TRIBUTE TO A GREAT PLAYER [video=youtube;F8DmPhVYvCY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DmPhVYvCY[/video] Jesse Bodde posted this on youtube 4 weekes ago: Het is mijn oom ! vandaag officieel gestopt met professioneel voetbal , vandaag werd hij weer geopereerd .. Translated: It's my uncle! today officially stopped professional football, today he was operated on again .. He will never be forgoten Jesse!
Belloc.ks to him.He messed the Club round. We should have sold him to Derby. ....and given him a kick up the backside on the way out
Think he would have been a great Championship player, but sadly we never got to see his full potential.
Dai - you are of course entitled to your view that Ferrie was at best a League One player. Unfortunately we will never know if he could have hacked it in the Premier League. I guess that most Jacks would not have thought when we first got into the Championship that Rangel or Britton would have been as good as they have been. Perhaps Ferrie might have been the same?
At his peak he could still be an important player for us if he could still play! Absolutely fantastic player and I wish him well in the future. I'm surprised that most of you seem to have forgotten how fantastic a player he was now that we're in the premier league.
He put himself through a lot to try and achieve a return for us. Will never forget his part on our journey to the premier league
He didn't put himself through **** all mate, he was a guy that wasted all help the club gave him, even missing appointments with medical consultants during his numerous recoveries. Awesome player until he got injured, spent a bit too much time sitting in the stands through injury and suspension though so for me as much as I loved him to bits I have to say he screwed himself and the club, somebody high up at the club apparently said that the day ferrie's contract ended was one of the best things to happen to the club, he was an awesome player but nothing but trouble.
I agree with Norway. From what I was told, he would not use the best consultants, the Swans wanted him to use Steadman in the US who sorted out Owain Tudur Jones. Then he insisted on doing his rehab in Holland and not with the club. Not only did he do this first time but then for a second time. Pity himself or being advised so poorly.
I heard that too Norway, but you must realise it came from our money men at the top, and you also have to take into account the terrible frustration that Bodde must have gone through with this injury, yes he didn't take the clubs advice, to go to the states for treatment, and something I'm sure he's reflecting on to this day, but that backroom dispute between him and Jenkins etc, does not for me detract from the joy I received watching him play numerous times for us in a Swansea shirt, and I will always remember the good times I had watching him at the Liberty, he was head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch!............
Watched his last game for us down Parc Y Scarlets (reserves) and when he went off injured I kind of knew then that was the last we'd see him in a white shirt. What is it with the Dutch (not all I know ,but ours ) I believe he could have made the step up no problem but did he ?
I've lost a post here somewhere??? Even if it was down to his own miss management, how did the club allow him to return twice and break down immediately??? Or was this down to his Dutch medical team giving him the ok and the clubs medical staff following suit??
That's a very discerning point of view, and one that amongst other's he took issue over, but at the end of the day, we offered him the best treatment in the world, out in the states!..............
wouldn't disagree with anything you've said there Dragon, but the fact he was a waster still sticks with me a little bit. He could have been a true great for us but I still feel that the guy wasted his career by being lazy an wantin to cut corners,something that you just don't do as pro footballer, its basically gross mis conduct inany other field and the guy got paid thousands for it aswell. I wish him all the best, I loved him to bits when he was fit but he ****ed the club around something rotten along the way,both when injured and when fit !! Good luck Ferrie
Norway agree, and it is a great shame that he took some wrong decisions, and I'm sure he's regretting it now, to me he was a gifted talent that went begging, but then so many have also wasted their careers, while receiving no injuries, remember the waster George Best!.................
Wasted talent maybe - but will never forget sitting behind the goal at Preston when he hit that one in from 40 Yards - breathtaking at the time
Ill say again Div one at best. He did not deserve a contract with anyone. He ripped off DH aqnd he most certainly ripped off us for hundreds of thousand pounds. He Could not put a string of games together worthy of calling him a footballer before crying off with injury...55 games for two clubs in 6 years is a joke and we should never have kept him on in a million years, Like what has been said its a pity we never sold him to derby. he was not worth the hassle and even refused to do what he was told by the clubs doctor..
