Jimmy bullard

[hopeful]

has just scored a great goal for fulham,great to see him playing again.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

86th minute winner!

[cantos]

[Stonebridge Red]

A local boy done good, it was obvious he was capable of top class football when played for us, he was head and shoulders above the other 21 players on the pitch and has to be one of the best players to have ever pulled on a Gravesend and Northfleet shirt. If he keeps playing like he is then an England call up isn't out of the question.

[Greg_Dyke]

Originally Posted By: wellred

A local boy done good, it was obvious he was capable of top class football when played for us, he was head and shoulders above the other 21 players on the pitch and has to be one of the best players to have ever pulled on a Gravesend and Northfleet shirt. If he keeps playing like he is then an England call up isn't out of the question.

yet Ebbsfleet only sold him for £30,000

Heads should have rolled !!!!

[Slartibartfast]

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

Originally Posted By: wellred

A local boy done good, it was obvious he was capable of top class football when played for us, he was head and shoulders above the other 21 players on the pitch and has to be one of the best players to have ever pulled on a Gravesend and Northfleet shirt. If he keeps playing like he is then an England call up isn't out of the question.

yet Ebbsfleet only sold him for £30,000

Heads should have rolled !!!!

West Ham let him go for nothing.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

It was West Ham's decision to let him go for nothing that cost us as well as I believe we had a sell on clause(and equally had West Ham kept him we would have got more the more games he played)

[Lager Top]

Originally Posted By: Alan W (GNFC)

It was West Ham's decision to let him go for nothing that cost us as well as I believe we had a sell on clause(and equally had West Ham kept him we would have got more the more games he played)

I'm not going to make myself popular on here, but I believe Jimmy was playing in a pre-season friendly for Dartford against Gravesend when Andy Ford allegedly tapped him up.

[Jeff]

I don't think you are that popular anyway.

 

Lager Top is a poofs' drink as well.

[Lager Top]

Originally Posted By: Jeff

I don't think you are that popular anyway.

Lager Top is a poofs' drink as well.

Nice come back Jeff. You must be proud.

[John Pearce]

[quote=Lager Top

I'm not going to make myself popular on here, but I believe Jimmy was playing in a pre-season friendly for Dartford against Gravesend when Andy Ford allegedly tapped him up.

 

Yes, I believe Bullard did play one or two games for Dartford, but he obviously couldn't see the sense in joining the nomadic tribe of Dartford players, playing home games on a different ground every other week. Hardly a good career move for a player who was/is ambitious.

 

Hence the reason for signing for the 'Fleet. A club who could meet his ambitions and give him the opportunity to take his career to a higher level.

 

Not to a lower level, as would have been the case had he stayed at Dartford.

[wobbly Wayne II]

suprised he left Dartford, seeing how massive they are.

 

would imagine he regrets that now.

[Jeff]

Not really a comeback. More a statement of fact.

[chris blanc]

Originally Posted By: wobbly Wayne II

suprised he left Dartford, seeing how massive they are.

would imagine he regrets that now.

I don't know why you keep on about Dartford to Lager Top. He can't be from there as I'm fairly certain they don't have internet access there.

Or electricity

Or knives and forks

[Greg_Dyke]

but they do have a lot of inter-familly breeding

[David Holden]

Originally Posted By: Alan W (GNFC)

It was West Ham's decision to let him go for nothing that cost us as well as I believe we had a sell on clause(and equally had West Ham kept him we would have got more the more games he played)

There was no sell on clause.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

Still West Ham's fault - we would have earned fortunes by now if he'd stayed and played!

[Slartibartfast]

How?

 

If he had stayed at West Ham we wouldn't have earned anything.

[Lager Top]

Originally Posted By: Jeff

Not really a comeback. More a statement of fact.

Thanks Jeff. I value your input.

[David Holden]

Originally Posted By: Slartibartfast

How?

If he had stayed at West Ham we wouldn't have earned anything.

There was a clause that meant we would have got extra payments based on the number of first team appearances that Jimmy made.

I believe, from memory, that it would have been up to £150,000 of additional payments, but as it was we got only the initial £35,000.