Had a very good season so far and looked really good in last 2 U21 games.
Most will be unaware, but he missed most of his first year as a scholar due to a back injury, and started less than 5 games all last season for the U18s and U21s combined.
That must have been really tough for him and great to see he is doing well now, especially at the time when professional contracts will begin to be handed out.
Was a decent game, Ebanks-Blake got 90 minutes under his belt and scored a superb goal.
Loach didn't have a lot to do even though QPR had more of the ball, we played fairly well though and created a few good chances - Ted Bishop and Matt Clarke had good games amongst the scholars.
Says he would have liked to give Carlos or Ando a game last week.....
Difficult to have too much sympathy when he elected to start Alan Lee ahead of them.
4 overage players out of 11 should give you a good balance between development and old pros, our problem is that the overage players who have dropped down have been poor.
EDIT: And the club elected to pull out of the Suffolk Cup, that was an opportunity to get some games in less than luxurious settings against players giving their all - and help local clubs financially
This para in the match report seems to make out that it's a little further advanced than might be expected:
"Alternatively, Green could start on the right with Jay Tabb or perhaps even Ryan Tunnicliffe in the centre if a loan deal to bring the Fulham midfielder back to Portman Road can be done with the same haste as the recent move for Green."
Out of the 50 games that have been or shown, or are scheduled to be shown, 28 of them feature at least one of QPR, Leeds and Leicester.
Ridiculous how the same clubs are just on every week, and in these FFP times, when facility fees for being on Sky are basically a 6 figure appearance per game it makes a huge difference.
Doesn't look good for the boy, missing the whole of pre-season going into his final year. Surely if he was suffering with homesickness, the team bonding etc that would take place during pre season would make this doubly important for him - otherwise he'll come back as a bit of an outsider again?
