Elliott Ward contract...

[SwalePie]

One more game to trigger extension...talks with Ardley.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/sport...rd-set-2787386

[Woodsetts_Pie]

It's things like this that make me despair with Notts sometimes. Here we have an experienced centre half who has played at the highest level. He cant play for us despite being on our books because of some stupid clause in his contract. Who negotiates these contracts? Do we have people in a managerial capacity who know what they are doing? Because to wheel him out now with 3 games to go when we could have done with his services earlier instead of the Isthmian League standard incumbent who got sent off on Saturday beggars belief.

And before anyone starts jumping up and down about the relative merits of various players standard/competent wise I am referring to the Administrative, Managerial, Contract, DOF goings on behind the scenes. It is further evidence if any were needed that we couldn't run a p* up in a brewery.

[ForeignLegion]

It is beyond farcical..it is Monty Python at its best.

[jscarr]

We should of just played him and kept him as a backup for next season

[legs77]

We should of just played him and kept him as a backup for next season

His wages are too high for league two let alone the national league.

That's why he hasn't played and it was the same when Milsom was left out the side for a while the only reason he has appeared over the last few months is he has took the clause out of his contact.

[Mapperleypie]

It's crazy that at this late stage we are only just sitting down with him to request this clause be removed, I hope that this has been an ongoing discussion over the last few months and the player was unwilling to negotiate (but I doubt it). He's an experienced/solid CB and is head and shoulders above Barclay.

The way this club is being run from top to bottom is so very amateur, the fans deserve much better.

[DelroyFacey22]

It's crazy that at this late stage we are only just sitting down with him to request this clause be removed, I hope that this has been an ongoing discussion over the last few months and the player was unwilling to negotiate (but I doubt it). He's an experienced/solid CB and is head and shoulders above Barclay.

The way this club is being run from top to bottom is so very amateur, the fans deserve much better.

Yup, it's a joke.

It's a common clause in football though so I'm not particularly upset at him having it in his deal, Stead has had them in his contract for a few years, Duffy had it either last season or the year before and Aborah and Mahon both had them in their deals under different ownership. It's the fact that it seems like with 4 games to go we decided maybe it was time to look at it which is just ridiculous.

If it was looked at previously, which you would have thought it had been, then it would seem like Ward refused to remove it despite being frozen out, which I guess is well within his right to do but doesn't paint him in the best light... If it hadn't been discussed then it makes Ardley out to be an idiot so either way it's stupid.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

It's crazy that at this late stage we are only just sitting down with him to request this clause be removed, I hope that this has been an ongoing discussion over the last few months and the player was unwilling to negotiate (but I doubt it). He's an experienced/solid CB and is head and shoulders above Barclay.

The way this club is being run from top to bottom is so very amateur, the fans deserve much better.

What compounds this is that we had Jamie Turley on the books who I felt gave his all and helped our cause and would have been ideal in this relegation scrap.

I understand we may have had to let him go to bring in other players, but being honest out of Turley and Ward I would have preferred us to have released Ward. Even though Ward maybe technically a better footballer and played at a higher level. We need people who are going to make a difference. In hindsight Ward has not really played since Turley left anyway so hasn’t been missed.

[McCullochisGod]

What compounds this is that we had Jamie Turley on the books who I felt gave his all and helped our cause and would have been ideal in this relegation scrap.

I understand we may have had to let him go to bring in other players, but being honest out of Turley and Ward I would have preferred us to have released Ward. Even though Ward maybe technically a better footballer and played at a higher level. We need people who are going to make a difference. In hindsight Ward has not really played since Turley left anyway so hasn’t been missed.

Turley would have probably been on less than half of Ward.

[jscarr]

His wages are too high for league two let alone the national league.

That's why he hasn't played and it was the same when Milsom was left out the side for a while the only reason he has appeared over the last few months is he has took the clause out of his contact.

That's stupid, we've payed him thousands of pounds when we won't even play him. His wages won't be ridiculously high and we need a centre back. Play him.