Alexander Litvinenko But the older you are, the more susceptible you are to both injuries and recurrences of previous injuries and the recovery time from each injury also increases - it';s harder to regain full fitness as well.
Roberts is now 35, and I fear that anyone who sees him as a season-long answer to our problem of a lack of a striker is clutching at straws here.
He's also building up a nice little media career, and has nothing really to prove in the game - what's his motivation for spending the time and effort regaining full match fitness?
If he recovers enough to play again (and I do think it's a big "if" - footballers' tweets can hardly be classed as "reliable evidence") then I can't see him making more than a handful of appearances/sub roles.
I don't think any of that is wrong but the h8 being whipped up by Dellor and co at the weekend is bang out of order.
Roberts is contracted to RFC and doubtless turns up for training/treatment Monday to Friday as required. If the club don't ask him to travel with the team then Saturday is his own time to do what he likes with.
The club took a punt on his age/fitness. It paid off big style with promotion and all the associated revenue. Plenty of RFC players have spent months on the treatment bench without getting dog's abuse. But Roberts is on the radio.
Roberts had a burgeoning media career before he joined RFC. I'm sure his media ambitions and commitments were discussed and agreed at the outset of his employment - in fact, I recall a 606 show which Roberts did live from the Mad post match.
If he spent his weekends parachuting or motorbike racing then it'd be fair enough to have a pop at the fella but bitching and whining cos he's on BBCR5 and Final Score is worse than lame. It stinks of jealousy from our smalltime local radio pundits.
