Quote from: Dante Lavelli on March 10, 2012, 10:40:22 PMI reckon we've got the points now and should start playing Herd and Gardner as the central two. Ireland ahead of them does loads of running so they'll get support.I'd also be tempted to give Clark some games ahead of Collins too as he could play left sided with Cuellar on the right of centre.An extra 5 games experience could make a big difference to their development and also affect who we try and buy this summer.Whilst i'd agree to a point to trying out gardner and Herd together, with Petrov maybe coming on after 60 minutes, you'd have to be a brave manager to do it, and a mite more popular than Mcleish
I reckon we've got the points now and should start playing Herd and Gardner as the central two. Ireland ahead of them does loads of running so they'll get support.I'd also be tempted to give Clark some games ahead of Collins too as he could play left sided with Cuellar on the right of centre.An extra 5 games experience could make a big difference to their development and also affect who we try and buy this summer.
For me, the interesting bit is that McL has actually given the kids some good game-time this season, and I thinik this is partially because he has not had the senior players on the squad to do anything esle but it is also because - I speculate - that KMac is there on the bench with him. This current crop has all be through the Cowans / McAndrew / KMac process and these three know best who has the physical and mental strength to hack it inthe P'ship.Fair play to McL for listening.As an aside, it's also interesting that since the crowd-reaction at Wigan to his introduction, our Emile has not been used by the manager ...
What process was that?
Quote from: Dave McLark Five on March 11, 2012, 07:59:09 PMWhat process was that?I'd guess prioritising the use of our youngsters. Houllier and AMc have both seemed keen to utlilise players from the yoof system. Whether that's due to necessity or desire we will not know but I like it.