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Erm....

 

http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/8766350.Bombshell_for_Rooks_as_Wright_retires/

 

Bombshell for Rooks as Wright retires

 

10:00am Monday 3rd January 2011

 

LEWES boss Tim O’Shea will urgently seek replacements after losing a key member of his squad.

Jermaine Wright told O’Shea on Friday he was retiring from football for family reasons.

http://therooks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=lewesfc&action=display&thread=5549

"I think we have already missed jermaine wrights ability to retain possesion in centre midfield.Yes his mobility was not what it once was but his touch was still there and he was a good talker.No coincidence that the 5 games he started we took 7 points from 15.Lets be honest for a guy with such a good league history if he was still 100% its unlikely he would be with us. "

 

 

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he left us, made 3 appearances for blackpool in one season. Failed to break into the first team at Croydon Athletic and has since made a handful of appearances for Lewes in 4 months.

 

Just think if we'd have got through the play-offs, Burley would have been playing him in the PL!!

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he left us, made 3 appearances for blackpool in one season

 

To be fair, not entirely his fault though....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine_Wright

 

"On 11 July 2008, Wright signed for Blackpool on a one-year deal with the option of a second.[3] He made his debut for the Seasiders on 9 August 2008 in a 1-0 home defeat to Bristol City. However, he suffered an achilles injury in his third league match for the club against Sheffield United on 23 August and a month later he underwent an operation which kept him on the sidelines for more than four months and he never managed to establish himself in the side on his return.[4]"

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For 1 minute I thought he had come back - I still rate him and Makin as the worst players ever signed by SFC in recent history

 

I'd be inclined to agree with you on that; and they're up against some pretty stiff competition. I'd be careful using phrases like "worst player" though. You can't say that anymore, it's very un-PC and some people can get highly offended by it. The correct PC term would be "scapegoat" "whipping boy" or "example of why so many Saints fans are c**ts".

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AHHHHH. I will be starting a job in Beddingham, near Lewes soon. What a small world. I would have popped down and watched him too, and reported back.

 

I was born and bred in Lewes and played a handful of games for them when I was a teenager. Beddingham is not even a hamlet, where are you working then?

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To be fair, not entirely his fault though....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine_Wright

 

"On 11 July 2008, Wright signed for Blackpool on a one-year deal with the option of a second.[3] He made his debut for the Seasiders on 9 August 2008 in a 1-0 home defeat to Bristol City. However, he suffered an achilles injury in his third league match for the club against Sheffield United on 23 August and a month later he underwent an operation which kept him on the sidelines for more than four months and he never managed to establish himself in the side on his return.[4]"

 

Good thing Burley wasn't in charge of Blackpool then, he would have still selected Wright for every game during that time

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Ive got nothing against JW but looking back he was terrible for us in the Championship which tells you something about George Burley's "eye" for a player - I think JW played most of his football under Burley, and it stands as a reminder of how bad a manager he was for us.

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we could with him back...as we are running out of whipping boys

 

What he said.

 

Jermaine was nowhere near as bad as people would have you believe, he played in an unglamourous part of the pitch and his job was to tidy it up and lay it off, a job he did reasonably well. Because he didn't run around as much as Jhon Viafara he got slated while Viafara (who was unmitigated sh1te) was hailed as some sort of hero! despite constantly stitching his midfield partner up by going missing upfield on one of his gangling runs that inevitably came to nothing.

 

That's my view anyway, perhaps not 'bandwagony' enough for most peoples tastes though so I won't be thanked for sharing.

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What he said.

 

Jermaine was nowhere near as bad as people would have you believe, he played in an unglamourous part of the pitch and his job was to tidy it up and lay it off, a job he did reasonably well. Because he didn't run around as much as Jhon Viafara he got slated while Viafara (who was unmitigated sh1te) was hailed as some sort of hero! despite constantly stitching his midfield partner up by going missing upfield on one of his gangling runs that inevitably came to nothing.

 

That's my view anyway, perhaps not 'bandwagony' enough for most peoples tastes though so I won't be thanked for sharing.

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

I've been following Saints too long to be worried about whether players are s**te or not; actually (pre-internet) I still remember some fans slagging off MLT for being lazy, can't tackle, constantly moaning at the ref, etc - I'm sure older readers will have similar tales of woe about all the "greats" ("that CB Fry couldn't jump onto a mantle-piece if you paid him"!)

 

We've had some good teams and some crap teams - it's the nature of football - Jermaine was a Saints player and so is "one of us". I'd buy him a beer and thank him for his service...

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AHHHHH. I will be starting a job in Beddingham, near Lewes soon. What a small world. I would have popped down and watched him too, and reported back.

 

You're not working on the A27 road 'upgrades' are you? The ugliest, least sympathetic and zero effectiveness scheme though a national park Ive ever seen.

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