MrDuck Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 18 hours ago, Rob182 said: Was that not just a rumour that got taken as fact by the online masses? (what a shock). A quick google search shows many statements from Melbourne's manager saying that it was not true and that he missed training due to an achilles injury. Yes, rumour, as has been posted many many times in this thread! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 46 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: McCormack is awful and I doubt will kick another ball for us. Fleetwood town is more his playing level nowadays. Having seen a bit of him here in the A-League, he's some considerable distance from awful. On ability alone he's still quite capable of playing for us. If his attitude is a problem for Bruce, then so be it... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skills Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 5 hours ago, jim said: Personally IF he has got his personal issues sorted then I would give him another chance. I am well aware of his issues and if the full details were known there may be a little more sympathy here. However I’m not excusing all his actions. I might be wrong but does letting him go on a free hurt us in regard to ffp as it counts as more of a loss. The squad could potentially be in dire straights come the start of the season and IF we had a fit and firing RM it could be a real asset. absolutely right that it goes against us in FFP - there's really only 3 outcomes here, he either knuckles down and is included in the first team, or someone takes him on loan potentially with us paying a significant part of his wages or Micah has a friend in the magoos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, MrDuck said: Having seen a bit of him here in the A-League, he's some considerable distance from awful. On ability alone he's still quite capable of playing for us. If his attitude is a problem for Bruce, then so be it... I totally agree with you A-League = League 1 in my opinion. In terms of doing it again consistantly for this club or any team in our league for that matter, he would struggle nowadays imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 4 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: What is with the fascination behind McCormack? You would think it was Lionel Messi we had looking at some of the comments. Can you please enlighten me and show me the posts that liken McCormack to Lionel Messi/even any sort of good player?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 In fairness to @AvfcRigo82, that's not what he says. He wonders what the fascination is and then suggests that in looking at some of the answers it leaves him assuming the posters rate him highly......And I assume Rigo doesn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 hours ago, bobzy said: Can you please enlighten me and show me the posts that liken McCormack to Lionel Messi/even any sort of good player?! Here. Quote You would think it was Lionel Messi we had looking at some of the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 8 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: What is with the fascination behind McCormack? You would think it was Lionel Messi we had looking at some of the comments. McCormack is awful and I doubt will kick another ball for us. Fleetwood town is more his playing level nowadays. The below suggests he is far from awful: 21 goals for Cardiff 08/09 18 goals for Leeds 11/12 28 goals for Leeds 13/14 17 goals for Fulham 14/15 21 goals for Fulham 15/16 If we can get him firing like that again this season then we make up for some of the goals we will lose when players inevitably leave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Could do a job dropping in behind Davis. Assuming his head is right and he wants to play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, wilko154 said: The below suggests he is far from awful: 21 goals for Cardiff 08/09 18 goals for Leeds 11/12 28 goals for Leeds 13/14 17 goals for Fulham 14/15 21 goals for Fulham 15/16 If we can get him firing like that again this season then we make up for some of the goals we will lose when players inevitably leave Agreed. Sadly the years left out in that list suggests that if we'd scouted him better than we did we'd also seen he's been very on and off, caused problems at previous clubs and had issues and had seasons where he was a non entity. Spending such money on a player at that age with that history was a total brain fart, one of many from our football people. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Bruce's nasty, disgraceful substitution of Tsibola would indicate to me that all fault here might not have been with McCormack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 A poster earlier mentioned Bruce's man management skills. In my opinion he should be using these skills to bring McCormack into the team. He is one of the better strikers in the Championship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, AntrimBlack said: A poster earlier mentioned Bruce's man management skills. In my opinion he should be using these skills to bring McCormack into the team. He is one of the better strikers in the Championship. Absolutely if RM can get himself into a position where he is available for selection - I'm afraid we are not good enough to ignore him imo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, AntrimBlack said: Bruce's nasty, disgraceful substitution of Tsibola would indicate to me that all fault here might not have been with McCormack. What is this in reference to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbcuk Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I know what’s gone on, but we need every player that’s on our books to be available especially as we have nothing to spend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 surely we have a spare squad number with how many people will be leaving ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 He and Richards are our cross to bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Pretty obvious their relationship is beyond repair. Can see why Bruce doesn't want him back in the group, can also see why we really can't afford to have expensive players bombed out atm. Difficult situation with the club and fans as losers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyjavfc Posted July 10, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 10, 2018 Alternate theory (i.e. not based on any facts at all): Ross is a clinical alcoholic and he is signed off on long-term sick leave. We are claiming on our business insurance against loss of value to a playing asset. We can't play him or integrate him with training otherwise we lose the ability to claim on our insurance (may also be against his clinical treatment). This is far fetched but I am trying to understand how this situation could arise with a player not even allowed to train. Even Micah Richards and the famous bomb squad got to go to training! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 hours ago, sne said: Agreed. Sadly the years left out in that list suggests that if we'd scouted him better than we did we'd also seen he's been very on and off, caused problems at previous clubs and had issues and had seasons where he was a non entity. Spending such money on a player at that age with that history was a total brain fart, one of many from our football people. He had 67 goals in the 3 previous seasons before we signed him at this level I dont think a player does that much with serious issues 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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