OFFICIAL: ' Lee Tomlin GONE '

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He's thanked the fans...

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Glad it's finally sorted, but frustrated with the amount he has cost us and basically stopped us from bringing in someone of the quality we've clearly needed this year. Has to go down as one of the worst signings the club has made not because of his skill but his attitude.

If this has been going on for a few weeks (or how ever) and there has been a clear power struggle between Tomlin and MM, I wonder how much of an impact this has been having on the first team and its performances ?

Could it be that this was sorted last week hence the performance was better on Saturday (just not the result) and there will now be a bit harmony between players and management and that’s why MM has come out and said he is fully backed by the board ?

If this has been going on for a few weeks (or how ever) and there has been a clear power struggle between Tomlin and MM, I wonder how much of an impact this has been having on the first team and its performances ?

Could it be that this was sorted last week hence the performance was better on Saturday (just not the result) and there will now be a bit harmony between players and management and that’s why MM has come out and said he is fully backed by the board ?

Until mick stops putting so many defensive players in the starting 11 and putting square pegs in round holes, we arnt going to improve.

[quote="jimmy_rat"]He's thanked the fans...[/quote]

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Funny says he was always injured:

Golfing all the time / holidays all the time / New cars all
Paraded in his Instagram

COSTING OUR CLUB

Gone and forgotten
It's a real shame he always got injured otherwise he could've had a great career with us.
It's now a weight of the clubs shoulders really as he is rarely seen at our club and seems less interested to comeback or get involved in the club in any way.

My guess is now we may be in for Jack Byrne with the wages from tomlin ??

But we aren't really saving any money in wages regarding Tomlin we will just have paid him up front to leave. If he was say due about £640,000 between now and the end of the season we may have offered him I am guessing anywhere between £250,000 and £500,000 to leave now. We are saving a bit but it won't be very much. Still glad to see the back of the waste of space.

You have hit the nail on the head. We will have been lucky to have got away with 50% of his wages.

Will Vassell be next. If we can save 50% of there, wages it
would be great

Wasted talent, shame really as he's clearly got it but seems to have wrong attitude looking from the outside. I wouldn't be surprised if his next club is Peterborough

A sad waste of real talent and a shed load of our money.

Completely agree with this summary!

What a total waste of talent. I bet he gets fit enough to find another club, and get a contract. Plays a handful of games, one of them against us and scores. Then disappears back to the well paid injury list, laughing his ass off.

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Another sad story a player who on his day was a class player very skillful but he is a bad egg glad he is gone surely we can not replace him with a strong midfielder.

Will all that is happening we cannot blame Moore leaving if a fair offer is in for him

Lazy b*stard. Glad he’s gone absolute tw*t of a man. No club should give him another chance

Thanking the fans !!!!

Tomlin you're a parasite, nothing more nothing less.

Probably see you turn up at Middleborough raring to go soon.

WELL DONE CCFC, At least the physios will get their overtime cut

He has gone lets move on

There’s no way he would have left unless his contract was more or less paid up? Another great purchase by Warnock cost us millions! Harris was the only Manager who got him playing and if he had played in the playoffs against Fulham perhaps we would have now been in the Premier League!

The problem is people will expect some free transfers now no doubt yet he's probably cost a bomb in contract money to pay him up and f**k him off which some seem to forget. Total waste of money stealing a living he's been for to long in my opinion but there's others at the club doing the same

I absolutely will expect some out of contract players to be brought in. At some point the board has to spend some money.

The problem is people will expect some free transfers now no doubt yet he's probably cost a bomb in contract money to pay him up and f**k him off which some seem to forget. Total waste of money stealing a living he's been for to long in my opinion but there's others at the club doing the same

I absolutely will expect some out of contract players to be brought in. At some point the board has to spend some money.

You changed your tune...

The problem is people will expect some free transfers now no doubt yet he's probably cost a bomb in contract money to pay him up and f**k him off which some seem to forget. Total waste of money stealing a living he's been for to long in my opinion but there's others at the club doing the same

I absolutely will expect some out of contract players to be brought in. At some point the board has to spend some money.

You changed your tune...

How exactly?? I'm really not sure I understand. Out of contract players add to numbers at least and are better than no players at all.

And, you may think, wrongly, I am many things, but I never waiver from my principles.

The problem is people will expect some free transfers now no doubt yet he's probably cost a bomb in contract money to pay him up and f**k him off which some seem to forget. Total waste of money stealing a living he's been for to long in my opinion but there's others at the club doing the same

I absolutely will expect some out of contract players to be brought in. At some point the board has to spend some money.

You changed your tune...

How exactly?? I'm really not sure I understand. Out of contract players add to numbers at least and are better than no players at all.

And, you may think, wrongly, I am many things, but I never waiver from my principles.

