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Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:25 pm
by CITYTILLIDIE11
Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas ?
Tbh I feel really sorry for him it is obvious the bloke is clearly injured limping slightly with scaffolding around his knee and he is nowhere near match fitness, so one has to question the wisdom of Hughes throwing him in to the first team, but he’s the manager and all that and knows what he is doing, its not like he can push Bellamy up front and drop Steve Ireland in to midfield, because that will mean us playing football on the floor.
Seriously though.
Santa looks in a bad way and should be doing a couple of months in the reserves, he shouldn’t be anywhere near the first team, the Premiership is not the place for getting match fitness after a career threatning injury.
If we are relying on him at Christmas we are in trouble in my opinion.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:30 pm
by Spurge
CITYTILLIDIE11 wrote:Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas ?
Tbh I feel really sorry for him it is obvious the bloke is clearly injured limping slightly with scaffolding around his knee and he is nowhere near match fitness, so one has to question the wisdom of Hughes throwing him in to the first team, but he’s the manager and all that and knows what he is doing, its not like he can push Bellamy up front and drop Steve Ireland in to midfield, because that will mean us playing football on the floor.
Seriously though.
Santa looks in a bad way and should be doing a couple of months in the reserves, he shouldn’t be anywhere near the first team, the Premiership is not the place for getting match fitness after a career threatning injury.
If we are relying on him at Christmas we are in trouble in my opinion.
Based on your concerns I think it you should probably copy in the elves this year when sending your christmas list in
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:39 pm
by Burt
It must be nearly 6 months since we signed him and he would have had to have a top jolly medical after paying that sort of dough for him.
It still infuriates me to think about it.
I want the lad to do well for us but quite frankly it fuclin stinks to high heaven and for the life of me, I just can't get my head around it.
He's played a handful of games in the last year or so and his injury record in Germany and for previous clubs was exactly the same.
How does a signing like that go through?!!!
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:43 pm
by CITYTILLIDIE11
Burt wrote:It must be nearly 6 months since we signed him and he would have had to have a top jolly medical after paying that sort of dough for him.
It still infuriates me to think about it.
I want the lad to do well for us but quite frankly it fuclin stinks to high heaven and for the life of me, I just can't get my head around it.
He's played a handful of games in the last year or so and his injury record in Germany and for previous clubs was exactly the same.
How does a signing like that go through?!!!
by replacing the medical staff prior to signing him.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:46 pm
by lythamblue
I hope so because he is a headline writers dream.
SACKFUL FOR SANTA, CITY GET SANTAS PRESENCE, SANTAS NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS, CITY IN CRUZ CONTROL, etc, etc .... you could go on for ever couldn't you?
Seriously though, I'm like you and I feel sorry for him. Out injured for ages, sees other top class strikers doing the bizz whilst he is on the treatment table ..... and then get's slagged off on here before he has even kicked a ball in anger.
He shouldn't have started on Sunday but you had to find out where he was at sooner or later and unfortunately we all now know he has a way to go yet. You can't tell in training, or even in the reserves (he was ok against Scunny) you have to give him a game in the Prem.
I'm not sure that he will work out well for us, but considering what he has been like just 2 seasons ago and the kind of cash we have available, I still think he was well worth a punt!!
In for a penny .... in for 18 million pounds .... I say !!
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:50 pm
by Blue2
He's shite.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:52 pm
by lythamblue
Burt wrote:It must be nearly 6 months since we signed him and he would have had to have a top jolly medical after paying that sort of dough for him.
It still infuriates me to think about it.
I want the lad to do well for us but quite frankly it fuclin stinks to high heaven and for the life of me, I just can't get my head around it.
He's played a handful of games in the last year or so and his injury record in Germany and for previous clubs was exactly the same.
How does a signing like that go through?!!!
Burt are you an eminant surgeon or just a normal doctor?
Obviously his medical showed that his injuries had healed without serious long term prognosis of problems.
No one ever really knows how the human body will react.
He had a medical by a doctor ...... not a crystal ball session with a gypsy.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:19 pm
by Burt
lythamblue wrote:Burt wrote:It must be nearly 6 months since we signed him and he would have had to have a top jolly medical after paying that sort of dough for him.
It still infuriates me to think about it.
I want the lad to do well for us but quite frankly it fuclin stinks to high heaven and for the life of me, I just can't get my head around it.
He's played a handful of games in the last year or so and his injury record in Germany and for previous clubs was exactly the same.
How does a signing like that go through?!!!
Burt are you an eminant surgeon or just a normal doctor?
