The boy seem to be coping with the senior-level quite well. Two matches with the reserves, and he already has two goals to his name. Is this the big step for him into senior football ??

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Answers

Always Positioning

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

i was saying this last year, i bet he makes it bigger than Chopra. The telling thing is 25 yarder goal, confidence!

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Too young, He's only 17. Nice to see him skip the under 19s and along with Chopra, playing in the reserves. Perhaps next season he might get a squad number.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

he's got one hasn't he? i bet he plays in the first team this year. I'd play him in the Intertoto.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Keep him in the reserves for 6 months, if he's still scoring regularly then think about giving him a place on the bench, make them kick the door down if they wanna play senior football...

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

No, neither Chopra or Offiong have squad numbers .

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

but cowan has?

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

We need to groom them young !! If they have the talent they will do the buisness, but let him do a year in the reserves, and remember he was only a sub in both games, he hasnt played a full match yet and still 2 goals. Ok, the opposition wasnt the best but then again, you still need to put the ball behind the keeper.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

At 17 he's not too young. Look at the likes of Owen, Jeffers, Heskey etc who were playing 1st team football at 16/17. I say give the likes of Chopra, Offiong, McDermott a place on the bench of a worthy cup match or something. 10-15mins at the end won't to them any harm

TJC

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

I'm of a similar opinion to TJC, if they're good enough then age isn't a factor, HOWEVER I don't think they should be getting anywhere near the first team squad yet....if they play BLINDERS for 6 months in the reserves then consider it but not until then....they've done NOWT yet...

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

If they're good enough they're old enough

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

i think we were resisting that chestnut Humphrey

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

I'm with the general consensus, that if they're good enough they're old enough. But let's not get carried away. Despite the obvious promise, they haven't proven they're good enough yet. Bit more time in the reserves yet...and let's also try to not show too much deperation for them to succeed and stop treating them as messiahs in the making ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Quite so PM, we shouldn't be talking about Messiah's at this stage and I wouldn't want to hang millstones around a player's neck - but I can't help feeling we might have found The New Milburn... :-)

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Jonno - where have you been? The New Milburn's been there for a season now. It's right next to the New Sir John Hall.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

How, man. That's as jinxy as TIWY! :-)

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Careful Bobby - it's unlucky to be superstitious....

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Jonno, where are you? England?

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

No - Geordieland - that country to whose Southern border England is attached ....

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

I only ask coz you seem to contribute in a kind of "no mans land time" between 6 and 11pm Gmt which is noon and five my time. Plus it's friday neet, shouldn't you be on the hoy somewhere? It's usually dead quite on here in the afternoons for me. I appreciate the posts, keep it up bonny lad.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

I'm not allowed out of the sheltered accommodation at this time of night Syme. :-)

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

Right you are sonna, are you attending the festivities the morra? Hopefully I'll be able to wing mesell a weekend pass so I can get rid of the missus for a few hours, if not, then it's another day of shopping. Because she needs another pair of feckin shoes to go with the other 40 pair of black shoes she has.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001

A pair of feckin shoes? What does she do in those then? :-)

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2001