Thursday, 12 June 2008

Whats going on at the Valley

Well I'm probably as surprised as anyone on the news that Paddy McCarthy has be transferred to the Palace . Hopefully I could find out more tonight and if I do I will report back tomorrow. McCarthy and Bougherra forged a good partnership and it was unfortunate that Bougherra received along term injury, ironically against the Palace. McCarthy never looked so assured after that although he was worth his place in the side and I was looking forward to the partnership of Hudson and McCarthy. Bougherra looks certain to leave having left Wednesday to play for us in the Premiership and I can understand the premiership is where he wants to be and who can blame him.
It could be a number of things, which may be explained later but I would not be happy if Fortune is to be his replacement.

Theory No 1 Hudsons arrival has upset MCarthy for some reason
No 2 Bougherra has decided to stay -unlikely
No 3 Halford is a about to sign and McCarthy does not get on with him
No 4 A fallout with the manager
No 5 Sodje is about to sign.
No 6 McCarthy has always wanted to play for Warnock who admitted that he has admired the player for over 5 years


Oh well its probably none of those, we may find out soon.

3 comments:

bristol addick said...

Could be all of them! 1,3,4 sound likely, 2 & 5 would be good, 6 is unbelievable and so probaly true!

Anonymous said...

Rumour has it that the issues that lost Pardew the dressing room at West Ham have resurfaced and that this was behind the late season slump in form as the squad threw a hissy fit at what they view as a betrayal of trust.

(No I can't be more explicit but if you know what the West Ham rumour mill was saying at the time you'll know why the squad would be upset)

Hence the sudden use of younger players near the end

Rumour also has it that he has six matches to get it right or he'll be shown the exit.

So 4 might lie behind some of the exits this summer

Anonymous said...

What was the reason AP lost the dressing room at West Ham?

There was a lot of fluff in the press at the time - what was the real reason?

Pembury Addick