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I suppose that now Lansbury will look at Darlow and Lascelles and see them on double his wage. I'd be surprised if we can match those sort of wages with a new contract so seems inevitable he may move too if money is his motivation.
I can imagine it's not that easy to get good loans in. If they offer too much wages then it can upset the current players egos and cause problems. We all want to see money spent and players arrive to steady the ship but not at the expense of team harmony (assuming there is harmony now!)
Offer too little and we get knocked back.
It will be an absolute miracle to get promoted this year with the problems we've had. Despite the fact my mrs is singing in the shower-it's not over yet!
Win all our games and hope all 5 teams above us have catastrophic failures.
simples.!
I posted the original comment. Sorry of you thought it wasn't a good post! My point was that even though the players now can't be directly compared to those of the past- I was taking out the players in the equivalent position to show how it could have changed our history. I used Withe because he left early that season similarly to Blackstock- and Francis because he had come in with a reputation (like Djebbour ) and was yet to prove himself with 'that goal' in the European cup. Who knows- if the 77/78 team had suffered bad luck with injuries then would it not be reasonable to assume we would at least be a couple of points worse of over that season? If so, there would have been no League title and no European cup qualification and glory. We may still have won the league cups in that period but without the league and European cups would we still be calling all the members of that team 'legends' or would we simply remember them as the good promising team that finished 2nd or 3rd but had bad luck with injuries?
One thing is for sure- we have had really bad luck this year. I do hope it isn't bad training methods etc by Billy and if just bad luck then things may even out in the long run.
Regarding the comparison with Keane- well, at the time Keane came through he was unproven on the big stage ( as is Lansbury) but he went on to great things with Utd. Who knows how many of our current promising players may go on to have great careers or who will fade whether it be with us or other teams. we all know the potential of some of our squad. I Just hope they make it and it's with us then all this discussion will be irrelevant when we are one of the best teams again. (for however long it can last)
You surely can't say that we didn't look good until Wilson and then others started getting injuries this season. Hopefully we can find our form again. I, as much as anybody, am really disappointed with many of our results even when we had a full strength team. A lot of draws may have cost us, but I am 100% behind all at our club through the ups and downs.
I don't agree with a lot of the negative posts but you are all fellow Forest fans and I would stand next to you and sing along all day long if I could.
Keep the faith. COYR
Great work Ed. Always good reasoned responses.