Re: Done and McNulty
I don’t rate Leo Smith or Olly Marx but our current set up having a small squad and no reserve side is not good for their development and has been a wasted season for both.
The main problem we’ve had since we’ve been in the conference is that under both Moss and the current ownership is that the most promising youngsters are sold before ever making a first team appearance.
This then leaves us with less gifted players who we hope will be late developers and who we have given more than enough opportunities to before eventually releasing. I.e Clowes, Thomassen,Walker, Rushton, Royle, etc.
Overall we have given quite a few youth players ample opportunity to make it but unfortunately very few are good enough and virtually all are playing in lower leagues than us.
You could even say the majority of youth players we’ve sold to big clubs in the last 10 years are now playing in lower leagues than us so with hindsight we did well to get money for them.
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