I'm sure you and everyone else on this forum would love to play for tarn as well but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. I've just looked at Soccerbase and he's scored one goal and only had two starts in his 14 games for us. This is also the 4th different season he's played for us in. Danny is also the 4th full time manager Rose has played under. We all want to see academy kids make it but something isn't happening for the lad. Not all the managers can be wrong not to play him. Can other managers also be wrong to never take him on loan to a league club?
I would absolutely love for him to bag a shedload of goals, and then get himself into the reckoning back here. I think he has something. What he hasn't had is enough game time in the cut and thrust of proper competitive football. As someone else said, long overdue. Good luck Danny, come back and be a Reds hero. I still chuckle every time I think of that Danny Shittu challenge.
................'a victim of our circumstances'. Yes I think the young players have been..........Flicka and now Danny saying we need mature heads that can fight for the cause
If we aren't going to play him then may as well go out on loan. if he really has a bright future Danny, or whoever the manager is next season needs to have the balls to give him a run of games & not just play him as a sub for 5 minutes twice a season.
If we go down I think he will play regularly and score 20 goals and I'm notoriously un confident in our players.
Flicker will live off producing one young player for the rest of his career. Anyway I think the likes of Ronnie Branson played a far greater role in the player Stones is. I'd love Rose to become someone for us. Just not good when four different managers across four different seasons haven't wanted to give him much of a chance. They see him everyday in training, under 21 matches etc so know him better than us. I'm sure if he was released or sold on there would be uproar on here. However I can remember uproar when the likes of Jamil Adam and Adam Oldham got released and I can't think of one youth release we've done that went on to prove to be a bad decision later going on to be amazing for someone else.
Not many of our younger players get a chance because we are constantly firefighting relegation not because of their ability or lack of it. It's a brave decision to chuck a young lad into a relegation battle and one successive managers have bottled. It needs to change. We cat compete for players financially so we have to develop our own. 5 years into RNL 's career and I have no idea as to whether he is good enough. The only way to tell is to give them all 20 + consecutive first team games.
I can understand guys not getting a chance now for that very reason. However what excuse have managers had for not giving them a chance at the start of a season? Are we already fighting relegation from the off? Hoping we get comfortably in mid table after say a dozen games then give them a chance? If they are good enough they are old enough.
He's got the speed but not the strength, the difficulty is in increasing the latter without reducing the former, think it can be done but for whatever reason we've not managed to do it.
I agree though I think the plan was to give them all more game time this season when we have been fighting relegation from the off.