[Albion] will Baldock ever play for the club again ?

[Spicy]

I really rate Sam as he has a lot to offer both in terms of ability and speed. We are not scoring goals so we need to try someone different - even the pundits are commenting on the fact that we do not have a Plan B. Perhaps therefore Sam should be our plan B - he is never going to get match fit sitting on the bench week in week out.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Watching the ‘We’re on our way’ dvd and Baldock was on fire at the beginning of last season and we desperately missed him at the end of the campaign. I find it completely bizarre that he’s not featured, especially as we lack pace up front.

 

[AZ Gull]

He is an ideal sub. He should be coming on when centre backs are tired.

I really don't think he would make an effective partner for Shane Duffy or Lewis Dunk.

 

[Stat Brother]

He is an ideal sub. He should be coming on when centre backs are tired.

That explains the lack of game time then.
When was the last time we forced any centre backs to perspire let alone tired enough for nap time?

 

[1066familyman]

I’ve been a big fan of the lad. I can only assume that he is on the bench to show prospective clubs that he is fit and valued as CH seems to have no intention of bringing him on ahead of Murray, Hemed, Groß or Brown.

Therefore, we must sell. Based on his performance last year (best 2nd striker in the league by a distance), we’d be getting £7m+ from overspending Championship sides like Norwich, Massive, Leeds, Boro or Derby. That should offset (a little) the cost of our new U23 superstar striker and Andone.

Like Stockdale, he’ll be remembered as a hero of our promotion year with some quite fantastic goals and always 10/10 for effort and running. All the best to him. I just wish I’d been able to see him perform in the Premier League for us.


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Where are you getting that info from?

Is it another made up stat like the one where we never lose when Baldock is playing?

 

[fleet]

No idea why he didn’t come on instead of Gross yesterday. Ok Gross scores for us, but a forward with pace would have caused them issues

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Following him not playing for the club this season.been on the bench 3 times now without getting on.

CH is too much of a straight dealing football man to put SB on the bench if he had no intention of ever playing him again.

 

[BensGrandad]

CH is too much of a straight dealing football man to put SB on the bench if he had no intention of ever playing him again.

You would have thought that but money talks and if told to do it plus having very little alternative and not weakening the bench who knows what happens.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

A mate met him on his Xmas work do, apparently he said the gaffer don't like me..

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[BensGrandad]

A mate met him on his Xmas word do, apparently he said the gaffer don't like me..

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That seems like the case.

 

[Glenvictoria]

We have been crying out for him all season. We need two strikers that can run at defences. Muzza seems to want the ball placed at his feet and unfortunately as I rate him Hemed isn’t premier league. Is the Dembele deal gonna happen?

 

[chaileyjem]

A mate met him on his Xmas work do, apparently he said the gaffer don't like me..

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Even If this is true and its clearly hearsay then it doesn't make sense.
He's been, when fit, a first choice for Hughton in the last 3 years and was vital last year in the promotion push and Hughton picked him 31 times. .
He was , presumably at Hughton's nod, given an expensive and brand new contract just months ago and he's been slowly (like Kayal who has only just started to appear again) nursed back to match fitness via the u21s and now the bench.

 

[1066familyman]

Even If this is true and its clearly hearsay then it doesn't make sense.
He's been, when fit, a first choice for Hughton in the last 3 years and was vital last year in the promotion push and Hughton picked him 31 times. .
He was , presumably at Hughton's nod, given an expensive and brand new contract just months ago and he's been slowly (like Kayal who has only just started to appear again) nursed back to match fitness via the u21s and now the bench.

All of this.

All the evidence clearly points to CH liking Baldock. Whether a fit Baldock would be first pick in this division remains to be seen, but any suggestion the gaffer doesn't like him couldn't be further from the truth.

 

[chaileyjem]

You would have thought that but money talks and if told to do it plus having very little alternative and not weakening the bench who knows what happens.

I get the impression that if Hughton was told who he had to pick or put on the bench he'd tell Bloom to do one.

 

[chaileyjem]

Its the NSC rule. Players can never be dropped, not play or not be in the squad for merely tactical or football reasons.
Its impossible. There must be , usually confirmed by a sauce of course, some alternative more exciting reason that , the manager and the club are doing their best to cover up. (fallen out with x , y or z, hidden injury, being protected from a new injury, on their "way out", sulking, affairs, discipline reasons, fisticuffs in training is a good one, career is over, being sold etc etc - fill yer boots)

 

[HantsSeagull]

can't see anyone buying him with his injury record and not having played since the last one. if they want to sell him, they will have to start playing him.

 

[BensGrandad]

I get the impression that if Hughton was told who he had to pick or put on the bench he'd tell Bloom to do one.[/QUOTE

I would agree in principal but I wonder if he would if it made logical sense and he knew a sale was imminent depending on him not being injured and then CH to have more funds to replace him.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Any talk of Hughton not liking him is total rubbish. The easiest thing in the world would have been to bin him off after his pathetic first season with us, and then totally ordinary second season where his lack of goals cost us the title (how many games did he play in the first half of the season, and how many goals did he score? Any?), let alone promotion. He was bang average in a very strong team last season and scored a fair number of goals, for the first time in his Albion career, and was generously given a new contract in the summer. He is being overrated in the hideous extreme on this thread and based on absolutely nothing at all. He would be useless at this level, absolutely useless and he's extremely privileged to be sitting on the bench watching the talented players playing the game.

He isn't fit to clean Gross' boots, so any suggestion that Gross coming on was a mistake is hilarious. That said though, some people still don't realise just how good Pascal actually is, so there's no helping some people. Probably the same people who think Bong is better than Suttner, just totally beyond belief.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I’ve been a big fan of the lad. I can only assume that he is on the bench to show prospective clubs that he is fit and valued as CH seems to have no intention of bringing him on ahead of Murray, Hemed, Groß or Brown.

Therefore, we must sell. Based on his performance last year (best 2nd striker in the league by a distance), we’d be getting £7m+ from overspending Championship sides like Norwich, Massive, Leeds, Boro or Derby. That should offset (a little) the cost of our new U23 superstar striker and Andone.

Like Stockdale, he’ll be remembered as a hero of our promotion year with some quite fantastic goals and always 10/10 for effort and running. All the best to him. I just wish I’d been able to see him perform in the Premier League for us.


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Blimey...a player who is injury prone and can't even get on when we are not playing well and losing?

We will be lucky to get a fee, let alone a million.

 

[GT49er]

He isn't fit to clean Gross' boots, so any suggestion that Gross coming on was a mistake is hilarious. That said though, some people still don't realise just how good Pascal actually is, so there's no helping some people. Probably the same people who think Bong is better than Suttner, just totally beyond belief.

Yes, of course, we all missed seeing it, didn't we? Gross changed the game for us yesterday, didn't he?

(Yes, Gross is a good player, one of our best. That doesn't negate the potential desirability of Baldock coming on and offering some sort of Plan B with his speed, rather than just an un-inspiring like-for-like substitution).