Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ July 23 2004,14:24)]
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Quote[/b] (Guest @ July 23 2004,13:21)]how would you liked to be left to rot in the reserves and train with the youth team when you know you are better than alot of the other first team players. Think about it.
How Newman treated Bazza is irrelevant - he is and was the master of his own destiny. You could say that Dave Morley was unfairly treated by Dave Webb when Webby relegated him to the reserves and then shipped him off to bottom of the league Carlisle.
Did Morley sit around and sulk? Nope. He bust a gut, and is now enjoying his football in a division above that in which Southend finds itself, with Donny Rovers. And damn good luck to him, he has my sincere respect for the fact that he didn't let his disappointment here ruin his career.
It is a shame that you cannot say anything like the same for Belgrave.
Bazza had two options: sit on his arse and sulk, or bust a gut and either play his way into the 1st team, or into another league club.
He
chose the former route, and I'm afraid that speaks volumes about him.
Genius is, as Thomas Edison said, 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
It's a shame Bazza didn't bear that in mind when turning out one of the most scandalous performances (if one can call it that) this club has ever seen from a player in the Essex Senior Cup semi-final a couple of years ago.
"Knowing" you're better means nothing, absolutely nothing. You have to prove you're better, and he didn't. I wouldn't mind a bit if he were making me eat my words by banging the goals in for one of our Div 3 or Div 2 rivals. But he's not. He's playing for Lewes.
And that, I'm afraid, speaks more eloquently about Bazza's shortcomings than I ever could.
He may have talked the talk when it came to his "talents", but unquestionably, and beyond the merest scintilla of a doubt, he totally and utterly failed to walk the walk - for us or any other league club.
And that, sir, is why I can't get excited about him, because Southend United - our football club - has no room for passengers... which is, I'm afraid, what Barrington was.
BTW, my mate can't spot talent. She's barking. I love her to bits, but she's as daft as a brush.
Matt
P.S. I know that this is an ex-Shrimpers board, but with the amount of verbal onanism that centres around Mr. Belgrave, you'd think this was a "Barrington Board"...