SO... where is Jordan Tansey??

[therailwayendisnigh]

The club could help themselves to stop these stupid rumours by being a bit more proactive with injury updates. The only thing I can remember hearing on Tansey was Powell saying he had a knee injury a good few weeks back. The odd update on how players are progressing would be good, how rehab is going, when they are back in training, when they are expected to be fully fit etc.

But what if he isn't injured? I'm not saying this is the case, but the matter could be deemed private by the club. It is frustrating not knowing, but we are merely customers of a business with an emotional attachment. They don't have to tell us diddly squat.

[old cas lass]

As long as dorn keeps performing and clare steps in today and shows what he can do at full back, I'm not to concerned about tansey. Yes he's had some good games and is a better defender than dorn.....but we cant have it all.

Now lets go beat hudds.

[lurcher]

i don't do twitter so i don't know if jordan does. perhaps some one could ask him.

[MattD]

Steve Gill said on Tigertalk that the club don't give out injury updates due to them not always being correct. I.e players not always returning on dates set ect.

[Greyhound]

I always thought Jordan played well for us. I might be wrong but hasnt he played at centre, if so think he would be a possible replacement/rotation for webster - his defence is good ie strong in the tackle and has plenty of agression in attack.

[onetiger]

i retracked my post from yesterday about tansey and the rumours
as long as we keep winning and playing as a team that is all i can ask for as a tigers fan -coyf [tgif]

[Bengal]

I hate this "no smoke without fire"

This rumour could have been made up by a school-kid in Cas town centre last weekend, which one of his mates has passed on and so on. All without a shred of evidence.

If something important like this would have happened, I'm sure Cas would have released a statement.

Spot on to be fair HT. To be honest, I should have known better than to even discuss it. In my defence, I was just a little concerned that if true, it may affect our chance(s) of a lifetime this season,

[old cas lass]

i don't do twitter so i don't know if jordan does. perhaps some one could ask him.

Think hudds tiger as already asked about his injury, don't think he's replied....not seen one.

[Frankas]

All the ones in the know will be raiding the cupboard to get some information from there sorsers, the problem his for the most part the sorses will be the things what sit under the cup's

[I of the Tigers]

Aren't they plinths ?! :dance: COYF

[Flat Capper]

Anybody see him at the game?

[HuddsTigers]

Anybody see him at the game?

Yes.

[HuddsTigers]

I hate this "no smoke without fire"

This rumour could have been made up by a school-kid in Cas town centre last weekend, which one of his mates has passed on and so on. All without a shred of evidence.

If something important like this would have happened, I'm sure Cas would have released a statement.

Spot on to be fair HT. To be honest, I should have known better than to even discuss it. In my defence, I was just a little concerned that if true, it may affect our chance(s) of a lifetime this season,

We can discuss his absence Bengal. I just don't think it's right to be discussing such rumours like this until Cas a) release a statement saying something has happened; or b) something is leaked elsewhere.

Other than that, I'll treat this situation as an injury.

[stevieP]

I sense it may be the same injury Sione Faumauina had but hope not.

[tigerfeat]

Either way tansey seems out of picture at moment wonder if dp will keep sneyd at fullback in comnents after game he said hed made change because dorn had had a dip in form

[Stan the man]

Sorry duplicate

[Stan the man]

In the middle of June he hurt his knee in training.

Depends on the extent of his injury but he could have just been out a month.

I really hate rumour mongering like this, especially without a shred of evidence. If anything like this had happened, the club would have released a statement.

Like others i totally accept what you say Hudd but whether we like it or not the club itself is responsible for fans speculating. You state that they would have released a statement if there were disciplinary problems, but by the same token surely they would have released a statement if he had been injured. Why not. Tansey totally disappeared off the radar a good six weeks ago and since then absolutely nothing has been heard about him. Its as if he has ceased to exist.

In virtuallu every case a player gets injured the club make a statement about them and keep you updated. For instance we were told Boyle and Fleming had suffered season ending injuries, that so and so player is still 3 weeks off returning, or has returned to training etc etc etc. In the local Pont & Cas every week it gives you an update. When Massey was out it gave you an update on him practically every week, we were told Channing had a groin pull, Dixon a broken jaw, Gilmour an operation and so forth on every single player that gets injured. On Tansey absolutely zilch, diddly squat, he's ceased to exist. So is it any wonder that fans will start to speculate, and try to put 2 and 2 together and yes maybe come up with 5.They pay their money and are going to have their say.

I agree with what you are saying, but you have got get in the real world. If the club are not going to tell the fans anything whatsoever about him, then the fans will try to make their own conclusions and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, to prevent it. To try and do so would be like trying to be a latter day King Canute trying to repel waves at the coast.

By the way I am not knocking the club for this as they are obviuosly taking the course of action they feel is best. I am merely stating that if you do take the course of keeping mum or ssh on anything, that the inevitable natural consequence is to invite speculation or conjecture and there is nothing whatsoever you can do about it. To think otherwise is pure folly.

[Grez]

Like others i totally accept what you say Hudd but whether we like it or not the club itself is responsible for fans speculating. You state that they would have released a statement if there were disciplinary problems, but by the same token surely they would have released a statement if he had been injured....

I agree with what you are saying, but you have got get in the real world. If the club are not going to tell the fans anything whatsoever about him, then the fans will try to make their own conclusions and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, to prevent it. To try and do so would be like trying to be a latter day King Canute trying to repel waves at the coast.

By the way I am not knocking the club for this as they are obviuosly taking the course of action they feel is best. I am merely stating that if you do take the course of keeping mum or ssh on anything, that the inevitable natural consequence is to invite speculation or conjecture and there is nothing whatsoever you can do about it. To think otherwise is pure folly.

The problem is that people will choose to believe what they want to believe. If the club came out with a statememnt that "Tansey has had a recurrance of his injury," it would not stop the speculation that there was something bubbling under the surface and the club statement would be seen by some as attempt to cover things up. Also, if a player was not showing in training that he was ready to return due to a real drop in form/confidence etc, the club wouldn't make that known in other circumstances, so sending that out as a statement would be so unusual, it would again be regarded as a cover up.

The only way to stop the speculation is by telling the rumour-mongers what they want to hear. If the rumours are actually not true, no anount of denial by the club will stop the gossip. That's the way life is, unfortunately.

[I of the Tigers]

Tansey again features in the pre-Hull match squad training pics (M Merrick on Facebook, pic 12 of 22) ..... ?!?!

[TigerB33]

Maybe he just simply isn't doing enough in training to be part of the team.

I don't see why there's the need for all these conspiracy theories