MaseCTID wrote:Anyone been following him while he's been on loan at Leicester? Wanted to know how the kids doing.
Wonderwall wrote:MaseCTID wrote:Anyone been following him while he's been on loan at Leicester? Wanted to know how the kids doing.
watched him the other day Versus Ipswich, can't say I was impressed. he was turned inside out on a couple of occasions and looked pretty awful. Good in the air defensively is the main positive that I saw.
john@staustell wrote:I saw the Ipswich game too in a desperate search for Sunday football. Crap was the word I had in mind but I'll go along with your more charitable assessments.
In any case, definitely yet another of those 'youngsters that are our future' who wont make a Premier player.
Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I am not going on what I have seen with Leicester ( about 5 minutes) but more on City reserves. Decent but not prem for me.
Beefymcfc wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I am not going on what I have seen with Leicester ( about 5 minutes) but more on City reserves. Decent but not prem for me.
I know Doug, but my point is, how many 20 year olds are?
Hinch's 5 Fingered Salute wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I am not going on what I have seen with Leicester ( about 5 minutes) but more on City reserves. Decent but not prem for me.
I know Doug, but my point is, how many 20 year olds are?
This is it now, the bar has been raised. The likes of Bradley Wright Phillips, Lee Croft, Stephen Jordan standard getting a game are zero. Good Championship lower Prem half will find it hard to get minutes if any. I've not seen much of McGivern but from what I have and from what I've heard, he won't make it with us.
I think Ben Mee is the same, they can look head and shoulders above others at youth level but then not kick on, and others who may not have looked as good kick on and make it. Think Logan will go that way, and I believe Karl Moore has been released (he looked promising a while back) and Paul Marshall who was an England U20 went to Aberdeen on a free, and big Clayton McDonald went to Walsall.
I think the pleasing thing is that if they don't make it with us, nearly all of the academy players go on to have a league career elsewhere and in many cases still get back to the Premiership or Championship level, e.g. Mears, Whelan, Jordan, Hennesey, Westwood.
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