Cheers Frankie,

Thanks for your time with the club and I'll pass on your kind words to Anthony.
Shame you've gone mate but good luck for the future.




 

Well football is a team game, and sometimes you have to put the team's requirements ahead of any individual players'.  I'm sure there have been games when we've seen Dan Summers playing in a much deeper role than he would probably have liked to allow Sawyer to be the front man.  And whatever position Sawyer was playing against Redhill, he was certainly provided with plenty of chances to get behind the back 4, which he did on several occasions.

In any case, the timing of this departure leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.  I just feel that as a 1st team regular, as Sawyer was, you should at least commit yourself to seeing the season out with your team mates.  And its not as if a top striker with proven goalscoring ability would have trouble getting a new team over the summer.

Imagine if Summers gets an early inury tonight - where will our goal threat come from?

Not sure if you will bother reading this Frankie as some fans, perhaps not unexpectedly, have turned against you. 

I was really disappointed when you went to Hastings and equally so now.
Mainly because you have been a committed player who very clearly cares deeply when either your own performance or that of the team is not up to scratch. And at your best you are a fantastic striker who has been a joy to watch.

Your decision to come on our Forum to provide an explanation (something few players would do) is to your great credit and we can read that you have been sharing our frustations.

You are a semi pro footballer who holds down a job and then provides extra inome for your family through your football.  Most of us would accept job offers that provided improved finances but it seems we expect you and the other players to live your lives by different standards.  Odd. 
Personally, I wish you every success (although I'm not sure if I really want Redhill to stay up, mainly because the antics of their management team drive me mad!)

Last edited by Bondy (03/3/2015 1:18 pm)

At fist last night at reading the news, i felt immense disappointment, then sadness that it could happen again.
But now, through your courage in coming on here, and then your honesty as to why this situation has happened, I have a better understanding as to your reason for leaving.
I like many others  am still disappointed but I understand that a footballers life is a relatively short one, and sometimes you have to make decisions that do not always please everybody, from a selfish perspective I just wish you had remained for tonights game at least, and then If you felt the need to, then leave.
But life does not always give you what you wish for and I am going to miss your undenying effort that you always put in for the team.
I have just one request of you, please if you return to Imperial Fields with another team, either feign an injury, or at least do not score.
Good Luck and I hope you do not live to regret your decision.

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Needed to have made 3 posts in order to reply to some of the positive private messages mate.

Frankie, if you are getting any abusive private messages please let me apologise to you on behalf of the rest of us on this forum who would not stoop so low. We all feel let down by you but there is no excuse for people to send you pm's and not be brave enough to post openly.
Best wishes and good luck with Redhill, gawd knows you'll need it ! Perhaps we'll see you again with another Ryman club next season when Redhill have sunk in to the abyss that they deserve to be in.

What was the score tomorrow night .........   Love it Edgo