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Rafferty

sports rehab said:
it means he put the needs of the team before anything else......personally Fisher should have switched as he had more experience then but he didnt.
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Are you suggesting Fisher or Rafferty had some element of choice in the matter?
 
Haha been an interesting thread tbf

But with Rafferty you have to be able to separate out his lack of ability at championship level and how he represented Preston North End through his attitude and behaviour.

He's not that good at championship level there's no denying it. But imo he always gave his all and when you look at a lot of the underachieving dross in our squad Rafferty is never part of that group, just his ceiling is probs league 1.

Its pne that signed him, he did his job to the best of his ability always imo

Remember that og after about 10secs though 😂 home to Birmingham?
Fucking hell fire
 
California_PNE said:
Haha been an interesting thread tbf

But with Rafferty you have to be able to separate out his lack of ability at championship level and how he represented Preston North End through his attitude and behaviour.

He's not that good at championship level there's no denying it. But imo he always gave his all and when you look at a lot of the underachieving dross in our squad Rafferty is never part of that group, just his ceiling is probs league 1.

Its pne that signed him, he did his job to the best of his ability always imo

Remember that og after about 10secs though 😂 home to Birmingham?
Fucking hell fire
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Home to Rotherham
 
No need at all for some of the harsh comments.

He never gave anything less than 100% but he wasn't up to the level so we have released him at the end of his contract. Its football.

All the best to him, he'll get a club in League 1 100%.

The major plus we should all be focusing on is the fact we didn't reward him a new 2 year deal because he never actually let anyone down. Lowe and his staff want better than Joe Rafferty, I bet if McAvoy was still here and Ridsdale was chief recruitment officer he'd have been given a new contract.
 
Damp Squib said:
Thats certainly possible - equally, we could have given a chance to someone like we have with Earl and it backfires. It’s academic now anyway, he’s gone and hopefully we stop fucking about and employ wing backs.
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At least there was a chance of Earl developing with more game time- Rafferty was never going to get better. That's the whole problem. If we have to gamble on players, lets gamble on them having some upside. Fact is, both Earl and Rafferty have been largely not good enough- the difference in their standard of performance is negligible.
 
NG White said:
No need at all for some of the harsh comments.

He never gave anything less than 100% but he wasn't up to the level so we have released him at the end of his contract. Its football.

All the best to him, he'll get a club in League 1 100%.

The major plus we should all be focusing on is the fact we didn't reward him a new 2 year deal because he never actually let anyone down. Lowe and his staff want better than Joe Rafferty, I bet if McAvoy was still here and Ridsdale was chief recruitment officer he'd have been given a new contract.
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Didn't Frankie leave him out of the registered squad?
 
sports rehab said:
it means he put the needs of the team before anything else......personally Fisher should have switched as he had more experience then but he didnt.
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Laughable this. It’s Fisher’s fault that the manager preferred to use Rafferty at LB?

Players play where managers tell them to play. Rafferty was clearly used there to hide/minimise his weaknesses and keeping Fisher at RB clearly made sense, might as well use the stronger player in their natural position.
 
Rafu had that spell at left back where expectations were so low that he was perceived to be overachieving
When he played right back his lack of quality came to the fore.
But never a lack of effort
Will get a decent gigg top half of league 1 I suspect
Good luck to him

Incidentally what on earth has happened to Darnell at boro?
 
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