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AJ has support from his family, team mates, and fans, he has been training at home, and even when this is all over, he will still get grief from opposing fans, he will of had a word with the new gaffer by now, hope he starts against west ham...
 

Howard the Duck said:
I'd say start him or leave it. Having him on the bench means he'll be close to the crowd for the majority of the game and then if he's brought on any reaction to him will be magnified compared to if he's able to keep his head down in the starting line up in my opinion.
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Yeah didn't think about that. As you've said (and proven my point wrong!), he'll get shit tons of abuse if brought on as a sub.
 
steve buscemi eyes said:
Yeah didn't think about that. As you've said (and proven my point wrong!), he'll get shit tons of abuse if brought on as a sub.
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In my opinion in reality there'll probably be a few chants, boos when his name's read out (mainly drained out by cheers from the Sunderland fans), boos for his first few touches then forgotten about.....

...until he scores his third then he'll get dog's abuse.
 
Howard the Duck said:
I'd say start him or leave it. Having him on the bench means he'll be close to the crowd for the majority of the game and then if he's brought on any reaction to him will be magnified compared to if he's able to keep his head down in the starting line up in my opinion.
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See post #44 ;)
 
The way I see it is the clubs legal people will have advised on the suspension. With that in mind they must be pretty confident that he is innocent. So if he has done nothing wrong he has nothing to hide. However, that won't stop the media circus, which something we could do without. If he plays we'll get slated, if he doesn't then people will ask then why was he brought back. So, if he's fit and head strong enough he might as well play.
 
Kid Galahad said:
He'd be better off on the pitch than sitting on the bench at an away game imo, at least on the pitch you are a bit further away from the away fans and concentrating on the game you're involved in, he'd be a sitting duck in the dugout.
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Yeah I suppose, I guess it's all down if he can block it out, it can only work two ways, he could crumble or it could spur him on!
 
jamesmcsafc said:
Yeah I suppose, I guess it's all down if he can block it out, it can only work two ways, he could crumble or it could spur him on!
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What does his past performance indicate about mental strength?

Not good imho. Far more likely to crumble than thrive.
 
Botchie said:
The way I see it is the clubs legal people will have advised on the suspension. With that in mind they must be pretty confident that he is innocent. So if he has done nothing wrong he has nothing to hide. However, that won't stop the media circus, which something we could do without. If he plays we'll get slated, if he doesn't then people will ask then why was he brought back. So, if he's fit and head strong enough he might as well play.
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Pressure from the PFA rather than a belief from the club about anything.
 
Botchie said:
The way I see it is the clubs legal people will have advised on the suspension. With that in mind they must be pretty confident that he is innocent. So if he has done nothing wrong he has nothing to hide. However, that won't stop the media circus, which something we could do without. If he plays we'll get slated, if he doesn't then people will ask then why was he brought back. So, if he's fit and head strong enough he might as well play.
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The club can't suspend him indefinitely mate. 2 weeks is all that's allowed in his contract. At the end of that its turn up for work or cancel the contract. So he's turning up at work. He won't play.
 
MightyMackem said:
I'd leave him out this weekend, a full ground of west ham bellends giving him stick might do too much damage for his first game back. I would include him in the scum game for sure though, any shite they dribble out can be drown out by our support like we did against Villa. I know our away support is 1st class and would back him anyways, just think an away game where he's gonna get mauled by the fans a bit much
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The quicker he gets back the better
 
beam1234 said:
The club can't suspend him indefinitely mate. 2 weeks is all that's allowed in his contract. At the end of that its turn up for work or cancel the contract. So he's turning up at work. He won't play.
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Sounds about right to me. You would think they would say something along the lines of "returned to training but isn't available for selection" Not clued up on the ins and outs of these things.
 
Botchie said:
Sounds about right to me. You would think they would say something along the lines of "returned to training but isn't available for selection" Not clued up on the ins and outs of these things.
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Thats probably as Dick has insisted he is.
 
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