Fans call on QPR to sack Vine

[TheOddPost]

Puppets and wanabees trying to get the Qpr unwanted the sack..........

I wonder how Sousa's feeling these days

[IsleworthRanger]

Someone is now saying in the media the comment was made on this site but I can honestly say that I never saw it

[wicksta]

I'd assumed Joey was used to mean youngster, as it's slang for young kangaroo.

Dunno, it rang alarm bells to me, I've never heard a youth team called a 'joey team' before, but I've heard a b team at school called that. They weren't referring to kangaroos though.

Anyway it was one of a number of silly comments on his twitter like the one to Dexter Blackstock when it was reported QPR were offering a deal saying "I've told the banker... NO DEAL LOL". Or calling a fan a 'Nonse'.

If any of us here called a customer of the company we worked for a 'nonse' on Twitter we'd be out of a job immediately.

[TheOddPost]

Dunno, it rang alarm bells to me, I've never heard a youth team called a 'joey team' before, but I've heard a b team at school called that. They weren't referring to kangaroos though.

Anyway it was one of a number of silly comments on his twitter like the one to Dexter Blackstock when it was reported QPR were offering a deal saying "I've told the banker... NO DEAL LOL". Or calling a fan a 'Nonse'.

If any of us here called a customer a 'nonse' on Twitter we'd be out of a job immediately.

Eric Cantona can assault his customers without getting the sack.

All this pettiness would be forgotten if he was in the first team, but some are jumping on it in the vain hope of getting him off the wage bill and doing their bit for the club.

Nonse can also mean t@at and d1ckhead

If someone can work out that Joey refers to an 80s song rather than the youth team, I would say they have selective memory, or just plain thick

[wicksta]

Eric Cantona can assault his customers without getting the sack.

Come on, if Cantona had been a player struggling back from an injury with an apparently bad attitude do you think he would have been kept on? Very bad example.

If someone can work out that Joey refers to an 80s song rather than the youth team, I would say they have selective memory, or just plain thick

An 80s song? Joey Deacon was a guy most of us late 20s to mid 30s grew up with knowing well, remember we only had 4 channels back then. Not sure why people are being so aggressive about it, calling posters 'thick' or 'dense' for having grown up with this word as common usage to ridicule people as spastics.

I hope I'm wrong regarding the intention, but it was honestly the first thing I thought of.

[rangersroar]

I thought the Joey squad was Joe Gallens squad. The youth team.

Makes sense to me.

[DeepcutHoop]

Of course he meant Joey in the way us middle-aged gits remember from the unfortunate lad on Blue Peter. However it became a schoolyard insult, and although it's fairly childish for a 26-yo, I'm fairly sure that he doesn't believe the youth squad is mentally-handicapped.

I'm also pretty certain he doesn't believe Scott Jones is a '*****'. It's just a horrible word to insult someone, the same as many others. If for example, you were to call Scott 'an attention seeking tw**' that would not automatically mean you literally thought he was a attention hungry vagina.

It's not a very articulate way to talk to someone, even on Twitter, but then he's a footballer, not a poet laureate.

To try and get him sacked off the back of this, is just embarrassing for whoever's 'demanded' this. If they haven't, and this is made up by the local rag, then it's a bizarre journalism.

[BennyBoyRs]

There is no way Vine meant *****, which is why the whole legal advice thing made me laugh as much as cringe.

[wicksta]

I think that whatever opinions we have, it's clear he could have chosen his words better on quite a few occasions. He's probably done himself a favour closing his Twitter down.

[TheOddPost]

Come on, if Cantona had been a player struggling back from an injury with an apparently bad attitude do you think he would have been kept on? Very bad example.



An 80s song? Joey Deacon was a guy most of us late 20s to mid 30s grew up with knowing well, remember we only had 4 channels back then. Not sure why people are being so aggressive about it, calling posters 'thick' or 'dense' for having grown up with this word as common usage to ridicule people as spastics.

I hope I'm wrong regarding the intention, but it was honestly the first thing I thought of.

I'm well aware of who he is and the reference within the 80s song. But the fact remains in my opinion that most would know/click that its use in footballing terms could have another meaning.

You've missed my point on Cantona. Of course he wouldn't have been kept on if he was done, but he wasn't and he wasn't shown the door. Vine is done as far as we're concerned people are now only looking at what he said for their own agendas to force him out of the club. It is sly and we've seen it before with the Sousa situation.

Even if Vine explained the opposite meaning, some would ignore his explanation. If I'm aggressive with it, it's because this situation stinks.

Nobody forced a contract under his nose, we offered him the deal and he signed it. He got injured and he's now surplus to requirements and he'll move on eventually. But if he doesn't he's fully entitled to see out the contract we offered him in the reserves or the youth team. So much for Warnock saying a few weeks ago that Vine deserves more respect than to put him in the youth team, oh how times change and things conveniently get forgotten.

I think there is more to this than being offended by his comments. My opinion.

[stan_bowles]

I remember us calling each other a Joey at school back in the early 80's.This was accompanied by dribbling and talking a bit mongy.

[QPR1976]

It's aLuton thing !
They refer to flids/spastics/scopies/disabled/people with less ability (mentally or physically) as Joeys (Deacon) as per the lad on Blue Peter in the 70's (or possibly early 80's)

Nice people !
Disappointing that Rowan feels he has to follow suit but havi g met him it doesn't surprise me. Bit of a stereotypical footballer and backed up by a Soccer AM appearance.
Shame, he should know better.

Re: Mr. Jones. I always ignored peoples comments, despite their volume and frequency, but sadly, I've 1st hand experience of his ability to promise but fail to deliver. Worse still, his failure to acknowledge a fellow R's existance.

It takes all sorts !

[HammersmithR]

I thought Scott Jones and Rowan Vine were good pals. Didn't Vine give him his boots?

[DelTrotter]

I always thought a 'joey' was someone who does everything for someone (like a servant)

[G.T.P]

joey = ####/gopher/minion.

"Go and get me that small saw mate"
'Get it yourself, what do you think i am, your joey?'