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seagull wrote:

Says in Times Boggo has requested not to be considered for future ties?



wouldnt be surpised after this week. If the Capt doesnt think he's capable vs Tunisia, and selects a player ranked lower than him, who exactly does he think he'll be capable of playing against?

Taking into account he had to come back from the states and pull out of events for the privelige of bench warming. I wouldn't be surprised if he says thanks very much, but i'll focus on my own stuff from now on.

 



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Yes Boggo must be very disappointed, but in 12 months time he might be back in the top 150 playing the best tennis of his life, and then he'll become an automatic pick.
If he was 30 I could understand this decision, too premature to cut himself off in my view.

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It's all just a bit sad and I'd be reluctant to pin much blame on Leon Smith, the damage has really been done in the past..

OK, Boggo is ranked above Jamie, but he is also ranked below Cox and Milton.  I would agree though that Boggo generally more deserves to be ranked above Jamie than below Cox and Milton.  However, he hasn't been in that great form and had missed a few weeks,  He was picked for the squad, they practiced and in the end for whatever reasons, James and Jamie were the singles picks.

Now presuming that is simply Leon's best judgement of who the picks shopuld be, should he have taken into consideration more the "Boggo situation" ?   Consider how he has ben treated in the past ( if he does accept there have been issues ) and the possibility that indeed he could walk away, and in the Tunisia tie he was at least almost certain to win the final rubber ?  Arguably yes.  I myself would have had to have seen Baker very clearly ahead of Boggo and have real worries about Boggo to actually not pick him here.  I would want him back in the fold for the future.

Trouble is though however honestly, fairly or not things were done, to pull him in in this way and then not select him always had a chance of really pushing him away.  And it is possible not everyone in the LTA would be overconcerned about that.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 8th of March 2011 12:41:40 PM

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I actually had a little chat with Alex and i think his DC future isn't necessarily as closed off as that times snippets suggests at this stage.

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