"Coaching To Win" VS "Playing For The Future"

[PassIt2Carrots]

Kane Lucas was no better a footballer at 42 games than he was at game 1.  In fact there was more promise about him with less games under his belt than more.

The manner in which players learn during that time is of the utmost importance.  You can learn more from 1 game than you can from 10 depending on what occurs during that match.

In any case, there is no guarantee that getting games into players is a sure fire way to make them a better footballer.  Statistically speaking there would be as many players that played many games and walked away from the game an unfulfilled talent, as there would be guys that got games and fulfilled their talent.

Experience is but one component of learning and there are plenty of people who learn nothing from experience.

If they learn nothing from experience they're not worth persevering with, and I guess that's where our man Watson comes into it. We should know by now whether he's good enough but he has not been given a proper run at it once in five years so he still remains in the hope that he is good enough. Playing the youth expedites the process, you get a better idea about  each player in a shorter space of time, as opposed to playing Ellard, Rowe and Armfield, who we know are neither top line players nor will they be there in our next premiership. Even a bloke like Andrew Walker is fast approaching this list.