Our team is just quite low on quality I think. There is a lot of unjustified optimism about our youngsters. We have two players who we know would make it into a starting XI of most top 6 A-League sides in Rufer and Payne. Jury still out on Eze but nobody else in our entire squad is good enough and that isn't even debatable.
Edit: maybe Armiento could too, I don't know, but harsh to judge him when I havent ever really watched him
Edit: maybe Armiento could too, I don't know, but harsh to judge him when I havent ever really watched him
I think if most of our youngsters were at British clubs (L1 & 2), they would have been let go by now.
Who cares. They are at a Kiwi Club, and if the above is true thank fudge they ain't in the UK. The consistent trend is that most of the ex Weenix kids need 2-4 full seasons in the ALM before the better ones star.
By your above rationale Ben Old would have been thrown on the UK football pyramid scrap heap before having his breakout season. None of the current Nix youngsters have yet been around the first team as much as he was before leaving for Gaul.