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He bagged his 10th goal in 15 games for Melbourne this week and they want for the rest of the season!
With all our injuries we cannot afford to be loaning out a 12 million pound striker bang in form. yes we know SB threw his dummy out (literally) but come on, I am sure Ross Mac feeding Davis or Hogan up front would not be a bad choice?
Had we got all our strikers firing on all cylinders then I could say, forget him but we do not have that luxury
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Not going to happen mate. My feeling on Ross was we bought him at exactly the wrong time in his life and since then he burnt his bridges with our manager
No I don't really want him back
He's looks a Hogan type player so it's one or the other, needing the service!
I can see your point in some respects Dave, but I feel it could be a case of another player suddenly becoming ‘Messi’ after a long spell in the bomb squad/out of the club. It appears that he won’t play for Bruce again, as much by choice than the other way around.
SB wants him slimmer, fitter and right in the head. All RMCs troubles are on these shores, ex wife etc so in Oz he has left all his issues here and is flourishing in sub-standard league.
SB, may have his faults but I really don’t feel that he has been wrong on this. The player is overweight, unfit, misses training, does fk all to change and can blame no one else but himself. He has stated that he doesn’t want to come back anyway, so in this instance I back the manager. As I do whenever he throws his petrified, negative tactics in the bin and goes for it.
Bring him back even though we have Gabby?????
He missed 3 training sessions. One was because of sickness, one was an excused absence and then the Gategate incident in which McCormack always stated he was not going to miss practice but he late.
Bruce mocked him in the press, but Mc was correct, had he climbed the fence and sprained an ankle it would have been a bigger disservice to the club than missing a couple of hours of training.
On the other side he was unpopular in Fulham's locker room and he arrived to DiMatteo's side grossly out of shape and over weight. He did begin to work on that and by the Derby and Forest matches last season he was beginning to look sharp and was a whisker away from scoring crucial goals in both matches that ended as most of RDM games did in a tie.
I really feel that Bruce and his poor man management has wasted £12 million of Dr Xia's investment and it looks as though McCormack will to him what Darren Bent was to Lambert.
That's the beauty of being a football manager States- their like doctors they simply bury their mistakes
In comparison to Mr A V F C aka Gabby’s violations, I.e. missing 3 training sessions Ross Mc’s punishment is far too strong & very costly to our club
However I'm (cough) confident S B knows what he's doing !
Who can honestly say hand on heart they have wasted £12 million pounds of their companies money at some point in their career ?
He should of been fit and sharp at pre season mate. By Derby and Forest he should of been flying, had he been, he’d have been closer than a whisker and we would have won. No ifs or buts, he was totally unprofessional and has continued to be so. Jesus, Melbourne nearly sent him packing after 2 weeks.
Poor man management? SB, whilst being somewhat reactive and negative tactically, has standards that he expects from ALL of his players. I doubt it was just ‘Gate-Gate’ that caused RMCs downfall, he was unprofessional before SBs arrival.
One could argue that any manager worth his salt would be able to turn RMC around. Personal and mental issues have been rumoured to be another of RMC’s problems. Much of the latter did not become public until after ‘Gate-Gate’, so SB can be exonerated on that issue of mentioning said gates. If I remember correctly, the gate thing was common knowledge after RMC made it a public excuse, SB was just answering the journo’s question on it.
Bad man management would have been to sack him, as what would have happened if it was an academy player.
He doesn’t want to come back to the home of his demons, we can’t force him, can we?
Rumors afoot that another Championship and two League 1 teams are interested, as well as clubs in OZ.
Time will tell mate, but one thing’s for sure, what a waste of talent and 12m.