Gary Gardner - Retired

[adrenachrome]

What is wrong with him writing #kro?

We sound like their whining fans (see that lot thread on this for some utter twats).

I'm sure when he typed it he was doing comedy dry wretches and everything, but he's playing for them now.

Good luck to him, I hope it goes well and serves as a springboard to come back and do good stuff for us.

Blues are of zero relevance to us, they'll be fighting to stay up, we'll be at the other end of the table. Getting all stroppy about them is laughable. They've permanently got a Villa thread at the top of their forum, and have match threads for OUR matches. Let them obsess about us while we take absolutely zero fucking notice of them. 

They are utterly irrelevant to us.

I wasn't whining, thanks. Just stating a fact.

Fair fucks, so. Interwebs polarises all issues. Binary innit.

[castlefields_villan]

I’d like to wish him all the best following today’s announcement of his retirement from professional football.

(Sitting alone in my caravan - just having a general look at what's going on) - this made me burst out laughing!

[frank black]

I must say I do like the idea that blues have taken some wages off us and helped fund Some of Grealish’s new deal and slightly improved our FFP position. Marvelous stuff

[Damo70]

Somebody somewhere in a parallel universe is probably thinking we should have taken the cash Spurs offered for Grealish and played Gardner as his replacement rather than letting GG go to Small Heath.

Is it a season long loan? If he does well for half a season it would be fun to stuff them up by taking him back so he could sit on our bench for the second half of the campaign or loan him out to one of their relegation rivals.

[PeterWithesShin]

Pretty sure you can't recall a player from a season long loan.

The new contract he was given has probably cost us very little, certainly in footballing terms, when you factor in how much of his wages other clubs have paid plus any loan fees.

[Pete3206]

Why didn't they just give him a free transfer if he's leaving next summer anyway?

[ADVILLAFAN]

Why didn't they just give him a free transfer if he's leaving next summer anyway?

At least this way he can’t plsy against us and inevitably score.

[Smoke]

More likely to get injured for 6 months than set their team on fire i reckon. Shame.

[cdbearsfan]

I couldn't really give a toss if he signs off his posts "kro". Can't see why anyone would get worked up about that.

[PeterWithesShin]

Why didn't they just give him a free transfer if he's leaving next summer anyway?

He has 2 years left.

[PeterWithesShin]

I couldn't really give a toss if he signs off his posts "kro". Can't see why anyone would get worked up about that.

No one has really, they've just said it's a bit of a strange thing for a Villa fan to do as they, and many others, couldn't do it.

[cdbearsfan]

It's not that strange, he's a Birmingham City player. Unusually for them, the song contains no references to us. It's hardly like he has posted "SOTV".

[PeterWithesShin]

The only ones making a big thing out of it seem to be the ones saying it isn't a big thing

[PeterWithesShin]

Mind you i'm so enraged by it i've left some batches soaking in pea wet over night to send to him as a welcome to the sty gift.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

As if he hasn't suffered enough...