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Quote:Tomato Soup
Well as said before I am glad he is going to play for Bath. I just hope we can build a pack and keep them fit enough to give him some good fast ball.
Ford is a hot commodity at the moment and Tigers obviously see him as essential for their development.
Freddie is just another casualty of the Mike Ford mess as are the Bath supporters.
Good riddance to Ford. I hope I never see him in a Bath shirt again.
Quote:BathMatt53
I don't want to open the whole thing again but I still don't get why some people hate him so much. He's off, we got a good replacement, all the best - if he helps us win the Euro cup final and finish in the top 4 then that's ideal for everyone.
Quote:Boldngrey
Am I the only one who thinks it will be no great loss of Hastings goes?
Quote:shipwreckedQuote:BathMatt53
I don't want to open the whole thing again but I still don't get why some people hate him so much. He's off, we got a good replacement, all the best - if he helps us win the Euro cup final and finish in the top 4 then that's ideal for everyone.
I'm not sure they do Matt, but there are a couple of posters on this board who are both vociferous and repetitive on the keyboard in the belief that if they shout loud enough they will get their own way, now where have i seen that tactic before?
Quote:Boldngrey
Am I the only one who thinks it will be no great loss if Hastings goes?
Quote:Yes.DanWiley
You feel you've got a good enough handle on his reasons to call them pathetic?
Quote:]DanWiley
"I may very well be wrong, but I've never had a problem with drawing conclusions from the available evidence."
That's fine, but the evidence I see here is pretty scant. It's really doesn't go much beyond:
- His dad was sacked
- His contract allowed him to leave
- He was unhappy enough here to want to do so
- He's gone to a club where it seems he had a positive experience
Where there is little evidence, I do find it hard to draw a firm conclusion. I can't see how anyone can? I also think if you're going around calling people pathetic, you should really be convinced by what you're saying.
There is a natural follow up: what do you know about it that I don't, as i can't see enough there to call someone pathetic.
You're entitled to form an opinion, I feel entitled to at least ask how you formed it.
Quote:Optimist
I wasn't at all convinced by Hastings, but if Ford had made the break and immaculately timed/delayed pop pass to Denton last Saturday, Austin Healey would be preparing an entire episode of the Rugby Club devoted to the positioning of George's shoulders.
Hastings' current problem is that he needs to massively increase his range of kicking out of hand.
Quote:DanWiley
I don't know anything about his mum, just heard vague allusions to her. Does anyone know any more than that?
Quote:Danchinho
I hope Freddie's incredibly peeved about Leicester's treatment of him. So much so that when we play them next season he tears them a new one
Quote:Boldngrey
This tells you all you need to know about George Ford's maturity.
www.bathchronicle.co.uk/daniel-evans-bath-rugby...george-ford.../story.html
Quote:Boldngrey
This tells you all you need to know about George Ford's maturity.
www.bathchronicle.co.uk/daniel-evans-bath-rugby...george-ford.../story.html
Quote:Bathovalballer
Looks as if England might be relying upon flaky Fords kicking if Farrell is not fit. Should be interesting.
Quote:Optimist
Seems the Tigers have gone and signed two Fords - brother Joe from Leeds. I wonder whether he'll be happy to get 2 minutes off the bench now and again!
Quote:Now now Hasta - BoB just said a good thing about someone who A] doesn't play for Exeter; and B] is going to play for Bath.hasta
It was in the Anglo-Welsh cup. Cool your jets.
Quote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
Quote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
Quote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
Quote:Boldngrey
Firstly, Freddie didn’t slip through our fingers. He chose to go so he wasn’t proud to wear the BB&W.
Secondly he wasn’t ‘truly motivated by his 'coming home’. If you read the post[www.rugbynetwork.net] on the Dark Site you will see Leicester just kicked him out. So he’s making the best of a bad job.
Quote:gaz59Quote:Boldngrey
Firstly, Freddie didn’t slip through our fingers. He chose to go so he wasn’t proud to wear the BB&W.
