Curtis Good

[joeyt]

He clearly had a red box next to his name saying 'Ine' before the match

[NEEJ]

He plays when he wants,

He plays when he waaaaaannnnts,

Curtis Good,

He plays when he wants!

[Ryan_Taylor]

Poor Bradford

[Dokko]

Bet the poor lad feels like a right dick.

[Cajun]

I just saw this on twitter, didn't mention which player it was but I knew it would be Good.

How can a professional club field a player without knowing they're ineligible to play? Beggars belief.

 

Remember the Bowyer fiasco?

[Mole_Toonfan]

maybe this is part of our plan to win the FA Cup by any means? Agent Good has done well...

 

We should loan more players until we are the only ones left.

 

Good plan

[ponsaelius]

Hahahahaha get in

[Tiresias]

Poor Bradford, know a silly mistake but being kicked out the cup is a bit harsh

[nuneaton]

not sure wether this is good news

[Guest silkymarvoh]

He clearly had a red box next to his name saying 'Ine' before the match

 

They need to sort that out in the next update.

[TaylorJ_01]

Ahahaha, how does this happen??!

 

Hope he doesn't feel bad about it, poor lad.

[thomas]

Administrative incompetency can be transmitted through loan players apparently   this is great.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

It's nothing to do with the player or NUFC, Bradford have just fucked up.

[Dave]

Appealing the decision.

[Dave]

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10092926.Good_gets_pleasant_surprise_at_quality_of_Bradford_City_football/

Curtis Good gets pleasant surprise at quality of Bradford City football

 

6:40am Friday 7th December 2012  By Ross Heppenstall, Bradford Bulls Reporter

 

 

Curtis Good was not quite sure what he was letting himself in for when he joined City on a short-term loan deal from Newcastle last month.

 

The 19-year-old Australian knew little of English football other than the Premier League fare he had watched for years on television Down Under.

 

“I had no idea what to expect,” said Good, who joined Newcastle in the summer from Melbourne Heart after graduating from the Australian Institute of Sport.

 

“Back in Australia I only watched EPL (English Premier League) like everyone else. But coming here to Bradford for my first training session, I was really surprised. They’re all professionals and really good on the ball, so I just needed to adapt.”

 

Good’s initial taste of first-team football came during last Friday night’s FA Cup second-round tie at home to Brentford at a bitterly cold Valley Parade.

 

The defender admits he was probably at fault for the Bees’ goal but then earned lavish praise from boss Phil Parkinson for his fine display in Tuesday’s 2-0 win at Port Vale in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.

 

Good, who will be hoping to retain his place against Torquay this weekend, explained: “I’ve not really grown up playing against big, physical strikers and the first 20 minutes against Brentford were a bit of a shock. There were a lot of long balls and it’s a big step up from the reserves league.

 

“It’s something you need to experience if you want to make the transition because there is only so much you can learn from playing against teenagers. Playing in League Two is brilliant for that.”

 

Good’s story is an intriguing one. He went to Newcastle for a two-week trial in May and was handed a six-year deal.

 

He recalled: “I was at Melbourne and Newcastle contacted them, saying they wanted me to come over for a trial. I was shocked and as nervous as hell, I’m not going to lie.

 

“But Newcastle were great and really made me feel welcome. The trial went well and they offered me the contract.

 

“I’ve lived away from home before but Newcastle is a long way and I was a bit unsure about whether to go in terms of leaving everyone. But when there was a six-year deal on the table, my old man was saying ‘you can’t let this go’.”

 

For the time being, Good is more than happy to be learning his trade with the Bantams – especially with a Capital One Cup quarter-final against Arsenal looming ever closer.

 

“I do need this experience before making the first-team at Newcastle,” said Good, whose loan runs out on January 2.

 

“Bradford are a good club to do it with and in a good league. My reserves coach at Newcastle has said ‘opportunities will come, you just need to be ready’.

 

“It’s a bit quicker physically and in terms of pressing on the ball. Probably because of the heat back home, you’ve got a bit more time on the ball. But here you don’t have time to think and you need to adapt pretty quickly.

 

“And the weather, of course. I couldn’t believe it the other day at the Brentford game when there was frost on the pitch!

 

“But I’m really enjoying it here. My grandparents are from Liverpool. One supports Everton, the other supports Liverpool, so I grew up supporting Liverpool.

 

“It would be a dream come true to play on Tuesday because all my mates back home are Arsenal supporters. When I said I was coming to Bradford, they knew we were playing Arsenal and were excited.

 

“Even if I’m only on the bench, just to be involved in the game at a packed stadium would be great.”

[Guest palnese]

Liverpool fan. Sack the cunt.

[Mick]

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbcfc/10092926.Good_gets_pleasant_surprise_at_quality_of_Bradford_City_football/

Curtis Good gets pleasant surprise at quality of Bradford City football

 

6:40am Friday 7th December 2012  By Ross Heppenstall, Bradford Bulls Reporter

 

 

Curtis Good was not quite sure what he was letting himself in for when he joined City on a short-term loan deal from Newcastle last month.

 

The 19-year-old Australian knew little of English football other than the Premier League fare he had watched for years on television Down Under.

 

“I had no idea what to expect,” said Good, who joined Newcastle in the summer from Melbourne Heart after graduating from the Australian Institute of Sport.

 

“Back in Australia I only watched EPL (English Premier League) like everyone else. But coming here to Bradford for my first training session, I was really surprised. They’re all professionals and really good on the ball, so I just needed to adapt.”

 

Good’s initial taste of first-team football came during last Friday night’s FA Cup second-round tie at home to Brentford at a bitterly cold Valley Parade.

 

The defender admits he was probably at fault for the Bees’ goal but then earned lavish praise from boss Phil Parkinson for his fine display in Tuesday’s 2-0 win at Port Vale in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.

