Comments like this baffle me. How can anybody know this? What gives people the idea that this is true? Genuinely curious.
Is that the season we were running away with the league, in what we keep hearing was a much better quality league than we have now? And suddenly he's not good enough? Even though he's been playing in better leagues than ours for the last 2 years?
To be fair I remember Bownsy’s last interview with Gareth Huish before he left. Gareth asked him “why leave now?” - He said he had a couple of offers at the end of the previous season (after the Worlds) but he felt it was going to be too much of a rush after the worlds + honeymoon. So it wasn’t really a “I wanted to come back to Cardiff” it was more of a “it was going to be too much of a rush moving abroad after a busy summer so we decided Cardiff was the safest option” Then he went on to say that he’s won everything in the EIHL numerous times (on a personal level and as a Team) so it was another reason to move on.
Now does that mean if Bownsy comes back he definitely won’t be motivated, of course not. But I’m not sure you can blame anybody for having concerns about his motivation. He’s done it all at this level.
And I’ve got to be honest Devil94 I don’t think Bownsy was at his best during that last season with us. I thought he let in a lot of uncharacteristically soft goals throughout the season. He just looked like a goalie that had lost a bit of hunger in my opinion. He had set high standards in previous seasons though in all fairness.
I’m certainly not as opposed to Bownsy returning as some are, I think he’s still a good goalie and seems like a great locker room guy. But I do have my concerns.