Thought I'd set one up for you Tractor Boys, can't believe there isn't one already! We constantly had a Bullard debate going - he'll keep you on your toes with drinking, night clubs, shampoo ads, injuries, wages, naughty ladies and maybe some goals.. enjoy!
If you lot had nothing better to do than make up a pathetic thread and keep debating it you really are a sad bunch. Not bothered what he does off the pitch, so long as he does well on it. Also, if it goes wrong, we won't have been utterly fleeced like you. Nothing like approximately shoving £12 mill down the toilet
Of course he's taking legal action. They wanted him off the wage bill so they found a reason to sack him. Cant go saying too much but the coach allegedly involved in the altercation decided he couldn't continue working for Hull after Bullard was sacked.
mate, i honestly doubt that any of us on this board give a flying **** about that, and neither should you or any hull supporter, leave all that **** to the lawyers, you just need to carry on enjoying your football!!
That's true, the goal keeping coach Joe Corrigan has reisgned and been replaced - just reported in the Hull Daily Mail.
I read into this that Corrigan left because he didn't like the sacking, can't see any other reason why he could 'no longer work here' after Bullard had left. Now Hull are claiming the appeal isn't valid because Bullard has signed for Town which could only really affect the compensation figure if he wins. Seems to me they have a dreadful set of legal advisors. Here is last week's story: Speaking after Hull’s 1-0 victory over Reading at the weekend, manager Nigel Pearson said: "Joe Corrigan is leaving us so we'll be looking for another goalkeeping coach. "I'd like to thank him for his efforts. He leaves as a direct consequence of our incidents in pre-season surrounding a player that has left the club. “You can read into that how you want. It's a shame for football that a man of Joe's calibre and a coach of his calibre feels he can no longer work here." The Hull Daily Mail says 62-year-old former England and Manchester City keeper Corrigan’s resignation is related to what they call “a serious altercation with Jimmy Bullard” during the trip to Slovenia.
The appeal against his sacking is simply to challenge if he should have been sacked or not, it's only outcome, if successful, would be to see Jimmy reinstated, which as he now plays for you, is rather pointless. If he wants to challenge the breach of contract ruling to recoup lost earnings, he'll have to do it through the High Court and considering the dirt the club have on him, he's unlikely to be successful there either. I don't think there's anything wrong with the legal advice the club have received, at least I hope not, they happens to be my lawyers too.
It seems to me that they can't possibly win purely on the basis that it's so obvious the only motive for the sacking was to get him off the wage bill. There is a precedent with Dennis Wise in which he apparently only lost because he was too late to bring the action.
You have absolutely no idea what he's done, you probably never will, but if you did, you wouldn't have posted that comment.
Nope but the man wasn't hospitalised so unless he was buggered by Jimmy then I can only read between the lines. Corrigan doesn't seem to be taking action himself against Jimmy, it would appear quite the opposite, maybe that will change.
Corrigan is just one of a catalogue of breaches of club discipline, I'm not going to post them on here, but if it ever gets to court, then you'll find out(I suspect you'll never find out).
I've got to say, all this claim and counter-claim has piqued my interest, I'm now hoping it goes to court just to appease my curiosity
Dave - it wont get to Court probably, the vast majority of cases settle out of Court. I dont think that the issue will be whether Bullard has committed breaches of discipline, it will be whether they were sufficient to justify him being sacked and any Court will be very interested in Hull's attitude to disciplinary offences committed by other players, because they will expect a consistent approach to have been adopted. That could get messy if JB can start raking up similar incidents in the past but where no-one has been sacked.
