Port Vale's interest in Jones news to us, says Bradford City assistant boss Parkin (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Port Vale's interest in Ritchie Jones news to us, says Bradford City assistant boss Steve Parkin
7:00pm Monday 12th November 2012 in Sport
By Simon Parker, Bradford City Reporter
Ritchie Jones
City are in the dark over rumours linking Ritchie Jones with Port Vale.
Jones hopes to return to the squad against Northampton tomorrow night after missing the Aldershot win with a sore back.
The midfielder has had a frustrating campaign so far, with injuries and illnesses restricting him to only two appearances.
But the Bantams are unaware of any reported interest from Vale boss Micky Adams.
Assistant Steve Parkin said: “We haven’t heard anything but I can understand why this story has cropped up. Ritchie is a strong athletic player who is not in the team at the moment through no fault of his own or ours.
“He’s had injuries to deal with and had a stiff back last week. The season’s not really got off and running for him.”
Comments(15)
tinytoonster
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7:26pm Mon 12 Nov 12
just heard city players not training because of sickness, hope it does not ruin chances of win in fa cup!
JamesRobertshaw
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7:34pm Mon 12 Nov 12
lygobantam1
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9:23pm Mon 12 Nov 12
balbrigganfc
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9:25pm Mon 12 Nov 12
JamesRobertshaw wrote:JamesRobertshaw is right, we shouldn't loan our best players to Port Vale, I wouldn't loan them the steam off something that doesn't smell nice....Having said that, I don't want to see City rise any further so we can all go to Wembley.
R Jones is our 3rd best midfielder and in front of him we have G Jones 35 and Nathan Doyle not the fittest of lads, its likely one of them two will get injured making R Jones a regular in team, it would be stupid if we let him go out on loan especially to a team who our near us in the table
tyker2
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9:49pm Mon 12 Nov 12
if a loan does happen we ned a cash fee up front and conditions.
spleen ventor
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11:43pm Mon 12 Nov 12
BigFigure
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1:52am Tue 13 Nov 12
balbrigganfc wrote:all very well..but what do you PREDICT will happen here?
Sign your own players, you Port Vale scumbags
Thee Voice of Reason
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8:28am Tue 13 Nov 12
thecitygentuk
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8:34am Tue 13 Nov 12
Someone stated above that he is 3rd choice CM at the club, I beg to differ.
If you look at the selections PP has made when Ritchie has been available, I'd say he was 5th choice behind both Ravenhill and Atkinson as well
1 bingley bantam
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10:26am Tue 13 Nov 12
JamesRobertshaw wrote:Totally agree mate R.Jones is our 3rd best midfielder the main reason hes not had more games is injury.And the
R Jones is our 3rd best midfielder and in front of him we have G Jones 35 and Nathan Doyle not the fittest of lads, its likely one of them two will get injured making R Jones a regular in team, it would be stupid if we let him go out on loan especially to a team who our near us in the table
only reason Atkinson or Ravenhill would get picked in front of him are because their both more defensive and negative R.Jones is more out of the Syers mould and for me is whats missing from our game.I would play him with G.jones and Doyle at right back.We have a drastic shortage of goals form midfield that needs addressing.
Also our squad is small enough as it is the last thing we need to do is loan or sell p[layers.
fatbloke
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10:28am Tue 13 Nov 12
I think that maye because Jones hasnt bee fully fit, but fit enough to get on the bench and hopefully get some game time to improve his fitess (if games were going our way)
Hope so anyhow as I think R Jones is a class player and would pick him over Ravenhill any day of the week.
COLATS
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6:22pm Tue 13 Nov 12
1 bingley bantam wrote:Wots he ever done .... For us?? He's a ten a penny midfielder, get some cash for him if we can?
JamesRobertshaw wrote:Totally agree mate R.Jones is our 3rd best midfielder the main reason hes not had more games is injury.And the
R Jones is our 3rd best midfielder and in front of him we have G Jones 35 and Nathan Doyle not the fittest of lads, its likely one of them two will get injured making R Jones a regular in team, it would be stupid if we let him go out on loan especially to a team who our near us in the table
only reason Atkinson or Ravenhill would get picked in front of him are because their both more defensive and negative R.Jones is more out of the Syers mould and for me is whats missing from our game.I would play him with G.jones and Doyle at right back.We have a drastic shortage of goals form midfield that needs addressing.
Also our squad is small enough as it is the last thing we need to do is loan or sell p
COLATS
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6:23pm Tue 13 Nov 12
1 bingley bantam wrote:How many has he scored???
JamesRobertshaw wrote:Totally agree mate R.Jones is our 3rd best midfielder the main reason hes not had more games is injury.And the
R Jones is our 3rd best midfielder and in front of him we have G Jones 35 and Nathan Doyle not the fittest of lads, its likely one of them two will get injured making R Jones a regular in team, it would be stupid if we let him go out on loan especially to a team who our near us in the table
only reason Atkinson or Ravenhill would get picked in front of him are because their both more defensive and negative R.Jones is more out of the Syers mould and for me is whats missing from our game.I would play him with G.jones and Doyle at right back.We have a drastic shortage of goals form midfield that needs addressing.
Also our squad is small enough as it is the last thing we need to do is loan or sell p
Prisoner Cell Block A
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11:12am Wed 14 Nov 12
Thee Voice of Reason wrote:Have you compared Pope's stats to Hanson's?
They can have him if they send Tom Pope the other way.
TP goalscoring record = 0.25 per game
JH goalscoring record = 0.28 per game
Not making any other point apart from what people know and what they think they know. I checked after your comment and was surprised to find this out, my son did say he has been cr@p more than he has been good and this season is out of the ordinary for Pope.
balbrigganfc says...
7:14pm Mon 12 Nov 12