Richard Dunne

[London Villan]

Hence the reason I'd want the pair of them out of the club. Half way there.

[eastie]

Sorry to drag it up, but what happened in that team bonding incident?

 

Richard Dunne and James Collins had a row with Gary Mac and the coaching staff after getting well oiled with the evening meal.  At least that's what I've heard.

Didn't one or both of them square up to Gordon Cowans?

The rumour was that Collins actually rolled Sid over a table and had to be restrained

If that was only 0.5% true then i would have ripped up the cnuts contract there and then

Sadly a lot more true than 0.5% , and should have been dealt with as you say.

[Vancouver]

Collins had to be restrained? After rolling Sid over a table? (what is 'rolling over a table' anyway?).

What on earth did Sid do to warrant that? Hopefully told him how crap he was

[Hookeysmith]

Collins had to be restrained? After rolling Sid over a table? (what is 'rolling over a table' anyway?).

What on earth did Sid do to warrant that? Hopefully told him how crap he was

What i heard was basically that - Both Collins and Dunne were pissed and moaning about training methods and McAllister mainly - when told to calm it down by Sid, Collins turned on him and Collins then alledgedly dragged Sid over the table and had to be restrained by some of the other players

I would have sacked to wanker on the spot and made sure it made front page news. If you ask a lot of pro footbalers they claim this sort of incident goes on all the time at training grounds, maybe so but not between a "lucky to have a career in the game" wanker like Collins and a legend like Sid

[tomd2103]

Personally I will be glad when Richard is fully fit and available for selection again.

Anyone with any idea when that will be? 

[paul_e]

Personally I will be glad when Richard is fully fit and available for selection again.

Anyone with any idea when that will be? 

Fully fit - no idea hasn't happened for 2 years.

[tomd2103]

Personally I will be glad when Richard is fully fit and available for selection again.

Anyone with any idea when that will be? 

Fully fit - no idea hasn't happened for 2 years.

Ha.  I was referring more to the available for selection part!!

[sid1964]

As Dunne is in the final season of his contract, I would imagine there is a clause in his contract that if he plays more than a certain amount of games he is offered a new contract!! -  as Villa want rid of high earners then maybe he wont be used that much.

I remember Petrovs agent saying he had to play 10 games to get a new contract

[Risso]

That's clearly what happened with Curtis Davies as well.

[The Left Side]

Football 365 mentions in the game preview that Dunne and Albrighton will return to training next week, so they should hopefully be back in contention by October, but I am no physio!

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

These two will find it hard to get back into this team the way it is progressing. For Dunne to change his style of defending will be hard. Lambert does not really use out and out wingers so Albrighton will struggle also .......

[sonlyme]

Richard Dunne is plainly not fat in the way James Corden is fat.  Because that is truly fat.  As well as a bit crap.

But top flight football is a world within a world.  The ideal model is different here.

Richard Dunne is fat in the way a Staffie lining up in a greyhound race would look fat.

He may well be a ball of muscle with hardly an ounce on him - but a whippet he ain't.

[oldtimernow]

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/aston-villa-fc/2012/12/01/blow-for-aston-villa-as-richard-dunne-out-until-next-year/

Looks like he'll be on the payroll until his contract expires....

My thoughts are something akin to 'They shoot horses, don't they'

[olaftab]

Club are trying to find out what's wrong with him. I have heard from a Villa insider that injury was sustained when Richard picked up two piping hot pies from the canteen and placed one on his lap whilst munching the other. It's a burn with acute strain that will get better with  extensive dose of donar kebabs.

[geeeenius1971]

I hate to think what size he is now!