Back training with Cas today. Sounds that the deal could be off, we wouldn't pay his full wages, Cas wouldn't pay half. His tweets this morning said.....

[iBoom bk in the game!! Weights down at Cas with @jamesparkes2 told y'all I was unbreakable! Let's get prepared for the season!!!

see how long it's last, still not resolved but it's a positive step!!! That's all I wanted to do, train with my mates.[/i


Maybe a reprieve for Tongia yet?

When did Richie Mathers morph into a street-talking gangsta rapper?

tbh i don't want mathers he plays like he's a thug and thats maybe where he think he's a street talking gangster if he acts like one he'll surely pretend to be one and why would we want a player who may be suspended half of time and put the club in disrepute

yes he maybe a good player some of the time but not all of time

Since the signing of Ben Cockayne, the disrepute issue is probably a moot point; however, as far as I can tell, Mathers has only been suspended once since 2009, so I don't see how you arrive at the conclusion that he's a liability in that respect.

My younger cousin talks as though he grew up on the streets of Compton and loves to give the impression he's got a thug life but I suspect much like my Cousin, Mathers has been listening to too much Rap & Hip Hop to be taken seriously.He's definitely more of a Richie Mathers than a Marshall Mathers.

Nice! - though to be fair though I want our players to think they're 10 men, confidence never a bad [iting[/i.

Absolutely HATE the pretend gangsta slang speak that is so prevalent in young society, I blame 2Pac, Ali G, Naseem Hamed, 50pence & Biggy Smalls. Makes me laugh when you ask one of them why they talk like they come from downtown LA and you get a "Yaull dissin mi, bruv" type reply, hysterical!

I don't blame the people who actually grew up in and around the culture that created that street patois; it seems perfectly legitimate to me that 2PAC, Snoop Dogg, Ice T (and whomever their modern equivalents are - I don't really keep up with it any more) et al should speak in that way. I do find it a bit baffling that it's been appropriated by youths with no cultural reason to speak like dat do innit?

It makes me laugh when they talk all ghetto gangsta (oh, yes I went there) giving it all I am a proper ladies man, all into their biatches and then say to their equally homophobic brethren like "You feel me" and "Touch me".

They're all so much more gateau than ghetto!!!!

and why dont the "yoofs" wear belts anymore..........

if they were running away from the cops or whoever, surely running with your trousers down would slow you down!!!???

Now don't go spoiling it for us older cops.....some of us need all the help we can get !!!!!

I can't decide which is worse, them or poo stoppers that indie kids wear

It's bad enough when young teens do it but I regularly see one lad who must be in his late 20 s early 30s who wears ridiculously vile coloured y-fronts and has his trousers halfway down and almost under his buttox, to make it worse the guy is about 6ft 3 and 20st.

Cockayne is the biggest thug around

beg to differ Ryan Baily is

So you have met Vastman as well then?

Not on the pitch he isn't.

Can't say I'd put Mathers in the Bailey league either.

But that high shot on Matt King takes some beating.

I would add Leon Pryce to that list, and before he retired Paul Reilly.

McGoldrick.