Originally Posted by
The Bedlington Terrier
There are and have been loads of posts on here and other BFC forums about, "we are currently carrying too many "old" players".
I just can't buy into this opinion. Some football players like JBG and Robbie Brady seem especially fragile, and both have a history of sustaining multiple injuries.
If these fragile players decide to leave one team and join another one, (Brady needed a fitness test yesterday - what's new?) they may be forced to retire sooner rather than later.
If we try to unload fragile players, no new team will not sign a player, no matter how good they are, if they are not 100%.
Honestly would you pay good money for Gudmundsson?
Graham Alexander would be playing for us yet if we let him!
I don't believe it's age that is letting us down this season, Bardsley and Pieters looked far from knackered to me yesterday.
SD has lost the esprit de corps compass. The lads are not battling anymore.
Without looking it up, I well remember the Honourable Gentleman from Clitheroe saying on here, it would be impossible to ask a squad of players to constantly give 100% every game, stay in games and nick a result, season in, season out.
How right you were sinkov.B)