Rhoys Wiggins

Rhoys Wiggins - Left Back!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoys_Wiggins

I wonder are we trying to get him in before the window closes tomorrow....

 

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sp...s_in_transfer_request_after_Watford_interest/

 

believe we made the bids in the summer and clearly he did want to come

 

Had we been any othet club this would have been in the media that we alledgedly wanted him and he wanted to come. But it seems we play fair as this is the first I've heard of our interest.

Is he any good?

 

It would be strange for him to make a transfer request now if he didn't think he was going to be leaving until the end of the season, so hopefully we'll be able to get him!

That said, I think Hodson's been pretty good for us recently.

 

Just the kind of signing I had hoped for, been to a couple of Bournemouth games and he played great in both, fast, a good crosser and most importantly sound defensively. If I remember correctly, he took a lot of their free kicks too!

 

Wikipedia says:

Rhoys Barrie Wiggins (born 4 November 1987) is an English-born Welsh Under-21 international footballer who plays for Bournemouth in League One. He is a defender playing at left back.
Rhoys came through the academy at Crystal Palace, playing regularly for their reserve side, whilst also turning out for the Wales U-21 team. His appearances for the Welsh U-21s also led to a call-up to the Welsh national squad.
However, tragedy struck in the pre-season of 2006, when he ruptured knee ligaments during a friendly against feeder academy Crystal Palace Baltimore, part of the Eagles' tour of the USA. He was sidelined for the rest of that season, and several recurrences of that injury kept him out of the following season as well. However Neil Warnock decided to offer him a new contract, seen by many as his final chance at Palace.
Impressive performances in Wales U21's 2009 European Under-21 Championship qualification play-off defeat to England led to Wiggins being given his first start for the Eagles' first team shortly afterwards.
However, this one appearance for Palace was not added to, and he ended the season on loan at Bournemouth. With his contract at Palace expired, Wiggins was offered to choice between staying at Palace or moving on, and he opted to sign for Norwich City. After failing to make an appearance for Norwich, on the 22nd Jan 2010 he resigned for Bournemouth on a months loan and on the 24 Feb 2010 it was extended for a second month.[1]
Wiggins signed a permanent contract with Bournemouth at the start of the 2010/11 season. He then registered the first goal of his career in a 3-0 home win against Dagenham and Redbridge. He quickly followed up this goal with a long range free kick in a 2-1 defeat away to Oldham a week later. This impressive form saw him receive a first Wales national team call-up from manager Brian Flynn. Wiggins wasn't included in the matchday squad.

 

Hes a left back, Thommo is right or centre back, Lloyd and Hodson can play either side and Hodson is rumoured to be off in the summer anyway

 

IS he left footed though?

 

Where's Hodson rumoured to be off to then?

 

If he's a good prospect, then i hope we get him as our team seems out of shape without a left footed left back.

 

yehuh

 

he's decent, I have seen him a couple of times this season

 

Taylor rumour dead and buried than

 

Whoever wrote the last bit on the Wiki page isn't at all bitter about someone wanting to improve themselves at all!!

Get it done!

 

Love it, Wikipedia proving why it's free.

 

GH must have their wires crossed. Just yesterday Malky was praising Hodson and he's been doing fairy well for us this season. No idea why he would be released!

 

Is he any good?

If he is, lets hope MM takes advantage of the situation, we could certainly do with a reliable left back!!!

 

What kind of name is Rhoys?
He's left footed and a left back. Sounds good, sign him up

 

My Bournemouth supporting mates have said that Wiggins is a decent left back who they would be gutted to lose. He loves a tackle, is good going forward and takes quite a few of their set pieces.
He's already been included in the last couple of the Full Welsh squads (although admittedly thats not the most difficult squad to get into). Wiggins has made played over 30 games this season and none of the Bournemouth supporters I've spoken to can remember him having a bad game.
Sounds v promising!
Get it done if you can Malky....

 

From the Bournemouth Daily Echo Thursday 24/03/11:

Wiggins told the Daily Echo...

"I was told early on that if ever a club from a higher league came in, Bournemouth wouldn`t stand in my way.

"I was told, more or less when I first came down, that other players wouldn`t be sold and would be kept, and a few players have gone...

"...it is a chance for me to further my career and I think Watford is the sort of club that ticks all the right boxes for me...."

 

I hope we sign him, I know his Dad and I've met Rhoys a couple of times. He's a nice lad and his family used to be avid Watford fans many years ago.

 

I just had a read of a Bournemouth forum and understandably they are a little cheesed off with Wiggins looking to leave with about 9 games to go.

Although there was one error I kept spotting on the board, with comments like "Watford come along with money bags and Wiggins wants to leave"
Maybe we should keep it quiet the club has no money..

 

We don't need money, we barter.

I hear he will get free sandwiches for all the games he doesn't feature in, a £30 HMV gift voucher and new football boots if he comes.

Having money is for losers.



EDIT: Besides, I don't like the way this guy has gone about things, he doesn't seem to fit our system of having hard working, honest players who will quietly work harder to get played rather than throw their toys out - hence why Deeney plays over Sordell etc.

Handing in a transfer request with 9 games to go shows a lack of character and class for me. Graham could have done the same thing, but he hasn't. Distinctly unimpressed by the situation he has manufactured himself at a club who picked him up as a Palarse and Norwich utter reject. Forcing your way out of a club is not acceptable.

 

Apparently his transfer request has been rejected according to the Wobby. Looks like we won't be getting him in this season. :doh:

 

Troy Deeney handed in a transfer request when we wanted to sign him and refused to train with Walsall...

 

Probably a deal consisting in hodson going the other way

 

Didn't know that.

Well, thats my argument out the window.

 

Also, if his family are Watford fans, it would be another reason why he wants to come up to join