kenwyne jones

[BLUEBLOOD]

Bournemouth sign him till end of season from Cardiff.
Subject to international clearance.
Any thoughts on this one?

[Bluemike]

Just dont see the point, Wilson has 19 goals, Kermorgant 14 and Pitman 14 so why would you upset something that is clearly working ?

It hasnt worked at Derby with the signings of Ince, Bent and Lingaard and it could go belly up for Bournemouth too with any luck.

[J4ck22]

Probably decided that they're already promoted so they're probably strengthening for next season. If not, then they're cocky bastards.

[marko69]

How the times have changed........, BOURNEMOUTH, are cocky bastards! Nice one, J4CK.

[derick_ipsw]

Bournemouth sign him till end of season from Cardiff.
Subject to international clearance.
Any thoughts on this one?

Have they got injuries up front that we don't know about? Because if they have not, he wont be playing from the start. Also I don't rate him that much anyway.

[Charnwood]

Just dont see the point, Wilson has 19 goals, Kermorgant 14 and Pitman 14 so why would you upset something that is clearly working ?

It hasnt worked at Derby with the signings of Ince, Bent and Lingaard and it could go belly up for Bournemouth too with any luck.

I don't think many people would agree that the signings of Ince, Bent and Lingaard hasn't worked at Derby, between them they've scored 14 goals with Bent & Ince scoring 13 of them.

Derby's issues are simply that they're missing their goalscorers with both Darren Bent and leading scorer Chris Martin having both been out injured, the latter being a massive blow which is what happens when a team rely's so heavily on one player to score lots of goals.

Just imagine where we'd be if we'd had our top scorer Daryl Murphy missing through injury for the last 10 games.

[Bluemike]

But it hasnt worked, since all those players have come in they have gone backwards, it may not be those players fault but as a club it has not enhanced their league position at all.

[Bluemike]

I was a bit worried to hear that Callum Wilson has had to have injections before the last few games for AFCB just to help his toes and that one of his knees has been giving him some trouble as well. When he came off against Middlesbrough you could see that he was walking pretty uncomfortably and it looked like his face was telling everyone that he might not be able to meet up with the England U21 squad. Since then we have heard that he will not be joining up with that squad which is a big pity for him, but clearly not necessarily bad news for the Cherries at this stage of the season.

Sometimes the club is very good at hiding injuries and niggles to players and the difficulties that Callum Wilson has been experiencing is something that might explain why he has been so eager to keep scoring and to keep playing. He has hardly missed any games though this season and with call ups for the England U21s as well, I am sure that AFCB are being really careful not to burn him out. He has been great this season but AFCB will also want him to be no less productive next season and long term management of players is always the way clubs try and look after such prestigious talent.

Being Callum's first Championship season he will probably find when he looks back at the season and feel that he gave it his all and his all has been the catalyst for the Cherries' startling season. I would expect there to be many Coventry fans still willing him on to achieve more and the summer offers him the chance to play for his country in a big tournament if selected. That means no real rest though for Callum and if he is already finding that he needs treatment it probably isn't going to get any easier for him. If this is what he can do though when he doesn't quite feel 100 per cent, I imagine that AFCB really do have a top quality striker on their books who will one day play for the full England international side.

The signing of Kenwyne Jones on loan enables Callum to get fully fit before coming back into the team and it may be just what he needs right now so I hope everyone gets behind Kenwyne and makes him feel welcome. What it says about Cardiff's season is perhaps more telling as one of the hot promotion favourites are languishing in mid-table and the chance to reduce the wage bill looks like it was too hard to resist for Russell Slade who is also a good friend of Eddie Howe.

Possibly explains why Jones has been brought in.

[hallamblue]

That's the problem with all that diving (for penalties ), you stand a chance of hurting yourself as you hit the ground in well rehersed "Platoon" fashion!

edit. Suspect KJ is having his first diving lesson today.