Wouldn't that be the final straw? In a Bank Holiday Weekend that has seen Killbane fail to get promoted, Olofinjana coming back due to Jones sacking and Gerrard given a clean slate due to Jones sacking. The one bright spot was that McShane had a very good game for the Irish and therefore might be wanted by someone!! Apologies if you thought the headline was real!!
Strovlos you had my hopes up! Surely he'd have to retire if he buggered up his knee again? Cheers -.-
I know what you mean, it'll be a nightmare of epic proportions if our midfield is Bullard and Olfinjana. Harper and Evans offer so much more.
Whilst TWF may appear to be playing his usual windup games, he has a point. It wouldn't be the end of the world if we were lumbered with the best player in this division for another year or 6 months, whatever his wages.
Be more like Bullard does himself an injury falling off a bar stool. Talking about the little barstool is he off to Norwich then?
And he is our biggest, best, highest paid, highest profile player who we know the club is trying to get rid of but might have difficulty doing. All of this makes it a popular topic. I have no problem with people criticising the nature of a thread, but there's a good reason JB gets a lot of coverage.
Why is Bullard treated any different to our other players? They all get injured, which is a part of the profession, and all of them show a marked lack of his natural ability - 5 goals in 16 appearences for Ipswich - something we sadly lacked from anywhere, never mind midfield! Set his cost against a £90,000,000 payday and it's peanuts.
Nobody doubts his ability, he is a fantastic player. It's his attitude that most fans have a problem with. He clearly ruined a moved to Celtic last summer which would have benfited both him and us. I will tell you now that if he plays another game in a Hull shirt he has some making up to do before i cheer him. It's a matter of respect, the club have shown him very little i know but he has to earn respect.
And i recognised that! I know they have, but at the end of the day they 'own' him, and if he wants to play football here again, then he needs to earn their respect. If he doesn't want to play here again, then he needs to go where someone will respect him, such as Norwich. I don't mind if he stays, but he just has to prove that he is willing to work hard both on the pitch and keeping himself fit. Not much to ask is it really?
So what has he done except get injured? Lots of drivel about his lifestyle, not much substance though. He became Adam Pearson's whipping boy and the club suffered because of it. Forget the respect nonsense and look at the football he can deliver where we need it most. Try trawling through our injury list from the second half season - it was poor; in this time we paid good money for Jimmy to be fit, available and the Ipswich Player of the Season, when on loan and only a half season. If respect is so important to you then link onto this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0XAI-PFQcA&feature=related it has the same class as Jimmy has on the field, where it really matters!
Get a grip man! Browny got us up, to the Premier League. In doing so, he began to build his own team (just like NP now). Brown, together with Duffen, made mistakes (it's not an exact science, you know). Jimmy Bullard - the Great White Hope - was, it appears, just one of those mistakes. He ****ed up the club's hero, Ash, and was not such a great influence on the other (younger?) players. Forget Dowie... When Nigel Pearson came in, he obviously began to look at the task of building a team. Bullard, with his ability, could have been on board. It seems that, despite his skills, he chose to **** up. To blame NP (and AP?) would appear to be a chronic mis-reading of the situation, of the dynamic needed to lift the club from the drop zone, up the league, to a near reach of the play-offs. Grow up - ****wit.
