If anyone has contact info for Rohan Ricketts please PM me.
Agreed with a member of him coming back at a much lower salary, the time he spent here wasnt anything special but I think he is much better than Reggie Lambe.I believe with this team ricketts might actually perform better.Plus I hear he is a great character and a motivator. Maybee we need a guy like this right now! Who knows.
If Andy Welsh had Ricketts' ability at self-promotion people would still be thinking of Welsh fondly too.
For your first point on it being "a cultural difference we modest and passive agressive Canadians don't understand" I don't really agree with that. I have a cousin that works for Wolverhampton Wanderers and she told me prior to coming to TFC that Ricketts was considered a joke over in England. He was trying this self promotion crap, to a lessor degree though, over there and people were annoyed by it. When he was at Wolves he actually insisted on people calling him Tony Montana, as he thought of himself as a real pimp, but generally people just called him "Ince's Shadow" as he used to hide behind Paul Ince on and off the pitch.
In fairness, as people have said, he never did bash the city, or our team as others have that have left and I appreciate that. But if his talent matched his self promotional skills he wouldn't have kicked around from club to club since leaving here. As bad as we are at the moment, we have no room for him on this team.
Despite the annoying self promotion, he seems like an alright guy so all the best to him with his soccer camps.
Last edited by bigredoneNEE; 04-20-2012 at 08:14 AM.
I still think there's a cultural difference - just maybe not with all of England but with the world Rohan lives in.
We Canadians are world famous for our polite, yet passive aggressive mannerism. The idea of being a hustler (a designation Rohan would wear with pride) just doesn't sit well with our national identity. I know that not everyone in London is a hustler, and not every New Yorker is a pushy cutthroat - but Rohan seemed to love that part of it. We Canadians want our stars to act like Danny Dichio (get a house in the burbs, raise the kids, teach at soccer clubs and live the quiet Canadian Dream). We don't want them to bling it out and act like superstars (Hi Dero)
I've always said that if RR wasn't playing football, he'd be hustling DVDs and watches in the back of some market.
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I proudly proclaim myself a 'hustler'
IMO a hustler is someone who never really stops working, i am at the bank and I hand out cards, contractor to do repairs, let's do some trade.
A hustler is a hard worker, bling or not.
I think RR is an obvious media whore but GOOD FOR HIM! He has columns, an online mag, radio show, guest appearances and is working on an academy.
I don't see why that is a bad thing?
IMO 'hustler' is more an American thing than British.
On top of all that he offers value for his services, not like investment bankers who do nothing but circulate worthless paper.
Go RR!