Someone tell me why he got a new contract ? Fail to see given our finances and his injury record why he got a new deal.
35 appearances since he joined January 2009 (not sure date he started with us?)...... yet we invest more money in him. We dont have the squad or finances to be carrying crocks.
Other worrying thing is AT doesnt know if the operation is on his knee or ankle !!
What about Bell though ??? ...a 4 year contract....and he's a crock too...oh, and also not very good
I agree danceswithhorses.......... I dont see the benefit of giving either of them new contracts
FFS the guy broke his back playing for us ,every time he's played he's totally commited,Bell on the other hand,i can count effeective performances on one hand ,the contracts however suggest to me a business plan for div3,we'd be better keeping our frustration to this topic than turning on the players.
No Turner has left so naturally for many has immediately become the worst player we have ever had, just as Westwood is now a shockingly poor keeper and Gunnarson isn't good enough to play for Beduff.
When fit McPake was absolutely superb. I'm not saying he was better than Dann, nor did I ever, but he was certainly a top Championship defender. Players usually pick up slight knocks during the recovery process from such long lay-offs. It's a blow, as I desperately want to see him in the side-we need an aggressive centre back. Instead it will probably be Cameron. Not exactly "awash with centre backs" now, are we? Oh how I wish we had Turner now!
Unfortunately for Ben he,s picked up a groin injury after three friendlies ,so won't make his Cardiff debut as hoped against the scum tonight ,cue the "thank god we got £750,000 for the useless crock brigade",ce--le --vie
It seems customary for most clubs to have their fair share of "sicknote" players - weve certainly had those over the years.
It may seem a tad unfair BUT it does appear to be the same players getting a variety of injuries one season after another whilst playing for CCFC.
McPake (an absolute superb defender) has only played 31 league games in 3 seasons - and what about the "Pitbull" having played just 9 games in 2 seasons !!!
Other notorious sicknotes over the years for other clubs have been:
Note: The worse sicknote for us ever must be David McNamee (2006-2008) who averaged 12 games per season in his career
- Owen Hargreaves average 17 games per season
- Johnathen Woodgate 19 gps
- kieren Dyer 20 gps
- Darren Anderton 26 gps
Not only is the frequency of injury perplexing but the actual time off for some of the injuries beggars belief with strains and twists taking months to heal instead of days or weeks.
I don't know what the answer is but it seems the better players in our squad continue to suffer this malaise which must be frustrating AT's plans.
PUSB
Yes thats the beauty of the game ,that he made it in spite of the endless knocking,and in that brought in a fee that keeps us going to january£750,000 not a bad price for a reasonable, though injury prone Championship defender, never useless(even when everybody seemed to think he was), but not the greatest either(which he seemed to become the longer he was out injured)
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