Huddersfield fans' opinions of Hammill..

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    Huddersfield sounds like a scary place!
     
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    Bin liner of gravel & glass. Is that a "Huddersfield Handshake"?
     
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    Seeing as he refers to it as a "precaution", 'Huddersfield Condom' might be more appropriate...
     
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    They got him at the wrong time when he was going through personal issues.

    It's a bit like us with someone like Garry O'Connor. Garbage for us but did well elsewhere
     
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    To be fair, the people who have seen the best of Hammill are Barnsley fans. We know what he can do.

    I don't know the details of what went wrong for him, but I do remember the day my kids were mascots. He, above all other Barnsley Players made them feel at home. He was only 20/21 at the time.

    I think there's a really decent lad in there, and an exceptionally good footballer. If he rediscovers both, then we are onto a winner.
     
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    This^^^ the lad could end up a Barnsley legend if this spell works out.
     
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    After that performance we have to sign him up to a decent contract .
     
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    It's not what we want it's what he wants he will be lookin for a move to a higher level this was probably his only option at the moment.
     
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    Behaving like an arse on a drinking bender does not a bad person make.

    One of my best mates is a case in point - when sober, and indeed after a sensible number of ales is one of the kindest, most generous and funniest blokes you could ever meet - fascinating, personable, and highly intelligent.
    However, occasionally he used to reach and breach the point of no return, and things would get very messy. Hookers, crack dens, fighting with Russian gangsters in St Petersburg, fighting with his mates, disappearances of several days including one in ibiza where he turned up minus his money and most of his clothes. On average, he only went off the rails three or four times a year, but when he did it wasn't pretty. His charge sheet makes Hammill's look like a bad school report, and it led to a lot of us being very close to disowning him and his wife nearly leaving him. I'm pleased to say that he's sorted himself out, and the amazing bloke that he was 95% of the time is now there 100% of the time.

    The point I'm trying to make is that the media attention given to footballers means that their indiscretions are disproportionately highlighted. Many would say rightly so, as they are public figures and role models. But because of this it's very easy to come to the conclusion that somebody is a thoroughly nasty piece of work due to one or two unsavoury incidents, when the reality is not quite as clear cut.
     
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    Absolutely Merde Tete. I hold my hands up to some proper knobhead behaviour when I was a young lad on the ale/chemicals, resulted in one court appearance and a couple of arrests. I left that all behind once I matured properly though, do everything I can to avoid any such scrapes.

    People need a chance to put things behind them.
     
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    I'm just glad Ads has had Garren to help turn his life around.
     
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    Touche!
     
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    Hookers. Crack houses. Fighting with Eastern European gangsters...

    You don't live in St Petersburg but off summer lane in town.
     
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    The crack den incident was down The Wicker in Sheffield I believe....
     
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