Not sure I've seen a poll on this yet, so allow me to do the business.
Knocky - retain him or release him (to Fulham) - what would you do?
Knocky - retain him or release him (to Fulham) - what would you do?
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[Albion] Knocky - retain or release?
- Thread starter Bozza
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blue-shifted
Banned
Well. We don't really know why he's gone. We don't know what division we'll be in or what division Fulham will be in. We don't know what the transfer fee is. So we can't really form a reliable judgement on this can we
I'd retain him, but I'd have never let him go in the first place
I'd retain him, but I'd have never let him go in the first place
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Think it should have been a 3-way poll with the options of:
"Keep", "Release for peanuts" or "Release for a decent fee"
"Keep", "Release for peanuts" or "Release for a decent fee"
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
Remain always remain.....sorry retain.
schmunk
"Members"
Knocxit
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Where's the option for "Trust the club to decide what is right"?
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
No way of knowing without knowing the facts behind the scenes.
I’ve been presuming Fulham need to follow some dubious accounting practices to avoid punitive future fines and we’ve played along.
thejackal
Throbbing Member
This.
There's definitely more to this than we've privy to, but the club are not unhappy that he's going.
blue-shifted
Banned
Well that was accommodating of us
DarrenFreemansPerm
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Retain, however, if we sign someone who is guaranteed (difficult, I know) to be more productive then release him, but not for such a small fee.
we wanted the 4m for the championship next summer
IF it was that, who knows, maybe we might even have got a little extra* for our help?
(* more wild speculation, but why not, everyone else seems to be doing it!)
No, no, no, no. No need for that nonsense.
But what we should have is a "kevo" option along the lines of "An IDIOT among the top brass has clearly decided he is SHIT when actually everyone else can see he is our best player and I'm basically going to post that FORTY times on the 'Knocky to Fulham' thread"
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
I vote keep. And that's a vote on all that I know, which as little as most others. That's what the vote is on, surely - what we think might be so.
Anywho, I like him, even when tempestuous - I don't want a character less batch of ordinaries putting up a brave fight and having little about them as people. We were on a journey with Knocky, and although it didn't go perfectly at least allowed a narrative alongside our football which often didn't.
Anywho, I like him, even when tempestuous - I don't want a character less batch of ordinaries putting up a brave fight and having little about them as people. We were on a journey with Knocky, and although it didn't go perfectly at least allowed a narrative alongside our football which often didn't.
studio150
Well-known member
Maybe the maintenance required to keep him focused and playing to a PL level most of the time was becoming too much and was fracturing the togetherness. Only the Club know the full reason(s) behind the departure.
I voted release, players come and go all the time and maybe it will be similar to replacing Fed Binney with Peter Ward. Time will tell
I voted release, players come and go all the time and maybe it will be similar to replacing Fed Binney with Peter Ward. Time will tell
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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Knocky may or may not have been a pain in the arse behind the scenes demanding Cornetto's for pudding, a Pink away kit and free tickets to the World cup final for all we know but as a fan we only have rumours to go on and never know the full story. Whatever the story was, I can't believe it hasn't played a part and that he was - in all probability - a pain in the arse to manage.
In ability terms though he was the one winger I loved to watch play, sometimes beating his man twice, Scoring Worldies, trickery, pace (Yes, he did have pace), a temperament which meant you didn't know which version would turn up week on week as well as celebrations that we will remember long after he is being idolised up at the cottage. I'll miss him much more than I'd miss the 2018/19 season Ali J's trudgery, Izqueirdo being a shadow of the previous season or Locadia playing a ball to no-one (and the subsequent claims on here that it's because he is well intelligent and playing balls that only Brian Cox would get on the end of and some of us are too thick to see it). Knocky was box office in a team with more than it's fair share of workhorses. I'm gutted to see him go.
In ability terms though he was the one winger I loved to watch play, sometimes beating his man twice, Scoring Worldies, trickery, pace (Yes, he did have pace), a temperament which meant you didn't know which version would turn up week on week as well as celebrations that we will remember long after he is being idolised up at the cottage. I'll miss him much more than I'd miss the 2018/19 season Ali J's trudgery, Izqueirdo being a shadow of the previous season or Locadia playing a ball to no-one (and the subsequent claims on here that it's because he is well intelligent and playing balls that only Brian Cox would get on the end of and some of us are too thick to see it). Knocky was box office in a team with more than it's fair share of workhorses. I'm gutted to see him go.
AmexRuislip
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Retain him.
You never know what's around the corner.
Anyway this loan spell will be good for him, release some demons on the unsuspecting Championship clogger defences.
There was a smaller uproar when Tomer Hemed went to QPR, he's back in the Albion fold.
You never know what's around the corner.
Anyway this loan spell will be good for him, release some demons on the unsuspecting Championship clogger defences.
There was a smaller uproar when Tomer Hemed went to QPR, he's back in the Albion fold.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Leave means leave.