Blackwell to miss start of season

[Brighton Breezy]

Reported on Sky Sports that Blackwell will miss the start of the season with further cruciate damage.
Sorry if this has already been reported.
I say get rid of him now. He is not going to be any good and is on his last legs.
Time to cut our loses on this one.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

poor bloke

 

[Ernest]

Reported on Sky Sports that Blackwell will miss the start of the season with further cruciate damage.
Sorry if this has already been reported.
I say get rid of him now. He is not going to be any good and is on his last legs.
Time to cut our loses on this one.

What a nice compassionate fellow you are

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Compasionate is the club paying his wages for a season when he wasnt playing. The club does not have lots of money and Blackwell is unlikely to return as the player he once was. I would give him a couple of months and if he is not fit we simply cannot afford to keep him.

 

[Ernest]

Compasionate is the club paying his wages for a season when he wasnt playing. The club does not have lots of money and Blackwell is unlikely to return as the player he once was. I would give him a couple of months and if he is not fit we simply cannot afford to keep him.

I hope you get injured when you're working and your employers sack you. Then again looking at your posts I doubt there is an employer anywhere stupid enough or desperate enough to employ a numb nuts like you

 

[Beach Hut]

 

[Scotty Mac]

poor bloke

exactly. i think he could still do a job though

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Well if the information is correct,he is now out of contract anyway!

 

[BensGrandad]

What is the situation if he doesn't return to League football and has to retire. Will we be eligible for compensation because he was technically not our player as he was out of contract? Will he qualify as again technically he wasn't playing professional football when the injury occured.

 

[Yorkie]

It isn't further cruciate damage but is still recovering from the original injury.

He starts training and then the knee starts swelling again. He saw the specialist again recently and should be training harder now.

The official site said on 9th July he is stepping up his training and could be in full training as the season approaches.

Ernest I don't often agree with you but that was a good post to Richie.

As regards long term injury I would feel that there must some sort of insurance to cover it.

 

[Turkey]

I would give him a couple of months and if he is not fit we simply cannot afford to keep him.

Really? How long did it take you to come to that conclusion?

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

Reported on Sky Sports that Blackwell will miss the start of the season with further cruciate damage.
Sorry if this has already been reported.
I say get rid of him now. He is not going to be any good and is on his last legs.
Time to cut our loses on this one.

For once, I'm in total agreement with Ritchie

The club have been more than generous paying him good wages last season when they got jack shit in return

We've got good young players who could cover if/when Butters and/or Cullip get injured or suspended, the club should use the money they pay for crocked Blackwell on a fitter player

 

[Icy Gull]

Blackwell had been stalling on the contract offered when he got injured and it's quite possible he wouldn't have signed anyway. This is a football club, and a poor one at that, not a charity. Blackwell has been well treated but I don't see the club keeping him any longer if they thought he was not going to come back from this injury?

 

[Zebedee]

I'm with Richie too. Get shot I say....................NOW. We can't afford to continue to pay players for doing nothing, especially when the long term outlook does not look good. They fact that Blackwell appears to be stalling on the contract we offered makes me even more convinced that we should get rid of him. Some people.....they do nothing for a year but still want more. What a greedy "I want" society we live in today.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

How is this comparable to anybody being injured,or ill, at work?

In a non-sport working environment you should only look to dismissal or medical retirement in cases where there was very little or no chance of someone ever returning to perform at an acceptable level, other factors like disability discrimination legislation, also come into play so you often have to make adjustments to someone's working environment.

Sport is obviously different but I think that given his age and the time that he is taking to recover, there is very little chance that he will be able to make a sustained contribution in the future and that being cold and objective about it, he should go. Tough but any athlete knows that their careers could be finished at any moment and should have made some provision like insurance.

 

[Zebedee]

How is this comparable to anybody being injured,or ill, at work?

In a non-sport working environment you should only look to dismissal or medical retirement in cases where there was very little or no chance of someone ever returning to perform at an acceptable level, other factors like disability discrimination legislation, also come into play so you often have to make adjustments to someone's working environment.

Sport is obviously different but I think that given his age and the time that he is taking to recover, there is very little chance that he will be able to make a sustained contribution in the future and that being cold and objective about it, he should go. Tough but any athlete knows that their careers could be finished at any moment and should have made some provision like insurance.

It might be diferent if the club had unlimited funds but we're broke and Blackwell is just a drain on the limited money we have left. We don't want to increase the risk of relegation by paying the salaries of players who are unlikely to contribute - in a significant way - to the forthcoming season. And I don't just mean Blackwell.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Ok, how about we keep Blackwell and Yorkie and Ernest pay his wages?

Ernest is always going on about how stupid Dick Knight is but then thinks we should keep paying someone who has not played hardly for about a year.

It is unfortunate yes and I feel for Blackwell but he hasnt done bad out of the club really.

 

[Beach Hut]

I'd be happy to divert the £100 Ernest will owe me when we secure just one point in the Championship towards Blackwells wages

 

[perth seagull]

The club need to look out for their own interests, not the welfare of Blackwell. I'd be inclined to say that it is in Brighton's interest to let him go now.

 

[Windmill]

Ernest usually posts drivel and I don't normally respond, but you can't compare football with other types of jobs, for one thing you are ultimately limited to age, fitness and ability.

Or perhaps Ernest is suggesting that we keep all our old crocks - perhaps we should offer Kitson a contract? Thought not.

Our priority must be a winger, a ball player for central midfield and a striker.