[BaggieSteve]

I apologise for something I said earlier but I really question the value of having the Academy, if these rumours of loaning out the young players turns out to be true. We have a midfield that, in terms of age, is creaking at the seams and which, I feel, would benefit from the injection of younger and fresher legs, not necessarily to start but certainly to be available from the bench. I can only assume that Darren believes the current, older squad is sufficient to achieve promotion this season and that their experience and age will carry them through. If he fails to achieve it, I'm not sure where it leaves him because if the existing team does not go up this season, it certainly won't do so next season and they will be another year older; at which point, as Phil points out, we may have lost a number of the younger talents and Darren will have wasted a season when he could have brought some of them through. Right now, if I was Harper, I'd be seriously questioning the club's interest in my future.