He's not particularly good anyway.
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Phil Jones will be back stronger and better than ever.
His bad luck with injuries can't last for ever.
People forget that with him starting games, its when we have had our best results in the last seasons. No Philip, no fun.
His bad luck with injuries can't last for ever.
People forget that with him starting games, its when we have had our best results in the last seasons. No Philip, no fun.
When you get injured as often as him it's not bad luck anymore.
He is still a good rotation/backup player, but you cannot be as injury prone as him if you are to have that role.
We need to be more ruthless with moving players on. He's a prime candidate.
However, that should be supplemented by actually getting proper replacements in.
However, that should be supplemented by actually getting proper replacements in.
I hold out hope he'll improve with injuries like Smalling did. Time is fast running out for him though.
Always defended him, but it's getting to a point similar to Rafael. I think he's talented and will probably be better later, but we don't have the luxury to wait on him any longer.
Need to put him down, sadly.
Keep him, he will come good eventually. Surely the yoga classes will have a positive impact in the future.
I hope so too. Smalling's injury issue is a little bizarre though Smalling's injuries just seemed to disappear miraculously this season. Even as recent as last season he was in and out. This season he's missed only one game in all competitions.
Maybe Jones will one day just stop getting injured. It can't be ruled out, as I never imagined Smalling to be as sturdy and reliable as he has been this season, but with Jones it does seem a bit less likely.
As I posted a couple pages ago, it's not anything reoccurring. He's just a fecking meat head that is unfortunate enough to also be also made of glass. Absolutely zero sense of self preservation.
It might look heroic to jump in head first into a tackle or stretch out and pile into a striker but when it means he's out for 3 weeks and we're counting on a kid instead it's just not commendable.
It might look heroic to jump in head first into a tackle or stretch out and pile into a striker but when it means he's out for 3 weeks and we're counting on a kid instead it's just not commendable.
Smalling has never been the type of a defender Jones is though, reckless, rash in tackle, he'll always injure himself at some point or due to his rashness his joints, whatever will be under constant threat, red zone if you will.
Smalling's propensity to injury was never as severe as say Jones or Rafael. I just think he was a bit unlucky over the years.
He's completely pointless. We've been lucky that Smalling and Blind have stayed fit for most of the season.
Smalling and Jones are both big, athletic lads and that can sometimes mean injury spells as you grow into your body, I remember that being said about Welbeck (Yes I know he's been out al season). The problem with Jones is that it's beyond the point of growing up, he's naturally rash and lacks any common sense, often making errors that he tries to correct with lunges and stretches the bring about moire injuries.
Have they said what this new injury is? I seem too recall a post in the match thread on Monday saying he'd had a collision with another player and looked dazed, maybe it's a precaution rather than another spell out.
Have they said what this new injury is? I seem too recall a post in the match thread on Monday saying he'd had a collision with another player and looked dazed, maybe it's a precaution rather than another spell out.
You can't have any role if you're injured all the time. Without the injuries he'd have had a chance of improving and becoming a first choice player.
Going China next summer?
Laporte in.... Jones out.
He's nowhere near talented as Rafael was
I didn't compare their talent. Just said that Jones is talented. And Rafael has done feck all with his talent for years.
He should stay just for that incident where he slipped over and ran on his knees towards the ball and headed the ball away from Giroud
Simple as this.
24 already…
Reports are circulating Preston town about Phil's super Sunday celebrations at Mrs Jones’ house in Preston yesterday and information suggests that when Phillip was carrying the cake he slipped on a Banana skin, skidded across the kitchen, knocked over the buffet table and ended up with his head squarely in the cake. All 24 candles remained lit on top of his dopey bonce, however he has managed to break both his legs, his mother’s Royal Doulton collection and Mr Jones’ ‘World’s Best Dad’ Whisky glass. The Pugs have also had to be fully body casted after they each bore the brunt of big Phil’s clown shoes as he hit the quarry tiled floor.
The cake was salvaged but had to be eaten by spoon from a communal bowl. One onlooker described the Jones family’s cake gorging as ‘‘The best impression of the Hungry Hippos this side of the River Ribble’’ while another commented ‘‘Not even Phil’s inverted knee could stop him from munching his fair share of Victoria Sponge… there was Marzipan flying everywhere’’. Further reports suggest the frolics culminated in Phil dropping the bowl on his foot and breaking his third metatarsal just as the Ambulance arrived on scene.
