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  • #176520
    donnys pageDonnys Page
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      It’s started… Gary Roberts contract extension.
      One for the future that is.

      #176523

      Would you prefer that we released him?

      #176524
      donnys pageDonnys Page
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        Not now but at the end of the season when his present contract expires unless he has a coaching roll lined up with us.

        #176525
        The EggThe Egg
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          One of the best trainers at the club, still perhaps the fittest member of the squad even at 34, a model pro who gives 100% in everything he does and never lets us down when we call on him.

          I can see why he would be of no use around the place and someone the younger lads wouldn’t learn anything from.

          #176526

          He reminds me of a modern day mark hilditch. Not the best of players we have ever had, but certainly a player who always gives 110% everytime he is called on.

          It’s a good signing IMO. He can certainly provide our youth that are coming through with all his experience.

          #176527
          He reminds me of a modern day mark hilditch. Not the best of players we have ever had, but certainly a player who always gives 110% everytime he is called on.

          It’s a good signing IMO. He can certainly provide our youth that are coming through with all his experience.

          Stop talking sense.

          There’s nothing to whinge about when you’re talking sense.

          #176528
          donnys pageDonnys Page
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            Totally agree he gives 100% whenever he plays. However that’s what he and every other player should be doing anyway.
            Face it though although he is the fans sweetheart if he plays one half he is knackered so all but useless to the side in the second half.
            We have found this season has been a huge step up and if we stay up is he good enough for next season. If it hadn’t been for injuries would he have even made the bench this season?
            It’s not moaning, it’s facing reality.
            Have other Championship clubs been queuing up to sign him? and we’ve made a deal with him to fend them off?

            #176530
            The EggThe Egg
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              Totally agree he gives 100% whenever he plays. However that’s what he and every other player should be doing anyway.
              Face it though although he is the fans sweetheart if he plays one half he is knackered so all but useless to the side in the second half.
              We have found this season has been a huge step up and if we stay up is he good enough for next season. If it hadn’t been for injuries would he have even made the bench this season?
              It’s not moaning, it’s facing reality.
              Have other Championship clubs been queuing up to sign him? and we’ve made a deal with him to fend them off?

              He is so knackered in the second half that he still regularly out runs the majority of the side, so what does that say about them?

              No he probably wouldn’t have made the bench that often had we kept a fully fit squad but we have had injuries and we need to ensure that we have a SQUAD of players to deal with injuries. If you let every player go that isn’t in the top 18 then you won’t go very far.

              #176537
              dnrdnr
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                I find the hostility to him a bit surprising, I think he is a a decent player, no world breather, but none of our players are. I have never felt let down by him, and have certainly seen worse performances from windass , Evans, Naismith, and all of our strike force.
                Injuries prove that you need players that can step up when the likes of Jacobs is injured as he would start ahead of him in my book, but when he has come in he has been reliable. If we didn’t extended them we would have to replace him, so the question for me would be who with and how much would it cost compared to simply extending a contract.
                A reasonable if not sexy move in my book

                #176538
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                  I haven’t got any hostility towards him whatsoever. He always does his best and gives what every player should do and that’s 100%. That doesn’t however mean that alone merits yet another contract extension.

                  #176539

                  I suppose we let him go and sign De Bruyne do we?

                  #176562
                  cup winnerscup winners
                  Player

                    Roberts signs, Cook gives him the weekend off (as m8s do) along with that other young un Olson. Must have used the same heavy pen

                    #176563
                    Vat69Vat69
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                      Roberts signs, Cook gives him the weekend off (as m8s do) along with that other young un Olson. Must have used the same heavy pen

                      Still recovering from the Dubai piss up for Cooks birthd….er, I mean the warm weather training camp….

                      …that obviously had a great effect today.

                      Who paid for the jolly boys outing then? I will tell you…..

                      Will Grigg.

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