Quote Originally Posted by jackal2 View Post
Shaun Derry saw his ability and gave him a three year contract. Unfortunately, the managers that followed failed to give him a chance and instead spent however much on journeyman forwards.

It's a fact that our youth system in recent years hasn't been prolific in producing talent compared with the Mick Walker days of the 80's/90's, but that makes it even more galling that some of the talents we have produced - thinking of Curtis Thompson and Colby Bishop in particular - were allowed to walk away for nothing.
Curtis Thompson was just stupidity on Nolan's part but Bishop remember had to drop to National League North (and possibly lower!) Before finding his feet. He need game time that he wasn't getting at Notts and we didn't have the budget to wait. I would imagine that our current owners probably would have been willing but the previous owners knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing