Stephen Bettis speaks to local Media

[Berkshire Blade]

A signed contract is exactly that . How can someone ignore a legal contract . Smells of Radio North Korea this BS . Stop hiding behind Hecky

I suggest you actually listen to what he says rather than half remembered selected quotes on here. Nothing that we didn't know
Deal agreed then a late change of mind. The contract was being drawn up after being agreed Ndayie changed his mind overnight

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Silent Blade not perfect but gives a synopsis.
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[mattbianco1]

No captions yet Silent Blade

I can fill in the blanks Silent Blade .

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[Bladesthorpe]

A signed contract is exactly that . How can someone ignore a legal contract . Smells of Radio North Korea this BS . Stop hiding behind Hecky

He didn't say he'd signed he said he'd agreed to sign then changed his mind.

 

[stringjunior]

A signed contract is exactly that . How can someone ignore a legal contract . Smells of Radio North Korea this BS . Stop hiding behind Hecky

If you listen again to the whole interview Bettis makes several mistakes with the language he uses. I don't see it as an issue - it's a live interview and sometimes the wrong word comes out. The overall context makes sense.

 

[Foxy]

If you listen again to the whole interview Bettis makes several mistakes with the language he uses. I don't see it as an issue - it's a live interview and sometimes the wrong word comes out. The overall context makes sense.

I’ve edited my quotes a little to make up for that, that’s the problem taking things said in an interview verbatim as written… it also doesn’t help listening at x2 speed

It used to be a nightmare transcribing the Kevin McCabe fans forums for this very reason… written, his sentences had a different vibe/context and he often skipped between pieces of content/explanation mid-conversation.

Best off listening to get a better understanding, unless of course you don’t have that luxury.

 

[XADE]

The guy needs some serious credit, done some incredible business for us on this promotion.

 

[Rodley]

No captions yet Silent Blade

Staton asking the difficult questions that less established mediums have been unable to ask. Quality stuff. Should have happened weeks ago.

Edit - SB gets more cockney the more anxious he gets

 

[Sean Thornton]

Good to hear we have a site lined up for a new first team training ground and to get the academy to Cat1.



I think he means agreeing rather than signing.

Hang on... AFTER SIGNING?! What am I missing here?

Some common sense?

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

May I be the first to say, without hearing the content, and I don't need to...

SNEEEKKKKKINNN'!!!!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Staton asking the difficult questions that less established mediums have been unable to ask. Quality stuff. Should have happened weeks ago.

I heard nothing that hadn’t been asked on here weeks ago.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Staton asking the difficult questions that less established mediums have been unable to ask. Quality stuff. Should have happened weeks ago.

 

[Sean Thornton]

A signed contract is exactly that . How can someone ignore a legal contract . Smells of Radio North Korea this BS . Stop hiding behind Hecky

A lawyer writes…….

 

[Sean Thornton]

Staton asking the difficult questions that less established mediums have been unable to ask. Quality stuff. Should have happened weeks ago.

Edit - SB gets more cockney the more anxious he gets

It’s HammerInPeace !!!

YHIHF

 

[Rodley]

I heard nothing that hadn’t been asked on here weeks ago.

Bettis is unlikely to read the posts on here.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bettis is unlikely to read the posts on here.

The questions ffs.”Asked”.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Anymore answers we needed?

 

[dingledog]

Is that your side when you collar him on the South Stand?

Give over he doesn't talk to plebs like me, only people of influence like you. good interview though, well apart from the accent.

 

[Bladesman]

Anymore answers we needed?

Investigation into the injuries.

 

[TJB.]

Couldn't understand a word.

I'm amazed that so many of you speak Parceltongue.

 

[Rodley]

The questions ffs.”Asked”.

Just need a little more precision in your posts Shaun

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Slow, inactive, unacceptable window on the whole. We looked disorganised and best, skint for the most and negligent at our worst. We must look like a Sunday league outfit operationally, to the professionalism of Premier League club hierarchies.

No matter of positive signings, Hamer, Archer or whoever - for however good they may be - will gloss over how poor the leadership of the club were. Silent for the most past, save for an accountant on twitter, who once told by the manager of the club to be quiet, continued anyway. Shambles.

