[Albion] Matt O Riley [26/08/24 - sings on a 5-year deal]

Change at Barnham said:

O'Riley couldn't put any weight on the leg, and was clearly distressed. It looked to me like he was holding back the tears.
Hopefully it's something like a broken metatarsal and he's put in a moon boot and only misses about 6 weeks. Rather than severe ligament damage which would likely mean he was missing for far longer.
Or better still, it's severe bruising and we see him after the international break, although based on the distress he was in this seems unlikely.

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Zeus said:

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

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Zeus said:

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

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DJ NOBO said:

Some nobody from Crawley decides he wants to make a name for himself and deliberately injures our player .we instantly we lose a valuable asset and o’riley heads to hospital.
Meanwhile said Crawley nobody shrugs his shoulders and walks away.
Funny old game.

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Greg Bobkin said:

I see the 'bedwetting' has started early this season!

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the guy - especially if he's out for a long period of time - but let's get some perspective, FFS! It's a squad game and there is a very decent squad there. The club has shown it knows what it's doing and I would imagine there would be a contingency plan for every situation, including injuries to each individual players.

Yes, it's clearly a shame that it happened to MOR so soon - and it was a horrendous tackle - but let's just wait for some actual factual information, eh?

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

That's the kind of incident with puts the whole competition in jeopardy. I'm sure that sounds hyperbolic. But how many times are PL clubs going to lose £25m assets because some clogger wants to make a name for himself, before they reason, ........ "hang on, we don't even need to play in this competition" ................ "the prize money is only £100k or something if we win" .............. "we have to give a load of the gate money away, and we half fill the ground on discounted tickets" ........ "we make all our money on europe and the PL" ...... "what if we just didn't enter?"

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mothy said:

This is why many PL teams disrespect this cup until the later stages

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

That's the kind of incident with puts the whole competition in jeopardy. I'm sure that sounds hyperbolic. But how many times are PL clubs going to lose £25m assets because some clogger wants to make a name for himself, before they reason, ........ "hang on, we don't even need to play in this competition" ................ "the prize money is only £100k or something if we win" .............. "we have to give a load of the gate money away, and we half fill the ground on discounted tickets" ........ "we make all our money on europe and the PL" ...... "what if we just didn't enter?"

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Hugo Rune said:

It’s not uncommon for me to take a stroll past the Amex on a summer evening. It always reminds me how hard the back room staff work. The lights in the offices next to Dicks are mostly on until gone 9pm or in some cases, much, much later.

The recruitment staff at the club work extraordinarily hard to get these deals over the line. Hours and hours of research followed by weeks and weeks and sometimes months amor years of negotiations.

So my thoughts go out to the team that got the O’Riley deal over the line. The effort and graft they put in for the last two months (when O’Riley said the serious interest started). Imagine how pleased they were to fit-out the team with such an integral player to Hürzeler’s plan? A Scottish transfer sale record.

Only for some thuggish clogger to ruin his debut and then give Webster the wink. He knew what he was doing. As he grinned inanely at Adam remembering the snap and crack of his boot on contact with O’Riley. He’ll never be famous. He’ll never play higher than League One but he has earned himself the ‘infamous’ tag amongst our support now. Playing in Sussex, he is going to have to look over his shoulder a lot now. You never know when karma might strike.

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SeagullinExile said:

Jesus. He didn’t kill him

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Zeus said:

I’d agree and hope you’re right but didn’t we let Moder walk off when he got the injury that kept him out for a year and a half?

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Dibdab said:

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FFS it was a bad tackle. It happens. This sort of rhetoric looks really noddy. Its like Man City saying they would never play Utd again after Keane did Haaland snr.

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JetsetJimbo said:

He might never be the same player again though. We've seen enough players never fully recover after a tackle like that.

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