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[Albion] Knocky - retain or release?

Would you retain or release Anthony Knockaert?

  • Retain him - much to offer still at this level.

    Votes: 134 65.4%
  • Release him - we can do better and need to move on.

    Votes: 71 34.6%

  • Total voters
    205








Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Where's the option for "Trust the club to decide what is right"?

You mean like the decisions made about moving on GM for CMS and Barnes without replacing him and replacing Ulloa with O’Grady? You have more trust than me when it comes to Albion and attacking players :smile:
 


Wozza

Shite Supporter
Jul 6, 2003
23,667
Online
Fence. Blatantly not released for football reasons, so difficult to vote.
 


Blue3

Well-known member
Jan 27, 2014
5,590
Lancing
Not sure I understand the question retained or release as he’s on our books out on loan with an option to buy in years time, so where does retain or release fit into this?
 




Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
70,377
Fence. Blatantly not released for football reasons, so difficult to vote.

This. Might be completely wrong, but one explanation may be that he broke the No Dickheads Rule once too often (ref those NSC threads that sometimes popped up in the wee small hours and were invariably deleted by mods by the morning)

A season in the Championship getting his head straight might do the boy no harm at all. Then we can all talk about it again next May.
 




kevo

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2008
9,121
Blimey. A third of NSC users didn't see Ali J, Locadia or Izquierdo play last season.
 








Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
10,746
I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why the club feel this is the right decision.

And if they were laid out for us, I would expect they would be quite difficult to argue against.

But the player voted man of the match in the semi Final (against man city ffs) and the scorer of the goal of the season!
Released on loan to the championship.??..
Doesn't sit right with me.
 




Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Release.

He hardly set the Premier League alight when he played, and we need better than last year to stay up.
 


Tesco in Disguise

Where do we go from here?
Jul 5, 2003
3,926
Wienerville
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.
This, absolument. Retain all day.

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Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
50,512
Faversham
flawed poll.....
 




Bry Nylon

Test your smoke alarm
Helpful Moderator
Jul 21, 2003
19,903
Playing snooker

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Kaiser_Soze

Who is Kaiser Soze??
Apr 14, 2008
1,355
I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why the club feel this is the right decision.

And if they were laid out for us, I would expect they would be quite difficult to argue against.

But the player voted man of the match in the semi Final (against man city ffs) and the scorer of the goal of the season!
Released on loan to the championship.??..
Doesn't sit right with me.

The season isn't two games long. We can't afford to carry a player that only decides to turn up twice a season. If he played like that in 75% of the games last season, bigger clubs would be looking to buy him. As it stands, a Championship club want him - he's a yoyo player. Too good for the Championship (in the right side) and not good enough to be consistent in the PL.

That said, I would have liked to see him under Potter and to see if his man management would have benefited Knocky.
 


OzMike

Well-known member
Oct 2, 2006
12,964
Perth Australia
He is being judged on playing 2 Premier League seasons the ultra defensive CH way, we should have at least seen one season under Potter to see what would happen.
He would have still been young enough for us to cash in on.
 




Davemania

Well-known member
Jul 11, 2011
1,752
Uckfield
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

Same here, I think it's a mistake to let him go
 




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