whatever went on with Yakubu is irrelevant really. What went on before he came on is where the real focus should be.
There is nothing professional about our club. Fisher is in charge.
The bloke was injured.
Oops to all the outraged and incandescent with rage types on this thread.
Oops to all the outraged and incandescent with rage types on this thread.
Disgusted to see that, wonder what he or Slade have to say if shown and pulled up on
To be fair, if Slade told him to stay on even though he was injured and clearly unable to do anything he needs to answer some questions.
Errrrr.....For the eleventy billioneth time,he was injured.
slade needs to answer questions about his utter ineptitude which started well before Yakubu rolled into town.
He was injured.
The point I was making in the opening post was that he couldn't be bothered to warm up, just stayed in his seat all game until he came on and so injury was completely inevitable.
Just total laziness, and clearly not interested or he would have at least attempted some kind of warmup.
The point I was making in the opening post was that he couldn't be bothered to warm up, just stayed in his seat all game until he came on and so injury was completely inevitable.
Just total laziness, and clearly not interested or he would have at least attempted some kind of warmup.
Slade needs fucking and his clothes burning, whatever has gone on with Yakubu is a fucking irrelevance. The preceding 70 minutes were a fucking disgrace.
Can't believe that fucking charlatan hasn't had the good grace to resign.
Can't believe that fucking charlatan hasn't had the good grace to resign.
Point here is not how little ground he covered. It's also not really about players warm ups.. but it is when they don't bother to do anything in the minutes before coming on... just standing around waiting... then we are supposed say 'ah ok, he's injured'. Course he fecking is - I used to warm up more to play 5-a-side. Total lack of professionalism from him and no strength or management even allowing him on in that case.
A disgrace and sums up the embarrassment we have become
I couldn't give two shits about being Twitter famous. What does it achieve? Fuck all. It appears some are missing the point of the video. It's obvious he was struggling and not covering much ground whether it was through injury or not. When I put it out I didn't know the reasons. If he wasn't injured that would be bad enough. If he was that's considerably worse and brings up some worryingly issues.
It now seems that he was injured. Why did he not have a proper warm up? As I've previously stated that didn't happen at Wimbledon either. How can Slade allow him to stay on? He may have demanded it as others have said. Also in my previous post I stated he was actively avoiding the ball so it's not like he was quarterbacking the play and playing the ball back into the danger area. He was just walking round and possibly making an injury worse. I'm not sure if it happened when Thomas scored. He was struggling sometime before that. What is certain is that he couldn't really move afterwards. There's 3-4 minutes left and we're 2 goals down, take him off! The first few minutes can make a huge difference in recovery.
When Beavon's Hammy went a few games back he was holding it directly in front of us from around the 15th-20th minute. He was obviously struggling. He stayed on until half time. Slade said it went a few mins before half time. Everyone around us saw it and were asking each other why he was still on for so long.
Now this may not be Slade's fault. Why has the above happened?
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Please explain the point of the video. (By the way I'm not getting st you - I know you're a passionate fan and do a lot for the club)
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True. CJ seems to do an awful lot.
It does seem though that a conclusion had already been come to and it was just a case of presenting the evidence to everyone.
Clive Eakin immediately spotted that Yakubu was injured and Delete Adebola, the guest co commentator for the day also said that the striker looked like he had done a hamstring.
Surely if the issue is one of Yakubu just coming on and not warming up, that should have been the focus of the video, rather than filming him not doing much when he is carrying an injury.
Yep. Doubts from the very start about his age, lack of game time and overall fitness levels.
Given the manager's distinct lack of enthusiasm when signing him, it did make me question all manner of things at the time.
Such as whether it was really the manager's choice to sign him or not. Guess we'll never know.
On a paper as in the experience he has and the quality he had, most "34" ex premier league and international player should be able to do a job in league 1. How did any of us know he was so out of shape and disinterested. That was on slade he watched him train for nearly 2 weeks before signing him
Slade surely saw that the bloke just wasn't fit enough didn't he?
It looks like an act of desperation.
Exactly, it's on slade he had 2 weeks to see what we saw in 2 20 minute cameos. But before he is in the building it sounds like a good signing but as soon as he turned up at Ryton they should have turned him away.
He's probably offered to, but it doesn't suit SISU's agenda to let him walk.
They're waiting for the drop now, so that they can appoint Ricketts next season, imo.
As for Yakubu, what did we all expect lads? Didn't warm up, too lazy, and Slade wasn't about to prompt him, so it was inevitable he'd injure himself. At 42 it happens far more easily than at 34.
Slade is fast becoming our most infamous manager of the modern era, he's truly pub team level.
I think probably Venus just signed Yakubu to show the club are attempting something.
Even slade hinted at what we ended up seeing.
Even slade hinted at what we ended up seeing.
Indeed. When the manager can't even manage to go to the paper and say how Yakubu's still got the desire, the fight, AND JUST LOOK AT HIS TRACK RECORD then you have to question whether the manager actually signed him, or was persuaded to do so.
I'd say Yakubu points to the structural ills of the club above all else.
Think Hucks is right, Yakubu is easily 52. Roger Milla is next in the door, haha, could you imagine..."Well Clive, it's a positive signing, and his desire is still there...his bowels and hips are suspect but we're looking to hoof the ball in off him."