Obviously his medical showed that his injuries had healed without serious long term prognosis of problems.
No one ever really knows how the human body will react.
He had a medical by a doctor ...... not a crystal ball session with a gypsy.
I am currently not part of the medical profession mate but I am fully privvy, as lot of other folk also are, that the lad first had quite serious problems with his other leg for a number of years which prevented full mobilty (hence he's not played much more than 50% of the games he could have) and last year he started to have problems with the leg that was operated on a few months ago. It doesn't take much of a surgeon or even a layman to diagnose that the lad was a million miles away from being able to convince anybody that he would be playing top class footie on a consistant basis within the immediate future and yet I clearly remember Leslie stating on more than one occasion that Crocky would be playing by September.
As I said, I truly want the lad to do well for us but it still fuclin stinks how this transfer went through.
It would be interesting to see what policy the club's insurance company have allocated for him in my oppinion.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:20 pm
by CITYTILLIDIE11
lythamblue wrote:Burt wrote:It must be nearly 6 months since we signed him and he would have had to have a top jolly medical after paying that sort of dough for him.
It still infuriates me to think about it.
I want the lad to do well for us but quite frankly it fuclin stinks to high heaven and for the life of me, I just can't get my head around it.
He's played a handful of games in the last year or so and his injury record in Germany and for previous clubs was exactly the same.
How does a signing like that go through?!!!
Burt are you an eminant surgeon or just a normal doctor?
Obviously his medical showed that his injuries had healed without serious long term prognosis of problems.
No one ever really knows how the human body will react.
He had a medical by a doctor ...... not a crystal ball session with a gypsy.
Based on his body movement it doesn’t just look like he has fitness issues does it ? He is obviously in some discomfort and unable to move freely as he would like, it might explain the knee support, he is also limping ever so slightly.
I personally think this injury was a lot more serious than we were led to believe
I just hope the lads career is not ruined to feed Hughes over inflated ego, he needs proper rehabilitation to build up his knee gradually, over doing it to early could finish his career off for good, knee injuries take time.
Who is to say he might be a great acquisition, but we won’t see any decent form until next season in my opinion and that’s not his fault.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:22 pm
by LookMumImOnMCF.net
I think RSC has won the award for least amount of pitch time before the boo boys get at him. Very harsh imo.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:33 am
by Grob
Even though he played like he had his boots on the wrong feet on Sunday, at least he was better than Corradi
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:38 am
by The Man In Blue
Grob wrote:Even though he played like he had his boots on the wrong feet on Sunday, at least he was better than Corradi
that got a chuckle.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:28 am
by Bingo Lewis
Errrm, I think its a fairly obvious question. We're at the start of november and Santa is just getting his fitness back after injury. He's got 8/9 weeks till Christmas, so as long as he keeps getting game time then its fairly obvious that he will be ready for Christmas isn't it?
I know we spent a lot of dough on him but he was bought purely for backup / cover and once fully fit he will a good deputy for Ade. We are City, the richest club in the world, and if we want a team's best player for our subs bench, we are gonna have to fork out wedge for him. end of. Give him time.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:48 am
by Original Dub
Bingo Lewis wrote:Errrm, I think its a fairly obvious question. We're at the start of november and Santa is just getting his fitness back after injury. He's got 8/9 weeks till Christmas, so as long as he keeps getting game time then its fairly obvious that he will be ready for Christmas isn't it?
I know we spent a lot of dough on him but he was bought purely for backup / cover and once fully fit he will a good deputy for Ade. We are City, the richest club in the world, and if we want a team's best player for our subs bench, we are gonna have to fork out wedge for him. end of. Give him time.
Mate its another wind up post to get at hughes, this lad's been starting threads like this since the game.
Santa Cruz has played about two full games for us and scored once and he has been out for a long time with injury. When fucking Torres got injured for only a couple of months last season it took him something like 9 games to score.
Its pathetic that we have to direct such shit at a guy who hasn't even had a chance to get fully match fit and show what he's capable of. I know why it is though, just like with Mark Hughes and Craig Bellamy, people's minds were made up before he ever signed.
Whatever your agendas folks, you do claim to be huge football fans for years yet you don't seem to understand how long it takes to get back to your best after a long term injury...
Poor stuff.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:50 am
by Crossie
Im pretty confident we didnt just give Blackburn £18 million cash.
