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Erm, we did sign Cork. It is just that, once again, he declined a new contract.

Totally agree. And yes, it would have been great if he had decided to stay, but he didn't.

Oh dear, you just don't get it do you. He was offered a new contract and he decided to leave. No disgrace to admit that Caped Crusader.

Yet now Wanyama is wanted by the big clubs and Cork ends up at Swansea. Go figure.

Bloody hell, he has gone? Does it really matter anymore? Time to move on

Perhaps the management weren't that bothered about losing him but Poch didn't see him as a shoe in for that position either did he? If he wasn't going to get a regular game I don't blame him for moving on. I don't blame the management for not seeing him as first choice either.

So what you are saying is that Jack Cork threw his toys out of the pram and left just because we didn't offer him a contract earlier? If he really wanted to stay do you think that would have bothered him? According to LLP we offered him a decent contract. It was his choice to leave. There has been plenty of flak aimed at other (and better) players who wanted to leave but for some reason Jack Cork is being offered up as a martyr and is being used as a stick to beat the management. His choice.

Actually thinking back I don't recall Jack Cork saying anything at all about his contract. I do recall his Dad having a lot to say on Twitter though.

No I haven't. It doesn't alter the fact that he was offered a new contract (a very good one you say) and he chose not to sign. So we didn't sell him. He decided to leave. Even without his massive talent we still managed to scrap the best Premiership finish we ever had. Would he had been first choice this year when Morgan left? Debatable as we signed Vic when Cork was well and truly under contract so it is very possible that we would still have signed another DM. I really don't see the problem here. A new manager wants time to make up his mind about a player who is not first choice in his position at the club. he does make up his mind and a new and better contract is offered. If Jack Cork had signed he would still be here.

That is not it at all. The problem is that some people still cant accept that he made the choice to move on and they try and find reasons to have a go at the club. There is absolutely zero evidence to say that he would have accepted on offer if it had come earlier. An offer was made and he rejected it. Perhaps it was a rubbish offer, perhaps he wanted first team football. None of us know what his motive was to move on. Given that he wasn't a regular first team player it is not unreasonable that he moved to get first team football, although he has started on the bench for Swansea a few times. He has gone, why still fret over him?

That is possible but why offer him a contract if we didn't want to keep him? The simple fact is that for whatever reason he refused the new contract and decided to move on. We didn't sell him. Also two different managers seemed to see him as back up rather than as an automatic starter. Anyway, he has left, as have many others so we have different players to support now.

I am not rewriting history. If he was so good why buy Vic? It seems clear to me that he was thought of as a usual back up.

How do you know? He wasn't a regular and he wanted first team football. I bet he would have gone. Why aren't you missing Puncheon too? He is scoring plenty of goals and getting assists for Palace.

Fonte was a regular, Jack Cork wasn't.

It took years for drink driving to become socially unacceptable and although it still happens it is nowhere as widespread as it used to be. I still see plenty of people driving whist on their mobiles and it will take more time (and deaths) before that becomes socially unacceptable. This will be the same but there will come a time when we say that we cant believe that people ever smoked in the car.

He may have been a donkey, but he was a very successful donkey!

He didn't sign a new contract so was free to move on, which is what he did. He was offered a new contract so it is not as if the club were looking to get shot of him.

Not sure what that has to do with anything. Pahars was accused of malingering and being a "sick note" too by some.

Breaks normally heal quicker and stronger than soft tissue injuries -mind you, this was a particularly nasty break.

That's gotta hurt!

He may have been a disappointment, but to call the bloke a malingerer is harsh. Players cant help getting injured and I am sure the medical team would know better than us if he is faking it. I hope he gets a good move and does well were ever he ends up.

So not so defensive as some have been saying then?

Probably because he is starting more games now. Nice to see the move might had paid off for him.

Doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to label someone injury prone at the start of their career. If he hadn't of had this accident then he could have gone injury free for years.