Roofe or Morelos next weekend?

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35 minutes ago, 10pshortof17pound said:

I take it that you’ve spoken to ginge - even he cannot spout as much pish as you! Raigmore awaits.

Bizzare post. 

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On 19/02/2023 at 20:24, .Williamson. said:

Roofe offers absolutely nothing if he isn’t scoring

His goal scoring record is good though. 

[GOAT 30,449]

Roofe injured again apparently.  Fuck me man. 

[chris182 6,317]

Honestly Roofe should just retire, his body's just not built for professional football. 

A real waste of talent unfortunately.

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15 minutes ago, GOAT said:

Roofe injured again apparently.  Fuck me man. 

What's the chances of that?

He is a good player, but we need to get the career injury prone players like Roofe and Jack off our books.

You get your hopes up because they are decent players,but they get injured before they are even match fiti, tme and time again.

They will be on good salaries but hardly play for us  Money would be better spent elsewhere. 

 

[MacBoyd 5,523]

It must be a mental thing. I'm hoping just mind games by beale 

[Gascoigne's Flute 270]

Fuck sake. Hopefully mind games but wouldn't be surprised if he's out given his injury record. 

Good player when fit but carrys too many knocks then usually takes him a while to get up to speed when he's coming back in the team. Time to shift him if we get a bid in the summer.

[SkylineBlue 23,725]

Roofe surely must be close to the most injury prone player we've ever had. I know we had the likes of Prodan who never made a single appearance, but that was one injury.

[Prso's headband 35,669]

He can’t possibly be injured he literally played 10 minutes of football. 
 

Has to be more of a mental thing now than actual injuries. He looked sharper than ever on Saturday

[Essandoh 21,228]

Why would it more likely be a mental thing than him being extremely injury prone?

Seems a bit easy to have a go at his mentality, of which I’ve never had the impression he’s lacking in. He was the first player defending Tillman against Partick, he clearly loves the Club, he respects the fans, and he’s scored massive goals for us in Europe.

If he is out it’ll have nothing to do with mentality.

[Smell the hotdog 4,021]

Absolutely mental that anyone would consider starting Roofe on Sunday.

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10 minutes ago, Essandoh said:

Why would it more likely be a mental thing than him being extremely injury prone?

Seems a bit easy to have a go at his mentality, of which I’ve never had the impression he’s lacking in. He was the first player defending Tillman against Partick, he clearly loves the Club, he respects the fans, and he’s scored massive goals for us in Europe.

If he is out it’ll have nothing to do with mentality.

I think it's a lot of frustration from posters because when fit he's a really good player who certainly makes an impact. 

Mentally seems really strong, but disappointing if he's injured again so quickly. Definitely seems the kind of player we need to wrap in cotton wool during the week, much like Spurs used to have to do with Ledley King. 

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8 hours ago, Negri's lovechild said:

I think it's a lot of frustration from posters because when fit he's a really good player who certainly makes an impact. 

Mentally seems really strong, but disappointing if he's injured again so quickly. Definitely seems the kind of player we need to wrap in cotton wool during the week, much like Spurs used to have to do with Ledley King. 

Warp Roofe in cotton wool you’d probably break his collarbone 

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Just now, Tiger Shaw said:

Warp Roof in cotton wool you’d probably break his collarbone 

🤣 

[Colin Traive 22,934]

A manager needs to think medium to long term, plan a strategy, a shape, a style and then consider personnel.

You simply cannot make any plans that involve Jack or Roofe, it’s that simple. Their only contribution can be from the bench because they are clearly too frail to play in successive games.

Of course, all players can suffer injuries but when the games missed gets close to (or even exceeds) the games played, then their contribution has to be looked upon as an occasional, fleeting bonus from the bench until the next injury comes along.

Morelos to start supported by Kent and Sakala with Colak on the bench. If either Jack or Roofe are fit, bench is the best they can hope for.

Both will be part of the major summer clearout imo.

[MayboleLoyal_atb 3,757]

Really need to be trying to get rid of him he will be on a big wage. Don’t want to be hearing any if we can get him fit patter anymore either.

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2 hours ago, Essandoh said:

Why would it more likely be a mental thing than him being extremely injury prone?

Seems a bit easy to have a go at his mentality, of which I’ve never had the impression he’s lacking in. He was the first player defending Tillman against Partick, he clearly loves the Club, he respects the fans, and he’s scored massive goals for us in Europe.

If he is out it’ll have nothing to do with mentality.

Just because he's first in a scrap and loves the club etc, doesn't mean he isnt mentally different to other players when he feels a slight twinge or anything in his body

He's been injured that long that any sort of tightness, strain, niggle or anything is exaggerated in his head compared to others 

Look at goldson, barely injured and when he was he was back early doors, he's probably more confident in what his body can do than roofe is

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9 minutes ago, Jimbeamjunior said:

Just because he's first in a scrap and loves the club etc, doesn't mean he isnt mentally different to other players when he feels a slight twinge or anything in his body

He's been injured that long that any sort of tightness, strain, niggle or anything is exaggerated in his head compared to others 

Look at goldson, barely injured and when he was he was back early doors, he's probably more confident in what his body can do than roofe is

Complete and utter conjecture

[ger4life_1872 29,684]

I would go with saving roofe for last 30 mins but that brings its own issue of needing to keep another sub back incase he breaks down after 10 mins and we end up playing with 10 men

[graeme_4 34,786]

Pretty gutted tbh.

Having him off the bench, and Tillman starting I’d put us as favourites. Be a struggle without them I think.

When you then add in Ridvan, Souttar, Helander, Jack, Lundstram, Lawrence, and then the fact that Hagi and Colak look miles off fitness you start to worry.

[OrangeRab 2,848]

Doubt it’s just mentality. Some players are just much more susceptible to injuries and poor recovery because of a number of factors.

Pretty clear were miles behind other top clubs in the sports injury arms race. And football generally is miles behind American sports. Eg There’s a huge new wave of research into sports genetics. (Variations of different genes and the relationship with the strength of tendons and ligaments). If you don’t know what you’re looking for then you’re going to be on the wrong end of some bad transfers. Like buying a “cheap” Ferrari but not having a mechanic to see if the engine is any good. Ends up not being a great deal after all.

Anyways massive blow. Just think he’s a class above Colak coming off the bench

[KeyserSoze 14,627]

We’re needing shot of Roofe. Unreliable and made of straw. 
we can’t be managing him through a career of injuries.  It’s not like he’s worthy of it either. 

[BlueSuedeSambas 54,096]

Roofe is a really good player. He’s got a good goal scoring record for us and I think his intelligence as a footballer shows every time he’s on the park, but come the end of the season we need to be looking at a replacement for him, because he simply isn’t reliable enough and as he gets older he’s only going to become more unreliable.

I think he’s here until his deal is up though, no club is going to touch him unless it’s a loan deal where we pick up a significant chunk of his wages.

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3 hours ago, Smell the hotdog said:

Absolutely mental that anyone would consider starting Roofe on Sunday.

Not exactly mental when morelos has scored 2 goals in 20 games against them and missed countless sitters including 2 in the last game. I find it hard to think he will score on Sunday unfortunately.

[Madina 3,860]

Cant believe hes injured again. We really need to get rid of players made of glass. The outlay on wages for the likes of Roofe, Helander, Souttar is eye watering