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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:20 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Briscoe has many qualities that made him a fans favourite at the KC, the main ones being 110% effort every game, bravery/willingness to put his body on the line week in week, safe as houses under the high ball, a brilliant link-up with Richard Horne, and a genuine nice bloke who always did more than his fair share of interraction with the fans. Not the most gifted player in the world, but played with heart and endeavour and that's what endeared him to the majority. The fact that, if he could turn back the clock, he might have signed his initial contract offer and appears to have been badly advised, coupled with a utility player being preferred to him and the fact he's doing very well at Rovers and knocking on the international door, plus the fact that said utility player now seems to have had an extremely unfortunate run of injuries, means a lot of people can't help looking East and wishing he was still part of our set-up.

I'm gutted for Motu Tony. I have no inside information, but it sounds to me from the snippets of info we get that this is a serious injury. I thought the worst last season TBH when it appeared to be a recurrence of the previous one which kept him out for ages but it appeared that he was making good progress in the off season and was in contention for Wigan. Looks now like that was wide of the mark for whatever reason - such a shame as, for all Byrne is doing a very good job at the moment, we miss Tony's strong running from kick returns and support play.

Very well put - I agree with all of that 100%.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:34 pm  

Motu's great, heart like a lion and brave as hell. Hope he gets back to full fitness soon as we miss his kick returns where we end up on the front foot

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:37 pm  

HFC Boy wrote:

Thank you Peter Sharp for leaving us without SL`s best British fullback.
Briscoe was outstanding last night.

Its being said a million times, Briscoe rejected the contract we offered to him.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:39 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Briscoe has many qualities that made him a fans favourite at the KC, the main ones being 110% effort every game, bravery/willingness to put his body on the line week in week, safe as houses under the high ball, a brilliant link-up with Richard Horne, and a genuine nice bloke who always did more than his fair share of interraction with the fans. Not the most gifted player in the world, but played with heart and endeavour and that's what endeared him to the majority. The fact that, if he could turn back the clock, he might have signed his initial contract offer and appears to have been badly advised, coupled with a utility player being preferred to him and the fact he's doing very well at Rovers and knocking on the international door, plus the fact that said utility player now seems to have had an extremely unfortunate r a lot of people can't help looking East and wishing he was still part of our set-up.
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I can`t help looking east and thinking " I hope that red and white shower get beat again.
Briscoe is gone get over it. Players come and players go. If I was going to turn the clock back I`d have Gary Kemble any day. Briscoe couldn`t lace his boots.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:47 pm  

[quote="Mrs Barista"]Briscoe has many qualities that made him a fans favourite at the KC, the main ones being 110% effort every game, bravery/willingness to put his body on the line week in week, safe as houses under the high ball, a brilliant link-up with Richard Horne, and a genuine nice bloke who always did more than his fair share of interraction with the fans. Not the most gifted player in the world, but played with heart and endeavour and that's what endeared him to the majority. The fact that, if he could turn back the clock, he might have signed his initial contract offer and appears to have been badly advised, coupled with a utility player being preferred to him and the fact he's doing very well at Rovers and knocking on the international door, plus the fact that said utility player now seems to have had an extremely unfortunate run of injuries, means a lot of people can't help looking East and wishing he was still part of our set-up.

My wish list goes further than the Rovers squad !the point is he is not part of our set up for whatever reasons and doesn,t warrant getting into the threads every time we discuss f/backs..it is only rovers who live in the past

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:25 pm  

hitro the maneater wrote:

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I can`t help looking east and thinking " I hope that red and white shower get beat again.
Briscoe is gone get over it. Players come and players go. If I was going to turn the clock back I`d have Gary Kemble any day. Briscoe couldn`t lace his boots.

Kemble's not available though is he? Briscoe is, in all likelihood, the new England FB and was a a fans favourite at the KC for good reasons. Just stating why, IMO, some people still rate him and would prefer he was this side of the river. This is compounded by Tony's unfortunate run of injuries.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:27 pm  

tonys injury is the same one
briscoe has gone and we still made a final without him
everybody is replacable so lets get behind byrne who is playing ver well at the mo aswell

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:31 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Kemble's not available though is he? Briscoe is, in all likelihood, the new England FB and was a a fans favourite at the KC for good reasons. Just stating why, IMO, some people still rate him and would prefer he was this side of the river. This is compounded by Tony's unfortunate run of injuries.

Briscoes not available either is he?

He refused the contract offer from Hull. End of story.


He plays for rovers now and I could`t give a to$$ what he does because he didn`t want to play for us.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:58 pm  

hitro the maneater wrote:

Briscoes not available either is he?

He refused the contract offer from Hull. End of story.


He plays for rovers now and I could`t give a to$$ what he does because he didn`t want to play for us.

You're entitled to your opinion. All I would say is that he did want to stay but was advised to reject the initial offer by his agent and this was then withdrawn. Unfortunate all round, apart from for Briscoe's agent. You may not care but quite a few people do. I was just trying to explain why I think this is.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:07 pm  

PAULS SHED wrote:

tonys injury is the same one

At least hes not on £40,000 a week and paid £5 million for him.


If we did his knee would have its own daily column in the daily wail.