J20 wrote:
That's why the key bit is youth TO first team!
What's the point if having the best U20's in the land if your not going to feed them into first team?
It's quite simple, we give our young players opportunities, lots of them. If they're any good they play for us. If they're not any good, after somewhere between 30-100 games for us they go shipped out to lesser sides, like your lot hence why you end up with Pickersgill, Hulse, Noone, Penny etc and their may be more to come.
All the young lads get their chances, some cement their places like Cooper & Harrison, others don't.
The ones who get shipped out can't bemoan lack of opportunities, just that they didn't grasp them. At some point, all of Pickersgill, Bracek, Penny, Riley, Williams, McCarthy, Mitchell, Noone and on and on ... Have all been first choice, have all had runs of games in the side but have never done enough to date to become a fixture as others have.
You get the impression a few more might leave this year or get moved on to gaffs like yours to allow the next batch the opportunities to cement their places.