Why did so many players drop standard after Gus

[Thunder Bolt]

300 games for Brighton mostly in lower leagues. Moved to Bristol but quickly dropped. Farmed out to lower league Bury. Farmed out to lower league Swindon.
A handful of games for the mighty Egypt don't really change the picture of a player only really comfortable in lower divisions with shorter periods between each move as his career progresses.
Adam is a lovely guy and there is so much to admire about his attitude but yup, I think journeyman is a reasonable summation.

He was dropped at Bristol because he fell out with Cotterill. He hasn't been able to get his career back on track after that. 2 clubs for a 32 year old isn't a journeyman.

 

[pishhead]

300 games for Brighton mostly in lower leagues. Moved to Bristol but quickly dropped. Farmed out to lower league Bury. Farmed out to lower league Swindon.
A handful of games for the mighty Egypt don't really change the picture of a player only really comfortable in lower divisions with shorter periods between each move as his career progresses.
Adam is a lovely guy and there is so much to admire about his attitude but yup, I think journeyman is a reasonable summation.

You know what a journeyman typically means in footballing terms right?

 

[severnside gull]

You know what a journeyman typically means in footballing terms right?

He played his entire career at ONE club until the age of around 30! That is the complete opposite of a journeyman.

This thread is about players' career paths AFTER leaving Albion. Since he left us Adam has trolled around between three clubs and there'll be another one next season and it won't be playing at a higher level. Journeyman by your definitions

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

I think the lower league player put up with his Gus' EGO because they respected him as being a great player and accepted him as having a higher standing in the game than themselves. Once he moved up the leagues he was then dealing with players who has as high a standing in the game as he had as a player.

That then becomes a different ball game because they don't tend to put up with EGOS because their own EGOS are just as big. If not bigger

Tis true.

 

[pishhead]

This thread is about players' career paths AFTER leaving Albion. Since he left us Adam has trolled around between three clubs and there'll be another one next season and it won't be playing at a higher level. Journeyman by your definitions

Well we differ in our definition of Journeyman then. Going on loan to find first team football doesn't constitute being a journeyman. Continually bouncing from club to club continually on one year deals is a journeyman in my eyes.