Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Kenneth Wants Out

Defender Garry Kenneth wants to leave Bristol Rovers and his representatives have informed the club of his intentions over the past few days.

Lifted from: dailyrecord.co.uk
He has been recovering from a knee ligament injury sustained in January after a far from impressive first season with the club after signing with a big reputation last summer. Having been linked with £1 million moves to the Championship from former club Dundee United, the Scottish centre back departed Tannadice Park and signed for Rovers on a 3 year contract. After being too unfit to start the season he was thrust into action in September and was quickly made captain in the absence of Matt Gill but was part of a team that sunk to the bottom of League Two. He then got injured in the new year, a few games after John Ward had taken over.

He has been in the squad on a few occasions this season but hasn't featured from the bench which did seem odd to Rovers supporters. There was a general belief from the outside that he would come back a better player after recovering but he never looked like displacing Mark McChrystal or Tom Parkes from the central defensive berths.

There are conspiracy theories that suggest Ward has been advised by the club not to play the defender in a bid to force him out but the manager maintained that he couldn't select him as he hadn't done enough fitness work over the past few weeks. Kenneth hadn't trained for 10 days before the start of this week and while it now seems his departure is inevitable there has been a further twist.

Ward has said he may be forced to play Kenneth this weekend at Mansfield Town if it turns out McChrystal's knee problem is serious enough to keep him out of action. Bizarre, isn't it?

Whatever happens we will all look back on GK's stay with the club and say he has been a monumental waste of monumental wages in the past 15 months and be glad to see the back of him. Having said that I do think there could have been a good defender in there somewhere but it doesn't look like we will see him rediscover his Scottish form in the quarters. Hopefully his imminent departure, as well as Gill's, will free up enough wages to make a few influential loan signings in the coming days/weeks.

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