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Jewell: Youngsters Could Get Their Chance
Jewell: Youngsters Could Get Their Chance
Friday, 2nd Dec 2011 08:47

Town manager Paul Jewell says he’d like to see one or two youngsters progress from the academy into the first team picture before the end of the season. Schoolboy Byron Lawrence, 15, was again training with the senior squad at Playford Road yesterday.

Jewell says while he wants to see younger players push into his team, you have to pick the correct moment to introduce them: “It’s a difficult one because you want to put youngsters in at the right time.

“I think we’ve got some good young kids. We’ve got Byron Lawrence training with us this morning, he got permission to get the day off school, we think he’s going to be a real prospect.

“You’d like, before the end of the season, to try and give one or two youngsters a chance. I’m looking at the bigger picture and the bigger picture is that we need to either bring through or bring in some young players. That is the way forward.”

Ultimately, building a team is about getting the right balance between experience and youth: “I think we’ve got good players here, good experienced players, who have been around the block, but who at the minute are not playing to their ability.

“But it wasn’t just the older players who had a poor game on Tuesday, everyone had a poor game on Tuesday.

“We are an oldish team, there’s no getting away from it, but experience is sometimes key, however, sometimes getting a blend is the difficult thing about it.

“I know exactly what we’ll need in the coming months and coming seasons and that’s a blend of youth and experience."


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DiamondGezzer added 09:11 - Dec 2
Roll on January !
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bobbyramsey added 09:19 - Dec 2
If now isn't the right time then there will never be one!!
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northstand78 added 09:24 - Dec 2
"Ultimately, building a team is about getting the right balance between experience and youth..."
So if the're are any players out there over 30..Come on down and grab your last contract at Ipswich Town.!!!
The has beens pension pot top up club..
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BlueBoots added 09:27 - Dec 2
“It's a difficult one because you want to put youngsters in at the right time."

The Watford game is the right time...

I'd rather see us lose 7 on the spin against Watford with a bunch of kids who would be excited about pulling on a Town shirt and play their hearts out, than watch us scrape a win with a bunch of overpaid "pros" who aren't even doing the bare minimum on the pitch at the moment.
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bedsitfc added 09:32 - Dec 2
blueboots - come on we need wins or we could go down so i would rather we got wins and put the young lads on when we are 2 goals up in the second half or safe from the drop.
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bedsitfc added 09:34 - Dec 2
also them getting thrashed by watford will only teach them how to walk off the pitch gutted
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walberswick added 09:39 - Dec 2
Is Paul Jewel having a laugh or just saying what he thinks people want to hear. Now you talk youth, after sending all the young hopefuls on loan and not signing anyone aged under 30. What a p*ll*ck.
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petermorris added 09:41 - Dec 2
Déjà vu - this time last year? - get the kids in…

Can't say I disagree though. Watched Bullard 'warming up' to come on last Sat, chatting to the kids in Brittania lower tier - he looked like he didn't give a toss.
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bluemike added 09:42 - Dec 2
The watford game is exactly the wrong time to put youth in for two reasons, the dire situation we currently find ourselves in requires the experienced twits who put us here to get us out of it, secondly coming into this team now would destroy the confidence of any youngster, it would be a big mistake.
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strikalite added 09:46 - Dec 2
^^agree bedsitfc, 'you want to put the youngsters in but at the right time' and Jewell is right and can't go throwing kids in especially in the situation we're in right now....even though we'd love to see new and fresh faces wearing the shirt!
I think he had hoped that the experienced players would(and should be on paper)be good enough to get us into the top half of the table and then introduce some youth to push us on and freshen things up..but certain players are letting him down, but the buck stops with him in terms of results and of course he knows that.
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BlueBoots added 09:48 - Dec 2
bedsitfc - if the players perform as they did against Burnley, Watford will need to have a shocker tomorrow for us to be "2 goals up in the second half"

I'd struggle to think of 3 players who deserve to keep their place from Tuesday's starting XI...
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raycrawfordswig added 10:45 - Dec 2
Thought all our young players had been loaned out
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Sindre94 added 11:30 - Dec 2
Hyam please!!!:)
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SouperJim added 11:49 - Dec 2
We could do a hell of a lot worse than putting luke hyam back in, as Jewell doesn't seem to realise that the complete lack of a proper holding midfield player is murdering us week after week.
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up_the_town4 added 11:51 - Dec 2
That's it PJ thrown an unproven 15 year old in a struggling championship team where all us fans are on the teams back. Time and a place and this is not it. It's not fair to the boy and also the team and fans we need experienced pro's to dig us out this hole they have put us in. He hasn't carried about youth all season iv seen Carson who hasn't played no where near as much as he should, i haven't seem leadbitter
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up_the_town4 added 11:53 - Dec 2
Put a better performance in then Hyam and I constantly see good things from Murray who is on loan to some1 diff again so why all of a sudden PJ is under pressure he's trying to give it the big1 about youth. Getting he's excuses ready I think!
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Tractamatt added 12:01 - Dec 2
Are not Lavery, O'connor young players who also happen to be good players,is Murray not a young striker who seems to know where the net is.Y et they have been aloud to leave or bee n farmed out on loan this sort of article smacks of hypocrisy and saying what the fans wanna hear when the people who make the decisions are simply running around like headless chickens.
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arc added 12:53 - Dec 2
Crisis? No problem--we have a fifteen-year-old ready to come in... (I think I know where this is heading.)
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simonsays added 13:04 - Dec 2
But how can this Mr Jewell? You have sent everyone out on loan!
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broomfield123 added 13:15 - Dec 2
I agree with blueboots. How are these academy lads going to learn. They play a lot bloody harder. Give um their chance and let um run wild and gets us lot more intreasted
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bluelady added 13:20 - Dec 2
Tractormat despite several trials lavery ended up in league two, ain't that good then hey! The others are on one months loan, play well get match fit and who knows! Kids playing when we are doing so badly could loose all confidence I think.
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alfromcol added 15:11 - Dec 2
Agreed bluelady, the introduction of young players need to be when the team is winning and playing with confidence. Neither of these is happening at the moment.

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tomisamos added 17:34 - Dec 2
^ what these two said. If the kids lose, it'll be Jewell's fault for bringing them in at a bad time anyway...
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bluelady added 19:37 - Dec 2
Tom he damned if he does and if he doesn't!
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tellitasiseeit added 11:01 - Dec 3
ALB and CODY CROPPER would get more than enough practice playing in the first team with a smattering of youth players? Would be far more entertaining to watch. They would play their hearts out for their own pride,and be proud to play for Ipswich Town? But at this present time very risky decision to make?.The older players should take more responsibility they take the money home,not the kids? COYB
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