Who Goes Next? Ginnelly?

[DJack]

Bleachers! Bleachers! Have we suddenly changed continents!?

 

[monmouth]

Genuinely the idea that we had signed a crocked injury prone player is one that needs to be debunked. This is his stats for the two seasons prior to joining us:

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In 2021/22 he made 38 appearances totalling 1982 minutes (an average of 52 mins per game)
In 2022/23 he made 41 appearances totalling 2763 minutes (an average of 67 mins per game)

Here is his total career injury history:
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Oh, a history of Achilles problems. I didn’t realise. That’s not good to have. He’s probably lost a lot of speed and confidence. Not one to pin any hopes on after that. Watching him systematically kicked by a bunch of thugs was sickening. Those Sheffield teams are both disgustingly cynical and dirty.

 

[monmouth]

Bleachers! Bleachers! Have we suddenly changed continents!?

Embrace it with vim and vigour.

 

[Dr. Winston]

impossible to risk putting him on the pitch.

I dunno. His year in Scotland has demonstrated that he is at least capable.

Damned by association with Russell Martin football for me. Made to look considerably worse by suicidal defensive strategy. Confidence smashed. Now we've moved on from all that, whilst I certainly wouldn't be playing him ahead of Larry I'd probably be more comfortable having him on the bench instead of McLaughlin.

The last ten games of 22/23 when we looked to have turned a corner away from insanity he was the regular in goal and did just fine.

 

[bakajack]

Oh, a history of Achilles problems. I didn’t realise. That’s not good to have. He’s probably lost a lot of speed and confidence. Not one to pin any hopes on after that. Watching him systematically kicked by a bunch of thugs was sickening. Those Sheffield teams are both disgustingly cynical and dirty.

Doing a little bit of research, the original Achilles problem that he had surgery on was not the same one that got ruptured with us back in 2023. On the weight of evidence it was a perfectly reasonable transfer to make to take on a player who had only missed 8 games in the previous 2 years with injury and both of those were miscellaneous impact injuries (one was just described as a knock and the other a bruised bone).

In my eyes Ginnelly's injury was as much the fault of the cowardly officials who let the Wednesday thugs get away with kicking lumps out of him the whole game as it was the Wednesday players themselves. The referee has a duty to protect the players around him by taking control and officiating the game, instead he let foul after foul after foul go unpunished and that only encouraged them to go after him until his Achilles ruptured and that might well cost him his career.

 

[Copamundial]

As I said earlier, there’s no room for sentiment in the football business, credit to whoever is calling the shots for starting the long overdue cull.
Good luck to those that are leaving and Croeso to the incoming signings.

 

[Dr. Winston]

As I said earlier, there’s no room for sentiment in the football business, credit to whoever is calling the shots for starting the long overdue cull.

That would be Naughton and Allen themselves. The club wanted both of them to stay.