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To be honest I respect Foulds for making the decision. It's clear as day Foulds ain't gonna get a game as long as the new lad is fit so for me he's made the right decision.

 

Think that’s a bit harsh.

you know as a player if the manager likes you and maybe Hughes has been chirping up at him for a while and this has been on the cards.

players wanna play end of the day - fair play to him not being content to rot on the bench.

its a good move for him - close by, he has a young family, and the commute is doable.

i hope it works out for him and are a little disappointed we’ve moved him on to replace him by a 24 yo who has started only 12 games or something in his entire career. Is that really an upgrade on Foulds?

 

It can’t have been easy for him as I know how much he loves the club. However, he’s done his time warming benches - including biding his time last year when Ridehalgh was in good form. I don't think he’s a bottler as you/Hughes are implying. I think he knows his limits, will know Hughes is wanting more from him offensively, and he is probably just being honest with himself and acknowledging his own limitations- he isn’t a marauding Uhlembeek/Meredith-type fullback, so he’s moved elsewhere, probably to a club with the expectation of him as a fullback is mainly to defend? He’s defensively very solid and good enough for this level, for sure.

In our system we need width from fullbacks but other teams might not?

He was a CB at Bury/Everton I think. Being asked to bomb on at LB probably isn’t what he ideally wants - but guess he’s been happy just to get gametime even if its at LB, after a frustrating spell in Como previously, especially with it being at his hometown club.

 

Oh I’m sure he’ll play , however that type of attitude from a pro footballer is poor imho. No wonder Hughes didn’t want someone around the place in a sulk?

 

This claim he has a bad attitude is unfair. Based on unsubstantiated crap/Karl’s post. All Hughes said is that he thought he’d stay and fight for his place.

How do you know, though, if he actually disliked Hughes/wasnt happy with the system/wanted a move to play CB elsewhere/thought his place was under threat anyway???

……..Nobody but the player truly knows, yet fans are jumping to lazy conclusions. you’d expect Hughes to say he wanted him to stay as it gives him more depth and options in two positions.

 

Yes. But if you lack balls, you lack balls.

 

We've sort of neglected our full back positions.

I don't mind Halliday, but these lads we've been playing are all pretty ordinary - Ridehalgh, Halliday, Foulds, Hendrie... none of them bring anything 'special'.

Considering how much PL teams rely on marauding full backs (I know, I know, it's L2 not the PL), I'm kind of surprised it wasn't sorted at the beginning of the season.

Hopefully Boli makes a difference.

 

Sounds like it's Foulds decision to go though. Also, we're hearing that Ridehalgh is fit again so perhaps MF might even have been 3rd choice in a few weeks or so?

 

Better tell the OP, not me.

 

On that performance I prefer Foulds....but then I am a bit old fashioned.... I think a full backs most important work happens in our half

 

We are in L2. I want a full back who puts the opposition winger into the second row of the stand

 

I find this comment from Hughes a little concerning as most fans would have thought the situation were in (trying to get promotion) we wouldn't bring players in who were not up to speed as they say especially a two lads who are returning from long injuries : “Liam hasn’t had a lot of training with the group as yet. Tolaji is probably a little bit ahead in terms of fitness and game time.

 

Our present manager is a big concern for me, after reading his comments in the T&A regarding Foulds. I bet that dressing room's a bundle of joy at the moment .

 

Som times journalists can be guilty or misrepresenting what someone says and the context of it, it's the only explanation I can come up with after reading Hughes 'comments' in the T and A regarding Foulds. Because the comments don't make any logical sense and the wording contradicts itself. I'd have preferred it if he had just said he wanted a left back with different attributes, cos it's clear after Foulds has been a starter all season that Hughes doesn't see him as his starting left back. Just be honest with players.

 

it just doesn't seem to make sense which is why I thought there might be more too it

 

Don't know if you were there but the Rochdale match wasn't ideal for pinpoint crossing - in the lower kop we noticed that flags were blowing in different directions

 

I've heard they are bringing back Jon Stead for the occasion.

 

Beat me too it, and not for the first time.