Don't need U23 fixtures. Just a reserve team made up of youngsters, out of favour first teamers and those coming back from injury.
Hasn't he done his ACL again?
There are no reserve leagues though
I bet he's thinking "Not again"
Wait, what? Lusala? The Lusala that a number of posters on here were calling on Robins to play and moaned when he didn't play him? That Lusala?
Just goes to show how short on numbers we were, because Robins clearly didn't rate Lusala or Stretton, but kept putting them on the bench, obviously just to make up the numbers.
You say this but some players develop later than others. You just have to look at 2 of our most recent “top stars” to come out of the academy.. James Maddison was 18 when he broke through, Callum Wilson on the other hand was still on loan at Tamworth at 20 and didn’t break through into our team suddenly until he was thrown in at 21 and we all know how that ended up.
Well the context is that clearly Robins doesn't think they are at all good enough and has let them go.
Has he? he signed a new deal in March I think
Then we start talking to other teams about whether they want one. If teams would prefer a reserve team at the expense of sacking off the U21/23, then it would happen.
Most teams care about their academy so wouldn't bother.
Yes, sadly I think that is the case.
Yes that's the sad truth.
Which is why the U18's exist. That is the academy.
