Oh dear Pooch I don't want to upset you because you are a great guy, but what else were you doing throughout the back end of last season when we had no chance of staying up and you were still giving your support to SEB at centre forward? Read your own posts. You even told me Ricky German needed to grab his chance - but he's started just one game ever and never got a game under GC, so he's had nothing to grab, despite his 11 goals in under 3 weeks. We had nothing to play for other than to develop a team for this season ...... Dancing and I were crying out for OUR youngsters to take the place of failing loanees all the time ...... and you stuck to the GC route. True you were full of Joe Rowley (can't remember you being sold enough on Charlie that you even uttered a whimper when I told you he was being pushed right out of contention, as he has been) but Dancing and I were crying out for Maguire, who only eventually got games because of his successful loan, we'd have played Wakefield and German too alongside Joe. We thought those games, had they played them, would have them ALL ready for this season.
You see we think Dylan Hand is going to look at what the young lad in front of him is doing - well that's Maguire and he's getting frozen out of the first team, whether rightly or wrongly. One of Dylan Hand's rivals, Willock has got a good loan going too. Dylan is likely to think that he'll get just as much chance at Southampton ..... We think the one advantage that being small and a bit crap gives us is that though we may not be able to give all the training advantages of a big club, we are ideally positioned to blood him and others in the first team. To give him games the moment he's ready. For a young centre back that can difficult physically . On Bob's Board they don't think Maguire isn't big enough ....... but I think he may be bigger than Hand. Willock looks as though he'd he difficult to knock around, but any young centre back is going to face a very physical challenge.
My opinion is our promising youngsters need above all to see other youngsters playing league football for us. They specifically don't want loaned in players to take potential places from them - especially when the team loses anyway. And why it gets my goat so much is that the dream for any club developing young players is to come up with a centre forward, because they earn you the biggest big bucks .......... they can change your whole club's fortunes. And why would a young centre forward choose US when our latest product is progressing backwards and we've shown every sign of favouring old men whose careers are dying and loaned-in Premier League strugglers ........? Dimaio and Brewster would at the least be bench players. Reece Mitchell would be getting a big shock when in every training game he was playing at full back and wing back ..... Kellett would be gone, Lou Reed too, Flores and sadly young Diego too unless he wanted to sign in January, because we've been paying them to win us games and they haven't. But that's just me.
Imagine had we played Ricky last season and he'd shown us something, we wouldn't have plunged a big wage on O'Grady who is taking us out of the league, because either he can't play with us, or we can't play with him. Had Charlie got even 7 or 8 games, would we plumped for the dire midfielders we've signed? Had we stuck by Maguire would we be worrying about the centre of a defence in which far the best player is a seriously-injured loanee?
You see we think Dylan Hand is going to look at what the young lad in front of him is doing - well that's Maguire and he's getting frozen out of the first team, whether rightly or wrongly. One of Dylan Hand's rivals, Willock has got a good loan going too. Dylan is likely to think that he'll get just as much chance at Southampton ..... We think the one advantage that being small and a bit crap gives us is that though we may not be able to give all the training advantages of a big club, we are ideally positioned to blood him and others in the first team. To give him games the moment he's ready. For a young centre back that can difficult physically . On Bob's Board they don't think Maguire isn't big enough ....... but I think he may be bigger than Hand. Willock looks as though he'd he difficult to knock around, but any young centre back is going to face a very physical challenge.
My opinion is our promising youngsters need above all to see other youngsters playing league football for us. They specifically don't want loaned in players to take potential places from them - especially when the team loses anyway. And why it gets my goat so much is that the dream for any club developing young players is to come up with a centre forward, because they earn you the biggest big bucks .......... they can change your whole club's fortunes. And why would a young centre forward choose US when our latest product is progressing backwards and we've shown every sign of favouring old men whose careers are dying and loaned-in Premier League strugglers ........? Dimaio and Brewster would at the least be bench players. Reece Mitchell would be getting a big shock when in every training game he was playing at full back and wing back ..... Kellett would be gone, Lou Reed too, Flores and sadly young Diego too unless he wanted to sign in January, because we've been paying them to win us games and they haven't. But that's just me.
Imagine had we played Ricky last season and he'd shown us something, we wouldn't have plunged a big wage on O'Grady who is taking us out of the league, because either he can't play with us, or we can't play with him. Had Charlie got even 7 or 8 games, would we plumped for the dire midfielders we've signed? Had we stuck by Maguire would we be worrying about the centre of a defence in which far the best player is a seriously-injured loanee?