You don't win anything with kids (2 Viewers)

[Deleted member 5849]

f we survive because youngsters have learnt through the experience and are showing promise, they will go at the end of the season.

The Stevensons will. The Harrieses won't.

And they're the type of players who, if they were playing mens' football, might struggle initially, but would get to a stage where they have a certain amount of ability. Ben Turner's the most obvious recent example... and we did get a couple of seasons out of him once he'd gone through his growing pains before he moved on.

 

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[shelby76]

Of course not because they were better than the youth we had. But when we are developing Agyei/Wright over G Thomas or even Page over Haynes then something is not right. (Neither of who I actually think should be regularly starting in league one but when the loanees we have are playing...). And if we have signed loanees with appearance based conditions (purely speculation on my part) then it makes the summer's recruitment even more of a clusterfuck.

There have got to be appearance conditions why else would wright get a game got to wonder why you would bring player like that here and play him over our forwards . If all coaches were blind i would understand but everyone can see it.

 

[4waspsting]

if the budget is that tight, save the wages on these loans and give our own kids the game time and use the budget for something else

Yes like Legal Fees

 

[Captain Dart]

Never believed in kids myself. Call me old fashioned but I like the whiley experienced pros who are in their peak around 25-29 years old.

A kid can be as good as anyone but he can't get that match day experience until he has earned his stripes. How many kids are even that good? We've had Maddison and Wilson and been lucky to sell for huge fees.

Last season was the prime example very talented players in Murphy and Armstrong in particular but two major problems even when they are that good. One is they faded away and became non existent and cost us a top 6 finish when it seemed impossible and two they are both playing for better clubs in a higher league now.

Something fundamentally is wrong with what we do. Is Haynes any worse than page like the poster said above? Not for me

What you need is a range of ages but with a solid core of mid career players and a couple of veterans, get the balance wrong and the team will perform poorly.

 

[bringbackrattles]

But those youngsters had a team of Irwin Schmeichcal cantona Bruce Pallister Keane Sharpe & Cole - to help them - our senior professionals include Ricketts & Tudgay - enough said

Fair point. Kids need talent/experience around them. Hansen was adamant that even though United had good youngsters they still wouldn't win anything even with those players you mentioned.