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Ben Pringle

Ben Pringle

Good character but I don't think Neil likes him at all in terms of a footballer, will be sold to a League 1 side and probably flourish at that level as he is a good player for that level.
 
Hopefully he will find a new club next month.

Best for everyone that he moves on and gets games.
 
Not his biggest fan as a footballer but on a personal level it’s hard not to feel sorry for him really.

His last appearance for us was 14 December 2016 away at Forest as a sub when Pearson got injured.

It was clear that he was out of the plans in the second half of last season so it’s ridiculous that at least a loan move wasn’t agreed before 1 September, it’s left him with zero football and us paying all of his wages.
 
kbd_pne said:
Not his biggest fan as a footballer but on a personal level it’s hard not to feel sorry for him really.

His last appearance for us was 14 December 2016 away at Forest as a sub when Pearson got injured.

It was clear that he was out of the plans in the second half of last season so it’s ridiculous that at least a loan move wasn’t agreed before 1 September, it’s left him with zero football and us paying all of his wages.
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A deal was arranged for him and he said his goodbyes, but there was a last minute change of heart from somewhere and it didn’t happen. Like you say, it’s hard not feeling sorry for him.
 
He has some talent and actually played well in that League Cup win at Bournemouth a couple of years back that helped turn that season around. It just hasn't worked out and the fact is that AN took a hard, unbiased look at all the players he inherited and decided Pringle just was not appropriate for our needs. Hopefully Pringle, Vermilj and Doyle will all be offloaded in January.
 
I was happy when we signed him. Safe to say it's not worked out.
When he leaves I hope he gets his career back on track. Despite not being in the team much, it looks like he's a member of the banter squad. Which is good, a far cry from the bad apples of old.

Nice One.
 
llanroc said:
A deal was arranged for him and he said his goodbyes, but there was a last minute change of heart from somewhere and it didn’t happen. Like you say, it’s hard not feeling sorry for him.
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Ranks as one of the worst signings ever made by North End

Will have probably earned well in excess of half a million quid for doing sweet FA and happy to sit in the stands picking up his wages. Could have left any time if he really wanted to play football, but wont take the drop in wages.

There are people grafting their nuts off for 250 quid a week, who struggle to make ends meet. I would rather feel sorry for them.
 
norky84 said:
Burton Albion offered a loan deal that would have paid 90% of his wages I think it was. Hemmings stubbornly wanted all the wages to be paid by Burton.
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That’s correct except it was a permanent deal, and we wouldn’t pay off the final part of his wages for the 2 years remaining on his contract.

This happened at the start of June and we’ve been paying his wages in full ever since whilst he’s sat in the stands, so needless to say it wasn’t the correct decision.
 
llanroc said:
A deal was arranged for him and he said his goodbyes, but there was a last minute change of heart from somewhere and it didn’t happen. Like you say, it’s hard not feeling sorry for him.
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The reason was we insisted that they pay all his wages and at the last minute they called our bluff

Sorry only just seen kbd-pne'xs post which is correct
 
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preach said:
I don't find it funny. He's been sat around picking up a wage for being a lazy git.
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It's not his fault that we don't play him. I think it must be bloody soul destroying coming to training with the rest of the players all week when on match days your not wanted.
 
bowlandwhites said:
It's not his fault that we don't play him. I think it must be bloody soul destroying coming to training with the rest of the players all week when on match days your not wanted.
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Correct. He has a contract, which the club were perfectly happy to give him, so why should he lose money? It sounds as though it's Hemmings' cussedness which has cost us money.
 
Whats with the "us?"

Its his money at the end of the day and if we now have an owner who is going to say to other clubs, "This is the price or do one," then thats good by me.
 
bowlandwhites said:
It's not his fault that we don't play him. I think it must be bloody soul destroying coming to training with the rest of the players all week when on match days your not wanted.
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Well it really is his fault that he’s not playing because he consistently played badly for months when he first joined, and has failed to impress 2 separate managers.

However yes it’s not his fault that a deal wasn’t done for him to depart though.
 
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