Doodle Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 11 minutes ago, ronnieronalde said: Youre arguing about a hypothetical set of ramnut made up circumstances that could never and will never happen. Fair play. Happy Sunday ? Need something to occupy the days on international breaks ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 @curtains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 If you're good enough, you're old/young enough. Yes, we've got fan expectations to think about, if we start throwing youngsters in but what about Mel's expectations? At some point we need to be promoted to have any chance of him getting any return on his investment. He's the one bankrolling the club - would he be OK with us finishing 7th but having a couple of kids playing regularly. If he has addressed this, I've missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 34 minutes ago, Wolfie said: If you're good enough, you're old/young enough. Yes, we've got fan expectations to think about, if we start throwing youngsters in but what about Mel's expectations? At some point we need to be promoted to have any chance of him getting any return on his investment. He's the one bankrolling the club - would he be OK with us finishing 7th but having a couple of kids playing regularly. If he has addressed this, I've missed it. He talked about it at the recent fans forum. He basically said if we want to take a chance on playing a larger number of young players we would need to align our expectations accordingly, Mel however doesn't believe that we as a club are ready to do that. In my personal opinion it's great when a young player bursts through but it can go the other way if you play too many of them. You can potentially put young lads in high pressure situations and if they start to struggle and the fans turn you can kill their confidence. As with all things there is a balance, just throwing the kids in and hoping they manage to swim instead of sinking isn't a sensible thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FindernRam Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 When legs go they go suddenly and its not always easy to predict when, that's why a lot of clubs only put 30+ players on short contracts. Look at me: Last year I could catch my 21/2 year old Grandson, this year I can't. Mind you I'm 68 3/4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramblur Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 9 hours ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said: He talked about it at the recent fans forum. He basically said if we want to take a chance on playing a larger number of young players we would need to align our expectations accordingly, Mel however doesn't believe that we as a club are ready to do that. In my personal opinion it's great when a young player bursts through but it can go the other way if you play too many of them. You can potentially put young lads in high pressure situations and if they start to struggle and the fans turn you can kill their confidence. As with all things there is a balance, just throwing the kids in and hoping they manage to swim instead of sinking isn't a sensible thing to do. The big problem, as I see it, is that the best time to introduce youngsters is when the team is playing well. However, if the team's playing well, there's a good chance we'll be vying for promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 On 25 March 2018 at 08:02, coneheadjohn said: Like Logan’s Run? Anybody over30 gets vaporised automatically? No that would be ridiculous......... 35 fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 if we promoted the u23s... Carson wisdom. Keogh. Davies. New . Elsnik. Huddlestone Lawrence. Vydra. Weimann . New . Roos New Pearce. Hanson. Lowe . Thorne. Guy Thomas. Vernam. Bennett . new we wouldn't need a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europia Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 On 3/24/2018 at 17:04, ronnieronalde said: What would you do if you couldn't sell the 30 year olds? Shoot them? Well, the World Cup is in Russia this year, so you never know..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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