: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:39 pm
G1 wrote:
I can sympathise with GH's sentiment but his statement was clumsily worded and, in reality, shouldn't have been made.
Adey, given what has transpired since do you still agree with Hood that the "signing" of Bird was a "triumph"?
"still"? Not sure I ever put my name to that description of it?
Its becoming too hypothetical now, that's the trouble.
IF he had received his Visa, IF he had already turned round our fortunes early doors, IF it transpires he wins his appeal and/or escapes a custodial sentence and is free to leave Oz (is that speculation
sub judice?) so he was able to continue playing good footy with little interruption, then its quite probable most of the fans might well agree it was. After all, in a not-that-dissimilar situation with Leon Pryce, most Saints fans would regard his signing from Bradford as still being a "triumph", I'd suggest?
If.
Conversely, had he joined, played crap, and it transpires he is not allowed to leave Oz or maybe gets sent down, then most fans would no doubt see it as a bloody great bollox-up, I'd suggest?
But we were never able to go through with the signing, so the question is pretty academic now anyway, sadly.
