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

[portlock seagull]

So what? We just had to deal with it. Loads of clubs have and have had 'enforcers'. They're a legend if they're on your team, my memory isn't good enough but I bet we've had a few in the past who we liked not because of their silky skills but because they ruffled the opposition. Sometimes they go too far, but most of the time they do their job. If they didn't, they wouldn't be there.

I'm as gutted as anyone for O'Riley and what we're going to miss. I just think lots of comments on this thread are a massive overreaction and are forgetting what lower league football is like sometimes.

Precisely. Shit happens to every club including ours.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Really?

What about the part that says O'Riley's injury does not have 'much to do with Williams'

That didn’t take long!

 

[pb21]

It's a tackle...

 

[A1X]

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Here is just a small sample. On our club Twitter https://x.com/crawleytown/status/1828561255344283928 and on their forum https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/threads/crawley.409400/ They were o

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If Brighton fans really have been sending death threats then FFS, it’s football at the end of the day and if people really want to start doing that then they’re c**ts

 

[Clive Walker]

Yellow cards are given out for different reasons. Moises never goes in like Williams did. And he didn't get even a yellow for it.

as i was told that the number of yellow cards he receives should tell me something. But it doesn't!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Such a bunch of babies on here. Get over it, it's football, it's gutting but these things happen. It's nothing to do with Crawley as a club, a town, or really all that much to do with Williams. Just one of those crappy things that happen from time to time. We've been on the receiving end and we've had players dishing it out in the past.

Yeah I agree with this.

It was a bad challenge (they happen), The ref should have sent him off , but that wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome of the game.

But..

Our fans do have the right to be pissed off that we are deprived of a new signing, for the next few months, because of a seriously misjudged challenge.

 

[Clive Walker]

Yellow cards are given out for different reasons. Moises never goes in like Williams did. And he didn't get even a yellow for it.

Oh he bloody well does! We loved him for it!

 

[SeagullinExile]

Oh he bloody well does! We loved him for it!

Yep. Should of been sent off in the League Cup final last season.

 

[Clive Walker]

Yeah I agree with this.

It was a bad challenge (they happen), The ref should have sent him off , but that wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome of the game.

But..

Our fans do have the right to be pissed off that we are deprived of a new signing, for the next few months, because of a seriously misjudged challenge.

be a bit pissed off but some of the comments on here sound like its the first time its ever happened or its the first time they've seen football.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Yellow cards are given out for different reasons. Moises never goes in like Williams did. And he didn't get even a yellow for it.

Remember when he actively targeted Martinelli as a retaliation for an earlier tackle on Mitoma. Took him out the game.



But sure. We only had angels in our team..

 

[Han Solo]

If Brighton fans really have been sending death threats then FFS, it’s football at the end of the day and if people really want to start doing that then they’re c**ts

"Brighton fans" sounds like there's some sort of particular human phenotype that has gathered to support the team. Same as when we say Leeds or Chelsea fans are wankers... when in reality, there's thousands and thousands of different individuals in any group of supporters. Easily forgotten but important to remember in situations like this - hopefully most Crawley fans understand that most Brighton fans are never going to send death threats to anyone.

 

[Forster's Armband]

Such a bunch of babies on here. Get over it, it's football, it's gutting but these things happen. It's nothing to do with Crawley as a club, a town, or really all that much to do with Williams. Just one of those crappy things that happen from time to time. We've been on the receiving end and we've had players dishing it out in the past.

I agree there is no need to have a pop at the club or the town but Williams deserves to be focused on. That wasn't just a late challenge it was reckless and endangered the opponent. He wasn't even booked (refs fault) and then proceeded to pull, kick push and wrestle any Albion player that got near him. Then when a player dared to go down he would get in their face as if they were faking it. He goes on to play for the foreseeable while MOR is in the bloody hospital.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

be a bit pissed off but some of the comments on here sound like its the first time its ever happened or its the first time they've seen football.

But that's because this is a football forum.
The stuff I shout out at a game, doesn't bear any relation to reasoned argument and is ALWAYS disproportionate to my true feelings on whatever, I am reacting to.

Williams was clearly "putting down a marker" and massively overdid it. Probably because he's not very good, more than intent to injure.
I would hope he will apologise for it as a professional courtesy, but if he doesn't, it will matter very little.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's a tackle. He a tackling midfielder whose job it was to disrupt us. I don't think his job was to seriously injure one of our players, he just got that wrong. He did it, but that doesn't in my view justify the meltdown on here about him as a player and his character. It's just a tackle that went wrong.

Two footed and reckless. It wasn't a coming together, or even an attempt to get the ball which was over 10 yards away by then.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Surgery... What have i missed?

Announced by Johnny Cantor after the presser this morning.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Oh he bloody well does! We loved him for it!

Nah, I hated him doing that. Although I can't remember seeing such a bad tackle by him. I remember a number of people unhappy when he 'put the boot in'.

 

[lost in london]

I'll start. It's definitely to do with Williams

My point was that it could have been any other lower league midfield 'hard man' whose job it is to get in the face of premier league opposition and knock them out of their stride. I bet our managers have given dozens of players in the past instructions to do just the same thing.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Two footed and reckless. It wasn't a coming together, or even an attempt to get the ball which was over 10 yards away by then.

If that's 10 yards then I need you tell my wife what 6 inches is.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Shit tackle, worse refereeing.

 

[London Irish]

"Brighton fans" sounds like there's some sort of particular human phenotype that has gathered to support the team. Same as when we say Leeds or Chelsea fans are wankers... when in reality, there's thousands and thousands of different individuals in any group of supporters. Easily forgotten but important to remember in situations like this - hopefully most Crawley fans understand that most Brighton fans are never going to send death threats to anyone.

And it definitely works the other way round. Highlighting callous posts by a few beered up Crawley fans against O’Riley and then painting them as all like this is equally wrong as saying we are all sending death threats. We have reached that stage where the worst elements in both fan bases are feeding off each other and are in danger of sucking the rest of us in. Let’s get some perspective, hope O’Riley recovers quickly from his op and then move on