O'Callaghan is not coming back 4 sure

[Barnham Seagull]

True, but then that is surely down to the nature of our club and our inability to pull up trees in the transfer market.

That's the sum of it! Or the way it's being run, not with regard to being prudent but may be the way we are negotiating with players in this strange brinkmanship manner which belongs in the past and certainly will not help us in attracting players to our club or encouraging our existing players to stay.

 

[NMH]

20+ years actually..and I stand by my comment.

So there you were, watching that useless mob of chancers winning Championships, thinking they were rubbish.

As I said before, the wrong team has you as a 'supporter', obviously.

No, but you are right, even the goalscorer Zamora has proven to be rubbish.
Makes you wonder where your good money went watching that shambles.
I wasted mine on the likes of Ward, Lawrenson etc too, so I SHARE your remorse.

Well, I suppose I never was expecting you to do anything BUT pedal forward with your statements - you're never going to actually admit that you are talking gibberish now, are you.

 

[itszamora]

Admittedly due to other commitments I have been anything but a regular this season, but prior to his comments the other day I genuinely can't remember any negative comments being made about O'Callaghan's footballing ability on this board. Yet three days or so later and two thirds of the people on here insist that he is/was shit and offered nothing to the team. Something doesn't seem to add up here...

 

[cjd]

Admittedly due to other commitments I have been anything but a regular this season, but prior to his comments the other day I genuinely can't remember any negative comments being made about O'Callaghan's footballing ability on this board. Yet three days or so later and two thirds of the people on here insist that he is/was shit and offered nothing to the team. Something doesn't seem to add up here...

Basically, O,Callaghan had a pop at Dick Knight. Therefore, for a number of Dick Knight arse-lickers, that obviously means he goes from being a good player to total trash.

 

[Rowdey]

Admittedly due to other commitments I have been anything but a regular this season, but prior to his comments the other day I genuinely can't remember any negative comments being made about O'Callaghan's footballing ability on this board. Yet three days or so later and two thirds of the people on here insist that he is/was shit and offered nothing to the team. Something doesn't seem to add up here...

I've only seen him twice this season - Gills and Orient, and he certainly didn't rate with me there.

There was a thread started by (can't recall now..) during OC's 2nd/3rd week with us saying along lines of:
He'll look great in 1st game
he'll look ok/unlucky in 2nd game
and by approx 10th game your'll wonder why he's moaning at other players for HIS poor passes, and where his input has gone..

That struck a cord with me.

 

[Ernest]

Basically, O,Callaghan had a pop at Dick Knight. Therefore, for a number of Dick Knight arse-lickers, that obviously means he goes from being a good player to total trash.

Same with Savage he was one of the most POPULAR Albion players ever but now he is more HATED than Kitson

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

That's what I noticed more. He was good at passing sideways and backwards.
I know a lot of people like that sort of play but I didn't.

What about the 35+ yard ball he played to Savage to set up the second goal at Swindon. Worthy of Gerrard!

 

[El Presidente]

Same with Savage he was one of the most POPULAR Albion players ever but now he is more HATED than Kitson

Absolutely, Bas is up there with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Don Shanks, Raphael Meade and Alan Young as fans' favourites.

 

[Ernest]

Absolutely, Bas is up there with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Don Shanks, Raphael Meade and Alan Young as fans' favourites.

Don Shanks was certainly some female Albion fans favourite and I've still got the video

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

What a load of shit on this thread!!!!

I have watched a lot of the games over the last few weeks, home and away, and O'Callaghan has played well, and it's a shame he has left us. Whatever comments were made were probably made to put himself in the public frame, and if he wants to say them, then of course it's a shame, but f*** him.

What is most stupid is the "I know things that you dont know" comments that keep resurfacing. If you know it, either say what it is, or shut up. It's very tiresome!!!

 

[dougdeep]

The lady talks sense.

 

[Beach Hut]

What is most stupid is the "I know things that you dont know" comments that keep resurfacing. If you know it, either say what it is, or shut up. It's very tiresome!!!

Several people follow this mode and it really is incredibly tiresome to say the least. Personally my belief is they know jack shit and it usually shows.

 

[British Bulldog]

What a load of shit on this thread!!!!

I have watched a lot of the games over the last few weeks, home and away, and O'Callaghan has played well, and it's a shame he has left us. Whatever comments were made were probably made to put himself in the public frame, and if he wants to say them, then of course it's a shame, but f*** him.

