- Sep 25, 2016
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I really appreciate the insight and knowledge on the youth game posted in this thread and i think its safe to say everyone wants to say our youth players progress but there are a 2 questions i would ask:
1) Do you promote a youth player over a "better" squad player simply because they are a youth player?
The trouble with this question is obvious: how do you know the other player is better if the youth player has never had a run of games at senior level? And don't start telling me about training. In the immortal words of Allen Iverson: "We talkin bout practice?!"
The answer is equally obvious: yes. Or rather, not promote the youth player, but play him over the "better" player until you have a good idea of who really is the better one. Let's face it, the idea that playing KWP over Aurier would have caused us to lose more games is 1) purely speculative 2) EXTREMELY unlikely 3) would have become obvious very quickly in which case you have you're decision made for you.
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