Does anyone else think...

[fbm]

Kane Ferdinand might NOT be injured? Or at least not injured enough to stop him playing?

The lad has made noises about signing, then starts to backtrack a bit (via his agent)... then he's suddenly injured.

When a lad comes up from the youth setup, plays half a dozen games and then wants to walk away from the club for pastures new, possibly for no fee if a post on another thread is correct, then why should we give him any game time for others to watch him? It's not even a shop window if we won't get any cash.

If I was Sturrock then I maybe would say, "Ok lad, either sign a deal or we won't play you at all. We'll say you're injured to give you some time to think, but you won't play for this club again until you sign."

Feasible?

 

[Napster]

Bit of a pyrrhic victory though, isn't it? We lose his talent on the pitch to prove a point?

 

[Kent Shrimper]

dont we still get a fee under the bosman due to his age?

 

[chapperzUK]

Don't really see the point. He is a young player who seems like he just wants to play football and keep improving, so if we wanted him to keep him, then we would want to keep him happy.

 

[fbm]

Bit of a pyrrhic victory though, isn't it? We lose his talent on the pitch to prove a point?

Is he THAT good? He's had 2 really good performances and some fairly good ones, alongside a couple of anonymous ones. We've done ok without him as well. It might be the best way of making him sign.

And KS - yes, I thought so but there was a comment on another thread that stated he could leave for free after some date in March. Apparently.

 

[EastStandBlue]

I don't actually think today was the game for him anyway... Northampton are a big, strong and imposing side through the middle and Kane might've found it difficult to have such an impact against them.

I've always been under the impression that anybody who moves clubs at the end of their contract and who is under the age of 24, the club holding his registration are due compensation either agreed mutually or by tribunal. The only time I've heard otherwise is through that article from the Echo and they cited his contractual terms as a reason.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

I don't actually think today was the game for him anyway... Northampton are a big, strong and imposing side through the middle and Kane might've found it difficult to have such an impact against them.

I've always been under the impression that anybody who moves clubs at the end of their contract and who is under the age of 24, the club holding his registration are due compensation either agreed mutually or by tribunal. The only time I've heard otherwise is through that article from the Echo and they cited his contractual terms as a reason.

I actually completely 110% disagree with you here.
Kane would have broken down absolutely everything today as usual, which would have resulted in them not scoring their goal.

 

[united we stand]

I actually completely 110% disagree with you here.
Kane would have broken down absolutely everything today as usual, which would have resulted in them not scoring their goal.

Grant not continually calling for the ball whilst in a **** position would have resulted in them not scorring a goal !

 

[EastStandBlue]

I actually completely 110% disagree with you here.
Kane would have broken down absolutely everything today as usual, which would have resulted in them not scoring their goal.

It wasn't a case of breaking anything down for their goal... Sawyer's pass was intercepted and they broke on us.

 

[Cockle43]

Kane Ferdinand might NOT be injured? Or at least not injured enough to stop him playing?

The lad has made noises about signing, then starts to backtrack a bit (via his agent)... then he's suddenly injured.

When a lad comes up from the youth setup, plays half a dozen games and then wants to walk away from the club for pastures new, possibly for no fee if a post on another thread is correct, then why should we give him any game time for others to watch him? It's not even a shop window if we won't get any cash.

If I was Sturrock then I maybe would say, "Ok lad, either sign a deal or we won't play you at all. We'll say you're injured to give you some time to think, but you won't play for this club again until you sign."

Feasible?

Cynically I might say that it's to get him used to what will happen if he moves to some of the clubs that have been mentioned as wanting him; he's being given practice at sitting in the stand or on the bench watching League football rather than playing it.........

 

[Angell Delight]

The thing is if he DOES sign will he force his way back in now? We've missed him yes but it would be extremely harsh on Sawyer if he was dropped and wouldn't send out the correct message to the players. I've always thought Sturrock adopts Tilson's philosophy of if you're playing well you'll kep your place.

EDIT: Thinking about it I guess with Blair's injury now Sawyer and Ferdinand would both probably start anyway if BS is sidelined as presumably Sawyer will be pushed out wide to cover Sturrock's absence.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

It wasn't a case of breaking anything down for their goal... Sawyer's pass was intercepted and they broke on us.

It definitely was. Everyone stood off the geezer that scored.
Also Grant should have put in a decent tackle. So it definitely was a case of breaking the play down.
Also throughout the game the Northampton build up play, if broken down as much as it would have been if Kane was in all the right places we would have had many more counter attacks which could have resulted in 3 points.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I did wonder that about Kane myself, and I think we've missed him in the last two games.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Kane Ferdinand might NOT be injured? Or at least not injured enough to stop him playing?

The lad has made noises about signing, then starts to backtrack a bit (via his agent)... then he's suddenly injured.

When a lad comes up from the youth setup, plays half a dozen games and then wants to walk away from the club for pastures new, possibly for no fee if a post on another thread is correct, then why should we give him any game time for others to watch him? It's not even a shop window if we won't get any cash.

If I was Sturrock then I maybe would say, "Ok lad, either sign a deal or we won't play you at all. We'll say you're injured to give you some time to think, but you won't play for this club again until you sign."

Feasible?

Too many fans are getting paranoid with all that's going on at the club, even thinking up conspiracy theories.
Yes he may leave in the end, as his agent sounds a bit greedy and seems to be holding all the cards, with Kane leaving him to it

As it stands at the moment tho is that K.F. is definitely injured and will be back in the team as soon as he is able, without flaring up the injury again. Sensible.

 

[fbm]

Too many fans are getting paranoid with all that's going on at the club, even thinking up conspiracy theories.
Yes he may leave in the end, as his agent sounds a bit greedy and seems to be holding all the cards, with Kane leaving him to it

As it stands at the moment tho is that K.F. is definitely injured and will be back in the team as soon as he is able, without flaring up the injury again. Sensible.

Nope, not paranoid or thinking up conspiracy theories. I'm probably the last on this board that can be accused of that I would have thought!

It was just something that occured based on a conversation I was having with my mate yesterday. Do you actually know for a fact he is definitely injured TSNB?

 

[chapperzUK]

Maybe he isn't injured, but Sturrock might not be playing him because he believes that his head has turned by the interest in him and that he is not in the right frame of mind to play. We have to remember that, despite playing with maturity, he is still a young player.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Nope, not paranoid or thinking up conspiracy theories. I'm probably the last on this board that can be accused of that I would have thought!

It was just something that occured based on a conversation I was having with my mate yesterday. Do you actually know for a fact he is definitely injured TSNB?

Yep, just had it confirmed from a good source that he is definitely injured.

 

[Beefy]

I think we've got too many injuries and too small a squad to be making any sort of stand with Kane. I expect that he is injured and will be back in the team when fit. Even if he can move elsewhere in March that is outside of the transfer window so I expect him to see out the season with us.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Also told by the source that there will be no training tomorrow, to give the players much needed rest and to help recharge their batteries.

 

[blueveined]

Also told by the source that there will be no training tomorrow, to give the players much needed rest and to help recharge their batteries.

Sturrock mentioned this in his post match interview although he did say that some of the players will be playing tomorrow night in the Essex Senior Cup semi-final. He also said that they would be back in for training on Tuesday and would then have Wednesday off as normal.