Ryan's big chance came this season

Beaker left, leaving the backup striker role free...and Worthy plugged it with Peter Thorne. What the f**k?!

He's the perfect age to be breaking into the first team - not a start-every-week player, but a half here, a half there, a cup game there. THEN we find out how good he really is. As it turns out, it doesn't matter that he's been injured as he's been shunted behind an aging carthorse and (earlier) a comedy loan player.

And they want to subject his brother to the same thing? Why didn't they announce this deal for Rossi two weeks ago when they made it? Now, they just look desperate, not to mention sounding pretty condescending in the media. What a great opportunity, get him in front of the camera, make a big fuss of him, develop some feel-good publicity, isn't our Academy great, look at the local connection...but no. We'll ignore it and then have a sulk in the papers.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi, Dec 13, 21:40:31