Someone email Aidy and tell him to get bidding!! He'd be a great signing for us and with him and Marlon upfront I can see the goals flying in. I think however he'd prefer Derby at the present time.
look beyond the present situation. In january im almost certain we will be the more attractive club. Derby imo are allready down unless the find about 11 players that can all play. I think they have a worse squad than we did this time last year.
You are correct about Derby's squad but I doubt Earnshaw will look beyond the present situation and would choose Premiership football if the rumour is correct.
i have to agree i belive we would be the more attractive option for now, if i were in earnshaws position anyway!
January is a more realistic time for him to move if he wants to be a Premiership striker! He'll hope to have a good start to the season and a attract a club with more Premiership staying power than us or Derby, or he'll soon be dubbed 'the much travelled'
I was not impressed with Derby,they kept scrapping results and no way will they survive in the prem,that squad needs alot of new signings.
A team that came 20th in the Premiership, miles adrift from their nearest rivals and who only won 5 games all season? If any set of fans were capable of identifying another Watford it's us lot!
But fairness to ourselves, had the early season gone our way it would at least of been close. To be honest Derby just suck right now. They were lucky in the play offs. We hammered Palace and romped over Leeds.
It's very foolish to start lording it over Derby. Seems likely that it will come back and bite us in the ass. The fact is, there season at the top is in front of them, ours is history (for now....).
I seem to remember though we were a bit more attacking than Derby and not over-reliant on 1-0 wins... A few stats to ponder: Derby won only 5 times out of 25 by more than one goal, three of those wins coming against relegated sides, out of our 22 wins 10 were won by 2 goals or more. Their GD was +16 (pretty poor for a promoted side), ours was +24. In our promotion season we lost just four times away in normal time in all competitions (and still went on to have the worst away record in the Premiership bar fellow relegated Charlton), they have lost 9 and picked up fewer points away than we did (39 to our 41). Not to mention this: They also have a 31 year old bricklayer as their top forward who IMO will be lucky to match Hendo's tally next season. All of which doesn't bode well if you are comparing them with us and even if they manage to attract a few good players, as I mentioned last month short of wholesale changes to their playing personnel I can't see anything beyond a serious struggle for them next season.
IMO, Derby are worse than we were by a fair margin. Not a big one, but a fair one. Did you watch the Play Off final? West Brom were destroying them but couldn't find a goal, and then at the end they sneaked it and now they are off on the biggest gravy train this side Hollywood. Reminiscant of the first time we went up in '99, and look what happened to us then. We went up last season because we were the 3rd best team in the Championship by a long shot. Derby went up because lady luck shone up their arse for 8 months.
I agree My point was if we did badly, they're no better. I don't quite get why it required such a long post but thanks for proving my point. Much obliged!
Well, you quoted Sir Chez, who (when he said "who does that remind you of") was in turn quoting To pints of Lager now's post about Derby scrapping results and I was just pointing out that unlike Derby we did a lot more than scrape one goal wins in our promotion season, yet we still as you said came nowhere close to survival. I know it was a long post, but I thought people might find the points I raised in it interesting so it wasn't just addressed to you.
Hes not coming im almost certain of that. This is due to all the other players ie strikers being linked like Sag and Rad.
http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx...lid=45&lid=2&title=Earnie+staying+put+-+Grant Looks very unlikely now.
I've a mate who's a big Norwich fan and with his ear close the ground (dwarf) he reckons Earnshaw will stay and if Norwich are not in contention for promotion places then they'll unload him and cash in in January. I guess the trade off to that is if a premiership club comes in for him before then.
Time will tell, but I don't think there'd be any such talk if we were on the verge of signing him. Frankly, I think that lead is a dead end.
he cant be that keen on earnshaw if this is true http://home.skysports.com/transferarticle.aspx?hlid=472246
