Liam Ridgewell Signs

[Supershrimper]

He is living in Thorney Bay 'village' on Canvey.

I thought he lived Thorpe Road, Hockley?

 

[tia]

Pffft and the rest

Steve Tilson told me he was on about 6 grand a week plus some add ons too

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Am I missing something.... you're all raving about a new Centre back who's the same age as Turner who many on here spent all last season abusing as 'past it.' ?

Yeah, apparently age is less of a issue these days!
Go back to the JW debate, biggest argument against him was his age, utter nonsense.
I wasn’t one for slagging Turner either.

 

[Sherif H]

At least we all now know where Ron's warchest has gone!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Was captain at Portland and did play consistently well from what I saw. Clearly keeps himself in great shape as well so no worries there.

Hopefully you are right but according to transfermarkt he doesn’t seem to have played a full season since 2014/15 and seems to have had multiple hamstring and calf injuries in the last few years.

I’m having lunch today with a Portland season ticket holder so will get his opinion.

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

I thought he lived Thorpe Road, Hockley?

He does and he’s brought another little business interest I’m lead to believe

 

[blues exile]

Ridgewell, like every other pro of his age will be tempted to go one step too far. Hope it's not us but his time at Hull suggests time to call it a day. His experience, like Mliligan and Shawnessy will be invaluable to the likes of Lennon and Bwonomo but we should not expect too much of him performance wise.

 

[kentblues]

Hopefully you are right but according to transfermarkt he doesn’t seem to have played a full season since 2014/15 and seems to have had multiple hamstring and calf injuries in the last few years.

I’m having lunch today with a Portland season ticket holder so will get his opinion.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/liam-ridgewell/leistungsdaten/spieler/4070

Enjoy - you can see every game he played last year including all 13 games for Portland on their way to the MLS final. Then went to Hull where he was either playing or on the bench in all but one game.

 

[The Big Dady]

Interesting, according to that Liam has played 136 games at Centre Back and 96 games at Left Back.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Portland Timbers are my MLS team here in the States so this makes me happy, I think most Timbers fans were sad to see him go. Solid signing imho, I don't expect him to be first choice, one year with option seems sensible.

 

[GBJ]

As obvious as it sounds, he’s either going to be excellent, or past it. Same as the Aussie.

Hopefully he’s still got it in him, as we’d have nabbed an excellent acquisition for this level.

But he’s effectively one serious injury away from retirement, and we’d once again be saying... why do we persist with these old timers, on decent wages.

FWIW, I’m optimistic about the signing, and hope he can play 25-30 games.

 

[Tokyo Blue]

Is this how much of the wage budget Kightly was taking up ?

6k a week allegedly

 

[tallboyblue]

6k a week allegedly

But has he actually gone?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Like Ridgewell some of these posts didn't age well.

 

[Ricey]

Finally we have a decent defence!

You really do talk ****!

 

[Barling Magna]

We all have degrees in hindsight. Amusing reading though......