I was the sixth manager ........

Backo,

I understand that players need experience that's why we send them out on loan, but what experience is Rawson getting sat on Coventry's bench?

More worrying tommo is why is he on the bench?. If he cant get in a side bottom of League 1 I don't hold much hope for him here. Ive followed Guy at Port Vale and they rate him.

Rawson can't even get in to Coventry's team of strugglers. We preferred Baird instead of recalling him when Keogh and Shackell were out.

I have seen him play and thought he looked good. He looked a better player than Blackman, Man Utd starlet James Wilson and Andreas Weimann on the night.

Interesting stat from Talksport this morning - the German u23 team have 1200 Bundesleague appearances between them, the England U23 have less than 250.

Until you blood them, you wont know if they are good enough.

We need to give the young uns a chance.

He played last night Spart

When you look at the figures bandied about for Forest's youngsters you can easily see that a good academy pays for itself; Mel's putting money into it but has also allowed his managers to make the first team squad become as bloated as Peeder's midriff.

There are many good arguments for reducing the main squad down to allow youngsters to come through, but when we're also chasing promotion (allegedly!) there is obviously a certain pressure to deliver here and now, and that gets done with players that are 'ready'. I don't think anyone would have been complaining too much had the 'ready' players not been so disappointing, but now that we've wasted so much time and money on players that have collectively not taken us forward at all then people start to look at the bigger picture and complain.

It's easier for the likes of Forest, potless and sinking fast, to bring youngsters through. There is no expectation, and no crowd to apply pressure. There's almost an apathy to their lot at the moment, and their rays of hope are the youngsters. We have different expectations, different ambitions, and so aren't as willing to see youngsters coming through. Let's be honest, if Uncle Mel had bought the club and implemented a regime of academy players coming through rather than buying experienced players he'd have been accused of being too tight-fisted and being harangued to loosen the purse strings. Everyone here has the benefit of hindsight, but the truth is that our reactions to whatever course Uncle Mel steered would have been similarly critical in the advent of missing promotion. We're a long way off having spent big money, so we should have focussed more on the academy. Had he used the academy more, he would have been at fault for not backing his managers.

Me...? I blame Keogh.

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Yip Baz, hard to argue with that.

by Peeder - are happy days here again? (U1684)

posted 14 hours, 21 minutes ago

Interesting stat from Talksport this morning - the German u23 team have 1200 Bundesleague appearances between them, the England U23 have less than 250.

I would have expected the england u23s to have zero Bundesliga appearances between them, so that's got to be an encouraging stat

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