Secondly he wasn’t ‘truly motivated by his 'coming home’. If you read the post[www.rugbynetwork.net] on the Dark Site you will see Leicester just kicked him out. So he’s making the best of a bad job.
That is such a harsh, myopic perception
A more reasoned perspective would read the words
"I am really happy but I would be lying if I said I was happy with how it came about," Burns told BBC Radio Leicester.
"I had a year on my contract. I'm a man of integrity and wanted to see it out."
and come to a very different interpretation - just a suggestion
Quote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
Quote:Ahhh, that classic mix-up of fact vs opinionrecmanQuote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
In which games? It feels like Ford has hardly played for us this season. And I think we've lost most of those he's played in.
Quote:Which TylerQuote:Ahhh, that classic mix-up of fact vs opinionrecmanQuote:OutsideBath
Ford is light years better than Burns and Tigers definitely got the best of this deal.
Whatever way you look at it we will be weaker at 10 for next season.
In which games? It feels like Ford has hardly played for us this season. And I think we've lost most of those he's played in.
Quote:Huxster
No, No and No, see my earlier comment.
Quote:Huxster
No, No and No, see my earlier comment.
Quote:Boldngrey
Joe Ford - BOGOF?
And dad to take care of the management.
Quote:shipwrecked
Wouldn't that be Joe Ford then?
Quote:Big Dog
Don't see why Joe would make this move...
It must be so demoralising to be backup to a backup whilst your brother is first choice at the club and also leading England on a record run of successive victories! It's lucky Leicester play in green if he does join....
Quote:BathMatt53
He would not be playing with him though. Training with him / having lunch with him sure. I think that I would rather play games if I was good enough to be a professional.
Quote:joethefanaticQuote:Big Dog
Don't see why Joe would make this move...
It must be so demoralising to be backup to a backup whilst your brother is first choice at the club and also leading England on a record run of successive victories! It's lucky Leicester play in green if he does join....
Or he might be a mature, well balanced individual, who is realistic about his talents, is happy for his brother's success and delighted to be playing with him at a Premiership club.
Quote:gaz59Quote:joethefanaticQuote:Big Dog
Don't see why Joe would make this move...
It must be so demoralising to be backup to a backup whilst your brother is first choice at the club and also leading England on a record run of successive victories! It's lucky Leicester play in green if he does join....
Or he might be a mature, well balanced individual, who is realistic about his talents, is happy for his brother's success and delighted to be playing with him at a Premiership club.
Joe, you obviously do not have a younger, more successful brother
Quote:joethefanaticQuote:gaz59Quote:joethefanaticQuote:Big Dog
Don't see why Joe would make this move...
It must be so demoralising to be backup to a backup whilst your brother is first choice at the club and also leading England on a record run of successive victories! It's lucky Leicester play in green if he does join....
Or he might be a mature, well balanced individual, who is realistic about his talents, is happy for his brother's success and delighted to be playing with him at a Premiership club.
Joe, you obviously do not have a younger, more successful brother
Oddly enough, at least in rugby terms, I do...
Quote:gaz59Quote:joethefanaticQuote:gaz59Quote:joethefanaticQuote:Big Dog
Don't see why Joe would make this move...
It must be so demoralising to be backup to a backup whilst your brother is first choice at the club and also leading England on a record run of successive victories! It's lucky Leicester play in green if he does join....
Or he might be a mature, well balanced individual, who is realistic about his talents, is happy for his brother's success and delighted to be playing with him at a Premiership club.
Joe, you obviously do not have a younger, more successful brother
Oddly enough, at least in rugby terms, I do...
Lol - so that's where the mature, well balanced individual who is realistic about his talents etc bit comes from - the Fords and the Fanatics should really get together some time
Quote:shipwrecked
Wishful thinking, its on the offy Burns joins Bath
Quote:Stopsy
I believe that was in relation to Harry Thacker, not Freddie.