18 Nov 2014 08:37:46
Mornin everybody peeps innit. Just want to say, at the risk of incurring operation yew tree, give me the youth. I mean, the idea of cultivating youth is to use it? These guys have lived football for years, they have played together and know each other. Take Cook, already won an International Tournament with England, considered by many as a stand out player this season. Apply the rule of not playing youth and he would be the first not playing, he is 17. Stokes just scored 3 goals for his country, Mowatt already made 40 appearances for Leeds at 19. Byram into his 3rd season. The hardest thing for good young players is to make the breakthrough, without it they are lost to us. Given the chance they could be immense in years to come. Remember, this is not just youth, this is M&S youth.

1.) 18 Nov 2014
Good point but they burn out easy and get injured and then take ages to regain form. Look at byram. Still only 70% his last year form!
I would love to have 7-8 under 20s with an experienced goalkeeper. Batty in midfield and a striker that scores. But if we suddenly lost 5-6 younguns to injury. We are forked!

2.) 18 Nov 2014
That's the genius of Redders Aus, he knows exactly how to use the youth correctly and to our best advantage. He has already alluded to the mis management of Byram. Look how he has played in his last couple of matches with Redders in charge. With Deputy Redfearn and his young talented posse, the future is extremely bright

3.) 18 Nov 2014
Nothing wrong with playing youth, if they good enough then get them in. As ausman says younger players often go off the boil so at that point, drop them to refresh to ease their growing pains.

Having said that you do need some experience in the spine of the team ideally, center half, central midfield, or a leader who doesn't have to be the most gifted player but shows the way for the others.

To me age is not an issue, look at SW, for me our best player this season to date, c Cook looks at good player but I would not drop Warnock unless he starts to play poorly, that should apply to youngsters/older players the same.

Main advantage younger players have is that why not try them and see how they do if they have done it in training/u 18/21 level etc, we all know about the likes of Murphy (poor), Tonge (ok sometimes), these players ain't going to change and if not good enough, I would play a youngster to see if any better.

Having 4-5 young players in the team no bad thing, but perhaps anymore may be a risk too far.

4.) 18 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014 18:44:34
we had a young team b4 and they played in champions league

5.) 19 Nov 2014
Aye upandaway and they weren't bad 'an all! Nowt wrong with young players. Imo opinion they are a bit more eager to get on with their job than some of the older heads

6.) 19 Nov 2014
19 Nov 2014 10:56:53
We have enough youth available in certain positions to warrant rotating between Youth players e.g Purver, Denton and then the ones that have already broken through