Lincoln City would be in the Championship if it weren’t for injuries, according to a bold assertion.
Lincoln City would have become a Championship team in 2021/22 if it hadn’t been for injuries. We would have been promoted to the second division automatically if Liam Bridcutt, Tom Hopper, and Jorge Grant had not all suffered injuries in the last months of the 2020/21 season.
Injuries are once again threatening to overshadow a promising team. When I learned that Tyler Walker and Ben House were out for extended periods of time, it brought back some dreadful sentiments of sadness, sorrow that the best-laid plans of a club on the rise had, for the time being, been derailed by bleeding injuries. I can understand losing one striker, but two? Both for lengthy periods? It hurts.
I truly believed we had a decent chance of continuing a top-ten drive, perhaps even a run to the top six, but going two or three months without either of our primary attackers will make that extremely tough. If Danny Mandroiu’s injury lasts longer than predicted, we’ll be severely thin up front until the holidays.
At this point, all of the clickbait websites will offer you with a list of free agents we might sign to fill the void. Spoiler alert: I’m not sure we’ll take that path. Jack Vale should be back in a couple of weeks; we have Reeco, who can play centrally, and that should be enough to carry us through until November, when Tyler should be back on the pitch.
Still, why send traffic to such clickbait sites when I could just list the free-agent strikers from England and Ireland here for you? The goal is to demonstrate that, despite our dilemma, there isn’t much we can do in terms of free agents, rather than to say that they are the guys we’ll be signing.