Bettis' defensiveness here will be personal pride, but they were poor.

 

[ThatJa]

Good interview that, his example of Tottenham selling Kane so close to the start of the season is very valid. It is football and it does happen.

Maybe if it wasn't in the media so much about how skint we are, clubs wouldn't try and strangle the window out to get a better deal for our players knowing we're desperate.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Slow, inactive, unacceptable window on the whole. We looked disorganised and best, skint for the most and negligent at our worst. We must look like a Sunday league outfit operationally, to the professionalism of Premier League club hierarchies.

No matter of positive signings, Hamer, Archer or whoever - for however good they may be - will gloss over how poor the leadership of the club were. Silent for the most past, save for an accountant on twitter, who once told by the manager of the club to be quiet, continued anyway. Shambles.

Bettis' defensiveness here will be personal pride, but they were poor.

They can be judged on one thing, which is the quality of the squad at the end of the window.

 

[ThatJa]

They can be judged on one thing, which is the quality of the squad at the end of the window.

People on here seem to blame everyone at the club, but in reality why not blame the FA/PL they are the ones that allow the window to close nearly 4 weeks after the season starts.

That's the real issue, imo.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Just need a little more precision in your posts Shaun

Or your understanding of the word asked Rodney……

 

[Sean Thornton]

Slow, inactive, unacceptable window on the whole. We looked disorganised and best, skint for the most and negligent at our worst. We must look like a Sunday league outfit operationally, to the professionalism of Premier League club hierarchies.

No matter of positive signings, Hamer, Archer or whoever - for however good they may be - will gloss over how poor the leadership of the club were. Silent for the most past, save for an accountant on twitter, who once told by the manager of the club to be quiet, continued anyway. Shambles.

Bettis' defensiveness here will be personal pride, but they were poor.

Fuck me. It’s Mrs Ratbag from Viz…..

He talked about most of those things. Choosing not to believe him doesn’t mean your take is correct.

 

[Rodley]

People on here seem to blame everyone at the club, but in reality why not blame the FA/PL they are the ones that allow the window to close nearly 4 weeks after the season starts.

That's the real issue, imo.

Aye if we go down because Hecky has 35 rather than 38 games to give it a go, we’ll all take solace in that letter going in asking for the rules to be changed.

 

[ThatJa]

Aye if we go down because Hecky has 35 rather than 38 games to give it a go, we’ll all take solace in that letter going in asking for the rules to be changed.

Its not just us that has been calling for the window to be closed early.

Its also not our fault that clubs bid when they do, it was pretty well known we would only really buy if we had to sell first, and that came late in the window because the two clubs in question didn't want to pay what we wanted.

Imagine if we'd have accepted the bid for Illiman and Sander 5 weeks before, but only got 5m + 10m for example. We'd have lost out on 15m which is basically Hamer or Archers transfer fee and there would have been uproar.

And there's the argument that there is no guarantees we'd have done any better in those 3 games with our squad now.

 

[MagnifiqueShorehamStreet]

Came over as shifty, nervous, and very unconvincing.
Piecing it together.
Oue pre-season in Portugal was between 16- 23 July.
We know that during that week, because the club told us that Ily agreed to stay and the club went so far as record a video announcing his signing of the contract, whilst over there.But we didn’t get his signature on the contract.That should have been in Bettis’s briefcase, in Portugal, rather than a video camera.
He now tells us that Ily changed his mind from 11 pm, at night to the next morning at 10 am.This must have been the Saturday after the `Derby friendly, on 29th July. Which then led to `Illy jumping on a plane that Sunday.They wouldn’t have played him against Derby, if it was otherwise.
So we let at least 6 days go by without getting Illy’s signature on the contract.Our most valuable asset.Very poor.
Staton was right, we didn’t net the fish on the line and let it wriggle free, to our very great cost.
Moving on,one of the strangest, amateurish and indeed indefensible decisions this club has made recently, has been to let Arblaster go out on loan, and in the shop window, before signing him up to a new contract.He has great potential, and other clubs will already be sniffing round.If we lose him, there is no defence.It will be pure incompetence, on our part, yet again.