Anyway….Happy Birthday for yesterday Phil! Get well soon x365
#PJ4
Reports are circulating Preston town about Phil's super Sunday celebrations at Mrs Jones’ house in Preston yesterday and information suggests that when Phillip was carrying the cake he slipped on a Banana skin, skidded across the kitchen, knocked over the buffet table and ended up with his head squarely in the cake. All 24 candles remained lit on top of his dopey bonce, however he has managed to break both his legs, his mother’s Royal Doulton collection and Mr Jones’ ‘World’s Best Dad’ Whisky glass. The Pugs have also had to be fully body casted after they each bore the brunt of big Phil’s clown shoes as he hit the quarry tiled floor.
The cake was salvaged but had to be eaten by spoon from a communal bowl. One onlooker described the Jones family’s cake gorging as ‘‘The best impression of the Hungry Hippos this side of the River Ribble’’ while another commented ‘‘Not even Phil’s inverted knee could stop him from munching his fair share of Victoria Sponge… there was Marzipan flying everywhere’’. Further reports suggest the frolics culminated in Phil dropping the bowl on his foot and breaking his third metatarsal just as the Ambulance arrived on scene.
Anyway….Happy Birthday for yesterday Phil! Get well soon x365
#PJ4
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how the actual heck did he pick this latest injury up whatever it is?
he was only just getting back in!
he was only just getting back in!
Under 21s game where he was supposed to gain match fitness.
We definitely will bring a centre back in if a new manager comes in.
It's long past the time we can even pretend to see Jones as a mainstay
Regardless of Jones, we need to bring someone in. If the new manager decides, Jones isn't in his plans or can't be relied upon, then I'd prefer 2 coming in. Jones couldn't have any complaints.
Jones needs to go, 24 years old, forever injured and a calamity when he does play.
Had high hopes for this lad. Sadly he's made of bad decisions and glass.. Has to be moved on this summer.
He's really fecking me off today for some reason. I'm doing my team prediction for tonight and if he wasn't such a sick note he'd make life a lot easier. Can't imagine how much it must be frustrating Van Gaal.
If he was even available for half the matches he has missed we'd have ????? - Smalling - Jones - Blind which is an acceptable defence. Injury after injury and he's a complete waste of space.
I really hope we sell him this summer, another year or two of this nonsense and he'll be a 26 year old at the end of his contract with no value. Or worse, we'll look to secure that value with an extension and have to put up with him taking up a squad place for the foreseeable.
Just feck off already, or at least man up and grow another braincell.
If he was even available for half the matches he has missed we'd have ????? - Smalling - Jones - Blind which is an acceptable defence. Injury after injury and he's a complete waste of space.
I really hope we sell him this summer, another year or two of this nonsense and he'll be a 26 year old at the end of his contract with no value. Or worse, we'll look to secure that value with an extension and have to put up with him taking up a squad place for the foreseeable.
Just feck off already, or at least man up and grow another braincell.
I have it from a reliable source that his injury recurrences have their origin in his head and neck being three times too heavy for his body to support.
Also his repeated voluntary dislocation of his own jaw, a trick he copied from Helen Daniels from Neighbours, often results in him accidentally inhaling other players.
You have to feel for the useless tw&t.
Also his repeated voluntary dislocation of his own jaw, a trick he copied from Helen Daniels from Neighbours, often results in him accidentally inhaling other players.
You have to feel for the useless tw&t.
Where is Phil Jones this time? Van Gaal never mentions him anymore. Has he died and we're trying to cover it up?
Time to move him on, surely?
When you think Laporte has made 37 appearances for Bilbao this season and he is still 21.
I had honestly forgot he even existed.I usually forget he's a United player until I see his thread bumped.
The new Duncan Edwards
To think that Van Gaal's preferred CB in preseason and the season ahead was actually Blind and Jones.
Then Jones got injured just before the Spurs game and has basically been out for the season with various ailments..including shingles.
Then Jones got injured just before the Spurs game and has basically been out for the season with various ailments..including shingles.
Should be his last season with the club really. Been saying it a while but I am not a fan of Jones, he's constantly injured and when he plays he looks dodgy to me.
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