look for a  PT Teacher to take over next season.                              Over 36 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.                              68 Years following the Town                               Life member of Trust                                First game   April 1955
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