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12 hours ago, 80 said:

Of course not, that's why my post specifically said it's going to be a tricky balancing act in terms of morale and tactics. And the scenario I wrote involved two players being rested rather than eleven. Unless you see a 33 year old Trippier making 50-60 starts next season?

 

But a quicker way of putting players off us ultimately is not being in the Champion's League/Europe the following season. We're making it in by the skin of our arse this season, and it's fantastic. And the ramifications are clearly massive in terms of new players we can attract and afford, and current players we can hold onto. That's why the next stage for our club is to try and make that a regular, expected occurrence while we build our strength for actually winning the competitions we enter. And it's why, given how rapidly we've risen, it's probably going to force us to make some difficult tradeoffs - our current second eleven couldn't even handle Sheffield Wednesday this season.


Your post I replied to  was about going to Leverkusen with Shola and Lua Lua. Shearer and Bellamy weren’t rested they were suspended. 
 

I would agree Tripps is going to miss games but he should miss the league game over champions league, the same with our other quality players (if we get there)

 

Its a fine balancing act, you need better players and more depth to have any chance of getting back in but the risk is if you don’t you then lose those players. It’s just part and parcel of it all really. 


In reality if we get in we will most likely have (unless we get very lucky in the draw) 2 top quality teams so there is a good chance we only have 6 champions league games and with a slightly higher quality  squad it’s manageable to go for those games IMO without totally ruining our league chances. 

 

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Prior to January I’d have said he was nailed on to go back to Forest in the summer.

 

I don’t imagine they’ll want to do business with us again, but either way he needs to be playing.

 

For this system Howe plays you either need to be agile or technical, he’s neither. 

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He's not even 29 and a half. Thought he was far older than that for some reason, like at least 32. Aye, it's surely too early for him just to be a lad in the changing room. He could easily have 3 or 4 decent years at a yo-yo type club.

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On 26/04/2023 at 23:47, Paullow said:

He's not even 29 and a half. Thought he was far older than that for some reason, like at least 32. Aye, it's surely too early for him just to be a lad in the changing room. He could easily have 3 or 4 decent years at a yo-yo type club.

Aye but also I reckon he stays for a year to soak in the CL nights. Might get to play the odd game.

 

I think for squad size -  he'll have to leave this summer as we should bring in another CB.

 

But if I was him, if I wasn't pushed to leave, I wouldn't. He's been on such a journey at the club and is a leader of the squad.

 

Although I can see a situation where a Leicester or Everton go down or even stay up narrowly. They could bring him in, immediately make him Captain and have him whip a dressing room into shape and play a part on the pitch.

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15 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Aye but also I reckon he stays for a year to soak in the CL nights. Might get to play the odd game.

 

I think for squad size -  he'll have to leave this summer as we should bring in another CB.

 

But if I was him, if I wasn't pushed to leave, I wouldn't. He's been on such a journey at the club and is a leader of the squad.

 

Although I can see a situation where a Leicester or Everton go down or even stay up narrowly. They could bring him in, immediately make him Captain and have him whip a dressing room into shape and play a part on the pitch.


We can’t just keep people around on decent wages just because they are good characters. 

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On 29/04/2023 at 03:09, Ace said:


We can’t just keep people around on decent wages just because they are good characters. 

I would honestly make an exception for him, remember when he punched football into Faye

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26 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

Could be out for the season according to Hope. 

 

Can't afford any CB injuries like:yao:

If he is then Burn can cover Botman and Schar and Targett can cover left back. If the worse happened I think we’ll be OK.

 

 

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Shame for him. 

 

I've been very critical of the guy, but he's been an excellent squad player this season. Has come in when needed and hasn't kicked off at being mostly on the bench.

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