What is most stupid is the "I know things that you dont know" comments that keep resurfacing. If you know it, either say what it is, or shut up. It's very tiresome!!!

Well said BAG.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I liked him as a player and a presence but he's also clearly a clearly troubled soul whose every misplaced pass seemed to bring him to the edge of nervous breakdown - so if he's trouble, which this interview and other past misdemeanours suggest, then he'll follow Leon "Lemming" Knight onto the scrapheap before we know it. Not sure he's quite as toxic to the dressing room as lil Leon but there's time...

Why is it so difficult for some of the emptier vessels making a fair bit of noise on this thread to grasp that, if a player is thick enough to gob off to the press that he doesn't want to play for a club, that he's unlikely to be any good at doing so? Not THAT difficult to grasp, as concepts go.

 

[itszamora]

I liked him as a player and a presence but he's also clearly a clearly troubled soul whose every misplaced pass seemed to bring him to the edge of nervous breakdown - so if he's trouble, which this interview and other past misdemeanours suggest, then he'll follow Leon "Lemming" Knight onto the scrapheap before we know it. Not sure he's quite as toxic to the dressing room as lil Leon but there's time...

Why is it so difficult for some of the emptier vessels making a fair bit of noise on this thread to grasp that, if a player is thick enough to gob off to the press that he doesn't want to play for a club, that he's unlikely to be any good at doing so? Not THAT difficult to grasp, as concepts go.

You could apply a lot of that to any loan player though - most of them, in fact most footballers period don't have any great love for the club they're playing for and if a chance to better themselves comes along they'll take it. Fact is that playing well helps all parties involved, so quite where you're going with the comments about him not being any good at playing well I'm not sure....

 

[The Oldman]

The Argus today. No surprise then :

O'Callaghan says farewell to Albion
George O'Callaghan has confirmed he will not be returning to Albion.

The Irish midfielder, whose loan expired after yesterday's 2-1 defeat at Yeovil, wants to try his luck back at Ipswich Town.

O'Callaghan missed the Yeovil game.

Albion boss Dean Wilkins was unwilling to discuss contract matters after the game at Huish Park.

O'Callaghan, though, said: "I enjoyed playing regularly at Brighton but I spoke with the gaffer and decided it is right to try again at Ipswich and try to get first team action.

"They are a good bunch of lads at Brighton and I enjoyed playing with them so I hope things work out for them."

Matt Richards, who was also on loan at Albion recently, was an unused sub for Ipswich when they lost 2-1 at Coventry in the Championship yesterday.

9:41am today



By Brian Owen

 

[portlock seagull]

A huge generalisation. There are a lot of young footballers and youth of today who have good attitudes. Paul McShane and our own Dean Hammond for example.
I like the 'youth of today' who work in Tescos and other places. They know their own minds and don't have to just do as they're told like I had to when I was younger.

What absolute rubbish. Work and see the youngsters of today several times a week. It's no HUGE generalisation at all. An arrogance and attitude that stinks is evident in more than a few.

 

[dougdeep]

It's no HUGE generalisation at all. An arrogance and attitude that stinks is evident in more than a few.

I would have sworn this would be a Ben's Grandad post.

 

[portlock seagull]

I would have sworn this would be a Ben's Grandad post.

Is that meant to be funny or factual? Sorry, but don't post on here enough to know if that's a cliquey comment or not. Anyway, back to the thread's topic. For me, OC is a mouthy outsider who's so called love of the Albion has seen him malign the most important man in the club's history whilst disappearing during a crisis. Some hero is George. Sort of hero I'd rather see the end of if that's his contribution

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Is that meant to be funny or factual? Sorry, but don't post on here enough to know if that's a cliquey comment or not. Anyway, back to the thread's topic. For me, OC is a mouthy outsider who's so called love of the Albion has seen him malign the most important man in the club's history whilst disappearing during a crisis. Some hero is George. Sort of hero I'd rather see the end of if that's his contribution

Maybe I need to listen to the interview again, but how exactly did he "malign" Dick Knight?

I do agree it wasn't really any of his business to start talking about unsettled players as an excuse for the Millwall debacle (which is why he brought it up), but all I recall him really saying is something along the lines of "the chairman needs to sort it out". I think thats a general term meaning the chairman/the club/the board rather than a personal attack on Dick Knight.