Matt Bodkin

[SQUELCH]

According to the Nottingham Evening Post this guy is on trial with us.

17 years old, striker and has been released by forest.

Not played for their 1st team.

Played most reserve games last season but 0 goals!

Was academy player of the year 2002/2003.

Thats all i know.

 

[jonny c]

What a name

 

[loyalbee]

seems a pretty long distance move for a 17 yr old

 

[Boston Bee]

Would we call him "the bear"?

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

 

[SQUELCH]

Been released from Gillingham.

Good move by MA not to sign him.

 

[epsombee]

Re: Would we call him "the bear"?

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

Is this Hamlet? Or are you trying to inspire us a la Henry V at Agincourt, Crecy and all them other places us and the Yanks had to clear of Germans for a fair number of years in the 20th Century because the French had lost it again.

Also, for those who give a stuff, a bodkin is an arrow without barbs that was fired from the english logbow and could pierce plate armour, chain mail, skin, muscle, body organs and other stuff like that.

Now I just know I am going to regret saying something about chain mail.

 

[JANORAK]

Re: Would we call him "the bear"?

Is this Hamlet?

Yes. It's the 3rd or 4th verse(?) onwards of "2 Bee or not 2 Bee".....

 

[Brain-dead Bee]

He'd get at least a yellow card for a bare Bodkin

 

[Boston Bee]

Think "whips and scorns of time" would make a good title to the history of the last 10 years or so of Brentford.