Where are they now? - Michael Ricketts

Harry Genshaw · Post by **Harry Genshaw** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:39 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Him and newly-freed Lee Hughes up front. If it works, they won't miss Chris Porter at all. If it doesn't...

Oh God - I'd forgotten about that. You're right. Potentially they could have scored 20 goals each by Xmas but more than likely they'll both be in rehab by then.

NumptyNumbNuts · Post by **NumptyNumbNuts** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:39 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:I cant believe Oldham have given him a 3 year contract. Its no wonder teams in the lower divisions are skint if they offer him a contract that long after the last 5 seasons he's had. How many goals has he scored since he left us?

£10 says Oldham will be looking for a mutual termination by Xmas :crazy:

I'll have a wager with you on that - I reckon it's last chance saloon for fatty boy at Oldham & he seemed to be getting his act together at Preston. By all accounts he was released due to having a less than positive attitude in the dressing room as opposed to being overweight. So if he gets his noggin right then he should score a panful in div2 or whatever it now is!

I can't really lose cos if he does end up being chucked out again it'll be worth a tenner just to see his career finally end in the gutter where he belongs.

sluffy · Post by **sluffy** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:53 pm

Bump - best start saving up Numpty!

Ricketts rejoins Saddlers on loan

Striker Michael Ricketts has rejoined his old club Walsall on a three-month loan from League One rivals Oldham.
The 28-year-old came through the ranks for the Saddlers and made 90 first-team appearances, scoring 15 goals.

Ricketts left in 2000 to join Bolton Wanderers and moved to Middlesbrough two years later.

He has since appeared for Leeds United, Stoke City, Cardiff, Burnley, Southend and Preston before agreeing to go back to his roots in the West Midlands.

Ricketts has scored two goals in 12 appearances with Oldham this season.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 074795.stm

The gossip on ww is that Ricketts was playing well at Oldham and even won the Man of the Match at the weekend but was suddenly dropped for the midweek match and now he finds himself out. Attidude problem persisting perhaps?

A big thank you to DSB for updating me on the still only 28 year old, one cap wonder.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:58 pm

sluffy wrote:the still only 28 year old, one cap wonder.

And that is surely the saddest bit!

bobby5 · Post by **bobby5** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:19 pm

Aye, sad decline.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:20 pm

said it before
say it again

what a fat waster

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:49 pm

No problem, Sluffy. I know Ricketts came through the yout' ranks at Walsall but 15 in 90 isn't exactly a startling ratio - one in six, according to my toes. He also only scored two after February in his last season. Kudos then to the scout who noticed his potential, and Allardyce for bringing it out of him. Let's hope summat similar happens again for us soon.

aucklandbwfc · Post by **aucklandbwfc** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:47 am

why cant he re gain his previous best...? he's only 28 and did well for us for 2 years which should say he had ability as well as potential to get better...

is it management? or him..

i saw him and nolan in the ten pin bowlin place down at the reebok about 6 years ago after a game, i was with the ex missus, and after what was a dissapointin game that day thought id show the lads how to hit the back of the net on the elctronic game where u actually kick the ball attached to the string.

me missus scored, i missed, pulled a muscle in me leg in the process, and to cap it off had ricketts and nolan laughin at my performance. not long after the missus dumped m for some guy from bristol she met at uni. it was a bad year.

however i did have a minor laugh - as rickets had bog roll stuck to his flashy shoes. fat waster.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:31 am

it's been a while since i said this (it was nov last)

what a f ucking fat bastard he is.

sluffy · Post by **sluffy** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:01 am

Bump!

His career is still spiralling downwards!

The last we heard about the one cap wonder was that he went to Walsall on loan from Oldham.

Well the latest news is that Oldham have now cancelled his contract - which means that the 29 year old now becomes a free agent without a club!!!

http://www.oldhamathletic.premiumtv.co. ... 66,00.html

Muse · Post by **Muse** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:30 am

sluffy wrote:Bump!

His career is still spiralling downwards!

The last we heard about the one cap wonder was that he went to Walsall on loan from Oldham.

Well the latest news is that Oldham have now cancelled his contract - which means that the 29 year old now becomes a free agent without a club!!!

http://www.oldhamathletic.premiumtv.co. ... 66,00.html

What has happened to him? I can't believe he's still only 29. What a waste.

SuperWhiteWarrior · Post by **SuperWhiteWarrior** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:09 am

What a waste of talent

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:52 am

Kinda sad

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:41 am

Muse wrote:
sluffy wrote:Bump!

His career is still spiralling downwards!

The last we heard about the one cap wonder was that he went to Walsall on loan from Oldham.

Well the latest news is that Oldham have now cancelled his contract - which means that the 29 year old now becomes a free agent without a club!!!

http://www.oldhamathletic.premiumtv.co. ... 66,00.html

What has happened to him? I can't believe he's still only 29. What a waste.

Look at the state of him, he looks like this tramp that knocks around outside the Corn Exchange in Preston smelling of piss

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:34 am

Look at the state of him, he looks like this tramp that knocks around outside the Corn Exchange in Preston smelling of piss

He still lives in Preston then?

Leyther_Matt · Post by **Leyther_Matt** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:53 pm

Verbal wrote:Kinda sad

Yet, at the same time, hilarious.

durham_wanderer · Post by **durham_wanderer** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:12 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:
Look at the state of him, he looks like this tramp that knocks around outside the Corn Exchange in Preston smelling of piss
He still lives in Preston then?

He used to live in the new development of houses on middlebrook, used to know his little brother Marvin back in them days. Strange, Ricketts used to have danny higginbotham's signed derby shirt hung on his living room wall. Wierd.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:15 pm

Leyther_Matt wrote:
Verbal wrote:Kinda sad
Yet, at the same time, hilarious.

At what point does it become even mildly amusing? Let alone, hilarious?

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:25 pm

Muse wrote:What has happened to him? I can't believe he's still only 29. What a waste.

I think someone should put a Freedom of Information request in to check his birth certificate - he's never 29 going by that picture.

youngmc · Post by **youngmc** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:40 pm

I used to live near him at the middlebrook, when he got his England cap we dropped of a card to say well done etc etc .
I asked him a few days later if he got the card, he grunted then fecked off in his porsche, fat fecking wanker could not have happened to a bigger nice person.

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