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KingstonMariner
January 9, 2018, 10:38pm
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Suggested on other Jamie Osborne posts(19th & 28th Dec.) that maybe the personal issues were bigger than the
career issues, (knowing the red crosses would descend).Couldn’t suggest more because was told in strict confidence, that Jamie’s wife was always reluctant to move, which was probably sortable when others were travelling from the Midlands. But recently one of his young children has become quite seriously ill and his wife was even more reluctant to move away from family.
The recent loan and it’s on-off nature indicates all parties trying do the best for him and all parties concerned.
Now Jamie is with family and hopefully resuming a potentially successful career, Solihull get their man and we get our
money back(?) - though I wish it had turned out differently.
In this difficult time for OUR club, when everybodies concerns manifest in different ways, we all need to take a breath
and remember somethings remain more important..................usually!


A lot of people don't seem to understand that some things in life are more important than your job.

It's not as if he was paid millions and could afford to ship his whole family up to GY to reduce some of the pressure.

Good luck to him. He'll probably be still enjoying playing football long after most full time professionals have lost their love of the game.


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I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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Let's not hang him out to dry though. He's a decent player, just unambitious. Good luck Jamey. Shame it didn't work out.


Ambitious to spend time with his family maybe.


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Ambitious to spend time with his family maybe.


So why sign for us in the first place ?


The wife was going away for a girly weekend.
I jokingly remarked  'I don't know whether to spend it watching porn or watching football'
'you may as well spend it watching porn' she replied
That's understanding darling what makes you say that? I asked

She said 'Well you already know how to play football'  
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Agreed Civvy,

He was offered and accepted a generous contract from the club on the back of his undoubted ability.

He came here gained a reputation as an above average player the club ALSO helped him get over a nasty injury.

At some point must have had a spat with the manager over his attitude and not getting in the side instead of fighting for a place.

Slade even then fell over backward to help him stay here and sort his personal stuff out, no players as the right to force his way back in the squad through blackmail.

Expect him to sign for a closer league club sometime soon we were a good advert for him to use I just hope it's not in our league because he will get a nasty shock if he comes back here.
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Good luck Jamie just never worked out but at least you tried it i guess. We move on a live in hope that the replacements are good enough to break into the playing squad .
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Just a thought, and it's something I've mentioned before. Primarily, footballers are employees of their club and subject to the same kind of rules, regulations and procedures there every bit as we would be in our workplace.

Not being partial to any of the reasons as to why he left, or took what was in effect leave of absence, I think the posts that have been written on here being so hyper critical of the guy won't have helped the situation if he ever read the Fishy. To me, a guy who's come up through the non league ranks to get his Football League chance much later on in life than is usual it must have seemed like winning the pools, because everybody looks at what can really happen on such a path when you see what Jamie Vardy has achieved. To actively turn his back on it must have been heartbreaking. That the club agreed to the move, rather than hang on and try to make something on him during the transfer window, seems to back the ealier excellent post about his personal circumstances.

I had to give up a job I loved doing because of mental health issues and I can only empathise with what must have been real torment for Osborne. Think perhaps it's time to let sleeping dogs lie, wish him the best, and move on?


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So why sign for us in the first place ?


The cynic in me says signing on fee and better wages.
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Just a thought, and it's something I've mentioned before. Primarily, footballers are employees of their club and subject to the same kind of rules, regulations and procedures there every bit as we would be in our workplace.

Not being partial to any of the reasons as to why he left, or took what was in effect leave of absence, I think the posts that have been written on here being so hyper critical of the guy won't have helped the situation if he ever read the Fishy. To me, a guy who's come up through the non league ranks to get his Football League chance much later on in life than is usual it must have seemed like winning the pools, because everybody looks at what can really happen on such a path when you see what Jamie Vardy has achieved. To actively turn his back on it must have been heartbreaking. That the club agreed to the move, rather than hang on and try to make something on him during the transfer window, seems to back the ealier excellent post about his personal circumstances.

I had to give up a job I loved doing because of mental health issues and I can only empathise with what must have been real torment for Osborne. Think perhaps it's time to let sleeping dogs lie, wish him the best, and move on?


End of the day he has gone no point us crying over spilt milk .
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Agreed Civvy,

He was offered and accepted a generous contract from the club on the back of his undoubted ability.

He came here gained a reputation as an above average player the club ALSO helped him get over a nasty injury.

At some point must have had a spat with the manager over his attitude and not getting in the side instead of fighting for a place.

Slade even then fell over backward to help him stay here and sort his personal stuff out, no players as the right to force his way back in the squad through blackmail.

Expect him to sign for a closer league club sometime soon we were a good advert for him to use I just hope it's not in our league because he will get a nasty shock if he comes back here.


I agree with a lot of this but how do we know he was given a generous contract? At the time he signed, he was a great prospect but unproven at league level. He accepted a 2.5 year deal on better wages as a Pro footballer. The contract may have been good but offered with the carrot of, "do well and we'll improve it".

If it's true that he didn't believe Slade would play him regularly, he may have had thoughts of sitting in a bedsit in Cleethorpes, playing reserve team football and being bored and away from his family for the rest of the week. To him, to be the best player in a part time conference team, whilst topping up his wages working back as an electrician, may have seemed to be a better option.

If all of that is the case, then fair enough, we have lost a good player but sometimes other factors dictate these things and I send him my best wishes.

If however, he does sign for another league club that is geographically similar to GTFC, then ignore any of my comments above.  

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It's great that you knew we were going to get promoted. Because until that Braintree player got sent off most people would have bet against it.


Not sure where you took from my post that I knew, with certainty, that we were going to get promoted. I did have belief that we would though, and even if we hadn't, I didn't personally want to see the back of Hurst at the time - regardless of what happened with promotion, as I did ultimately believe in him and knew we'd get there - if not that season, but the following season.
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