Rob Jones

poolieboydave · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:21 pm

Is jones still at the club? He seemed to be nearing fitness every other week last year but don't feel like I've heard him mentioned for a while.

Hopefully this isn't my Mellish moment....

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:55 am

Fell in to the black hole of Centre Backs

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Good debut at Barnet and that was it.

No loss.

ptbap · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:11 pm

apart from his wage.

The deluded Mr Turner · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:39 pm

I was wondering the same? Surely can't still be injured?

Have'nt seen him round on a match day for a while?

We could do with a centreback in for Bates?

Have we released him with no announcement or does he just not figure in Dave Jones' plans.

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:42 pm

I think we need to keep Jones, we need to meet our annual quota of 18 centre backs.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

To be honest the way he went down with his latest injury in the box at whatever away game it was - I would have thought he was finished.

If he was a horse he would have been shot on the spot.

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

Every month that passes makes Hignett's decision last summer to give Rob Jones a contract look really poor, on a par with Colin Cooper signing his old mate Stuart Parnaby. To date Jones has only managed 3 more appearances in a Pools shirt than Parnaby!

To be fair to Jones, I'm sure he'd love to be playing. But even when (if?) his crocked knee gets the OK, he's going to be weeks away from match fitness.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

The deluded Mr Turner wrote:

I was wondering the same? Surely can't still be injured?

Have'nt seen him round on a match day for a while?

We could do with a centreback in for Bates?

Have we released him with no announcement or does he just not figure in Dave Jones' plans.

How 'surely can't he be injured' it looked like a serious knee injury.

What I can't believe is that he hasn't retired or the club haven't made steps to terminate his contract. Our squad is absolutely farcical.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

PJPoolie wrote:

The deluded Mr Turner wrote:

I was wondering the same? Surely can't still be injured?

Have'nt seen him round on a match day for a while?

We could do with a centreback in for Bates?

Have we released him with no announcement or does he just not figure in Dave Jones' plans.

How 'surely can't he be injured' it looked like a serious knee injury.

What I can't believe is that he hasn't retired or the club haven't made steps to terminate his contract. Our squad is absolutely farcical.

Oh don't be so silly.

We have 6 Centre backs.

1-3 no one has seen for at least 6 months, and apparently are not good enough to get on the bench when we have no defenders left.
4 - injury prone and heart the size of a pea
5 - injury prone, always going off with a knock to the head or collapsing like a shot Giraffe.
6 - we released him, then resigned him.

Ok your right.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Don't forget the right back situation

And the fact we sold our only left back

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Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

And the fact we have no right winger

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thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:39 pm

It's the modern way. 0-4-6

UnreliableSalopian · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:11 pm

This is sounding like one of the old Championship Manager formations, where you'd stuff the middle, ignore the wings, and end up playing something daft like 2-3-2-2-1.... If I here that Dave Jones has gone on a Scouting Mission to check out a forward from Burgos called Onesimo, I'll be seriously concerned....

dav9337 · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:40 pm **Posts:** 113

UnreliableSalopian wrote:

This is sounding like one of the old Championship Manager formations, where you'd stuff the middle, ignore the wings, and end up playing something daft like 2-3-2-2-1.... If I here that Dave Jones has gone on a Scouting Mission to check out a forward from Burgos called Onesimo, I'll be seriously concerned....

If Jones doesn't sign Mark Kerr, then I'm never going ever again.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Tonton zola mokoku is on trial

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thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:19 pm

Taribo West on a free transfer

yloop · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:20 pm

To Madeira is signing, if he can sort out the work permit.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37684

Rob Jones is Pools unicorn..... the mythical defender we've all heard about him but never actually seen him.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Kennedy Bakircioglu for £250k.

Brian Honour's Left Foot · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:32 am

How easy would it be for the club to address this on the Official website?

Remember the days when 'In the treatment room' was a regular feature?

