Oatway breaks County players leg

[Soton Seagull]

it was late and a scissor kick to make sure one leg didn't get him the other did. I'd say a tad fortunate tostay on the pitch.

It would obviously not have been beneficial if he got sent off as Harty would not have come on and changed the game.

Naturally. But I was thinking in the medium term.

 

[Zebedee]

It was a poor tackle but hardly a hanging offence. I do think though that it's time we dropped Oatway and played a midfield of Jones, Reid, Carpenter and Hart. I still take the view that Oatway is not up to Div 2 standard.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Get into them, f*** em up...........

 

[Turkey]

I think the guy is actually a Coventry player on loan to County.

 

[Beach Hut]

It was a poor tackle but hardly a hanging offence. I do think though that it's time we dropped Oatway and played a midfield of Jones, Reid, Carpenter and Hart. I still take the view that Oatway is not up to Div 2 standard.

Funnily enough he was dropped from the team altogether towards the end of the season last time we were in Division 2.

However I think our chairman awarded him a nice long contract

 

[Yorkie]

Didn't look that bad a tackle to me.. nowhere near as OTT as is being described.. and I don't think it was malicious

I would agree with that. Accidents do happen in football and although it is tragic for the player concerned don't make the tackler out to be some sort of animal.

 

[Trotster]

Agreed yorkie - late/bad tacle but like you say, accidents happen. Charlie is a legend!!

 

[fleet]

It was just in front of me - looked a genuine challenge, not intended to hurt, but very late.

 

[oapdodge]

Shame about the broken leg but these things do happen occasionally.Charlie went for the tackle as he always does 100% and the other guy came off the worse.Was a bit late because he had been chasing to get the ball back,no malice.

 

[mona]

Agreed yorkie - late/bad tacle but like you say, accidents happen. Charlie is a legend!!

Charlie is a legend as was Richard Tiltman.
Legends because they are such bad players some fans can identify with them.

 

[ziggy]

So let me get this right. You're saying Charlie Oatway won a tackle? FANTASTIC, well done Charlie, I knew you could do it one day.
OK that's enough of picking on Charlie. He may not be the best player we have but he puts in 100% effort every game. If we make div.1 he won't be good enough but he will always be a Legend because of the commitment he has to this club.
Charlie Oatway,
Charlie Oatway,
Charlie Oatway,
Charlie Oatway!

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Funnily enough he was dropped from the team altogether towards the end of the season last time we were in Division 2.

However I think our chairman awarded him a nice long contract

Actually he had play 23 games this season to get another year on his contract,which he accomplished in the Sheff Weds game.

So he has got himself another season with us next year.and thats all.And at the age of 30 he knows it may well be his last pro contract.

 

[graz126]

I think the guy is actually a Coventry player on loan to County.

coventry did have a pipe. i think he was born in doncaster, played for cov and on loan at county. ooopps, charlie what have you done? my brother is a coventry fan.

 

[Zebedee]

I wonder whether Charlie has had the good grace to apologise to the County player? I thought it was a bad challenge and McGhee was right to substitute Oatway. He could do with a spell on the bench now. We really can't afford to have Charlie being reckless against either Swindon or Hartlepool.




PS But if Charlie played again like he did in the first half against Plymouth he'd be in my first eleven!

 

[mitch]

i did'nt realise a miss timed tackle is now a hanging offence and it is funny how some peoples dislike to a player sometimes clouds thier judgements on a subject.
a bad tackle which had a unfortunate outcome thats all.

 

[Kent Seagull]

I wasn't at the game so I can't comment on this particular incident but I do thing football is turning a bit soft. Any physical contact these days seems to result in a yellow card, players can't tackle from behind and if you so much as look at a goalkeeper it's a foul.

I was watching a program on ITV 2 last noight about UEFA Nations cup in the '60s. The goalies were challenged and shoulder charged in a way that would be totally unacceptable these days. There were some pretty tasty challenges too.

Has the beautiful game gone soft or what?

 

[Kent Seagull]

One other thing, charlie hard? You never saw Paul Clark then! The crack when he broke Lil Fuccillo's leg at the was heard all round the Goldstone, everyone knew exactly what had happened straight away. Now Paul was an animal!

 

[Easy 10]

It was a bad challenge, but Charlie obviously didn't set out to break the guys leg. As has been said earlier, these things happen from time to time in football.

Oh, and a big to St Johns with the stretcher. Could they possibly have taken any longer to get across the pitch ? There's a player laying there 100 yards away in agony with a broken leg, but the way they strolled and sauntered across with that stretcher, you'd have thought they were popping out to get the Sunday morning papers. I know it was a pain disturbing their nice little sit-down in the sun, but a bit of urgency would hardly have killed them, would it.

 

[Zebedee]

It was a bad challenge, but Charlie obviously didn't set out to break the guys leg. As has been said earlier, these things happen from time to time in football.

Oh, and a big to St Johns with the stretcher. Could they possibly have taken any longer to get across the pitch ? There's a player laying there 100 yards away in agony with a broken leg, but the way they strolled and sauntered across with that stretcher, you'd have thought they were popping out to get the Sunday morning papers. I know it was a pain disturbing their nice little sit-down in the sun, but a bit of urgency would hardly have killed them, would it.

That struck me too Easy 10. They couldn't have moved more slowly if they had wanted to.

 

[Notts County Lass]

I think the guy is actually a Coventry player on loan to County.

Some how we've managed to sign him permanently, he's an absolute gem.

We're told that although it was initially feared he'd broken his ankle, it's actually only a ruptured ligament, though his season is over.