Halls NOTHING to do with Bust up.

[serpico180]

www.thisisstaffordshire.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158773&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158597&contentPK=13794881&folderPk=87690

[daverichards]

BY MARTIN SPINKS

09:30 - 07 January 2006
Johan Boskamp has stepped in to quash mounting rumours that his bitter rift with John Rudge was caused by the selection policy surrounding John Halls earlier this season. A whispering campaign appears to have been launched among supporters to seemingly discredit Rudge's role in the bust-up with Boskamp. But Boskamp himself has now come out and denied any suggestion Rudge misled him into thinking the club's board did not want Halls picked while he was stalling over signing a new deal.

Boskamp, as he publicly stated at the time, insists it was his decision alone to freeze Halls out of the team if he could not commit his long-term future to the Britannia.

"No-one picks my team except me," said Boskamp. "It is not right to say I was told not to play John Halls. It was my decision.

"No-one pulls my strings. I pick the players, nobody else. John Halls has nothing to do with this situation we have at the club."

That situation - Boskamp's rancorous rift with both Rudge and assistant manager Jan de Koning - will lead to a parting of the ways at the end of the season.

Boskamp's current agreement expires on June 30 after he agreed to waive his 12-month rolling contract, but the club is refusing to confirm he will necessarily be the one to depart in the summer.

But the Dutchman is still insisting he cannot remain unless Rudge and De Koning are shown the door after remaining hurt by Rudge's attempt to pass on tactical advice to him via De Koning in the dugout at Coventry on November 2.

Striker Sammy Bangoura, meanwhile, should be fit to turn out against Tamworth in the FA Cup after recovering from a rib injury and a bout of flu.

But his eligibility is still subject to clarification from the Guinea FA

[serpico180]

Thanx Dave don't know why the link doesnt bring the story up.

[daverichards]

seems like he has been asked about the contents of Smudges thread then

[serpico180]

Guess its only natural for people to think there must be something else to the bust up other than some tactical advice with it being such a petty thing to have a bust up about.

Rudge and Jan were wrong not to go through Bossie with there Tactics but its like Lou Macari said on the Radio last night why not just get them both in the office after the game and Bossie could have just said "i didnt like what happend out there tonight dont let it happen again" Bust up over,He really has made a mountain out of a mole hill.

[FullerMagic]

'A whispering campaign appears to have been launched among supporters to seemingly discredit Rudge's role in the bust-up with Boskamp'

How much further can the local media disappear up the backside of Rudge?.

[Lakeland Potter]

Credit to Bozzie for putting THAT rumour to bed. That makes the question of why what happened at the Hull match was considered so bad that Bozzie won't accept an apology?????

The other thing is how did this "rumour" spread so quickly after the Coventry incident. Moorlander has referred to it as being the real cause (no surprise there) but didn't Smudge's "source" also come up with the rumour as an explanation for the bust up?

[daverichards]

Credit to Bozzie for putting THAT rumour to bed

I don't suppose its possible they loaded the question ? to get the answer they were looking for , after all its from the pro-rudgie media bandwagon


this goes deeper than Coventry Gate, you know it, I know it

[Lakeland Potter]

Dave I thought it went deeper than the Coventry match - largely because several people claimed that the dropping of Halls (on Rudgey's instruction) was at the root of the problem.

However, I can't see why Bozzie would now deny that was the problem if in fact it was the problem. And if he is denying the Halls situation but there is another reason, why not tell us what it is? He hasn't shown himself to be unwilling to talk so far in this saga.