SCIAGVision
You know the youth set up better than me so you know that in terms of the step up to senior level development it is rarely linear. There's always peaks and troughs and with younger players that usually is even more self evident.
Kelly suffered in the same way. The key point is do they recover when after something of a meteoric rise they suddenly go thorough a dip in form/confidence. Kelly may or may not get back to being the player we thought we had when he first broke through but there's still time. To write off Richards ( not referring to you here SCIAG but I've seen a lot of nonsense spoken on here about his abilities) who's been hampered with a few injuries along the way is extremely premature.
I mean I get that we're all pretty pissed off at the moment but I've even seen Loader (who was supposed to be the saviour a month ago) referred to as someone who's League 1/2 at best. A regular scorer for country at youth level plus reserve team level and someone we've nurtured since a young age just casually written off because he's not the messiah we desperately need.
The form of Rinomhota and to a lesser degree the pretty assured debuts of Osho/MacIntyre have been as good as it gets as far as any joy from this miserable year has gone. But those players, should they continue to play for us, will have games where they make mistakes too and when that happens I hope we don't suddenly all decide they're simply not up to it.
Time and time again over the course of the last 18 months the vast majority of the senior squad players have demonstrated they are woefully short of what is required. Frankly I'd just annex at least a dozen of them as being not good enough before I'd write off a 20 year old who, mainly due to the aforementioned injuries, has only made 14 starts in 18 months since his promising debut. he's got room to come back stronger and learn. I'm not sure that applies to half our current senior squad.
Yeah really good post, as usual you are the voice of reason.
Agreed. Quality, rational post.
Youngsters need to be protected during matches, having to cover for lazy senior players shouldn’t happen. They’re the issue here.