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Pritchard got 5 mins in the only game he was available due to injury.Well, KWP, Winks, might not have merited significant minutes, but some would have been nice. Pritchard (ignoring the 7 minutes he'd got in the last game under Sherwood) should have got significantly more than his "none" and Onomah should have got more.
Even in the cups (definitely) and Europa league (if we weren't going to take it seriously once we got to R16) we could have given debuts or varying degrees of more time to those above and others like CCV & Harrison.
My point is, again, Poch is getting a lot of kudos for "giving youth a chance". But very little of it is our - highly regarded - youth. And it was the same last year, which is why we lost Veljkovic, who could have been an excellent back up for Dier/Alderweireld this season and beyond if he'd been given the deserved chance last season after playing well in pre-season.
I don't know what the future will bring, but I hope it brings more chances than our own academy players got this season, even if it's in cup games.
Otherwise we can hardly moan if players like Edwards start looking elsewhere and thinking, actually, I might stand more chance of promotion at another club.
What Emenalo said was a bit disingenuous but not totally without foundation.