TRUE BELIEVER
Vital Football Hero
I for one am not blaming Fox, i'm blaming the clown that signed him, didn't clown know he was injury prone? Everyone else did!
Fox won't be arsed how much stick he gets, he'll still pick up a decent weekly wedge for fucking about on the treatment table!
We all knew Powell was injury prone but that didn't stop us bringing him back.
Sometimes you have to take a chance with players, if Fox had not picked up these injuries he would have no doubt been a decent asset. Given that we are not the blessed with a massive budget we have to look in the bargain bucket for signings.
Over his career Fox has shown that he has the skill required to compete at this level, and that was the gamble. He came in last season and steadied a back four that was creaking and looking likely to break, he filled in at left back which was a problem position for us at that time and enabled us to stay in the championship. Had we not signed him we may have already been playing League One football now.
As I said, it was a risk, one that brought short term benefits and unfortunately long term losses. You can lay the blame at the feet of Cook or you can take the view that his signing was a factor in us remaining in the championship and served its purpose, it all depends on which side of the Cook Out argument you subscribe to.