Brian Honour's Left Foot · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:09 pm

Chip Fireball wrote:

Matthew Bates is an injury concern for this weekend after being forced off with a hamstring problem during the first half of Tuesday evening’s game at Luton Town. WONT PLAY

Dave Jones must also run the rule over fellow defender Liam Donnelly who was forced to sit out the defeat at Kenilworth Road due to ankle injury sustained in the game at Mansfield Town. MIGHT PLAY

The Pools boss will have to make do without Louis Rooney who is on loan from opponents Plymouth and is ineligible due to the terms of that agreement. BARRED OUT

Billy Paynter is still nursing an Achilles problem CLOSE TO RETIREMENT

Carl Magnay is still a couple of weeks away from a return to training, FUCKED

Rob Jones is struggling with a knee injury DEAD TO ME

bbolt

Trevor Carson is out for the season following shoulder surgery. WILL LEAVE AT END OF SEASON IF WE GO DOWN

To be frank I'd stopped reading the site............

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37684

Chip Fireball wrote:

Matthew Bates is an injury concern for this weekend after being forced off with a hamstring problem during the first half of Tuesday evening’s game at Luton Town. WONT PLAY

Dave Jones must also run the rule over fellow defender Liam Donnelly who was forced to sit out the defeat at Kenilworth Road due to ankle injury sustained in the game at Mansfield Town. MIGHT PLAY

The Pools boss will have to make do without Louis Rooney who is on loan from opponents Plymouth and is ineligible due to the terms of that agreement. BARRED OUT

Billy Paynter is still nursing an Achilles problem CLOSE TO RETIREMENT

Carl Magnay is still a couple of weeks away from a return to training, FUCKED

Rob Jones is struggling with a knee injury DEAD TO ME

Trevor Carson is out for the season following shoulder surgery. WILL LEAVE AT END OF SEASON IF WE GO DOWN

There was a smaller casualty list on the first day of the Somme.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

We needed room for those 3 forwards

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ed-t-ball · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:43 pm

Continues treatment according to the OS. Perhaps he has caught dead leg off Mathew Bates.

Joe Mac · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:45 pm

Bates probably has conjunctivitis

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:09 pm

After Walkers last 2 strong performances, would you put Bates back in?

At best he is a bit cumbersome :hand:

alibarthez · **Joined:** Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1072

No way Walker def to stay in over Jones.

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:20 pm

What would we of done if Walker was utter crap when played at CB

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Jones was coaching the youth team at an under 16s game on Dyke house recently.

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monkeybutt · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:10 pm

thetownendfaithful wrote:

What would we of done if Walker was utter crap when played at CB

Well he wasn`t, he was better than Bates, he read the game well and has skill.

chunky1988 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:33 pm **Posts:** 1066

So Walker is better than bates as a cb because of less than 180 minutes of playing there?

I'm sure I've seen Matthew bates give performances better than that of Walker but let's not go overboard. He was MOM in centre midfield against Stevenage remember too and he is actually a midfielder.

Saying that if Donnelly is fit I'd rather bring him in for Richardson instead of moving Walker back into midfield. It's laughable we are in this situation. Clubs in a diabolical position and can only pray we don't fall victim of the cost cutting gamble

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

Yubep wrote:

Jones was coaching the youth team at an under 16s game on Dyke house recently.

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My 2 kids go swimming at Dyke House on a Sunday morning and I've seen Jones there a few times when some of the kids teams have been playing

thetownendfaithful · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:11 am

Fensy wrote:

Yubep wrote:

Jones was coaching the youth team at an under 16s game on Dyke house recently.

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My 2 kids go swimming at Dyke House on a Sunday morning and I've seen Jones there a few times when some of the kids teams have been playing

Can he stand up in the deep end?

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

chunky1988 wrote:

So Walker is better than bates as a cb because of less than 180 minutes of playing there?

I'm sure I've seen Matthew bates give performances better than that of Walker but let's not go overboard. He was MOM in centre midfield against Stevenage remember too and he is actually a midfielder.

Saying that if Donnelly is fit I'd rather bring him in for Richardson instead of moving Walker back into midfield. It's laughable we are in this situation. Clubs in a diabolical position and can only pray we don't fall victim of the cost cutting gamble

This. I remember quite a few people on here "going overboard" about Jordan Richards' performance against Derby in the FA Cup last season. Now he's playing non-league and could well be finished with Pools.

Walker did really well last week and deserves to keep his place in the team, but it's daft to assume that's him sorted as a centre half, not a midfield player.

Rob Jones

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