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Kosh wrote:Spot on. People clamour for Radford to 'give the youngsters a chance' and when he does he gets nailed because they're outmatched by seasoned pros.
At last, a touch of reality. Poor old Lee can't win can he. If he doesn't give them a chance he gets accused of looking after his mates and if he does play them he's in the wrong again. A bad result yesterday but these things happen.
Think a few of you are reading imaginary posts, nobody as slated radford on here for playing young players. But carry on giving each other pats on the backs for your posts! Its funny
The thing is though these kids might have been better if Radford had actually utilised them (more) earlier in the season and thus have more expereince under their belts, in some instances they could well have been better than some regulars. As i stated in another thread between them they'd played a handful of games before the 8s started, it's all well and good giving the kids experience when the season is effectively over and indeed it is valuable but it's not the same when it means more in the scheme of things when you are still fighting to achieve. If as likely we go into next season with the names we know are the starters, how many games will the likes of Fash, Downs, Logan et al get in the first 3/4 of the season...10 games again between them?
I wasn't there but sounds like a problem across the team pretty much rather than being down to the young players. Whilst I doubt radford's abilities to actually coach the team, I did think his strong point was in trying to instill a stronger mentality across the playing staff at the club but yesterday seems to show he isn't making the progress we need.
Hopefully we'll be better on friday as wigan will stick 60 on us if we're off our game
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Jake the Peg wrote:I wasn't there but sounds like a problem across the team pretty much rather than being down to the young players. Whilst I doubt radford's abilities to actually coach the team, I did think his strong point was in trying to instill a stronger mentality across the playing staff at the club but yesterday seems to show he isn't making the progress we need.
Hopefully we'll be better on friday as wigan will stick 60 on us if we're off our game
I genuinely think it should have been about 34-22. Then we could have just had our civic reception and got on with things. Don't get me wrong we were not great but we did not get mullered like the score suggests. IMO
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