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[blackpoolalty]

Maybe we've given him f**k all and the PFA were in consultation with the club so he could get his full insurance pay out

"An agreement has been made on settling his contract"

Come on Pete!

[Mrs Warbouys]

We won't know without being told, but if the PFA are involved it can only be mediation or checking out his contract and deciding where both parties stand/stood. And an insurance claim may have gone in with PFA from either party

[Mick]

Reality check. What medical checks does a small Conference club have the facilities to do? I imagine 7 and 10 miles up the road they can do on site scans and all sorts of monitoring. Can we or other ordinary Conference clubs do this? Doubt it. A lot will be down to the honesty and integrity of the player and the honesty of the former club.

We could do the same as the big clubs if we could afford to pay for the various consultants and specialists at our local private hospital........but it goes without saying that clubs at our level cannot afford to do this - The costs involved could be more than a years wages anyway so it would not be worth it (bearing in mind we have not paid millions in transfer fees either)

I imagine that all we can do realistically is look at the injury records, check out players on the treatment table, watch closely in the gym and practice games and place a lot of trust in the honesty of those we recruit

[beaker141]

I hope the payout reflected his 5 minutes of football - I'd have kept him on the bench and training each week for the rest of the year rather than pay him off.

Surely if he cant play then he is in breach of his contract - or does some european ruling dictate we have to make changes to accommodate !

[Mick]

I hope the payout reflected his 5 minutes of football - I'd have kept him on the bench and training each week for the rest of the year rather than pay him off.

Surely if he cant play then he is in breach of his contract - or does some european ruling dictate we have to make changes to accommodate !

You are presuming too much : read the club statement again which says what is happening / has happened..........everything else is speculation - although maybe some of it comes with some sensible thought behind it....and some doesn't

[eightiesrobin]

Grahame Rowley made the following statement in the programme last night:

"Anthony arrived from Carlisle in the summer but we were not made aware of his ongoing medical investigations into a hip problem.............Unfortunately, following PFA recommendations Anthony has agreed to a severance package which leaves the club a player light but with little money to fund a replacement at present. I, along with our manager Lee, don't want to go crying about the situation but want the supporters to realise the situation this outcome has put us in."

TL:DR?  Signed when injured, got paid off.

 

[Hamilton]

In other words; he screwed us!

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

What defeats me is how a player can deliberately conceal a condition like this, yet he is now entitled to a payout from the club after being found to be unfit to perform the job he was employed for.

The whole situation is a complete farce in all honesty and it has effectively left us a man down for the season.

[eightiesrobin]

What defeats me is how a player can deliberately conceal a condition like this, yet he is now entitled to a payout from the club after being found to be unfit to perform the job he was employed for.

The whole situation is a complete farce in all honesty and it has effectively left us a man down for the season.

I would have thought that failure to disclose an existing condition would almost certainly render a contract null and void. It certainly would if it was insurance. Seems to me that the conditions of contracts need tightening up.

[Mrs Warbouys]

Grahame very kindly took some time out of his busy prematch schedule to have a chat with some of us in the bar, there will be a press article on the situation today hopefully and the club don't really want to say much publicly on the situation. I'm sure if anyone approaches Grahame he'll gladly tell you exactly how it is as he did to us. Which is decent of him, saves any speculation. These are my thoughts, not anyone else's it the clubs. The PFA will always back one of their own right or wrong, could we haven't taken it to court and won, probably, was it worth the legal costs and time, probably not, was it worth pissing the players union off, again probably not. The guy should be ashamed of himself, as should the PFA, and any other clubs/parties that were aware of his ongoing problem and failed/forgot to disclose it.

[robininstockport]

Yes,  he's our pants down I'm afraid.

[Hale Alty]

Isnt this a bit like the Robinson affair ie. the club not doing it's homework properly? Surely when you get a a player to sign a contract you'd get him to declare whether there were any ongoing medical investigations. If he declared it you wouldn't sign him, if he didn't declare it and it turned out there was you'd invoke the big fat fibber clause and rip up his contract.

[Jimmy]

Yes you are right I think the Robinson case what's a bit more unfortunate as you don't expect to sign someone from Accrington who hasn't international clearance I think in the case of griffiths you should always be careful signing anyone with a lack of game time in the previous year or 2

[distancetraveller]

Sounds like a bit of a sh*tty thing that Griffith's has pulled off here

Bang out of order...

I've spent more time on the pitch than he did . from back in the 60s when I was mascot ffs

[SW]

I have to agree with Hale Alty, why weren't proper questions asked? Could leave us screwed for this season now assuming as it sounds we have paid the bloke off. I'd like the club to declare what medical checks we actually do.