| Oldest youngest player 08:51 - Jun 5 with 1211 views | NedPlimpton |
Just seen a PL Instagram post that showed the youngest players to play for each club in the league this season. Omari was ours at 20years and 292days.
Every other club's youngest player was well under 19 years old. So we had the oldest youngest player in the league this season
That's quite a sad state of affairs. I appreciate we've got a young squad overall but to have no young'uns coming through and getting some minutes when our relegation was confirmed isn't great |  | | |  |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:18 - Jun 5 with 1098 views | bsw72 |
I think you are looking at it the wrong way - all the other clubs in the PL this season had more players with PL experience in their squads, therefore are able to blood younger players and still have enough experience of the league around them.
If we had tried to throw in our youngsters alongside our inexperienced first teamers, every chance it would have been soul destroying for them. |  | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:22 - Jun 5 with 1076 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
I’m not sure there’s much to read into that. When you are trying to scrape survival in your first time back in the PL for 2 decades, giving youngsters some playing time is a luxury we couldn’t afford.
If you are established in the PL and capable of holding a win then sure give them a few minutes at the end. For us we were largely chasing games, or desperately trying to cling on. If anything we lacked experience- not youth. [Post edited 5 Jun 9:22]
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| Oldest youngest player on 09:25 - Jun 5 with 1050 views | _clive_baker_ |
I'd say you're reading far too much into that statistic. What's the significance of our youngest player being 1 year older than others?
Hutchinson, Philogene, Jack Clarke, Greaves, Delap, Enciso were all 24 or younger.
O'Shea, Davis, Hirst, Johnson, Woolfy all 25 / 26.
Other than central midfield you could pretty much build our best outfield side out of players aged 20 - 26. |  | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:34 - Jun 5 with 1016 views | NedPlimpton |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:25 - Jun 5 by _clive_baker_ |
I'd say you're reading far too much into that statistic. What's the significance of our youngest player being 1 year older than others?
Hutchinson, Philogene, Jack Clarke, Greaves, Delap, Enciso were all 24 or younger.
O'Shea, Davis, Hirst, Johnson, Woolfy all 25 / 26.
Other than central midfield you could pretty much build our best outfield side out of players aged 20 - 26. |
2 years older. The next youngest was 18 and a hundred days or so. That's quite a big gap
Just used to quite like seeing the younger players getting a run out towards the end of the season, but it looks like we don't have anyone coming through that's worthy of that
Fully appreciate we've got a way to go to catch up on other clubs but doesn't feel like a particularly good sign of where our academy is at | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:51 - Jun 5 with 971 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:22 - Jun 5 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
I’m not sure there’s much to read into that. When you are trying to scrape survival in your first time back in the PL for 2 decades, giving youngsters some playing time is a luxury we couldn’t afford.
If you are established in the PL and capable of holding a win then sure give them a few minutes at the end. For us we were largely chasing games, or desperately trying to cling on. If anything we lacked experience- not youth. [Post edited 5 Jun 9:22]
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Reflects the status of our academy compared, for example, with say Southampton. |  |
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| Oldest youngest player on 09:54 - Jun 5 with 963 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:34 - Jun 5 by NedPlimpton |
2 years older. The next youngest was 18 and a hundred days or so. That's quite a big gap
Just used to quite like seeing the younger players getting a run out towards the end of the season, but it looks like we don't have anyone coming through that's worthy of that
Fully appreciate we've got a way to go to catch up on other clubs but doesn't feel like a particularly good sign of where our academy is at |
I bet a lot of them didn't play as much as Hutchinson though. We could've stuck Boniface on for 10 minutes against Newcastle and suddenly we're not having this conversation. I think its a pretty meaningless stat tbh. | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:59 - Jun 5 with 941 views | NedPlimpton |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:54 - Jun 5 by _clive_baker_ |
I bet a lot of them didn't play as much as Hutchinson though. We could've stuck Boniface on for 10 minutes against Newcastle and suddenly we're not having this conversation. I think its a pretty meaningless stat tbh. |
But we didn't. So the point that our youngest player was 2 years older than the next youngest player still stands
I'm not really reading too much into it other than saying that it's kinda sad that we didn't have the usual couple of kids coming on for their first taste of league football in the last couple of games of the season | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 11:07 - Jun 5 with 834 views | EuanTown |
Would always question omari's game time over the season compared to the others. If they had a 18 year old who played nearly every game then fair play, but you also got those players around them to assist and support with age and experience to boot. |  | | |
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| Oldest youngest player on 12:51 - Jun 5 with 727 views | bsw72 |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:51 - Jun 5 by Pinewoodblue |
Reflects the status of our academy compared, for example, with say Southampton. |
No - reflects the status of academies in the past, say upwards of 4 years ago, as that is when decisions are being made by up coming players on which academy to sign at as 14/15 year olds who are now breaking into first team squads 3+ years later . . . | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:12 - Jun 5 with 687 views | NedPlimpton |
| Oldest youngest player on 12:51 - Jun 5 by bsw72 |
No - reflects the status of academies in the past, say upwards of 4 years ago, as that is when decisions are being made by up coming players on which academy to sign at as 14/15 year olds who are now breaking into first team squads 3+ years later . . . |
That was more my feeling
Although there was some noise on here the other day around the academy still not getting the attention it probably needs | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:15 - Jun 5 with 674 views | positivity |
it's all relative; we haven't put out a league team as young as the one v forest for over 3 years.
we seem to be heading in the right direction... | |
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| Oldest youngest player on 13:19 - Jun 5 with 658 views | Vaughan8 |
A meaningless stat really.
I'd hazard a guess a lot of the other clubs have players in their academies etc which are going to sit on the bench and can be brought on if the scoreline is not in doubt. We don't really have anyone like that.
I wonder if you said "played in a minimum 5 games", what the ages would look like. | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:20 - Jun 5 with 648 views | Parmigiano |
For a bit of context, the average age of our squad was the 9th youngest in the league this season. |  | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:22 - Jun 5 with 631 views | NedPlimpton |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:20 - Jun 5 by Parmigiano |
For a bit of context, the average age of our squad was the 9th youngest in the league this season. |
Not sure what context that adds?
Our squad was pretty much middle of the pack in terms of age then | | | |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:29 - Jun 5 with 563 views | Parmigiano |
| Oldest youngest player on 13:22 - Jun 5 by NedPlimpton |
Not sure what context that adds?
Our squad was pretty much middle of the pack in terms of age then |
That's literally the context I was going for, that we were middle of the pack. Your OP suggests we were the worst in the league at giving youth a chance.
Edit: just re-read your OP and you did say "we have a young squad overall" so fair play. [Post edited 5 Jun 13:32]
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| Oldest youngest player on 15:46 - Jun 5 with 389 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Oldest youngest player on 09:18 - Jun 5 by bsw72 |
I think you are looking at it the wrong way - all the other clubs in the PL this season had more players with PL experience in their squads, therefore are able to blood younger players and still have enough experience of the league around them.
If we had tried to throw in our youngsters alongside our inexperienced first teamers, every chance it would have been soul destroying for them. |
It was interesting that both Tommy Taylor and Boniface were on the bench a few times but were never given pitch time. Clearly we were never in a position that McKenna felt it would have done them any good coming on. |  |
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| Oldest youngest player on 18:28 - Jun 5 with 274 views | Keno |
That’s something no other team will be able to sing |  |
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