Yes , that's the original comment you reposted Norway , no mention whatsoever to giving any hope for Bodde to return , on the contrary really . It's only later you softened your stand and started hoping you were wrong . Anyways , we'll see soon enough how his return or lack of unfolds
Look at Barca's Abidal he had cancer. he still play at the highest level and cancer is a bit worse than a knee injury. he wasnt out for 3 year to come back to play football at his age with dealing with what he has is quite unbelieveble
ffs if Bodde does come back, 1 tackle and he will be out for the rest of his career. he is a finished unit, get over it.
Jackdan- Sorry i didnt reply to that post, i honestly think its not quite the same as i was thinking along the lines of football but you are by far the closest to finding a comparable scenario!! I think we are up to 1 on my origional questions
cracker- i actually said i hope that im wrong bit of a subtile difference really,never mind nice try but please try harder in future
. No mention of hope in that first post Norway , just a better off forgetting about him I'm afraid .... You could be right though , but you could be delightfully wrong also
yes no "hope" in mt first statement quite correct there but im not sure what point your trying to make, that my stance has softend?? again as i explained earlier its taken as a given that we want him t return, if you ever saw him play you will understand but we are indeed better off forgeting about him until he has actually done something of worth like complete a reserve game If you think my stance has softend then thats up to you , its totally irrelevent what either of us thinks TBH
Musty why are you so abrasive and happy to be negative about a player lots of us would love to see back? Do you go around telling kids santa doesn't exist too?! Why the negativity?
Never mind Norway , good to see you eventually holding some sort of hope for Bodde's return , a far cry from your first comment on here .
I'm slightly surprised that this thread has descended into a tit-for-tat bicker match, when, for all intensive purposes, there is no right or wrong. Norway, you "may" be right, and myself, Cracker, and others "may" also be right, but reiterating already stated points is not going to make them appear any more creditable. I'm afraid your theory, that no player has ever come back from three years out of the game and played at a higher level before, fails for me on the basis that someone somewhere HAS been injured for a long period of time and HAS come back to play again at a higher level. This is not my opinion, but simply a product of probability. There are too many players playing the game worldwide for this not to have happened at least once. Were they playing at Prem level? Was their injury as serious as Bodde's? Essentially, it's irrelevent. Bodde can come back, and he can play at a higher level; but, likewise, he can comeback and never regain his form. Both are possibilities, and perhaps the probablility is that he won't make the grade, but pessimism is surely unproductive whilst the possibility of positivity still remains. <<<<<< try saying that last sentence after a few
Well said big apple. Anyone who disagrees with Norway is making 'daft comments', and his leaving smileys at the end of each sentence is calculated to irritate. He's beginning to sound like that moron John Hughs with his 'give me an answer!' nonsense. I reiterate - because you are clearly having trouble with this concept - WE DON'T KNOW if he'll make it back to his previous level. You are as wrong in saying he won't as those who are saying he definitely will (hven't seen many of those to be honest). Firstly, the medics are in the best position to know whether he'll be back at all (this is for the mustys of this world) and all the signals seem to be that he will at some stage. As to the level he'll reach that's an imponderable isn't it? A little more support from you wouldn't go amiss as opposed to completely dismissing his chances because 'it's never been done before'. Watch this space. It may well be that you'll be as wrong about this as you were about Agustien being 'nothing special'. ...oh and an edit: Hargreaves has just come on for City so your earlier remark about him still being injured is also wrong.
Yawn. . . May i refer recent posters to comment 109 Totally irrelevant what anyone thinks is the only 100% accurate comment on this thread,but i have great fun in taking different view points for the sake of debate,what i type can sometimes be put on There to open up the debate from a mutual ****ing session to something that offera a different avenue of thought,114 comments later... Aussie- to repeat my self once more, kemy was nothing special last season, its taken him 1 year to intet rate and be a player, it wasnt me that sent him out on Loan to palace it was brenden,dont shoot the massenger
The biggest suprise of the whole bodde saga is how many people care about him. Everyone should be proud of Themselves for that,i wish bodde felt the same when he was handing in transfer requests and squeezing cash out of the club along the way
He was a highly sought after player at the time & he did eventually stay . At the time I remember being grateful he did stay .
I make no qualms in stating that he is the best midfielder that I have seen at this club in the past ten years. It does not matter what league you are playing in if your range of passing and shooting was as good as his. He was not the quickest, but his intelligence and commitment won him challenges and found him space to score goals. And they weren't all "fluky" long rangers either. He scored a number of tap ins, highlighting his ability to get into the box at the right time....and this was from a ball winning midfielder! He did the job of Leon Britton..... plus scored goals.....and could hit a 60 yard pass. Before his injury against Birmingham, he was on 7 goals for the season and had we not lost him, it is not improbable to suggest that his goals, along with those of Gomez and Scotland, could have won us promotion. These are not rose tinted specs. Just watch the videos and marvel at the artistry. People here care about him because they appreciate good football, and recognise good footballers when they see them. To question his commitment, simply because a much larger club (at the time) was sniffing around, and use it to back up your opinion that he will never play for us again, is to suggest ignorance of just how important a player he was for us at the time, and could be again when fit.
Ignorant indeed. I know poor old Norway is geographically removed from Swansea but didn't realise he was on another planet. "....i have great fun in taking different view points for the sake of debate" Regardless of their merit? Wow. No. You have great fun winding other Swans fans up just for the sake of the crack. Those long Winter days and nights taking their toll I suspect. You must be bored ****less if deliberately pressing on the Swans fans' raw nerve regarding Bodde gives you 'great fun'. Then you say 'yawn' when you don't like our response. What a twonk.
aussie its really good to have you back! Big apple it seems you didnt read my previous comment (109) where i also touched on boddes virtues , i am not using boddes transfer requests to back up anything just reminding those of you (and there seem to be plenty) that think the sun shines out of his arse that he is not the demi god you think he is. Everyone who seen him play knew he was good,but he was also injury prone and also carried his fair amount of suspensions, i hope (look cracker i really am softening up) he can return, ive said it many times but i dont buy into all the bullshit that is going on around him Alot of jacks think Ferrie boddes **** dont stink, talk of him making a sensational return went up in smoke during the course of this thread ,even Ashley Williams is being hyptnotised by the Bodde saga!! " one of the best players ive ever played with is close to a return " cue hysteria from many jacks then the retweet by ash " dont know when its going to happen though" cue absolute silence by many on this board and nothing debated about it either. Inbetween all of this you have Ferrie bodde allegedly telling supporters "aiming for Barnsley,just a few weeks and im hoping to be back "etc etc and still no sign of him even in a reserve game!! Doesnt anyone think that its strange to have no idea of when he will be back?? or is it normal practice to not inform anyone about his progress,even the guys training next to him have no idea whats happening ffs !! For the record,Ferrie Bodde is one of the best ive ever seen in his position for SCFC , He was absolute quality and maybe will be again, we will never know until he runs on that field and plays like the superstar some think he could still be. I am all for it, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see him play like he once did, but we come back to the same points. Lets just say that im not convinced by anything thats going on around Ferrie Bodde right now, his return is critical not to SCFC but the sanity of the pro ferrie fans who remember the past like it was yesterday,its been 3yrs now and every day thats added on makes his full time return,not impossible but highly unlikely to be back at his origional level If people disagree that fine by me, i ll have no problem if im wrong because that would mean we ve gained a fantastic player, if im right though...well, lets just say it will be an end of an era
