[Albion] Matt O Riley [26/08/24 - sings on a 5-year deal]

[Van Cleef]

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

Lallana always strolled off too before one of his many 3 month lay-offs.

 

[Van Cleef]

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

Lallana always strolled off too before one of his many 3 month lay-offs.

 

[peterward]

Some nobody from Crawley decides he wants to make a name for himself and deliberately injures our player .we instantly we lose a valuable asset and o’riley heads to hospital.
Meanwhile said Crawley nobody shrugs his shoulders and walks away.
Funny old game.

Will be the highlight of his career.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

I see the 'bedwetting' has started early this season!

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the guy - especially if he's out for a long period of time - but let's get some perspective, FFS! It's a squad game and there is a very decent squad there. The club has shown it knows what it's doing and I would imagine there would be a contingency plan for every situation, including injuries to each individual players.

Yes, it's clearly a shame that it happened to MOR so soon - and it was a horrendous tackle - but let's just wait for some actual factual information, eh?

Well said. Social media has hammered the amygdala.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

That's the kind of incident with puts the whole competition in jeopardy. I'm sure that sounds hyperbolic. But how many times are PL clubs going to lose £25m assets because some clogger wants to make a name for himself, before they reason, ........ "hang on, we don't even need to play in this competition" ................ "the prize money is only £100k or something if we win" .............. "we have to give a load of the gate money away, and we half fill the ground on discounted tickets" ........ "we make all our money on europe and the PL" ...... "what if we just didn't enter?"

 

[JetsetJimbo]

That's the kind of incident with puts the whole competition in jeopardy. I'm sure that sounds hyperbolic. But how many times are PL clubs going to lose £25m assets because some clogger wants to make a name for himself, before they reason, ........ "hang on, we don't even need to play in this competition" ................ "the prize money is only £100k or something if we win" .............. "we have to give a load of the gate money away, and we half fill the ground on discounted tickets" ........ "we make all our money on europe and the PL" ...... "what if we just didn't enter?"

I'd honestly be okay with us only ever playing reserves against lower-league teams in the FA Cup and not entering the Carabao Cup at all.

I wouldn't have said that before last night.

 

[mothy]

This is why many PL teams disrespect this cup until the later stages

 

[Van Cleef]

This is why many PL teams disrespect this cup until the later stages

It lost all of its glamour for me after Rumbelows pulled out.

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[Change at Barnham]

The earliest indicator of how severe the injury to Matt O'Riley will be whether or not Billy Gilmour is sold to Napoli in the next few days.

 

[Hugo Rune]

It’s not uncommon for me to take a stroll past the Amex on a summer evening. It always reminds me how hard the back room staff work. The lights in the offices next to Dicks are mostly on until gone 9pm or in some cases, much, much later. Everyday of the window until we have got our business done.

The recruitment staff at the club work extraordinarily hard to get these deals over the line. Hours and hours of research followed by weeks and weeks and sometimes months or years of negotiations.

So my thoughts go out to the team that got the O’Riley deal over the line. The effort and graft they put in for the last two months (when O’Riley said the serious interest started). Imagine how pleased they were to fit-out the team with such an integral player to Hürzeler’s plan? A Scottish transfer sale record.

Only for some thuggish clogger to ruin his debut and then give Webster the wink. They must be feeling absolutely deflated.

Williams knew what he was doing. As he grinned inanely at Adam remembering the snap and crack of his boot on contact with O’Riley. He’ll never be famous. He’ll never play higher than League One but he has earned himself the ‘infamous’ tag amongst our support now. Playing in Sussex, he is going to have to look over his shoulder a lot now. You never know when karma might strike.

 

[Dibdab]

If

That's the kind of incident with puts the whole competition in jeopardy. I'm sure that sounds hyperbolic. But how many times are PL clubs going to lose £25m assets because some clogger wants to make a name for himself, before they reason, ........ "hang on, we don't even need to play in this competition" ................ "the prize money is only £100k or something if we win" .............. "we have to give a load of the gate money away, and we half fill the ground on discounted tickets" ........ "we make all our money on europe and the PL" ...... "what if we just didn't enter?"

FFS it was a bad tackle. It happens. This sort of rhetoric looks really noddy. Its like Man City saying they would never play Utd again after Keane did Haaland snr.

 

[SeagullinExile]

It’s not uncommon for me to take a stroll past the Amex on a summer evening. It always reminds me how hard the back room staff work. The lights in the offices next to Dicks are mostly on until gone 9pm or in some cases, much, much later.

The recruitment staff at the club work extraordinarily hard to get these deals over the line. Hours and hours of research followed by weeks and weeks and sometimes months amor years of negotiations.

So my thoughts go out to the team that got the O’Riley deal over the line. The effort and graft they put in for the last two months (when O’Riley said the serious interest started). Imagine how pleased they were to fit-out the team with such an integral player to Hürzeler’s plan? A Scottish transfer sale record.

Only for some thuggish clogger to ruin his debut and then give Webster the wink. He knew what he was doing. As he grinned inanely at Adam remembering the snap and crack of his boot on contact with O’Riley. He’ll never be famous. He’ll never play higher than League One but he has earned himself the ‘infamous’ tag amongst our support now. Playing in Sussex, he is going to have to look over his shoulder a lot now. You never know when karma might strike.

Jesus. He didn’t kill him

 

[JetsetJimbo]

Jesus. He didn’t kill him

He might never be the same player again though. We've seen enough players never fully recover after a tackle like that.

 

[Hometownglory]

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

Sounds like something our previous medical team or lack there of would let happen. So relieved we have invested into our medical area.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

That's a lot of very specific assessment from one blurry picture where it doesn't even look like a scissor tackle.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

If

FFS it was a bad tackle. It happens. This sort of rhetoric looks really noddy. Its like Man City saying they would never play Utd again after Keane did Haaland snr.

No, I support the competition, I went yesterday. And any moves against it won't be from us. But it's naïve to think that the continuation of the league cup in it's current form is guaranteed.

The likes of Boehly and Glazer won't be thinking this competition is a priority for them and had it been one of their main summer signings who had been injured by a lower league player, by a challenge like that, whether they enter next year would be being openly discussed

 

[SeagullinExile]

He might never be the same player again though. We've seen enough players never fully recover after a tackle like that.

That’s highly unlikely. Get a grip ffs.

 

[Napper]

That's a lot of very specific assessment from one blurry picture where it doesn't even look like a scissor tackle.

it seems every subject in life has numerous "experts" , spouting their theories on social media these days

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I completely understand the reaction on here. The tackle aside, most of us must be hugely frustrated/disappointed that what looks like a key piece of the puzzle - who we took weeks and weeks to land - could have been crocked 6 minutes into his debut in an unimportant game, against an irrelevant side.

This isn't a fringe player (if all goes to plan). This is a guy who will be playing in a pivotal position that we know is critical to FH style and where we haven't had top talent since we sold Moises Caicedo.

This potential time out on top of our other essential deep lying midfield purchase being out injured already. And after a season where injuries decemated what could have been the best year of any of us supporters of the Albion. It's hardly surprising that we are as sensitive as a tulip under a Crawley captain's boot.

An over reaction? Maybe. But it's entirely understandable.