Maybe not. But he's a silly lad if he doesn't, and he has very poor people advising him if he doesn't. It is often quite reasonably said that a player has to earn what he can when he can, as one bad injury ends his big earning capacity. This is true enough. But in Tommy's case, if that injury comes before he signs a contract, and sadly they do come, he will find himself looking for work in a year or two. This has happened many times. He should be signing a deal now after a reasonable talk with KLD and KS, who have shown with Jack Clarke that they will honour spoken arrangements. If he gets in the team and tears it up, and still wants a move, he'll get it, and the fee won't be that much different. He ( or A.N. Other) might get less of a signing on fee if that happened, but his future would be secured. He is rolling the dice playing on a youngun's contract
As for Hackett, he was a sh ite ref and is now a dinosaur. Sky should employ someone more modern. Someone like Coote.????
Listening to a boro podcast. They are absolutely raging at the result. We get no credit, Boro made it easy for us, all goals down to Boro mistakes. Seething at Isidor's celebration
As if waving a shirt is likely to cause a bigger ‘crowd surge’ than a winning goal in the last few minutes As for antagonising the Boro fans … … they’d all gone to beat the traffic
Isn't the referee still in charge of what happens on the field even after the final whistle? He didn't intervene so don't see the problem, mind he didn't intervene much during the match so perhaps it's a bad example.
That's it in a nutshell. It's not as if he did it during the game. That would have been antagonistic. The only Boro fans left at the time of the incident were the ones who stayed to see what fantastic away support looks like.
I already said that if Jobe called the ball it was a bad call. Regardless the man with the ball makes the decision. If both Dennis & Jobe marked, a wide ball is still safer than a central ball. It probably goes out for a throw. Back to keeper, facing the other way. Almost all the times the CB should be facing away from keeper, he simply lets the ball run past him and turns and passes sidewards, either to keeper or wide to Hume. Split second decisions, I know but this is what top class CBs have to do. Granted League 1 CB will hoof it more often than not but sometimes this is the best option. Luke made a decision and he lives with the outcome. As i have said many times, CB are judged by mistakes and goals conceded,
Playing the pass wasn't actually the issue, the execution of the pass was the issue. O9 has to play it with more pace a bit wider than what he did - this would allow Jobe to spin towards the outside (away from the danger) Jobe has also got to do better, when you realise a pass is underhit he has to protect the ball better than he does. He can not let the CM get around him as easily as he did For me both were at fault for the goal but I'm not going to have a go at them as O9 normally plays really good passes into CM and Jobe has been outstanding at protecting the ball this season
I absolutely love that man Isidor. I don't get how we have managed to nab so many loveable young rogues. Every player probably has their poster on a teens' at this rate...if they still do posters... Genuinely though, they all have their fan clubs.
Well said Smug, they're all running through brick walls for each other and the link between the fans and players is immense, FT at Derby was sublime and again at Boro, too many people are negative over us and just want us to fail so the can say, "told you so" some people need to be mindful of where we were 3 to 4 years ago and look at the direction the club is going in, its been a long time since we had this connection and fair play to KLD and Speakman (who has proved me wrong about him) who have spearheaded this resurgence, eee aye, eee aye, eee aye, oh, up the football league we go
I was going to say only away fans left by then wasn't there? Was after the final whistle and stadium had emptied so what's the problem?
