Short quiting rovers at end of season

Cafu01 · 10-02-2005, 10:58

Craig Short has confirmed he will leave Blackburn Rovers at the end of the season and may retire from football.

The ageing defender has been at Ewood Park since the summer of 1999 but is calling time on his spell with Rovers.

He concedes he can no longer cope with the stringent demands of training with a Premiership club and is considering his future in the game.

Short has just returned to fitness after six weeks on the sidelines with a hamstring injury and he admits that, during his spell of inactivity, he contemplated quitting.

The 36-year-old is now prepared to carry on until the campaign's conclusion before deciding on his future.

The centre half is already committed to leaving Blackburn but is still uncertain about whether to drop down to a lower division.

"I think I'm probably going to pack in," said Short.

"When I first got injured over Christmas I said to myself 'right, that's it, I'm finishing now'.

"Now I've got more of an open mind and if I carry on until the end of the season and feel good then I'll see what happens in June, depending on whether any offers come my way.

"This is the first season where I've found it hard, physically.

"Training has been a lot harder under Sparky [Rovers boss Mark Hughes] and I've found that difficult, so I don't want to join a club where I can't do what I used to do.

mthead · 10-02-2005, 11:32

Rest of them probably will aswell when they get beat with Burnley and get relegated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL

Cafu01 · 10-02-2005, 17:56

hopefully lol, i cant stand rovers

rockrabbit · 11-02-2005, 01:00

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Originally Posted by Cafu01

hopefully lol, i cant stand rovers

neither can i nearly hate em as much as i do that lot who city are gonna stuff on sunday like they did last year and end there hopes of winning the league again

mthead · 11-02-2005, 10:19

cant say much about city bit of a joke really.like the scrolling banner in the stretford end. Ithink its upto 29 years now.LOL

rockrabbit · 11-02-2005, 12:59

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Originally Posted by mthead

cant say much about city bit of a joke really.like the scrolling banner in the stretford end. Ithink its upto 29 years now.LOL

we are used to the stick though off your lot . Beating your lot and staying up is worth celebrating enough plus the pressure is on you . by the way which side is gary neville on this time lol gary neville is a blue

Bazf · 11-02-2005, 14:13

This came in about Garys Brother and long time bed partner,

Missing: Phil NevilleThis is a message on behalf of the Manchester police. Phil Neville has been missing for over three weeks now and the police are worried he has tried to do something stupid, like shoot from 40 yards out.

Suspicions arose when seeing someone claiming to be Phil Neville in the Manchester United midfield. However, this person was a poor imitation for the real Phil Neville and has raised alarms by uncharacteristically out-playing Patrick Vieira in the midfield.

It is clear that this person is an impostor as he clearly failed to research all Phil’s traits. Phil couldn’t trap a bag of cement or pass wind, let alone be a suitable replacement for Dejemba Dejemba. So far the police haven’t got any leads although an alien abduction hasn’t been ruled out. Only a few sightings matching Phil’s physical description have been reported, but they have all turned out to be the back end of a horse. Sir Alex Ferguson made this plea, “If anyone anywhere, has any information on Phil’s whereabouts, however little, I beg you please, please keep it to your bloody self!”

rockrabbit · 11-02-2005, 14:50

United fans have been calling City fans 'the liars' for a few years now, but Bluemoon has decided to turn the tables on our Stretford rivals by exposing a few myths about them.

Utd are the biggest club in the world.
Utd took a million to Barcelona.
All their fans know all the words to the flowers of Manchester, they sing it before every match, every time.
All Utd fans are cool socialists.
Utd have the most loyal and hardest firm in the world. The cockney reds all come from Manchester.
Utd fans are so cool they never wear colours ever (the fact they sell 4 million shirts a week is irrelevant)
Utd have the BEST stadium in the whole world.
Utd fans NEVER sing about death as they know only too well how it feels.
All the famous bands and musicians in Manchester support Man United. All of them. There are no embarrasing celeb fans, they are all cool. They ALL come from Manchester.
All Utd fans have the first Stone Roses Album (Ltd edition of course)
All Utd fans know the words to "One Love"
All Utd fans were at Spike Island, it was their special day.
There are no Utd fans in Stockport, and definitely non in London.
They are not in any way bothered about City which is why they never ever spend most of their matches singing nursery rhymes about us.
There are no City fans in Manchester. Not one, they all come from Stockport.
Eric Cantona is the best player in the world ever.
United have never received government aid to build the swamp (except for the full rebuild of the cantilever stand before the 66 world cup).
You just can't get a ticket for Old Trafford
The train to London Euston is never full of United fans. Ever. Never seen one.

slater_scott · 11-02-2005, 14:54

Short would probably not be able to hack it next year anyway, he is good, but probably wont get back in our first XI for a while.