(06-09-2017, 01:07)St Charles Owl Wrote: Hold on guys, let's just stop for a second!!!  George Hirst is a good prospect, we all agree with that but he is only 18 and needs to develop but where??  We have no reserve football these days and while he plays in our development squad he has yet to make the England U21 or U23 team!!!!  I'm not sure you guys are serious comparing him to Owen or Rashford are you??  Rashford got into MUs first team due to all their strikers being injured but even the striker ahead of him now, Lukaku at team level and Kane at International level spent more than a season on loan developing!!  Even the academy football they played in is at a much higher level than ours is, we don't play the premier teams at Academy level!!!  

But ok, let's stick him on the bench, maybe even give him some starts but if he fails to score what will that do to him??  Our fans would slaughter CC if he started youngsters and we ended up losing!!  He needs to go on loan to play against real men and if he succeeds then he will come back and be a better player.

But I still maintain there are no clubs after him because they see him as a first team starter now, he will get loaned out so I want him to sign the contract on offer and move his career forward. The money will come for him if he keeps progressing but I get the feeling because his dad didn't get his move to Manure he is pushing George to go to a Prem team now. As I say, not sure what the club can currently do if all he is doing is chasing the money.

(06-09-2017, 09:47)Owlkev71 Wrote: Some young players are thrown in at the deep end like Owen, Fowler, Rooney and obviously prospered. Abraham went out on loan and prospered, even Beckham went out on loan. I think most fans are more worried about losing him to one of the Premier league teams for free than if he is in the first team squad or sent out on loan to some L1 or L2 team.

(06-09-2017, 12:44)Statesideowl Wrote: Wolves and other clubs have bought players that start immediately, or even hit the ground running.

We drop 5m on Abdii you never see him. Now Van Aken for 4m whom isn't ready?

Seriously, what the **** is going on?

(06-09-2017, 09:47)Owlkev71 Wrote: Some young players are thrown in at the deep end like Owen, Fowler, Rooney and obviously prospered. Abraham went out on loan and prospered, even Beckham went out on loan. I think most fans are more worried about losing him to one of the Premier league teams for free than if he is in the first team squad or sent out on loan to some L1 or L2 team.

(06-09-2017, 20:46)Was Wereham Owl Wrote: I honestly think this Hirst thing is getting out of all proportion , he's 18 and a DECENT prospect, if his dad wasn't who he is would there be this outcry ..I really don't think so, he scores goals against other kids, when I played , I had games against so called "Sunday league superstars", so easy to bully ... and that's what he would get (especially with his reputation), leave the boy to grow into a man THEN lets see what happens, the last thing he (and SWFC) need is some knob to try to enhance HIS reputation by crippling the boy ... andbefore anyone says if you're good enough then you're old enough .. there are VERY FEW players in that bracket, only Owen and Rooney spring to mind and owen had pace to leave ppl for dead and rooney was a beast .. neither of these is George Hirst to be honest ..he has an eye for goal , and THATS IT FOR NOW !!!!