The Griff

An interesting article on the a-league website: "I wanted to quit football"

I, for one, am glad Ernie reached out to him. Despite his other 'issues' he's still one of the better A-League performers.

Doing a good job for us. Could well have another year in him.

Im glad he came to us,  he has alot to offer and hopefully he has another season in him.  I think he has made a positive difference

I like him for what he does to Hard News.

That's not very nice . so far he has done nothing wrong

I suppose it just goes to show that its better to leave decision making to the people employed to do the job, rather than to enthusiastic amateurs....

Turning out to be a smart piece of business with Burns out for the next couple of weeks as well. Leaves some experience up top with Krishna.

He was incredibly lucky not to get a couple of yellows vs Perth.  Retaliation and handling the referee.

I thought he was actually quite poor against Perth; gave the ball away under no pressure quite a few times. Don't think his fitness is quite there yet.

That is odd considering all he was doing at Newcastle was fitness work.

Think you're mistaken if you suggest Newcastle's fitness regime is as good as ours.

...and... 'fitness work' does not equal 'match fit' either.

Not to our linesmen.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek there.

or to put it another way, he has a reaction problem, and 70% of the league is lucky not to get cards for handling the ref....

Tough croud...

They did not train with the team, wanted do quit football, sounds like a bit running around and stretching to not breach contract.

Anyone notice on the Nix website that they have Griffiths as our 4th top scorer with 4 goals?

Because some Hards News fans don't rate him, they count his goals double? They may count Jet goals?

must of scored a few for newcastle before the bust up.

Haha surely they shouldn't count, especially when 2 of them were against us..

He has scored 4 A-League goals this season.  One for us the balance for the Jets

He had one of the better performances - heavily targeted by Sydney throughout. But yeah shouldve scored

In a team that didnt perform his wasnt the worst by along shot. 

no but a lethargic effort for someone playing for a career to continue..or maybe not.  Agreed he should have scored..we "should" have been 2-2 early on.

Disagree.

I thought he was one of the better players in the team today.  Made some good passing decisions (unlike just about everyone else).

Ran some nice angles to create some passing options.

I would have put him ahead of Roly for MOTM.

Was particularly decent when he moved into the traditional strikers role in the 2nd half. Think that suits him more than out wide.

It's not that I don't rate him as a player, I just dislike his persona on the pitch.  The stats don't lie about his quality as an A-League player he just has a long history of being a cod on the field.

I swear when they did the player line-up before the game, the announcer introduced Griffiths as being "sponsored by Hard News".  Cracked us up.

Possibly Hutt News in retrospect though?

That's awesome.

Damn it. Wish I was there to see his face.

I hope he's okay...but it looked farking awful on the replay :(

All the best Griff,  hope you have a speedy and full recovery

So we could all keep on feeling the pain. Any of us whom have had a knee injury can relate to that site. What I remember was not so much the injury itself, but the pain when the knee went back into place.