Especially at the lower levels I don’t think you can buy some of the value that experience offers. One of our biggest weaknesses in the last few years has been game management, it’s not something you can really teach but things are picked up with the more games you play. Look how often we concede at bad times, by bad times I mean within the first 10 mins, right after we score and in the last 10 mins.
Dawson/bishop/Mirfin/Gilks were the last I can recall that seemed to Marshall and galvanise those around them.
I’m not saying that experience doesn’t have its benefits but are they out-weighed by the ambition, courage, willingness to try new things of youth? I’m not sure.
I’d agree with you that many of the young players thrown into the first team in the last couple of years haven’t shown themselves to be good enough.
I’d like to see more of Wilson & Foster in time, whatever happened to Harvey Cribb?
