Well I don't want to bring in other teams' youngsters over our own either but thank FCKU for Jordan Flores. A midfielder who can also play in defence. That's exactly what GC should have been looking for since last season's transfer window. Slow learner, but he kind of nearly got there in the end. Signs him on a Friday so he doesn't get the week training with the team - what happened to Monday or Tuesday? Still .....
Blue mate I specifically STRESSED not playing all the youngsters. Then you tell me we can't play them all together! BUT that's not what GC thought last season when he signed six at once is it? The point to which you seem deliberately blind or deaf is that GC isn't playing ANY of them. That's zero, nil, none. And you tell us he's developing talent. Where? In the restaurant, in the physio's room? You bring players through by putting them in the team, blooding them, giving them a run, getting them on the bench. Like he did with Joe Rowley. But out of the 18 at Notts County we had one real youngster in Wakefield, then Brewster and Maguire who should be bustling for starter berths anyway............ WE and GC are bottom because that is what we deserve. We're failing both in the present and the future AT THE MOMENT.
But I'm genuinely hoping Blue is going to be right and I'm wrong. I'd LOVE to be wrong. I'd LOVE us to tan Port Vale. I'd love GC's moments of good football to turn into matches. But I meant it when I said our squad has baffled me. At least Flores fills a very obvious gap. He might give the defence chance to work and the midfield chance to provide some ammunition for our misfiring forwards.
I agree with Matt about our reserves except they need to play higher than the Hope Valley. Plymouth are in the SW Peninsula top section. North East Counties would be good for us. Those outside the squad on Saturday and academy players would get a tough, competitive game every week. I wouldn't be sitting here then and wondering how exactly Ricky German is supposed to go from being the centre point of every Junior Team attacking move, laying the ball off, directing play and scoring a lot of the goals too, to first team football against guys as big and strong as him who know the game even better. And we've got Amantchi too now. If Ricky can't make the breakthrough where does the lad go queueing up behind him? (That's exactly what happens at big clubs - the lad who IS ready, can't get a game so the ones behind him start thinking maybe there's be more chance at Liverpool or somewhere .........) This is why I get passionate and angry about this. In my sixty five years on the planet we've NEVER before had a batch of youngsters with the potential to make it. And we're bottom of the division and in danger of going out of the league with them having a watching brief only. We need to survive to develop the talent. And we need to develop the talent in order to survive.
The average age of the starting disaster at Notts County was 27 by the way, which isn't that bad. But the real measure is to look for players in the team whose career is on the UP by being at Chesterfield, who might thus improve. That gives us Donhue, Ugwu and Dennis, average age 24. Anyon, Hird, Evatt, Wiseman, Barry, Weir and O'Grady are slowly in decline. What being at Chesterfield means for Louis Reed I can't assess. But there's no developmental influence in evidence is there?
Blue mate I specifically STRESSED not playing all the youngsters. Then you tell me we can't play them all together! BUT that's not what GC thought last season when he signed six at once is it? The point to which you seem deliberately blind or deaf is that GC isn't playing ANY of them. That's zero, nil, none. And you tell us he's developing talent. Where? In the restaurant, in the physio's room? You bring players through by putting them in the team, blooding them, giving them a run, getting them on the bench. Like he did with Joe Rowley. But out of the 18 at Notts County we had one real youngster in Wakefield, then Brewster and Maguire who should be bustling for starter berths anyway............ WE and GC are bottom because that is what we deserve. We're failing both in the present and the future AT THE MOMENT.
But I'm genuinely hoping Blue is going to be right and I'm wrong. I'd LOVE to be wrong. I'd LOVE us to tan Port Vale. I'd love GC's moments of good football to turn into matches. But I meant it when I said our squad has baffled me. At least Flores fills a very obvious gap. He might give the defence chance to work and the midfield chance to provide some ammunition for our misfiring forwards.
I agree with Matt about our reserves except they need to play higher than the Hope Valley. Plymouth are in the SW Peninsula top section. North East Counties would be good for us. Those outside the squad on Saturday and academy players would get a tough, competitive game every week. I wouldn't be sitting here then and wondering how exactly Ricky German is supposed to go from being the centre point of every Junior Team attacking move, laying the ball off, directing play and scoring a lot of the goals too, to first team football against guys as big and strong as him who know the game even better. And we've got Amantchi too now. If Ricky can't make the breakthrough where does the lad go queueing up behind him? (That's exactly what happens at big clubs - the lad who IS ready, can't get a game so the ones behind him start thinking maybe there's be more chance at Liverpool or somewhere .........) This is why I get passionate and angry about this. In my sixty five years on the planet we've NEVER before had a batch of youngsters with the potential to make it. And we're bottom of the division and in danger of going out of the league with them having a watching brief only. We need to survive to develop the talent. And we need to develop the talent in order to survive.
The average age of the starting disaster at Notts County was 27 by the way, which isn't that bad. But the real measure is to look for players in the team whose career is on the UP by being at Chesterfield, who might thus improve. That gives us Donhue, Ugwu and Dennis, average age 24. Anyon, Hird, Evatt, Wiseman, Barry, Weir and O'Grady are slowly in decline. What being at Chesterfield means for Louis Reed I can't assess. But there's no developmental influence in evidence is there?