Chris Carruthers: Off the transfer list!

OUFC4eva · Post by **OUFC4eva** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:30 pm

Good news.

Still bemused though.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:49 pm

Patto seems to be using the transfer list as his version of the naughty step for badly behaved children.

scooter · Post by **scooter** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:39 pm

The new physio will probably be next.

Kernow Yellow · Post by **Kernow Yellow** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:49 pm

&quotSnake&quot wrote:Patto seems to be using the transfer list as his version of the naughty step for badly behaved children.

Except when my toddler 'demands to be taken off' the naughty step, that's not 'exactly the kind of reaction I'm looking for'.

This whole episode seems bizzarre to me:
DP: 'You're on the transfer list'
CC: 'No. Take me off it'
DP: 'That's the spirit.'

I see our club captain is denying any problems between the players and Patto and claiming this is the most 'honest' bunch of players he's played with. What does he mean exactly? No-one's nicked his watch from the locker room?

SmileyMan · Post by **SmileyMan** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:08 pm

&quotKernow Yellow&quot wrote:I see our club captain is denying any problems between the players and Patto and claiming this is the most 'honest' bunch of players he's played with. What does he mean exactly? No-one's nicked his watch from the locker room?

No, he's talking about when they all sit around, saying &quotLet's face it lads, it's not the gaffer's fault. The problem is that we're all shite.&quot

Mally · Post by **Mally** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:31 pm

&quotKernow Yellow&quot wrote: I see our club captain is denying any problems between the players and Patto and claiming this is the most 'honest' bunch of players he's played with. What does he mean exactly? No-one's nicked his watch from the locker room?

This one has always confused me even though it's something managers are always saying. I take it to mean that the players are honest in that they go out and give 100% for their money. On the other hand when you ever suggest that players aren't giving 100% the same managers will tell you that &quotno player goes out to play without giving 100%&quot.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:38 pm

On the general question of players trying, while I think I've seen players give less than 100%, I don't think I've ever seen them plainly not try. A few years ago when I was working in Hammersmith I went to see the tennis at Queen's: I saw it then, players plainly not bothering after they'd lost the first set. I don't think I've ever seen a footballer do that.

newhinkseyyellow · Post by **newhinkseyyellow** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:57 pm

A rare bit of good news amidst the gloom.

However, if he is off the list, why, on Saturday against Crawley,was a right back playing left back, a centre back playing right back and a left back sitting on the bench?

Any ideas?

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:24 pm

They were trying to do the Whirl, but they got it wrong?

disillusioned · Post by **disillusioned** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:32 pm

i know very little about football...but oxford's run at the mo is dire. maybe time for a new manager? can't do any worse!

YF Dan · Post by **YF Dan** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:21 pm

&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:On the general question of players trying, while I think I've seen players give less than 100%, I don't think I've ever seen them plainly not try. A few years ago when I was working in Hammersmith I went to see the tennis at Queen's: I saw it then, players plainly not bothering after they'd lost the first set. I don't think I've ever seen a footballer do that.

Dean Windass at QPR in his last game. A really nasty end to an otherwise (short but) sweet time with us.

There will have been others. Let me think.

Peter Fear every match.

x586 · Post by **x586** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:24 am

Matt Elliott at Bradford, Christmas 1996.

boris · Post by **boris** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:45 am

The entire Barnsley team when we beat them 5-1 in 1997, after they'd just won promotion to the Prem. They were obviously still pissed or hungover, and didn't seem to care as the goals rattled in.

Pe├▒a Oxford United · Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:49 am

That last is the only one of the cited games I remember, but I still don't think it's at anything like the same level. There's giving close to 100%, and there's obviously not giving anything close 100%, and then there's not chasing balls that you plainly could get because you're trying to get off as soon as possible. I think football fans see the second of these and mistake it for the third.

ty cobb · Post by **ty cobb** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:36 pm

&quotx586&quot wrote:Matt Elliott at Bradford, Christmas 1996.

Rubbish (although I did only see the second half due to awful traffic).

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