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Come on pal. Slater rarely starts in League 1 and Dewhurst didn't get one start in League 2.
Loved him and his team-mates winding up the Wendies. I'm hoping the club don't take a dim view of it.
Don't worry give it a few years he will revving away from a hotel in his new lamborghini
I can see both sides of the argument to be honest. It is obviously a big step up and the facts suggests that most kids won't make it. However, I agree that now is the perfect time to play them. All we have left are some dead rubber games and to me we have nothing to gain by playing players who won't be here next year. We used to use this time of the season to blood academy players. I remember Jags and Tonge playing well to at least give us something to look forwards to. Obviously, we saw Colin Cryan, Jonathan Forte and Tyrone Thompson as well but we didn't lose anything by blooding them.
24 September 2017
The answer to the question on the academy players is yes we would be worse off. Dewhurst is miles from being a prem keeper he’s yet to establish himself a league level on loan he’s got the tools but he’s not a first team keeper yet. Bogle looks to have a truly rare skill set that we’ve not had since the two kyles and slater was a makeshift right back at best in pre season he’ll play his career at centremid. Hackford and Brewster I mean probably wouldn’t have made a difference given we create very very little but Hackford’s maximum upside is to be where Brewster is at 20 but it’s unlikely.
West Ham away we were 2-0 down and they put the board up for 5 mins extra. I thought why not bring Frankie Maguire on as we've lost anyway. 5 mins later, Lunny couldn't be arsed to track Fredericks and he scored. That was my most disillusioned point of a bad season.
I don't really agree with the concept, and language, of 'throwing the odd kid in. A first team place in a professional side, especially a Premier league side, is like gold, platinum and diamond dust sprinkled on Scarlet Johansen's honey glazed knockers for 99.9999% of anyone who aspires to get somewhere in the game. It shouldn't be achieved on a whim. You should have to fucking graft your fucking arse off, overachieve at every single level you play at, train, train, train, nag every single professional and every single coach for the slightest titbit of info and advice, watch, learn, eat well, sleep well, live well and earn your chance.
You're right pal.
Regardless of what they’re like now, all of those had to go through a similar process of forcing their way into professional football from the academy system.
I'm not suggesting free shirts for anyone who wants them even if they don't merit it.
That's fair. I'm not opposed to chances for young players per se. Its the kind of throwaway language used (and I'm sure you didn't mean it in that way). A 1st team place is the holy grail and needs to be valued as such.
This is a mad post. I mean, in all seriousness, given how shite we've been, the answer is probably "yes we would've been worse off but maybe not by much". However, are you seriously suggesting these players are anywhere close to being at the same level?
Of course I'm not, I'm not an idiot. It's just an alternative view point looking back.
It's not as nice as it looks on teleOh and anyone thinking of going to watch Matlock...when we can of course...watch Dead Mans Shoes first
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