Id bet my left ball that it depends on games played etc.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:55 am
by Wonderwall
CITYTILLIDIE11 wrote:I just hope the lads career is not ruined to feed Hughes over inflated ego
You see, that one line there is why I dont take what you write seriously. You obviously have a good basic all round knowledge, but you try and taint whatever you write with silly comments. Why do you think Hughes has an over inflate ego? What led to this conclusion? Do you base it on a factual interview? Why would the manager ruin a players career to feed his over inflated ego? How does he go about doing that?
I am confused.
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:01 pm
by Lees Alter Ego
Grob wrote:Even though he played like he had his boots on the wrong feet on Sunday, at least he was better than Corradi
but will his celbrations be as good as Corradis? I mean Corradi thought it was a good idea to knight Joey Barton.....what a guy
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:23 pm
by ant london
Burt wrote:lythamblue wrote:
He had a medical by a doctor ...... not a crystal ball session with a gypsy.
I am currently not part of the medical profession mate but I am fully privvy
Burt, as an older member of the posting fraternity I should think you know what a "privvy" is/was
So correct me if I'm wrong but have you not just declared that you are a "full outdoor toilet"
the mind boggles, lay off the Holts man!
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:42 pm
by Sister of fu
Original Dub wrote:Bingo Lewis wrote:Errrm, I think its a fairly obvious question. We're at the start of november and Santa is just getting his fitness back after injury. He's got 8/9 weeks till Christmas, so as long as he keeps getting game time then its fairly obvious that he will be ready for Christmas isn't it?
I know we spent a lot of dough on him but he was bought purely for backup / cover and once fully fit he will a good deputy for Ade. We are City, the richest club in the world, and if we want a team's best player for our subs bench, we are gonna have to fork out wedge for him. end of. Give him time.
Mate its another wind up post to get at hughes, this lad's been starting threads like this since the game.
Santa Cruz has played about two full games for us and scored once and he has been out for a long time with injury. When fucking Torres got injured for only a couple of months last season it took him something like 9 games to score.
Its pathetic that we have to direct such shit at a guy who hasn't even had a chance to get fully match fit and show what he's capable of. I know why it is though, just like with Mark Hughes and
Craig Bellamy, people's minds were made up before he ever signed.
Whatever your agendas folks, you do claim to be huge football fans for years yet you don't seem to understand how long it takes to get back to your best after a long term injury...
Poor stuff.
and you can guarantee that when he comes good the usual two faced Muppets will do there usual grovelling and be licking his rather nice arse just like with Bellers.
By the way did anyone see Rocky on Sky Sports news this morning with that drawn on moustache. Really dont know how he kept a straight face talking to that reporter about serious City issues with a big fat magic marker pen handle bar tash on his lip.......!!!
Re: Will Santa Be Ready For Christmas

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Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:48 pm
by Original Dub
Sister of fu wrote:Original Dub wrote:Bingo Lewis wrote:Errrm, I think its a fairly obvious question. We're at the start of november and Santa is just getting his fitness back after injury. He's got 8/9 weeks till Christmas, so as long as he keeps getting game time then its fairly obvious that he will be ready for Christmas isn't it?
I know we spent a lot of dough on him but he was bought purely for backup / cover and once fully fit he will a good deputy for Ade. We are City, the richest club in the world, and if we want a team's best player for our subs bench, we are gonna have to fork out wedge for him. end of. Give him time.
Mate its another wind up post to get at hughes, this lad's been starting threads like this since the game.
Santa Cruz has played about two full games for us and scored once and he has been out for a long time with injury. When fucking Torres got injured for only a couple of months last season it took him something like 9 games to score.
Its pathetic that we have to direct such shit at a guy who hasn't even had a chance to get fully match fit and show what he's capable of. I know why it is though, just like with Mark Hughes and
Craig Bellamy, people's minds were made up before he ever signed.
Whatever your agendas folks, you do claim to be huge football fans for years yet you don't seem to understand how long it takes to get back to your best after a long term injury...
Poor stuff.
and you can guarantee that when he comes good the usual two faced Muppets will do there usual grovelling and be licking his rather nice arse just like with Bellers.
By the way did anyone see Rocky on Sky Sports news this morning with that drawn on moustache. Really dont know how he kept a straight face talking to that reporter about serious City issues with a big fat magic marker pen handle bar tash on his lip.......!!!
Saw that alright, fair play, I think he's gonna grow one for charity? Should be funny looking!
Thing is the poor guy has started two games and has one goal and it'll take him another few sub apps to get his match sharpness... thing is, he had to be played against birmingham after scoring but the gamble didn't pay off. He's off the pace, but the abuse he's getting is dispicable considering he hasn't done one thing to warrent the abuse.