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    Quote Originally Posted by jbyrne View Post
    give over. it comes across as an honest interview telling it how it is.
    he doesn't suggest he was forced into the situation he found himself in...

    “At the time when people were telling me, I didn’t want to listen or hear or see what they were saying to me was right,”

    he is 22 and willing to move abroad to improve himself. should be given the benefit of the doubt really
    I went abroad for a year at 19 so what? And it was a lot further than a 2 hour Ryanair flight away. Who cares. Is he somehow suggesting these "friends" followed him around and moved everywhere with him?!

    He's not 16 caught smoking in the boys room and blaming the lads he hangs around with. He's a fully functioning adult and independent 22 year old.

    Come back and interview in a year when you've done something. Keep your mouth shut and head down until then
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    He has spoken candidly about where his head was, not enjoying his football etc. Its at those times people are attracted to whatever it is that was missing, in this sort of case it could be companionship and the hole filled with drinking buddies leaching off a young quite well paid player. They gave him something and they got something though really just used and abused but it can lead to sort of dependence. I see nowhere where he is making excuses or shirking personal responsibility. In fact he is owning it and making changes and that should be lauded and not met which cynicism!!

    I too went abroad, at 17, for 4 years - Im not sure I would let my younger self do it looking back, but then what would my personal experience have to do with Aaron Connolly!?
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    Connolly's introspection, self-reflection, maturity and newfound drive to succeed should be respected and welcomed by all Ireland fans, you would think.

    But the bigoted crackpots on another forum have instead decided to zero in on Connolly's accent as a further stick to beat him. With Tayo Adaramola copping it too.

    I despair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trequartista20 View Post
    Connolly's introspection, self-reflection, maturity and newfound drive to succeed should be respected and welcomed by all Ireland fans, you would think.

    But the bigoted crackpots on another forum have instead decided to zero in on Connolly's accent as a further stick to beat him. With Tayo Adaramola copping it too.

    I despair.
    A handy site to check for player updates but the majority of discussion outside of cold hard updates would make you despair. The moderation on the forum is completely and utterly non existent and features everything from childish insults to downright bigotry, as you say. Bigoted crackpots sums it up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paul_oshea View Post
    I went abroad for a year at 19 so what? And it was a lot further than a 2 hour Ryanair flight away. Who cares. Is he somehow suggesting these "friends" followed him around and moved everywhere with him?!

    He's not 16 caught smoking in the boys room and blaming the lads he hangs around with. He's a fully functioning adult and independent 22 year old.

    Come back and interview in a year when you've done something. Keep your mouth shut and head down until then
    He did an interview and addressed questions that a lot of us had about him. At 22 he is still a young fella and allowed to make some mistakes. He at least seems to have admitted to those mistakes and is trying to correct them, whether it works or not we'll wait and see.

    Id much rather see him speaking about all this now than when hes 32 lamenting that he should have made changes when he was younger. You on the other hand would like the lad to shut up when you obviously didnt learn to do that yourself on your trip abroad at 19

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    Ahead of Venezia's season opener this afternoon in the Italian Cup against Ascoli, they've announced that 13 members of the squad have tested positive for COVID - https://www.veneziafc.it/en/news/cov...rst-team-squad
    Also, they've named their squad for the game, and Connolly has not been included - https://www.veneziafc.it/en/news/cop...venezia-ascoli
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    On as a late sub in their league opener last week, and on the bench away to Südtirol today too. Not the start he'd have been looking for. Not sure why that is

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    1-0 down and a Finnish forward comes on in front of him. Not promising, but of course very early days

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    Hasn't been in the matchday squad in a month now - is he injured or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    Hasn't been in the matchday squad in a month now - is he injured or something?
    A lad on YBIG ( yes, I know, I know ) saying he's back in Brighton after a fall out with the Italian club manager. Is listed injured on some sites, is absent on others. The bother with Connolly is when you hear this kind of thing you're aware it could be true. The 21s appearance timing doesn't support the injured line, but equally it is possible. Who knows, one thing certain is he isn't scoring any goals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke View Post
    The 21s appearance timing doesn't support the injured line, but equally it is possible.
    Yeah, I couldn't make it fit in with that alright. That was two weeks after his last club appearance, and there was a club match in that time.

    You'd imagine if he'd left Venezia it'd have been reported, and he's still listed on their website. Suggestions on Twitter that he picked up an injury in training, but then confusion when it's pointed out he played twice for the 21s last month. He did come off in the second of those, but midway through extra-time, when it's entirely reasonable to sub off a forward.

    All a bit strange, but yeah, bottom line is he's not doing anything out there to resurrect his career yet unfortunately

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    Google translate says he has "not recovered" (from being on the lash?) but maybe its all lies. Heard he's still in Israel.

    https://footballnews24.it/venezia-fr...ann-e-crnigoj/

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    Quote Originally Posted by ifk101 View Post
    Google translate says he has "not recovered"
    At least Crnigoj is deemed "more offensive" than Connolly, so that's something at least.

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    Has Aaron started doing birthday parties yet ?

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    Let's move on. Hopefully the next story is him scoring a hat trick
    Last edited by Fixer82; 18/10/2022 at 5:23 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fixer82 View Post
    Let?s move on. Hopefully the next story is him scoring a hat trick
    Id be happy if the story was that he was seen on a football pitch again to be honest

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    Como v Venezia today, which should be Kerrigan v Connolly but both are injured of course.

    Kerrigan we know about, but is there any info yet on what's the craic with Connolly? Two months now since he last featured for them (though played the 21s in that time)

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    Quote Originally Posted by pineapple stu View Post
    but is there any info yet on what's the craic with Connolly?
    Well you didn't get this from me now Pineappler but what I heard was he was last seen having hired out Michael Jacksons fairground place, Neverland, a horse and chariot and a troupe of dwarves, then dressing up in Game Of Thrones regalia and actually hunting the dwarves around Neverland all day, sniffing this white dust from a crucifix shaped receptacle roaring away at the horse and dwarves in turn.

    Sadly, much akin to every career opportunity and more recently chance on goal, every one of them dwarves got away from Aaron.
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