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Absolutely and a great example.

Yes but unfortunately the option is only open to Age UK and the Red Cross 😪

Yet fast of mind is probably more important than fast of feet, I don’t remember Shearer or Fowler for example as being particularly swift? I also think this was true of Linekar too because whilst admittedly no slouch, his main asset seemed to be being or getting to the right place at the right time consistently, he’d gone before a defender had even worked out he was going. It happened so often it couldn’t be a coincidence.

If those things were apparent I’m sure we’d never even heard of it. All players are susceptible to personal and family situations and such things are usually dealt with in house. When things like this leak there’s usually a reason.

I’m sure that if there’d been genuine personal or medical reasons it would never have been an issue and we’d have never heard about it.

I’ve had children too, worked long hours, shifts, sometimes quite often away from home. He chose to live where he did and to be asked to stay over once in a blue moon for the huge wages he’s on isn’t unreasonable either! It’s about give and take. He just wanted everything his own way. Selfish git and hardly part of a team ethic.

You’re probably quite right of course but it makes you wonder how inept people are at drawing up contracts doesn’t it? It’s one thing allowing a player to live a certain distance from home with a proviso that he arrives to training on time every day, but on a match day when energy and concentration levels need to be at a peak at the top level of football, a long drive just isn’t commensurate with that. There should be boundaries set before signing a player earning supposedly £80k+ per week. However, it speaks volumes of him as an individual if he’s unwilling to even turn up for his manager and teammates possibly once a fortnight and stop at a 4* hotel the night before a game when your team’s trying to fight relegation. Perhaps all players contracts should have a clause regarding expected pre-match expectations?

That’ll be the one our scouts watched then, they bought the whole series a couple of years back entitled ‘Shite Players I Can Buy’.

They can make you unemployed though.

Add a couple of training cones to the squad?

If Alves, Braybrooke or Page were good enough, surely one of them would be playing? Neither this new manager nor the last have picked them. Possibly people understandably wanting to see our young academy products, an experienced head who actually watches them in training every day has deduced that thus far, they’re actually just not up to the level required!

Too early to judge imo until at least a few weeks after the transfer window closes and we know exactly who we’ve got. There are a number of players who’s hearts just aren’t in it because they’ve got their next club in sight and just don’t want to commit or even play whilst there’s a chance of moving on. How difficult is that for a new manager to cope with? Some will go very shortly. Some won’t and it’s then that it is hoped that this manager can cajole a performance out of them in order that they look good in the market for a future move. In such a situation if he can’t, he’s lumbered and can only pick the keen, or young and keen, almost regardless of ability because the non committed will soon poison the dressing room with their negativity. As someone said, it’s looking like a Pearson type situation and we’ll only know what this manager is really about after this transfer window and how he copes and deals with the dross..

Nah, just get em out! Don’t care about signings. Sooner get rid of the poison, hopefully stay in the Division with youth and those that really want to be here and rebuild again. Sod the Premier League, it really isn’t all that.

I agree entirely. He’s certainly got a job and a half on his hands with this bunch of muppets! You can have the best tactics in the world but if the horses (or donkeys) aren’t willing then you’re on a bit of a hiding to nothing unfortunately.

He might not have known football but he was a shrewd businessman. He would have seen straight through a charlatan like Rodger’s for example. The huge majority of signings for example under Rodger’s and Top just didn’t remotely show any good business sense for example and it’s largely because of this we’re in the mess we are!

He’s also likely to tell him a few home truths! I think he’d put the fear of God into some of our overindulged squad too!

You could be as physical as Mike Tyson but if you’re nowhere near the ball or the player it’s pretty pointless. He was astoundingly shocking last season and hasn’t improved.

Absolutely agree. It’s as if in all those cases the club had sacked all their scouts and nobody had ever been to actually watch them. How else could they get it so obviously wrong when we previously had a model of recruitment that was mostly so incredibly right?

If you think Thomas or Kristensen are bad at left back the answer to that problem will never be JJ, he’s bloody useless there! He had a very limited purple patch there many years ago but that’s long gone. He’s very right footed and can’t position himself on his favoured right let alone the unfamiliar left. I’m just hoping that Leeds offer 50p and a Mars bar and he goes. Him and Faes both need a map and a brain before they step on a pitch again.

Largely due to the now Celtic manager 😂

Not meant as any kind of defence for them whatsoever but when they employed Cooper and RVN, I just wonder if it was because they were the only candidates that would take the job? Marti too must need his bumps feeling coming here!

Me neither, he’s bloody useless 😂

I think the problem is also that those other two you mention had checked out too on Saturday.

Exactly how I see it too, his spoilt little boy attitude has the potential to infect the dressing room even more. He and others like him need rooting out. However, as has been said many times, most of wouldn’t be wanted by anyone at the wages they’re on.

You would use the best you have at the time to stand in I would presume, who knows how old, how physical and capable any such fullback was at the time but that’s what happened. Luke is a very level headed local lad from good ‘season ticket holding family’ He certainly did have a group of local friends that helped keep him to remain that way and if you knew him, he’d probably tell you of his breakthrough. He used to take everything very seriously and never for granted and tried his best. Like any young man of his experience at the time, to suddenly come up against the likes of Salah, then Kane and Son running at you was quite daunting to put it mildly.