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Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2011, 08:43:55 AM »
Yep, fresh start for everyone

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2011, 08:45:10 AM »
I'm prepared to give McLeish a go because he is in unknown territory but as for Ireland, well I've never seen a leopard change its spots.

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2011, 08:47:05 AM »
Yes.  He doesn't deserve it mind, it's just the stupid world of football that he actually has a job at all.  The talent has always been unquestionable and if he has his head right, we could be in for a surprise.  A very big if though.

Offline Big Dick Edwards

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2011, 08:48:48 AM »
We have no choice to not give him a clean slate. He's cost a lot of money already and is on a long contract. We have to get him on board and playing, even if only to put him in the shop window.

Offline UsualSuspect

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2011, 08:51:51 AM »
No way in a million years

We pay him something like 60K

He takes the piss continually

Doesnt look remotely interested

He says how much he hated Birmingham and wasnt made to feel welcome


Then on the night before our biggest game of the season he is poorly and cant play but can go out on the piss in Manchester 

Give him another chance?

Unbelievable

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2011, 08:56:53 AM »
Certainly give him another chance.  If we can get him back to his form of three years ago for City we'll have an excellent player on our hands.

Offline ktvillan

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2011, 09:17:33 AM »
Yes, try and rehabilitate him if nothing else to put him in the shop window and maybe get someone else interested in him for a decent price.  At the moment we probably couldn't give him away.

Offline Chris Smith

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #37 on: June 23, 2011, 09:56:18 AM »
We have to at least pretend to give him another chance if only to try to get some other mugs to buy him.

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #38 on: June 23, 2011, 10:02:53 AM »
We have to at least pretend to give him another chance if only to try to get some other mugs to buy him.

No, we have to give him a chance full stop.  If it's a clean slate for McLeish, it has to be for everybody.  You never know, Ireland may respond well, and then we'll have a cracking player on our hands.  It may well be that we end up with a crackpot player on our hands again, but we have to try.

Offline Greg N'Ash

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2011, 10:06:48 AM »
Trouble is will he give Villa another chance? Doesn't see the type to come back with his tail between his legs. GH seemed to move him out pretty fast and i'm guessing that wasn't just because he didn't rate him, more the effect he was having on the dressing room.

Offline Big Dick Edwards

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #40 on: June 23, 2011, 10:13:22 AM »
Trouble is will he give Villa another chance? Doesn't see the type to come back with his tail between his legs.

If he doesn't, he may find his football career is effectively over.

Offline Greg N'Ash

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #41 on: June 23, 2011, 10:15:50 AM »
Trouble is will he give Villa another chance? Doesn't see the type to come back with his tail between his legs.

If he doesn't, he may find his football career is effectively over.


Aye but does he care? All mirrors SVC a bit too much for my liking. Deffo got some mental problems

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #42 on: June 23, 2011, 10:31:11 AM »
Definitely not. He is a loose canon and a two-faced disruptive influence. What he said about Brum was unforgivable. Would swap him for Joey Barton though!

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #43 on: June 23, 2011, 10:39:41 AM »
The chance we give him will be his 6 weeks training before the season kicks off.  If he shows willing, determination and the ability we know he has then we put him in the team. 

It's too simplistic too say he he's had his chances so he doesn't deserve another one.  £8Million is a lot of money to disregard.

Offline Chris Smith

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Re: Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?
« Reply #44 on: June 23, 2011, 10:40:08 AM »
We have to at least pretend to give him another chance if only to try to get some other mugs to buy him.

No, we have to give him a chance full stop.  If it's a clean slate for McLeish, it has to be for everybody.  You never know, Ireland may respond well, and then we'll have a cracking player on our hands.  It may well be that we end up with a crackpot player on our hands again, but we have to try.

He's a twat, always has been and always will be. If we're lucky we'll get £500k for him from Leicester.

 


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