| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age 15:42 - Apr 11 with 747 views | unstableblue |
Great to see the varied sets of views on who's been our POTY.. really from a field field looks like Morsy, Chaplin, Davis or Wolfenden
Just think that no matter what happens this season, we have a squad age that has SEASONS to mature to its best, seasons...
Humphreys - 19
(returning Baggot - 20)
Clarke - 22
Davis - 23
(returning El Miz -23)
(to be signed Hirst - 24)
Wolfenden - 24
Edwards - 25
Broadhead - 25
Edmundson - 25
Christ Chaplin is only 26... and the imperious Burgess only 27 - multiple seasons left
Just WOW!
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| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 17:28 - Apr 11 with 667 views | Sharkey |
Baggot never seems to get a game, so I wonder if he is injured at the moment or just down the pecking order at Cheltenham.
I always think it's a bit strange to to take a young central defender in on loan. If he's a success, you're just building top his value for someone else to profit on, and in general you're better off playing a battle-hardened pro in his prime. Perhaps my views on this are coloured by Colchester's signing Tommy Smith on loan many moons ago, - he was very 'promising' but so accident-prone in the box that he was soon sent back.) |  | | |
| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 12:28 - Apr 12 with 562 views | BigCommon |
| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 17:28 - Apr 11 by Sharkey |
Baggot never seems to get a game, so I wonder if he is injured at the moment or just down the pecking order at Cheltenham.
I always think it's a bit strange to to take a young central defender in on loan. If he's a success, you're just building top his value for someone else to profit on, and in general you're better off playing a battle-hardened pro in his prime. Perhaps my views on this are coloured by Colchester's signing Tommy Smith on loan many moons ago, - he was very 'promising' but so accident-prone in the box that he was soon sent back.) |
Think Baggot was a tricky one for the club to find a decent loan placing imo.He looked like he was coasting it in L2, before Gills had there own reshuffle umder new owners in Jan.. He was never going to get much game time here, ahead of Wolf, Burgess, Fridge, Keogh, (Ball?)..
He strikes me, as an "inbetweener" at this stage on his developement...Probably too good for L2, where he's not going to improve much. And not quite ready to nail regular start at a top end L1 side, Like us... Don't think KM likes the idea of too many players in the building, that won't feature much on our own matchday. So Cheltenham loan, was probably as much to do with keeping the decks here, clearer as it was, for finding Baggot a lower/mid table L1 loan...
We haven't seen a great deal.of him in our first team
But when he has featured,imo, he's looked pretty solid. Very composed player.. A player I really like tbf..And having quite some time left on his contract. Id like to think the club have, at least some plans to try and further develope him. Either, here, on the fringes, as like Humphreys, or with a good solid L1 loan next season.
Just depends, I guess, whether or not he can improve at the required rate, as to whether well eventually see him really break into our first team..
The gap between our first team and our younger prospects, seems to be growing at quite some rate, imo.
Ndaba for instance?..Had a brilliant loan spell at Salford last season, and looked like one who might have a chance. I wonder where he fits in now?
I hope Baggot gets his chance in some form. I like him as a player. And we've seen the improvement in Burgess under this regime. I'm sure Baggot could further improve, with the right guidance. |  | | |
| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 06:04 - Apr 13 with 473 views | Sharkey |
| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 12:28 - Apr 12 by BigCommon |
Think Baggot was a tricky one for the club to find a decent loan placing imo.He looked like he was coasting it in L2, before Gills had there own reshuffle umder new owners in Jan.. He was never going to get much game time here, ahead of Wolf, Burgess, Fridge, Keogh, (Ball?)..
He strikes me, as an "inbetweener" at this stage on his developement...Probably too good for L2, where he's not going to improve much. And not quite ready to nail regular start at a top end L1 side, Like us... Don't think KM likes the idea of too many players in the building, that won't feature much on our own matchday. So Cheltenham loan, was probably as much to do with keeping the decks here, clearer as it was, for finding Baggot a lower/mid table L1 loan...
We haven't seen a great deal.of him in our first team
But when he has featured,imo, he's looked pretty solid. Very composed player.. A player I really like tbf..And having quite some time left on his contract. Id like to think the club have, at least some plans to try and further develope him. Either, here, on the fringes, as like Humphreys, or with a good solid L1 loan next season.
Just depends, I guess, whether or not he can improve at the required rate, as to whether well eventually see him really break into our first team..
The gap between our first team and our younger prospects, seems to be growing at quite some rate, imo.
Ndaba for instance?..Had a brilliant loan spell at Salford last season, and looked like one who might have a chance. I wonder where he fits in now?
I hope Baggot gets his chance in some form. I like him as a player. And we've seen the improvement in Burgess under this regime. I'm sure Baggot could further improve, with the right guidance. |
His problem at Cheltenham seems to be he can't get in ahead of Caleb Taylor, another 20-year-old, on loan from WBA. And of course it's a problem for central defenders that they don't so often get subbed on,- some teams don't even have one on the bench, preferring to just move a full-back across in an emergency. (But I've no idea if that's what Cheltenham do.) Hindsight suggests he'd have been better off staying at Gillingham, but they had a major re-boot in January and maybe let it be known they wanted to play players who will be playing for them next season too. | | | |
| Building on the breadth of field for POTY, just also think about squad age on 07:11 - Apr 13 with 426 views | tractordownsouth |
I think of the four teams in the automatic promotion chase, we're the ones who are set up the best for the Championship, both in terms of finances and the age profile of the squad.
Just all about getting there now. |  |
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