[Albion] Knocky - retain or release?

[Blue Valkyrie]

https://youtu.be/ZF3-mHk5jJE

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I thought she was retained for a bit but then released when they couldn't find her guilty of that terrible murder?

 

[Icy Gull]

Where's the option for "Trust the club to decide what is right"?

You mean like the decisions made about moving on GM for CMS and Barnes without replacing him and replacing Ulloa with O’Grady? You have more trust than me when it comes to Albion and attacking players

 

[Wozza]

Fence. Blatantly not released for football reasons, so difficult to vote.

 

[Blue3]

Not sure I understand the question retained or release as he’s on our books out on loan with an option to buy in years time, so where does retain or release fit into this?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Fence. Blatantly not released for football reasons, so difficult to vote.

This. Might be completely wrong, but one explanation may be that he broke the No Dickheads Rule once too often (ref those NSC threads that sometimes popped up in the wee small hours and were invariably deleted by mods by the morning)

A season in the Championship getting his head straight might do the boy no harm at all. Then we can all talk about it again next May.

 

[Is it PotG?]

His work here is done. Onwards and upwards.

 

[kevo]

Blimey. A third of NSC users didn't see Ali J, Locadia or Izquierdo play last season.

 

[dazzer6666]

This.

There's definitely more to this than we've privy to, but the club are not unhappy that he's going.

Seconded.

 

[the right footed denilson]

No dickhead policy is a tough one if it means we're left with a bunch of ****ing drips.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why the club feel this is the right decision.

And if they were laid out for us, I would expect they would be quite difficult to argue against.

But the player voted man of the match in the semi Final (against man city ffs) and the scorer of the goal of the season!
Released on loan to the championship.??..
Doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Release.

He hardly set the Premier League alight when he played, and we need better than last year to stay up.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

I vote keep. And that's a vote on all that I know, which as little as most others. That's what the vote is on, surely - what we think might be so.
Anywho, I like him, even when tempestuous - I don't want a character less batch of ordinaries putting up a brave fight and having little about them as people. We were on a journey with Knocky, and although it didn't go perfectly at least allowed a narrative alongside our football which often didn't.

This, absolument. Retain all day.

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

flawed poll.....

 

[Bry Nylon]

flawed poll.....

Krzysztof Głowacki?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Krzysztof Głowacki?

Best laugh of the week so far

Nevertheless...

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why the club feel this is the right decision.

And if they were laid out for us, I would expect they would be quite difficult to argue against.

But the player voted man of the match in the semi Final (against man city ffs) and the scorer of the goal of the season!
Released on loan to the championship.??..
Doesn't sit right with me.

The season isn't two games long. We can't afford to carry a player that only decides to turn up twice a season. If he played like that in 75% of the games last season, bigger clubs would be looking to buy him. As it stands, a Championship club want him - he's a yoyo player. Too good for the Championship (in the right side) and not good enough to be consistent in the PL.

That said, I would have liked to see him under Potter and to see if his man management would have benefited Knocky.

 

[OzMike]

He is being judged on playing 2 Premier League seasons the ultra defensive CH way, we should have at least seen one season under Potter to see what would happen.
He would have still been young enough for us to cash in on.

 

[Davemania]

Well. We don't really know why he's gone. We don't know what division we'll be in or what division Fulham will be in. We don't know what the transfer fee is. So we can't really form a reliable judgement on this can we

I'd retain him, but I'd have never let him go in the first place

Same here, I think it's a mistake to let him go

 

[SollysLeftFoot]

Surely this is a premature poll and we need to wait until after the transfer window?