robin wrote: > anyway, it was nice to watch this very young team could put some > pressures into a senior team... and yes it was a very good lesson > for the boys...
I won't get to see the game till later today, but ignorance has never held me back before. From the online news reports, it seems we started badly but improved as the game went on. But whether Tierney, Pugh, Bardsley, etc will soon threaten the first-teamers is debatable. My gripe (as it is every year except the last) is with Fergie's league cup policy of playing so many young players. It's more about giving first team players a rest than giving young players experience. Just how much experience do they get? One game, two if they're lucky, and then they're out. And it's experience obtained in a team of fringe players and youth so it's hardly first-team experience, either. As fans, we like to win every game so it's disappointing to be booted out so soon in any competition. Last season we went all the way to the final because we played stronger teams (almost certainly because, last November/December, it was starting to look as if we'd win nothing and not even qualify for the CL so we needed some insurance.) The best policy, surely, is to play 3 or maximum 4 'youth' players in an otherwise strong side. If things go well, the youngsters can be subbed by others of their ilk in the second half. The same number of youngsters get to play but, crucially, we improve our chances of winning and so can offer them all another game in which to earn more genuine experience. As it stands now, that's the end of the 'experience'. Bardsley et al probably won't see first-team action again until this time next year when Fergie adopts the same policy. Big rant over a fairly small point but I just don't think enough is gained by doing what we keep doing. There are points in favour of the policy (eg "resting" first teamers and ditching an unwanted competition) but I ....... [another 15 pages of the same repeated points has been deleted by the List Admin] ;-) Terry ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/GtUolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
