Gary Madine

Not quite sure what's going on here but to me there appears more to this than meets the eye.

Fall out with the management team? Contract bonus or extension kicks in if he plays so many games or scores so many goals so is being held back to make sure it doesn't happen?

I'm not sure but for me a "slight groin problem" doesn't last this long, I've seen players with broken legs recover quicker.
 
Raging_Bull said:
Not quite sure what's going on here but to me there appears more to this than meets the eye.

Fall out with the management team? Contract bonus or extension kicks in if he plays so many games or scores so many goals so is being held back to make sure it doesn't happen?

I'm not sure but for me a "slight groin problem" doesn't last this long, I've seen players with broken legs recover quicker.
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Something just not right.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Agree with Bull on this one.

Said a while ago we wouldn’t be seeing him again this season much more to the fact he’s injured.

To me no news coming out of Bloomfield road means all is not well.
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Whereas I would normally say there's more to this than we know, the fact some-one posted the clip of him congratulating the players as they came off the pitch after the Sunderland win suggests otherwise. If there'd been a fall out with the management team, i would have thought he wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the team on a match day.
 
20togo said:
Whereas I would normally say there's more to this than we know, the fact some-one posted the clip of him congratulating the players as they came off the pitch after the Sunderland win suggests otherwise. If there'd been a fall out with the management team, i would have thought he wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the team on a match day.
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I didn’t see that video but still I wouldn’t have changed my views, if he’s fit why isn’t he playing? Season is over in 4 games?

I’am not suggesting he’s fallen out with anyone I’am just saying it’s hard to except he’s still injured.

All we've have out of Bloomfield road (6 weeks ago?) is it’s a nagging groin injury, as Bull says you could break a leg and return quicker just can’t help thinking more to it than being injured that’s all.
 
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Sometimes these little injuries don’t heal as expected. That’s just life. He’s been in and around the squad, there’s been videos of him training and with the team on match days and other players (Chris Maxwell) have even talked about him in club interviews. If he was some sort of parriah I doubt any of that would be true. Scrafton even confirmed he’s injured and these rumours were false.
If the club had to come out and correct every rumour on AVFTT that was wrong they’d never have time for anything else.
I trust the physios and sports scientist and coaches who’ve dedicated a career to the sport rather than someone on a forum saying ‘nah, he should be fine, I stubbed a toe once and played footy that afternoon’.
He’s a pro athlete and his fitness is his career and worth literally hundreds of thousands of pounds (if not more).
He’ll only play when he and the club are ready and that’s fair enough.
 
Wonder if the big reduction in the price of "Madine Goal Machine" t- shirt to £3 at the club shop is an indicator of his future with the club. That said there won't be many buyers at the original price as the machine has been turned off for what seems an age now.
 
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