Wow sorry I upset so many people. I didn't want to put what I had heard in case it was a stupid case of chinese whispers and I would get slaughtered for it. I figured that if there was any truth in it then someone else would have heard and know instantly what I was talking about. OK so here goes, probably just something someone made up. When Koren was taken off he didn't take it well, went to the dressing room got changed and stormed off so fast in his car he nearly ran someone down. Then after the match Fryatt wanted to punch Barmby but a couple of the other players stopped him. David Burns knows about this and was trying to drag something out of Fryatt in his interview on Saturday. There we are then, hopefully a total lie or a heat of the moment incident that has blown over now.
Was Benny Hill music playing during Koren's escape? For the record I havent heard this rumour, Fryatt seems far too docile to want to punch someone.
I wasn't going to comment on this thread but my mind has been changed. I have to say what a load of old **** this is. You really need spill the beans on what you've heard. You never know there might be someone on here who could put it all to bed. Even if it's the general just of what happened and the players involved. As it stands this is the ****est rumour in history.
Barmby, knock him out! Barmby Barmby knock him out! Going to have to listen to this interview I think sounds quite intriguing... But I think that's a load of bollocks, or exaggerated at least.. If its true I'm guessing that means the club have made an estimation that Koren will have calmed down from his Mardy in about 3 weeks time? If Fryatt and Barmby had been at each others throats I'd imagine McLean would have been playing against Leicester..
Well i heard something a little less ott than that, just that Koren felt he could have continued and Fryatt was mad at the decision to take him off.
This was posted before you updated the thread. Now I can confirm it's a load of old ****. Koren storming off because he was injured? The bloke just isn't the type, trust me.
Well like I said maybe a bit of an argument as happens in dressing rooms and chinese whispers took over.
What would I know? I'm just the guy who said Nigel Pearson didn't want to be here. Nah, that was just clever reading of the situation (as always) from me. I did hear from an unreliable source that Koren wants out at the end of the season though.
I heard the same rumour, only it was Colonel Plum who hit Barmby, with a candlestick, in the drawing room.
Did that unreliable source tell you the same thing about Koren this time last year as well? I don't think it was you that posted it last year, but I just think with Koren it's more a case of people at this time of year looking at him and deciding because he doesn't look very interested that he must want out. They seem to forget that he looks like that all the time. With the rumours put forward, if Koren went at half-time who was it that was outside to nearly get run over? And why would Fryatt's anger be at full time and not when the change was happening? For the benefit of the record, the 3 players I named were virtually picked from thin air based on who I thought it'd be easiest to start a rumour about at the moment if I was the type that wanted to feel important by starting rumours. Fryatt has his comments about playing one up front, Brady surprisingly dropped out the side despite Koren's injury, and McKenna just had 2 games alongside Cairney. The 2nd of McKenna's games came despite Evans being in the side and in a game where most people felt Cairney would play the hole of Brady didn't so it would be "explained" as Barmby showing McKenna who is boss if he complained about Cairney not helping defensively.
Koren may stay, Koren may go. I doubt anyone other than Koren, his other half or his agent have any real idea. I dare say your source is unreliable Perry old chap, unless it's one of the three mentioned.
It's a load of rubbish. If the service inside the KC wasn't so bad, people would have seen my tweet at half-time Vs Southampton, but my tweet wouldn't go through... I'm surprised I was the only one who saw it and mentioned to a mate that Koren had pulled his hamstring, which was confirmed when he didn't come back out. I was going to post about how it was partially the ref's fault Koren got injured, but as you might recall, I've been having internet troubles, then my ISP wouldn't give me my MAC code (which is against the law!) and now my new ISP (after a week of waiting for their router to arrive) say I have to wait 10 days before I can report that the new service I have with them isn't working properly! (but at least I now have a little bit of the net working to dismiss this rumour, haha - rant over.) Anyway, what I would have posted had all these internet troubles not stopped me, is that it was sods law that Koren got injured, he did his hamstring on the stroke of HT - typical. He received the ball on the edge of the box when we were pushing for an equaliser, 3 Soton players rushed out to him, he turned back to play a pass back to McKenna on the half-way line, but as he span, he went to kick it and as he swung his leg, the ref blew his whistle at the same time, which made Koren slip in a rush to pass it to McKenna. He then grabbed his hamstring and held it for a few strides whilst walking to the tunnel.