 

Good, who will be hoping to retain his place against Torquay this weekend, explained: “I’ve not really grown up playing against big, physical strikers and the first 20 minutes against Brentford were a bit of a shock. There were a lot of long balls and it’s a big step up from the reserves league.

 

“It’s something you need to experience if you want to make the transition because there is only so much you can learn from playing against teenagers. Playing in League Two is brilliant for that.”

 

Good’s story is an intriguing one. He went to Newcastle for a two-week trial in May and was handed a six-year deal.

 

He recalled: “I was at Melbourne and Newcastle contacted them, saying they wanted me to come over for a trial. I was shocked and as nervous as hell, I’m not going to lie.

 

“But Newcastle were great and really made me feel welcome. The trial went well and they offered me the contract.

 

“I’ve lived away from home before but Newcastle is a long way and I was a bit unsure about whether to go in terms of leaving everyone. But when there was a six-year deal on the table, my old man was saying ‘you can’t let this go’.”

 

For the time being, Good is more than happy to be learning his trade with the Bantams – especially with a Capital One Cup quarter-final against Arsenal looming ever closer.

 

“I do need this experience before making the first-team at Newcastle,” said Good, whose loan runs out on January 2.

 

“Bradford are a good club to do it with and in a good league. My reserves coach at Newcastle has said ‘opportunities will come, you just need to be ready’.

 

“It’s a bit quicker physically and in terms of pressing on the ball. Probably because of the heat back home, you’ve got a bit more time on the ball. But here you don’t have time to think and you need to adapt pretty quickly.

 

“And the weather, of course. I couldn’t believe it the other day at the Brentford game when there was frost on the pitch!

 

“But I’m really enjoying it here. My grandparents are from Liverpool. One supports Everton, the other supports Liverpool, so I grew up supporting Liverpool.

 

“It would be a dream come true to play on Tuesday because all my mates back home are Arsenal supporters. When I said I was coming to Bradford, they knew we were playing Arsenal and were excited.

 

“Even if I’m only on the bench, just to be involved in the game at a packed stadium would be great.”

 

I now see why he's out on loan.

[NEEJ]

I just saw this on twitter, didn't mention which player it was but I knew it would be Good.

How can a professional club field a player without knowing they're ineligible to play? Beggars belief.

 

Remember the Bowyer fiasco?

What happened again? He couldn't play for us in Europe because we didn't register him in time?

 

[Mole_Toonfan]

Liverpool fan. Sack the c***.

 

Until he realises he will walk alone he has no place here IMO.

[madras]

I just saw this on twitter, didn't mention which player it was but I knew it would be Good.

How can a professional club field a player without knowing they're ineligible to play? Beggars belief.

 

Remember the Bowyer fiasco?

What happened again? He couldn't play for us in Europe because we didn't register him in time?

 

was it not that we didn't register him as he was banned but then found out he had to be registered to serve his ban ?

[Mick]

was it not that we didn't register him as he was banned but then found out he had to be registered to serve his ban ?

 

Yes it was, we doubled his ban.

[Guest]

Wonder if he'll be playing against Arsenal on Tuesday?

 

Will be a Good test for him.

[Guest LeMacaron]

On the bench vs what looks like a very strong Arsenal line-up. Hopefully gets a few minutes.

[loki679]

Bradford City have been reinstated to this season’s FA Cup with Budweiser Competition after successfully appealing a decision to remove them for fielding an ineligible player in the Second Round tie against Brentford.

 

On Friday [7 December 2012], The FA Challenge Cup Sub-Committee removed the League Two club from the 2012/13 Competition following a breach of Competition Rule 15(j)(i) in that they did not have the necessary written permission for Curtis Good to play in the Competition, while on loan from Newcastle United, by the 12pm deadline on Friday 30 November prior to the fixture that evening.

 

However, an FA Appeal Board considered the Club’s appeal today [Wednesday 12 December 2012] and made the following observations:

 

a) The Board considered in full the submissions and noted that the focus of the appeal was to consider whether to expel Bradford City from The FA Cup was either unreasonable or excessive.

 

b) In doing so, the Appeal Board accepts that the failure to obtain and submit the acceptance from Newcastle United giving approval to play the player by noon on the match day was a genuine error and recognised that corrective action was attempted as soon as the omission was discovered and that no attempt to deceive was made. The Club are to be given credit for this.

 

c) The Appeal Board noted with interest that the representative of The FA Cup Committee confirmed that no alternative option than expulsion was considered and that the decision was based on “custom and practice”.

 

d) It was also suggested by The FA Cup Committee that “the rules are clear” and the Appeal Board accepts that to be the case in that the Committee has the ability to make such penalty as it considers appropriate and may remove a club.  This allows the Committee appropriate flexibility.

 

e) Having established the ability to make an alternative decision the Board consider the issue of reasonableness and sanction.

 

f) Firstly, the Board accepts that it is reasonable to expel a club where they have fielded an ineligible player, therefore, that element of the appeal was dismissed.

 

g) They then turn to the issue of excessive penalty and are drawn to the fact that the effect of any decision and sanction needs to be appropriate, proportionate and fair.

 

h) Taking into consideration that the immediate disclosure before the game, the fact that the player was for all other intents eligible and was only barred through a genuine administrative error of notification, that no consideration had been given to an alternative option that the decision was in the Appeal Board’s view excessive.

 

i) Therefore, that element of the appeal was upheld and the decision varied.

 

j) The Club are reinstated to The FA Cup Competition and are fined £1,000.

 

Bradford’s Second Round replay with Brentford will go ahead  at 7.45pm on Tuesday 18 December at Griffin Park.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Pleased about that, it seemed insanely harsh.