Shorey weighing up his options

[Royalee]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

[Alan Partridge]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

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[RG30]

We could always tempt Chris Makin out of retirement

[Hoop Blah]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

If he's set his heart on leaving there is no point in keeping him here.

There are left backs out there who are as good as Shorey's been this season and if it seems he isn't going to return to the old Shorey we know and love because he wants to double his wages at West Ham then we'd be better off letting him go.

[Stranded]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

£5m for a player that doesn't want to be here and a slightly less talented but comitted player>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Shorey playing out the last year of his deal in a similar way to a lot of his performances this season.

[brendywendy]

i think i agree with the woman who doesnt know what shes on about too, to be fair

[Old Biscuitman]

Do we think that Golbourne has served a long enough apprenticeship here to be ready as a replacement? He seems to have been around a while now, so if the answer is "no", he should be shipped out for someone better.

[brendywendy]

Do we think that Golbourne has served a long enough apprenticeship here to be ready as a replacement? He seems to have been around a while now, so if the answer is "no", he should be shipped out for someone better.

that probably depends on if we stay up or go down

[Stranded]

Do we think that Golbourne has served a long enough apprenticeship here to be ready as a replacement? He seems to have been around a while now, so if the answer is "no", he should be shipped out for someone better.

By all accounts he played OK on his Prem debut against Bolton so could well be worth a run in the team.

[Hoop Blah]

Do we think that Golbourne has served a long enough apprenticeship here to be ready as a replacement? He seems to have been around a while now, so if the answer is "no", he should be shipped out for someone better.

From the little I've seen of him I'd say he's not a Premiership quality fullback.

Half decent going forward but a little suspect when defending. His quality on the ball is nowhere near Shorey's though, although he is still young and I'm not writing him off, but as I think someone else has said on here recently he's more Ashley Cole than Nicky Shorey in style.

[Royal Lady]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

LOL @ you Royalee!!! I didn't say I WANTED him to go, I merely said that if, as quoted in various places, we could sell him for £5million then it would be the best bit of business we've ever done, as personally, I don't think he warrants that high a price tag. Still, you sexist idiot, don't let the actual written words in my post stop you from ranting about a woman knowing nothing about football.

[Gus the teenage cow]

If we get £5million for Shorey that will be the best bit of business RFC have ever done, even including the half a million for Andy Hughes!

Women know nothing about football and this post has done absolutely nothing to alter my opinion. Who would you replace him with then RL? Paul Koncheskey when Fulham go down or someone equally as shit? Brilliant bit of business, I agree - let's sell Kitson and buy Darius Henderson back to replace him while we're at it.

LOL @ you Royalee!!! I didn't say I WANTED him to go, I merely said that if, as quoted in various places, we could sell him for £5million then it would be the best bit of business we've ever done, as personally, I don't think he warrants that high a price tag. Still, you sexist idiot, don't let the actual written words in my post stop you from ranting about a woman knowing nothing about football.

RL he's just winding you up-don't throw a hissy fit

[Royal Lady]

Well, there's disagreeing with what someone says and there's being sexist - and he's just sexist

[Woodcote Royal]

Shorey is average, i'd bite your hands and feets off if you gave me 5 million for him, hasn't played well all season yet is guaranteed his game

And that, along with his @rse-lickers in the East stand, has been his biggest problem.

Having his place almost guaranteed since the day he broke into the first team has seen him him have several periods of giving 80 rather than 100% , all of which went largely unnoticed by his fan club, who were too preoccupied slagging off the likes of Hughes and Oster.

Sadly, Sidwell and Shorey typify an attitude that is too prevalent in English players that is noticeably absent amongst many similarly ambitious foreigners. So many of the latter just seem delighted to be playing in the best league in the world.

On the other hand, Sidwell, who admittedly showed no lack of effort in his final season, still elected to move where he could earn most money rather than to a club that would enhance his career (anyone who still thinks he had the faintest chance of making a mark at the Bridge is sadly deluded)

In Shorey's case, he showed everyone last season what a good player he can be at this level.......................too one footed to be a top international player but a very decent performer in the Premiership despite a distinct lack of pace.

Frankly, most of this season he's looked like he couldn't give a sh*t, and this from a player who, at 27, is presumably looking for the final and big earning move of his career.

If I had been a top manager looking enviously at our left back last season, I'd be having more than a few 2nd thoughts based on his performances in this campaign.

I'll be looking for Shorey to give us the very least he owes us over the next 3 games; 100% effort in our quest to avoid relegation.................... then he can leave (as I think he should) with my blessing.

Wherever he ends up, I hope his new club will have more than one quality left back and his place in the first team is no longer guaranteed.

[Gus the teenage cow]

Shorey is average, i'd bite your hands and feets off if you gave me 5 million for him, hasn't played well all season yet is guaranteed his game

And that, along with his @rse-lickers in the East stand, has been his biggest problem.

