He’s played a load of kids and can hide behind that to an extent but it’s not an excuse – because it’s not fair on some of them who clearly aren’t ready.
It’s just trying to paper over the obvious cracks by saying you are giving youth a chance.
I felt genuinely sorry for Ethan Young yesterday.
He’s an 18 year old centre half making his full league debut at left back for some unknown reason when we had O’Malley on the bench – and he was up against Paul Smythe, who had him on toast. It was almost child cruelty and as far as I can see served no purpose whatsoever.
Even if they were actually ready they’ve been presented with an impossible task coming into that side.
Gallinore and Moore-Billam (when he came on) weren’t bad – at least they were prepared to physically engage which was more then you can say for some of the others.
