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



Dick Swiveller

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Sep 9, 2011
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O'Riley couldn't put any weight on the leg, and was clearly distressed. It looked to me like he was holding back the tears.
Hopefully it's something like a broken metatarsal and he's put in a moon boot and only misses about 6 weeks. Rather than severe ligament damage which would likely mean he was missing for far longer.
Or better still, it's severe bruising and we see him after the international break, although based on the distress he was in this seems unlikely.
He didn't seem in pain with any of the lateral movement the physio applied so it didn't look like ligament damage based on my zero expertise. But given how 3 of my Fantasy League players are crocked already, what do I know?
 






Van Cleef

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Jun 17, 2023
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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

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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

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Mar 17, 2014
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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

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Jul 19, 2021
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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

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Jun 13, 2011
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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.
 














Hugo Rune

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Feb 23, 2012
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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

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Sep 28, 2021
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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

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Sep 10, 2010
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London
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 :shrug:
 




Hometownglory

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Jan 12, 2014
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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.
 






Nobby Cybergoat

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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

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Sep 10, 2010
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London
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.
 


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