Alex Harvey-Jones 0 Posted January 15, 2007 I was gutted to hear that Earnie was injured .... my worst nightmare in fact.......and am praying that it isn''t as serious as feared. Without Earnshaw''s goals we would surely be deep in trouble by now and probably in the relegation zone - any team is going to miss a striker who has scored 17 goals in just over half a season! Unless signings are made and we find someone else who can score regularly it will surely spell disaster and probably the unthinkable - relegation........It was this thought though that got me thinking..... maybe Earnie''s injury can be viewed as a blessing in disguise!? Let me explain.... and before anyone has a go, I''m not pleased he''s injured and I''m not wishing an injury on a player! As I said, I think that with Earnie out of the equation our chances of survival have really taken a turn for the worst if we don''t bring in serious reinforcements and a proven goalscorer. Surely Grant and the board are aware of this - even they must surely know our survival is hanging largely on Earnie''s goals!!?? Now with no goal machine, our need for new blood is greater than ever. This may just be the desperate situation we to force the board to open the purse strings and spend some serious money bringing in real quality - not cheap signings, not fringe players but real quality......For me the ideal scenario resulting from this unfortunate and dreadful injury would be that we sign a top quality goalscorer in january e.g. Mcleod, Kabba, Eastwood etc and then Earnie recovers from his injury much more quickly than expected, leaving us with two target men in Brown and Dublin and and two other quality strikers! Tragedy his injury certainly is, but this cloud may just have a silver lining......I wait with baited breath!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marty 0 Posted January 16, 2007 true to a cetain extent, but it just depends on how detrimental it is to us in the meantime. It may help the people in charge do something positive to prevent our reliance on one player and then a again we might be relegated without out no.1 goalscorer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canary02 0 Posted January 16, 2007 I''m with Marty. I''d prefer to have Earnie fit and soldiered on, but a replacement will certainly add to the squad (which we''d probably have needed to do in the summer anyway - how long has it been since we had a threat from the bench?). It might be that we go for a loan player. Aliadiare possibly? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