I'm not questioning your principles; but you have previously stated (in the majority of posts) that VT has given up, is winding us down and doesn't care

I'm not saying he does or doesn't but you've banged that drum for so long it makes your post (shall we say) a break from tradition

My own opinion (based on little or no info) is we'll see it out until the transfer window and recall some of those out on loan. One or two would make a difference but if we are still 'in trouble' then the purse strings might have to open up for fresh blood

A sad waste of real talent and a shed load of our money.

Completely agree with this summary!

Have to agree

Big Interview: Bristol City’s Lee Tomlin

11 November 2016


By Chris Dunlavy

YOU know Lee Tomlin right? Fat lad, bad attitude, once skinned Vincent Kompany but blew his big chance in the Premier League.

“Yeah, that sounds about right,” laughs the Bristol City playmaker when presented with the accusations that regularly bookend the sentence ‘Lee Tomlin, great player but…’

By his own admission, Tomlin is no angel and has an attitude problem . A career littered with red and yellow cards is testament to that. On-field bust-ups. Dressing room spats. Lengthy bans.

“I’ve heard it all,” admits Tomlin, now 27. “But I’ve always said that once you work with me, you’ll see I’m not a bad person. I think a lot of people misunderstand me. I play on the edge – always have – and that’s how I get the best out of myself.

“In the past, I’d channel it badly. When people brought me down, I’d get frustrated, lash out. But if you look at my record, I haven’t been sent off for a couple of years now.

“I’ve learnt from my past mistakes and I have grown up and my attitude is now the right on.”

“I try not to get as annoyed. I try to see it as a positive – if they’re fouling me, it’s because they’re scared of me.

“At the start of the season, I was getting smashed. Refs would be saying ‘Play on, he didn’t touch you’. I’ve had cards for diving, despite the fact somebody’s basically stood on the middle of my shin.

“When I was younger, that would have been a red rag. Now, I think ‘Let it go… get the ball and keep hurting them’. Lee Johnson, the gaffer here, has been really good with that. He always says that the best thing I can do is shrug it off and enjoy beating people.”

Then, of course, there are the various pictures showing Tomlin looking less than trim, gut apparently bulging over his waistband.

“Yeah, that’s the other thing that always gets questioned,” sighs the former Middlesbrough and Bournemouth forward. “But you can do any test you want – my body fat is low. I’m quite short and I’ve got low ribs that stick out. From a side angle, it looks like I’m fat. But ask anyone I’ve played with and they’ll tell you it’s just not true.

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Jonathan Woodgate: ‘Massive’ for Lee Tomlin (Picture: Action Images)
“When I was at Middlesbrough, I remember Jonathan Woodgate going ‘Hey fatty, take your top off’. When I did he’d say ‘Wow, look at that’ – he knew all along that I wasn’t fat and it was his way of letting me know.”

For Tomlin, who left the Riverside in 2015, ex-Real Madrid and England defender Woodgate remains a friend and mentor.

“Woody was massive for me,” he adds. “He told me not to listen to the critics, to the people who said I was wrong and tried to change my game. I can’t thank him enough.

“For everything he’s done in football and all the clubs he’s played for, he’s the most down-to-earth, genuine person you could ever meet.

“He still rings me and he’s always saying ‘You should be doing this or that’. A lot of the time you get close to someone but you stop playing together and that’s it. With Woody, he’s still taking an interest and looking out for me.”

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Bad boy Lee Tomlin

Posh live

Former Boro schemer Lee Tomlin has been rattling up some eye-catching red card stats at Peterborough.

He returned to Posh from Cardiff in January and has picked up where he left off at London Road with an early exit in the 1-0 defeat to Plymouth.

He was sent off after picking up a second yellow for a needless push in a bit of hand-bags.


“Lee shouldn’t have got involved,” said new boss Darren Ferguson said. “I could see what he was trying to do. He was separating Ivan Toney from a defender, but why give the referee a decision to make?

"The defender went down as though he’d been struck by a hammer."

“Lee needs to calm down and when he does you will see a real a catching player out there.”

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Lee Tomlin

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FAT BOY TOMLIN

Lee Tom­lin was al­most two stone over­weight ... now the Boro star is out to devour Ar­se­nal

@Mat­t_Law­ton_DM


By MATT LAW­TON Chief Sports Re­porter13 Feb 2015

LEE TOM­LIN would be the first to ad­mit he has gone dan­ger­ously close to blow­ing his ca­reer. The Mid­dles­brough for­ward had a rather poor at­ti­tude and was kicked out of Le­ices­ter City — he was even sent out on loan by Rush­den and Di­a­monds.

‘I was play­ing for Brack­ley Town with team-mates who were car­pen­ters and po­lice of­fi­cers,’ he says. ‘At that stage I did think it was over.’

“ I have changed and now have the right attitude, that’s needed, I know I was a bad boy, with the wrong attitude.”


