Which has produced what exactly?? Reminds of of the time when Tulloh Oil was in Tanzania and other parts of Africa and we sent coaches and scouts all over the place down there. Which produced???
There are only two reasons I think something is in place: 1) a Birmingham fan told me the reason he wanted to leave was his dad was asking for assurances of first team football when he signed his pro deal there, and was then pissed off with them for not playing Jobe enough so said he’d take him somewhere that will play him. Birmingham agreed because they didn’t want to be dictated to for similar reasons I guess to what you say: I dismissed that at the time but then… 2) we literally playing him every game. It’s hard to argue with the above theory if the practice is playing out. Im never normally one for conspiracies but im adamant we’ve agreed to it. Very much doubt it’s in writing, more a gentlemen’s agreement. But I’m convinced it’s true
Playing time clauses in contracts are a lot more common than people realise. We more than likely have other players with them not just Jobe.
Not clauses to play pretty much every minute of every game though. At worst he is subbed around 85 to 90 minutes
I can understand the second point but I'm not sure on the first, I have heard it mentioned before, but Jobe was at the play off final with sunderland staff, it was expected that he could sign that summer, however him and the family apparently wanted to do the right thing by Birmingham so he signed the pro contract so they would get a fee, I could see his dad been pissed off though that he did the right thing by them and stayed for another year, only for him not to get much game time. No matter how much KS rates him I dont think the legal team KLD has would allow something like that in a contract. However from the outside at the minute you can understand so many people thinking that way
Good comments about Mogga views on Pritchard and maybe one of the reasons we only offered him a contract for this season.
If there is truth to such a clause, you’d hope that Jobe or his dad would realise he is fatigued and talk to the club about having a game or two out. It might seem to make short term sense for him to get all of this experience but it’s actually not if he is playing at 80% compared to early in the season.
Wasn't just his actions at full time though. I lost count of the number of times he gestured towards the bench in the first half as if asking "what am I/we doing" when we allowed them to continually play the same simple balls out from goalkicks. He kept coming inside to try and support Rusyn but the rest of the team were too deep. He then did the same gesture when we made the subs as if to say "where do you want me to go". To say he looked frustrated at the least.
At least he is playing now, under TM he didn't get many starts. Plus he's not really playing on the right, he was drifting all over pitch against hull
Its an awful thing to say but im hoping Jobe picks up a slight injury so he can get a rest. Maybe 2-4 weeks out of the team.
I can’t understand any reason to move on Prichard First we have no one near good enough in our squad to replace him And that been proven Maybe in the future we have to move on from Prichard but we need some one to replace him Untill then we must keep our best player and bring in better quality then we can start and think of moving Prichard on Most certainly not at the moment
What I cannot understand also is along with the fact you pointed out that he never played Pritchard, mowbray wanted dack. Two things that point to journalist putting 2+2 together and getting 5
He’s been streets better than what’s been tried to replace him If you think he’s been poor god help the rest
