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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 24
- Clean sheets
- 7
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 3
LVG said it was a knee injury. He could be out for a long time.
Pity he got injured .. but he's no loss to the team in my opinion.
It's a shame he got injured because he is a decent back-up, certainly better than Evans.
I've decided he's shit.
Agreed.
I really want whatever Fergie was smoking when he said he'd be our best ever player.
It was obviously said to piss Rooney off, as at the time he had a beef with him.
He played well during the back end of that season.
Oh well in that case..
He is the next Woodgate
It is, he was getting to some form but if this is a way how to get Chris SmallKing to the play then be it. Wonder if we see Thorpe on the bench at least any time soon..
Woodgate was actually a good defender though.
Tabarnak! 
(I had to say that, sorry)
Seriously, he's a lost cause by any stretch when it comes to grow some brains in any future. Even players who get injured often in their early career find ways to be more cautious about themselves, but you just can't see that with Jones. Ship him out in the summer before he finishes his course onto retirement by age 25, please.
(I had to say that, sorry)Seriously, he's a lost cause by any stretch when it comes to grow some brains in any future. Even players who get injured often in their early career find ways to be more cautious about themselves, but you just can't see that with Jones. Ship him out in the summer before he finishes his course onto retirement by age 25, please.
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Lost cause. Whatever qualities or potential he had/has are secondary to his inability to stay fit.
On his way out in the summer. Probably with Evans and Rafael for company.
On his way out in the summer. Probably with Evans and Rafael for company.
Van Gaal seems to trust him. I do not think he gets sold this summer.
Most likely Smalling will get injured again when Jones is about to get fit...
hope not I don't want to see McNair playing as CB, rather Thorpe..
Please tell them to save room for rvp and falcao. They all need to go.
If Van Gaal's objective is to have more intelligent players in his squad, then Jones should be among the first ones to be sold.
For me it's already clear since months that he can go in the summer. Really average and so feckin injury-prone.
He and Evans can go.
2 new defenders + Smalling, Rojo and McNair for next season
He and Evans can go.
2 new defenders + Smalling, Rojo and McNair for next season
Interesting, I actually think he's a brilliant prospect. Hope it's not a really serious knee injury, poor fella.
I think there is talent there but Christ on a bike he hasn't progressed at all. He's on borrowed time, get back soon beaker.
In the 3 minutes he played, he managed to feck up twice and get injured. Pretty impressive, even by his standards.
I hope we bought the extended warranty on him.
Marginally more useful than Evans but they've both regressed / stagnated and hopefully will be sold in the summer.
Injuries will be the lads downfall. I'm sure that given a run in the side and to remain injury free, he would be a very solid CB for us. Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. Another huge problem with our defence that needs addressing in the summer.
He is completely and utterly woeful and a thorough liability. His injury record is no accident either and last night was a perfect example ie he lost his man and busting a gut to atone he injured himself. There's nothing unlucky about this he is fecking shit end of.
That's stretching the point slightly, don't you think? He's a professional athlete. 'Busting a gut' is in his job description. Him getting injured has nothing to do with his prowess as a defender. It was just one of those things. Hopefully it's not ligament damage.
I don't even understand how he got injured. He was running in a straight line then somehow his leg just buckled underneath him?. That just screams to me muscle fatigue, I don't think his body is fit enough to play at this level unfortunately. His legs/arms must not have any coordination as he always looks unbalanced.
Trouble is he doesn't really run. It's more of an unorthodox gallop, and that combined with a lack of balance makes him highly injury prone.
I could only imagine how this guy would walk out a bar when he is drunk.
I take your point. But my long term issue with Jones is what I would call avoidable injury. Last night he lost his man and quite how I don't know. But it was because he'd lost his man and because he knew that he'd fecked up that in a desperate attempt to make amends he injured himself. I see a a direct correlation between his constant inability to play within himself and with some composure and his propensity for injury. I think we're watching an admittedly hard working footballer who is attempting to play the game at a level above his ability. He is permanently out of his comfort zone and that incident last night was a microcosm of where he is as a footballer and what his level is. If he'd been switched on he wouldn't have lost Keane and he wouldn't have been injured trying to prevent a clear goal scoring opportunity. It's going to happen time and time again because he isn't good enough.
Strange injury. I could have sworn he got injured when he hit his head on the goal post after his duel with Michael Keane.
I very much doubt he will be sold. If anything he's ahead of Smalling in the pecking order
There was this replay that showed that his ankle/foot/whatever bent in an unnatural way and he was limping after that. He can't walk like a human being sadly.
Type of a guy that will slip 9 out of 10 times on a slippery pavement in winter.
Yeah on watching replays of the incident, you could see his foot bend. Still, it looks like he did fall onto the goal post after the ball went out. Glad to know he didn't get a head injury in the end.
Oh dear "car crash" Jones could be out for a while. Might help him get his positioning right for the future instead of getting there just in time.