Gribz 743 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 This is turning out to be another Gow situation. Promising in pre season then all of a sudden we havent seen the guy! Can anyone shed any light on this guy? Does WS not like anymore? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Smith has all but said Velicka is not in his plans. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Smith has all but said Velicka is not in his plans. Why sign the guy and play him about 3 times before judging!!! Another waste of 1 million!!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk 158 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I don't see the point in paying good money for players then not even giving them a chance to prove themselves in an average team. We trust the manager with the transfer money he is given but WS has wasted so much of it and the state we are in is mainly down to him IMO. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascender 352 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 So we paid 1M for this guy, he looked good in pre-season and now he's disappeared from our plans. How on earth can WS justify that kind of waste of money time and time again? The old boys act with SDM and WS looks like getting us in to all sorts of trouble. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nokiss 0 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 If Velicka is not in his plans, then I would like to see him used in a deal for him to go to the jambos and Berra to come to us. The Hearts gaffer has already stated he'd like to have him at tynecastle(albeit on loan). So there might be a deal to be struck there. They get AV and some cash and we get a proven(spl) centre half, who's at a good age and still has plenty of potential to get even better. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juffery 0 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 It's a nonsense, surely he could have figured out he didn't rate him before spending a million quid on him. He managed to score SPL goals for Hearts and I'm still sure he could do the same for us. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I don't see the mystery. Played well for Hearts, scoring some cracking goals. We needed relatively inexpensive back up for the forward roles and Smith liked what he had seen (as had many fans). However, at least in the competitive action, Velicka just has not performed. Some transfers work out, some don't. Obviously the manager carries the can for his gambles (transfers) that don't work out. Particularly at the minute where Smith does not have his troubles to seek. However the point of the thread is why is Velicka not getting a game and the reason is he is not playing well enough t odisplace the first choice players. No big mystery for me. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineflyer 0 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I don't see the mystery. However the point of the thread is why is Velicka not getting a game and the reason is he is not playing well enough t odisplace the first choice players. No big mystery for me. That's one interpretation. For me, the point of the thread might be why Smith has been unwilling to provide this player with the opportunity to show what he can do - while continuing to select others in preference who (other than Boyd) have failed to impress. Why were we starting JCD in preference to Velicka - we already knew JCD was next to useless. It may be that, given his chance, Velicka would have achieved nothing anyway but this looks like yet another example of Smith's knee-jerk transfer dealing. Money spent, money wasted. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Ally 0 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 He maybe deserved a chance ahead of JCD. But the frenchman has not featured that much and would unlikely have affected our league position much, if at all. Still don't see Velicka's non-appearance as much of a big deal. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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