John Terry - Gone

[Chris Smith]

Pretty sure I remember a pointless ruck here when an injured Darren Bent was spotted shuffling around the Bullring.

I don't care if he spends his injured time strangling chickens in the middle of robin hood island so long as he applies himself properly when it comes to being a footballer.

While I agree with the thrust of your argument I think I would have to draw the line at him choking the chicken on the A34.

[Damo70]

Pretty sure I remember a pointless ruck here when an injured Darren Bent was spotted shuffling around the Bullring.

I don't care if he spends his injured time strangling chickens in the middle of robin hood island so long as he applies himself properly when it comes to being a footballer.

So you are supporting ritual sacrifice of chickens on the Robin Hood island. I have always suspected that Hall Greenites like you and my wife were like something straight out of 'The Wicker Man'. She is probably downstairs eating a live frog right now.

[villabear]

Pretty sure I remember a pointless ruck here when an injured Darren Bent was spotted shuffling around the Bullring.

I don't care if he spends his injured time strangling chickens in the middle of robin hood island so long as he applies himself properly when it comes to being a footballer.

So you are supporting ritual sacrifice of chickens on the Robin Hood island. I have always suspected that Hall Greenites like you and my wife were like something straight out of 'The Wicker Man'. She is probably downstairs eating a live frog right now.

Eating a frog downstairs right now?  This thread has gone a bit League of gentlemen.

"We'll have no shouting here"

[stuart445]

I am surprised that there are so many that think someones personal life must be on hold, when they are employed by the greatest team on the planet. He's a Chelsea supporter and, although injured, still goes to more of our matches than he does their matches. I don't give a toss how many millions someone is paid, you can only dedicate so much of your personal life to work related activities before everything around you turns to shit, a healthy balance is required.

He is a professional footballer - as an absolute minimum I'd describe the 90 minutes the club he's captain of are playing to be working rather than personal life.  As a general rule, you'd be hard pushed to find many people who think professional footballers are overworked!

I just don't get the problem here.  No injured players, club captains or not, would be expected to go to every game home and away.  The travelling isn't great use of their time for one thing during rehab.  I don't see why you are going out the way to criticise him for this, it's beyond desperate.

I'm not going out of my way.  It's my opinion.

You seem to have very low expectations of our captain whereas I think that a leader needs to be physically there to show leadership.  Wouldn't it have been nice, for example, if he went in to the dressing room after the abject result against Derby and gave the rest of the team his opinion on what it takes to win championships and what's expected this Saturday rather than be in London having a laugh with his mates, supporting another team?

You're just being daft.  And hyper critical for the sake of it.  He's got plenty of time to talk to the players about the next game without him laying into them when  they're just waiting to get into the shower. 

Do you think our other injured captains went to every single game home and away?  I've no idea, but I would be amazed if they did.  Do you think Kompany goes to every Man City game, or any other injured captain of other teams for that matter?

So you think it's good that our club captain who should be showing leadership, who should be giving the impression to the players that we are in this together and should be relied on for support should the players need it is watching another team play at the same time as the team he is meant to be captain of is playing?

I'm not particularly angry about it if I'm honest I just don't think having your club captain attending another teams match whilst we play is a good look.

[chrisw1]

Pretty sure I remember a pointless ruck here when an injured Darren Bent was spotted shuffling around the Bullring.

I don't care if he spends his injured time strangling chickens in the middle of robin hood island so long as he applies himself properly when it comes to being a footballer.

While I agree with the thrust of your argument I think I would have to draw the line at him choking the chicken on the A34.

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[chrisw1]

I am surprised that there are so many that think someones personal life must be on hold, when they are employed by the greatest team on the planet. He's a Chelsea supporter and, although injured, still goes to more of our matches than he does their matches. I don't give a toss how many millions someone is paid, you can only dedicate so much of your personal life to work related activities before everything around you turns to shit, a healthy balance is required.

He is a professional footballer - as an absolute minimum I'd describe the 90 minutes the club he's captain of are playing to be working rather than personal life.  As a general rule, you'd be hard pushed to find many people who think professional footballers are overworked!

I just don't get the problem here.  No injured players, club captains or not, would be expected to go to every game home and away.  The travelling isn't great use of their time for one thing during rehab.  I don't see why you are going out the way to criticise him for this, it's beyond desperate.

I'm not going out of my way.  It's my opinion.

You seem to have very low expectations of our captain whereas I think that a leader needs to be physically there to show leadership.  Wouldn't it have been nice, for example, if he went in to the dressing room after the abject result against Derby and gave the rest of the team his opinion on what it takes to win championships and what's expected this Saturday rather than be in London having a laugh with his mates, supporting another team?

You're just being daft.  And hyper critical for the sake of it.  He's got plenty of time to talk to the players about the next game without him laying into them when  they're just waiting to get into the shower. 

Do you think our other injured captains went to every single game home and away?  I've no idea, but I would be amazed if they did.  Do you think Kompany goes to every Man City game, or any other injured captain of other teams for that matter?

So you think it's good that our club captain who should be showing leadership, who should be giving the impression to the players that we are in this together and should be relied on for support should the players need it is watching another team play at the same time as the team he is meant to be captain of is playing?

I'm not particularly angry about it if I'm honest I just don't think having your club captain attending another teams match whilst we play is a good look.

Yeah we know what you think.  It seems few agree with you and you're being unreasonable.  I'll sure you'll find something else to have a dig at him about soon and we can let this one go.

[WarszaVillan]

How do you know if few agree? I'd suggest writing as l rather than we

[chrisw1]

How do you know if few agree? I'd suggest writing as l rather than we

Read the fucking thread

[chrisw1]

But in the interests of balance if anyone else agrees that an injured player should be castigated for not going to every single game, home and away, despite their peers at Villa and other clubs seemingly not doing so then please do feel free to shout up.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Well, as you asked so nicely, I would expect our captain to be watching our games if he's been ruled out of playing. Although, either way, i won't be getting my tits in a twist about it.

[Risso]

I don't know what the protocol is for injured players, but John Terry is normally there, isn't he?  I'm with Chico, I'd rather not see him at Chelsea when we've got a game on, but it's fairly low down the list of things to be upset about.  Perhaps he was down in London seeing a medical specialist and Bruce gave him the weekend off?  Maybe he was there to try to tap up a loan deal or two, who knows?

[paul_e]

I don't know what the protocol is for injured players, but John Terry is normally there, isn't he?  I'm with Chico, I'd rather not see him at Chelsea when we've got a game on, but it's fairly low down the list of things to be upset about.  Perhaps he was down in London seeing a medical specialist and Bruce gave him the weekend off?  Maybe he was there to try to tap up a loan deal or two, who knows?

That's my take on it as well, with the addition that if he wasn't so high profile we probably wouldn't know anything about it.

[WarszaVillan]

How do you know if few agree? I'd suggest writing as l rather than we

Read the fucking thread

I have read the thread. Are you ok btw, you seem very stressed?

[Tayls_7]

If half our players were as committed to our cause or performed as competently we'd be preparing for life in the PL.

[Chris Jameson]

I don't know what the protocol is for injured players, but John Terry is normally there, isn't he?  I'm with Chico, I'd rather not see him at Chelsea when we've got a game on, but it's fairly low down the list of things to be upset about.  Perhaps he was down in London seeing a medical specialist and Bruce gave him the weekend off?  Maybe he was there to try to tap up a loan deal or two, who knows?

There could be a perfectly innocent reason why he was there, perhaps he's banging one of his ex team mates wives? People shouldn't be so quick to judge him.