who are the 2 guys shaking hands with Paynter when he signed for pools, think the company is SMI, I noticed the face of the 2 going back now a few months started coming into the CK stand just before Christmas.

Wonder if they are sponsoring the club or player.

Looking at their Twitter..Agents. Wonder if thats got anything to do with our sudden ability to sign players. Whilst I could see Uncle Kens point, it must've been very difficult to work around.

But Ken did used to deal with agents, he just didn't pay them anything

Bore off.. you understood my point!!

You don't have a point he's right do you not think we've signed a player with an agent for 18 years? It's was the biggest non story going.

It was simply so Hodcroft could say at the end of the season that we haven't spent any money on agents. We still used them like every other club but we didn't pay them directly, the fee came from the players signing on fee. Not difficult to work around at all.

So instead of the agents cut coming off the player we possibly pay it for them. To that end the player is significantly better off.. sounds like somethings changed to me? Unless of course you're saying we paid inflated signing on fees to compensate the players. Yeah I can see that!!

We did, hardly inflated the agents fee was just added on so the player paid the agent rather the club directly so Ken could be all arsey about agents in his programme notes and once a year wave his cock about not paying agents.

Well there it is. I stand corrected.

They are agents for a few pools players I think. Harrison is with them and so is Charlie wyke. I'm sure I read that one of them is Kevin gall who used to play for Carlisle?