He quit foot­ball af­ter be­ing re­leased by Le­ices­ter, al­beit only for a few months. And a mi­nor brush with the law, for cel­e­brat­ing pro­mo­tion with Peter­bor­ough a lit­tle too en­thu­si­as­ti­cally, did not en­hance his chances of ful­fill­ing his po­ten­tial. Nor did a taste for fast food that saw him bal­loon in weight.



Yet here he is in the ho­tel next to Mid­dles­brough’s train­ing ground, slim and ath­letic and talk­ing as can­didly about his past as he does pas­sion­ately about his fu­ture. Talk­ing in a way that left me think­ing he might be the hun­gri­est foot­baller I’ve en­coun­tered. He seems driven by a fear, hav­ing al­ready wasted op­por­tu­ni­ties, of not now mak­ing it big.

When he came up against Manch­ester City in the FA Cup last month, his big­gest game to date, he was awestruck at first.

‘I was look­ing at Silva and Aguero and think­ing, “What’s some­one like me do­ing on a pitch with play­ers like that?” It was un­be­liev­able.

‘While you’re on the pitch you have to con­cen­trate on your r job. I was mark­ing James Mil­ner but I kept find­ing my­self watch­ing David Silva. I was look­ing at his po­si­tion­ing and try­ing to learn what’s re­quired to get to the top.’


He learned fast. The 26- year- old was the out­stand­ing player in a match Boro won in style. His manager, Ai­tor Karanka, pulled him to one side at the end. ‘Now do you be­lieve you can play at this level?’ he asked.

Karanka con­sid­ers Tom­lin, a nat­u­ral No 10 with two great t feet and a burst of pace, as thee finest player in the Cham­pi­onship, a view en­dorsed by the re­cent player- of-the-mon­thh award.

But the jour­ney to this point nt has been a dif­fi­cult one.

Liver­pool of­fered him a trial al 10 years ago, but he is stil­lll wait­ing to hear how he did.

Some mem­bers of his is ex­tended fam­ily are Trav­ellers ers but he grew up in a coun­cil house in a tough neigh­bour­hood in Le­ices­ter.

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Ex-Bristol City striker Tomlin admitted affray and Kee pleaded guilty to common assault at the city's crown court. Tomlin was ordered to perform 80 hours' community service, while Kee was fined £350. Both players were cleared of causing grievous bodily harm.Nov 3, 2017
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Ex Bournemouth player Lee Tomlin in court


Lee Tomlin and Billy Kee arrive at court

Former Bristol City and AFC Bournemouth midfielder Lee Tomlin has been convicted for his part in a fight in Leicester city centre that left a man with a broken jaw.

The 28-year-old, who now plays for Cardiff City, admitted affray following the incident which took place outside the Ghost nightclub in Leicester on January 22.

Accrington Stanley striker Billy Kee, 26, also pleaded guilty to common assault after being captured throwing a punch on CCTV.

Tomlin was handed a 12 month community order and ordered to pay £500 in costs, while Kee was fined £350.

Tomlin who had a shining career ahead of him, left Bournemouth under controversial circumstances after a number of altercations with other members of staff.


As reported by the Leicester Mercury, Prosecutors decided not to proceed with a charge of wounding after a review of footage found that the victim had squared up to both players after jumping over a set of railings.

Leicester Crown Court was told that Kee had attempted to pull his friend Tomlin away from the confrontation in the city centre.

Both players had been accused of causing grievous bodily harm but were cleared of the charge on the orders of the judge.

Prosecutor Ian Way accepted that the complainant - who spent three days in hospital and had a metal plate inserted to stabilise a displaced jaw fracture - had "contributed" to what happened.

CCTV clips presented to the court showed Kee trying to pull Tomlin away from the scene before throwing a single punch towards the victim's head.

Tomlin struck out twice at the victim during a subsequent fracas in which a bystander removed his belt, Mr Way said.

Mr Way told the court: "At about 3.30am the complainant and his friend went outside the club to the smoking area, which is near a waist-high set of railings.

"At that point they went over the fence and met face to face with the defendants and their group.

"There was an argument and the next thing (the victim) remembers is a heavy blow."

Judge Ebraham Mooncey told the footballers: "The position is that on the night that we are considering both of you had been out for the evening.

"You accept that you were drinking. You (Tomlin) are fearful your drinks may have been interfered with."

The judge said of the events filmed near and outside the club: "There is conversation taking place and it's apparent very quickly that it's not pleasant conversation.

"Both of you don't appear to be completely sober."

Former Middlesbrough forward Tomlin and Kee both began their careers in Leicester City's youth set-up.

Tomlin's lawyer, Chris Daw QC, said the player had received verbal abuse inside the nightclub.

"He deeply regrets having become involved at all," the barrister told the court.

"He has learned a very stark lesson."