Chris Westwood

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 7:51 pm

someone just wrote this on another board him n keates but theres nowt on bbc site

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3593

When someone first said, Keates, Westwood and Pead were all making the switch to Posh a few months ago I thought they were kidding now it looks like it's true.

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

You can't really knock him as a commute from Walsall to Peterborough is more than viable compared to Pools to Walsall and there seems to be exciting things happening at Peterborough. Having said that, there are a few examples of clubs throwing money at players in the lower leagues and it all going tits up

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 23000

He's now what, 31, 32? not too many years left in football. You can't blame him for topping up his pension fund.

Bovverbootbob · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 8:58 pm

westwud 'n' strackun boath @ petaboro
poshe hav gotta doo wel

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

My sources inform me the deal might not be as done as the Peterborough site is saying.

Nothing on the Walsall site yet

Frank_Reid · **Joined:** Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:45 pm **Posts:** 473

I think that he will be driving to work every day ..... just as he wanted to when he wanted to return to us a year ago.... They are happy for him to do it and as far as I know we were not ..

Frank.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 23000

It's a big difference Frank; if you use the M6 toll road its a decent run to Peterborough; M6/A14. Total 91 miles. You could probably do it in an hour and a half and stopping over a couple of nights a week it would be livable. Alternatively travelling to Hartlepool from Walsall is a nightmare which would take three hours a time at best. You'd soon get sick of that.

90 minutes commuting is about the outer limit for most people.

katcha · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2007 10:24 pm

i'm with TPP as i have heard same so far....

Frank_Reid · **Joined:** Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:45 pm **Posts:** 473

The point I wanted to make was that Chris wanted to come to us and the distance did not matter to him...

Frank

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 23000

Frank_Reid wrote:

The point I wanted to make was that Chris wanted to come to us and the distance did not matter to him...

Frank

I take your point but to commute that distance is not healthy. 6 hours in the car every day getting to work and back would not be good preperation for an athlete.

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

The point is....do we need him?

Matty_Robson's_Chin · **Joined:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:57 pm **Posts:** 2155

signed for Posh so no point going on about it now, along with keats

Saddler Dave · **Joined:** Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:50 pm **Posts:** 50

Nothing on our O/S at the moment. They're not out of contract until 30th June so it's all a bit premature.

I'm not exactly gutted about either. Keates is a good League 2 player but a 3 year contract (what Posh have supposedly offered him) would be way too long for our needs.

Westie has had a good season at right back. He's 3rd or 4th choice as centre half. We need a specialist right back so I can the sense in him moving on.

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