Quote Maislebugs="Maislebugs"I don't doubt your totally correct on this and the similar situation vis a vis Briggs being rated 50/50 and then being ruled out for 4 weeks. However, isn't the real issue here a fleeting suspicion that the club occasionally 'tells the tale to suit itself' as my late Mum would say. A poster on here recently suggested (unchallenged) that Jamie Langley wasn't injured when he was missing for a large part of last season. The conclusion of the Matt Orford saga left a nagging sense that something was not quite as presented.
It's things like this that erode that little bit of trust and cause people to question when there's probably no reason to do so.'"
Not sure about the Langley situation, and to be honest I've only ever seen one person alude to that and not heard a single other thing relating to it. But the Orford one is surely a legal issue and hardly something we can blame the club about either? If the club COULD tell us more, I'm sure they would. But it seems fairly clear to me from what was put out that the reasons behind it all are confidential and can never be revealed in public. So again, would we prefer they revealed them anyway, then got taken to the courts over it?
I think there's a tendency for some people to automatically jump to the negative conclusions regarding a lot of the things the club does or does not put out, when they often don't know the reasons for it. It seems to me that there's a few on here (and I'm not meaning you here) that just want to slate the club regardless of what option they choose. If you asked those people before the club said owt, what their opinion was, then the club came out with the same one, these people would probably change their opinion just so they could tell the club they were wrong again.
If the club do something that's worthy of criticism, then I'm all for it being done. They certainly aren't immune to it. However I think a lot of the time, it's highly unwarranted, and the "damned if they do, damned if they don't" phrase is a perfect one for it.