Pritchard

For those with a grudge against the club, they know who they are, Pritchard will fall into the same category as 'wronged heroes' such as Batth, Neil and Mowbray. He'll be the poor victim who demanded a better contract and was cruelly turned down by the Machiavellian Mr Speakman. In reality he'll become the next Denver Hume or Chris Maguire who used Sunderland to boost their ego and profile but found the grass wasn't greener ...

... it was actually just covered in dogshyte and they'll never wipe it off their boots again. .

 

Because I only have one person on ignore and the forum says when you post

If I stopped posting even those I argue with would miss me, it's banter and most appreciate it..

I've argued with most people but we still managed to get along ...

... you're just a tedious bore who contributes fck all.

Even people I argue with like my posts, no one likes your's ... think about it.

 

I couldn’t care less what the contract offer was or wasn’t, once you refuse to play for the club (that’s resurrected your career) and is paying your wages you can f#ck right off.

 

Trawling for likes is the giveaway.......

 

Was your source the player/representative/ a close connection?

 

Well said

the WMS whoppers are coming up with the "I'll reserve judgement until we hear both sides" which is just a veiled barb at the club because we know Pritchard isn't about to release a statement. So, in the absence of a tell-all exclusive in The Sun, they'lll refuse to back the club over this. It's a perfect storm

 

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Refusing to play is a big thing. If he moves we'll hear from him sooner rather than later you would think.

 

I have watched Pritch like everyone else. I think he is a very good number 10, but I think he could be even better. In open play he can be devastating, but his set pieces are very hit and miss. I honestly look at players who often hit the first man and think if you want to solve that it is about practice. I wonder how all in he is personally, and I say that because I dont really see a player enjoying himself. Sometimes players can show real enjoyment on the pitch and he doesnt for me. I remember him as a young lad at Spurs and by all accounts he was outstanding naturally. When he broke through at Norwich he was the heartbeat. I hope he doesnt look back on his career and think he should have made more of it. Vision, touch, passing, aggression is all there, but in my opinion he could find another 10% and be in the premier league. I suspect his next moves will be downwards, not upwards, which shouldnt be the case really.

 

Oh aye, he'll open his trap once he's no longer employed by the club.

The bloke has a massive ego for a player who's career peak was an assist in the L1 play off final. Top player, arse of a bloke

 

I'm sure we'll get both sides eventually.

 

Why is there even a "both sides" narrative? Player employed by club refuses to play for club and honour contract. Everything else is background noise.

I work in the world of contracting. I currently have a contract to 31st March. IF my current client opts not to extend my deal I will work as normal until 31st then head on my merry way. I wouldn't down tools and have a hissy fit.

 

It's truly incredible that a few people can side with a player on massive wages, refusing to play our our club ...

... based entirely on tittle tattle and absolutely nothing else.

At the same time they argue against a club statement that they may have to defend at a tribunal or even in court.

Absolutely pathetically biased against a club they claim to support.

 

Aye, but when the tittle tattle paints the club in a negative light it's taken (by some) as the Gospel. So many folk out there are desperate to believe any negative stories that come out about the club.
Even one of the better pods this weekend said they'd "never forgive the club for what they did with the BCB" even though there are no hard facts out there about what happened.

 

What an absolute **** house of a bloke Pritchard is. If he feels he can get a better deal elsewhere that's fair enough, but to refuse to play begs contempt. He's either been badly advised or is just an arsehole.

 

Football contracts aren't like normal contracts. They're exactly as watertight or as porous as one side or the other needs it to be depending on the circumstance.

Enough has happened over the last couple of months to cast doubt on the club's role in this. If it had happened last summer I'd have been telling him to piss off as well.

 

What has happened thats made you doubt it? The stuff thats gone wrong is off the field stuff away from the 1st team squad

Take the stuff for the newcastle game out of it i cant think of anything major thats happened recently n thats got nothing to do with speakman's remit

 

What has happened over the last couple of months to cast doubt about the club renewing/not renewing Pritchard's contract?

 

He still has a contract and should honour it right up till the day it expires, he signed up to the terms and conditions till the date it expires, he was happy to commit to those terms and conditions and should be ashamed of himself for not seeing the contract through regardless of the club offering him a new contract. He’s been a good servant but he’s tarnished his time here and can f##k off for me. He could have seen his contract out and returned to a huge welcome, now he will be known as no better than Rodwell

 

Sacking Mowbray without any evidence they had a succession plan in mind.

Which is why we ended up with Beale, who was clearly the cheapest option and only seems to have opened his mouth to change feet, spending the first month playing exactly the same way that got his predecessor sacked.

Doing their best to burn out Bellingham. If it's because he has to play, then it's even worse.

And now we have the Pritchard situation.

It just feels like a series of poor decisions and situations created by them all of a sudden, so what's changed.

That's before we get to the off field stuff.