Having his place almost guaranteed since the day he broke into the first team has seen him him have several periods of giving 80 rather than 100% , all of which went largely unnoticed by his fan club, who were too preoccupied slagging off the likes of Hughes and Oster.

Sadly, Sidwell and Shorey typify an attitude that is too prevalent in English players that is noticeably absent amongst many similarly ambitious foreigners. So many of the latter just seem delighted to be playing in the best league in the world.

On the other hand, Sidwell, who admittedly showed no lack of effort in his final season, still elected to move where he could earn most money rather than to a club that would enhance his career (anyone who still thinks he had the faintest chance of making a mark at the Bridge is sadly deluded)

In Shorey's case, he showed everyone last season what a good player he can be at this level.......................too one footed to be a top international player but a very decent performer in the Premiership despite a distinct lack of pace.

Frankly, most of this season he's looked like he couldn't give a sh*t, and this from a player who, at 27, is presumably looking for the final and big earning move of his career.

If I had been a top manager looking enviously at our left back last season, I'd be having more than a few 2nd thoughts based on his performances in this campaign.

I'll be looking for Shorey to give us the very least he owes us over the next 3 games; 100% effort in our quest to avoid relegation.................... then he can leave (as I think he should) with my blessing.

Wherever he ends up, I hope his new club will have more than one quality left back and his place in the first team is no longer guaranteed.

'greed

[Hoop Blah]

Agree on Shorey's performances this season Woodcote but to suggest that foreign players are only over here for the love of the game and not chasing the big money is one of your more fanciful suggestions.

As for Shorey being too one footed, I don't remember it being too much of a problem for players lots of other international players from all over the world.

I won't get started with Sidwell's career choices as you obviously have a massive blind spot where that ones concerned.

[Woodcote Royal]

Agree on Shorey's performances this season Woodcote but to suggest that foreign players are only over here for the love of the game and not chasing the big money is one of your more fanciful suggestions.

As for Shorey being too one footed, I don't remember it being too much of a problem for players lots of other international players from all over the world.

I won't get started with Sidwell's career choices as you obviously have a massive blind spot where that ones concerned.

I have a blind spot regarding Sidwell

If Sidwell had real ambition beyond his wallet he would not have picked Chelsea.......................he's wasted a year of his short career......................and he hasn't left yet

I much prefer the attitiude we've seem from all our Irish and African players whilst Kitson is a rare exception amongst their English counterparts, who seem to think that wealth and success is theirs by right.

[Alan Partridge]

Agree on Shorey's performances this season Woodcote but to suggest that foreign players are only over here for the love of the game and not chasing the big money is one of your more fanciful suggestions.

As for Shorey being too one footed, I don't remember it being too much of a problem for players lots of other international players from all over the world.

I won't get started with Sidwell's career choices as you obviously have a massive blind spot where that ones concerned.

I have a blind spot regarding Sidwell

If Sidwell had real ambition beyond his wallet he would not have picked Chelsea.......................he's wasted a year of his short career......................and he hasn't left yet

I much prefer the attitiude we've seem from all our Irish and African players whilst Kitson is a rare exception amongst their English counterparts, who seem to think that wealth and success is theirs by right.

I'm much happier Sidwell chose to actually have some ambition and try at a top club such as Chelsea and didn't leave us for someone shit like West Ham or Portsmouth or someone else as mediocre.

Put yourself in Sidwell's shoes, offered double the money, the chance to train and play with some of the best players in the world, or you can go and play at Fratton PArk or a relegation scrap here, absolute no brainer. IF Sidwell goes ( Personally think he probably will) he'd have had a decent year as previously mentioned playing with these top players, will move on to a NEwcastle or Villa a better player than 12months ago.

As for Shorey, he's still one of our better players. He's been poor for the majority of this season as have most of our players, he lacks pace which is why he won't go to a top club or be a regular at International level, but he's still a Premiership footballer. He has an end product, he can cross a ball better than anyone else in our team and he sets up half of our goals. His defensive work has been wretched at times this season, I too have been annoyed that DLC hasn't had a few more games at LB to say to Shorey 'your place isn't guaranteed' but I understand why SC will always favour picking an England international full back. Had Shorey not played for the majority of thiss eason we could probably scrap 10-15 goals and we could scrap us having ANY chance of staying up.

Again like Sidwell, he will leave with my blessing (again like Sidwell if he has the chance to go a really good club I hope he takes it rather than going to that shower of pcunts in East London), best LB I've seen here (apart from Andy Hughes of course ) and we will have IMMENSE difficulty replacing him, just like we have had trying to replace Steve Sidwell.

[PEARCEY]

Agree with your comments in general AP.


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[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Can't blame Shorey if he wants to leave even if we do stay up.

However Sid clearly made his mind up the summer before he left and didn't put in half hearted performances the way Shorey has.

It's a shame really, he owes us big time, he might not even be a pro know if Pard's hadn't plucked him from Orient reserves. Still football is football and it's full of cnuts who don't think they owe anyone anything.