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Offline Holte L2

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #225 on: April 18, 2017, 02:26:34 PM »
Colin Gibson, Gary Williams, Alan Wright, we must have had a decent left back since these but I'm buggered if I can think of him.
Staunton?

Staunton and Alan Wright are the only decent ones I've seen in my lieftime.  Bouma was average.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #226 on: April 18, 2017, 04:51:35 PM »
Wouldn't mind Carrick next season

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #227 on: April 18, 2017, 06:15:57 PM »
Wouldn't mind Carrick next season

Yeah, adds a bit of much needed pace to our team.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #228 on: April 18, 2017, 06:26:48 PM »
Wouldn't mind Carrick next season

Yeah, adds a bit of much needed pace to our team.

Along with jedinak and gardner on mobility scooters

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #229 on: April 18, 2017, 06:54:02 PM »
Wouldn't mind Carrick next season
But we had the next Carrick and sold him in January :-)

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #230 on: April 18, 2017, 08:07:59 PM »
Colin Gibson, Gary Williams, Alan Wright, we must have had a decent left back since these but I'm buggered if I can think of him.
Staunton?

Staunton and Alan Wright are the only decent ones I've seen in my lieftime.  Bouma was average.

Alan Wright got dogs abuse a lot of the time he was the 'scapegoat' player of his day
he is also my eldest lads favourite Villa player not best player just his favourite


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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #231 on: April 18, 2017, 08:17:30 PM »
Colin Gibson, Gary Williams, Alan Wright, we must have had a decent left back since these but I'm buggered if I can think of him.
Staunton?

Staunton and Alan Wright are the only decent ones I've seen in my lieftime.  Bouma was average.

Alan Wright got dogs abuse a lot of the time he was the 'scapegoat' player of his day
he is also my eldest lads favourite Villa player not best player just his favourite



I remember the end of season "video" that year and the abuse Wright and Gary Charles got. Then wondered if everyone else happened to notice just how many goals the set up?

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #232 on: April 18, 2017, 10:37:43 PM »
John Percy is reporting that Ross McCormack hasn't trained at Forest for 3 weeks. He's definitely on the 'get rid' list, if anyone will take him.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #233 on: April 18, 2017, 11:07:34 PM »
No-one in their right mind will take a risk on him.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #234 on: April 18, 2017, 11:08:21 PM »
Those gates must be well and truly knackered.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #235 on: April 18, 2017, 11:19:24 PM »
John Percy is reporting that Ross McCormack hasn't trained at Forest for 3 weeks. He's definitely on the 'get rid' list, if anyone will take him.

To be fair to him, he has been consistent about his attitude to training. He just doesn't like it.


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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #236 on: April 18, 2017, 11:33:16 PM »
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Ross McCormack’s troubled season has taken a fresh twist after it emerged he has not trained at Nottingham Forest for three weeks.

McCormack, Aston Villa’s £12 million striker, has been unavailable for Forest’s relegation battle due to “personal issues” and is unlikely to play again this season.

It is understood the Scotland international was struggling with an Achilles injury last month but he has not reported for treatment at either Forest or Villa, his parent club.

Forest have declined to comment or clarify the reasons behind his absence, but it is believed the issues are both personal and health related and serious enough for him to have been away from the club for nearly a month. Sources allege he was recently back in Glasgow, nearly 300 miles away from Forest’s City Ground.

Forest are paying a huge chunk of his £48,000-a-week wages, after agreeing to sign him on loan on deadline day, but he has not featured in Mark Warburton’s match-day squad since the 2-2 draw with Derby County on March 18.

McCormack’s absence is the latest incident in a difficult campaign for the 30-year-old, following his spectacular fallout with Villa manager Steve Bruce in January.

He failed to report for training after insisting the electric gates at his home were stuck, infuriating Bruce, who then exiled him from the first-team squad.

Bruce also said he would not pick him again until he apologised, shipping him out to Forest on loan hours before the transfer window closed.

Villa will move to sell the former Fulham striker in the summer but his problems come at a bad time for Forest, who are fighting to avoid relegation to League One.

His arrival was seen as a major coup for the Championship strugglers, as McCormack scored 23 goals for Fulham last season. But he has scored only once, in the 5-1 defeat at Norwich shortly before Warburton’s appointment.

Forest’s defeat at Cardiff on Easter Monday left them just one point above the bottom three, ahead of Saturday’s home game against Reading.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #237 on: April 18, 2017, 11:52:01 PM »
John Percy is reporting that Ross McCormack hasn't trained at Forest for 3 weeks. He's definitely on the 'get rid' list, if anyone will take him.

To be fair to him, he has been consistent about his attitude to training. He just doesn't like it.

Hint of a Berahino situation about big mac now. No-one will take him and the club is nowhere near strong enough to contemplate rehabilitating him through whatever issues he is going through.

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #238 on: April 19, 2017, 12:13:18 AM »
If it's off the field stuff and he's not mentally fit to play are we still stuck with paying up all of the remainder of his contract?

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Re: Summer Sells , Buys, Loans, Bomb Squaders
« Reply #239 on: April 19, 2017, 12:17:08 AM »
Sorry to skip past the training and attitude and fitness issues but something from that article jumped out at me.

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Forest are paying a huge chunk of his £48,000-a-week wage

HOW MUCH???!!!! Bloody hell, that surely can't be right?

 


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