Legionited wrote:
It does appear that way, you have to wonder if we're going to use this season to try and get some of our youngsters into the fray at the expense of league position and hope that come the 3rd year of the franchise we have a team with a few more young and local regulars in it.
Interesting point that - I have long wondered when people say "why doesn't he play local younger lads and blood them" how people would ACTUALLY feel about that if we did exactly that this season and had 2 or 3 of the JETS players in the squad every week at the expense of some of our more veteran campaigners how long support for that would last?
Not having a pop at you Legionited, just asking in general. I often say I would be happy to get beat if we were preparing ourselves and benefitting in the longer term - but I am not sure that come Easter with 2 wins and 1 draw maybe I could stick to my principles; the terraces would be full of booing and the boards would be full of criticism for TM playing people who have too little experience and calling for some senior signings. Even though the experience would stand those guys in great stead for the 2011 season with all that experience under their belt - it is a tricky balance I suppose given we can't, on our operating turnover run a squad like Leeds for example and choose games to introduce a specific youngster in a specific position largely safe in the knowledge we will win anyway.
