I make the average age of today's team 23 yrs 357 days!

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    #1 Cunning Stunt, Dec 26, 2014
    Mite be a few days out like coz I've been ont sherry! Youngest ever league team? Gotta be close

    Davies 22 yrs 161 days
    Holgate 18. 65
    Rambo 31. 34
    Lewin. 26. 129
    Smith. 18. 133
    Berry. 22. 166
    Bailey. 26. 99
    Connor. 23. 327
    Dale. 22. 5
    Lita. 29. 363
    Hemmings. 22. 261
     
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    #2 Archey, Dec 26, 2014
    Even younger now with Williams and Oates on for Bailey and Hemmings
     
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    #3 Connor, Dec 26, 2014
    Future looks bright with our young ones coming through now
     
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    #4 Dr Zazlos, Dec 26, 2014
    1 0 is a very respectable score considering and will have been a great experience for the young lads
     
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    #5 Archey, Dec 26, 2014
    By my reckoning, the average age of the team which finished the game was about 22 1/2 years.
     
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    #6 Woodbine, Dec 26, 2014
    So what? Many clubs in the lower leagues put fairly young sides out and an average age of 22-23 doesn't seem that unusual to me. It certainly doesn't excuse a very poor season so far, sitting 16th in League 1 and the lowest ranked team in South Yorkshire. Having a young squad doesn't automatically mean they'll develop into a much better side in years to come...
     
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    #7 onemickybutler, Dec 26, 2014
    I agree 100%. Our league position is a source of embarrassment. We really should be higher up than that with the budget we have. We have one or two promising youngsters but no one in all honesty to get too carried away about. The January window is crucial to our chances of climbing the league and showing some real progress. We also need Winnall back asap.
     
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    #8 Cunning Stunt, Dec 26, 2014
    I disagree in part. It was a fact at the start of this season we had the youngest squad in the league. Today must have been the youngest we've fielded but also the most inexperienced. In terms of 1st team appearances I'd like to know the average of that. I'd be suprised if it was more than 80-90 per player on average. I agree the age thing doesn't mean they'll develop, to go along with that I don't think signing lower league journeymen who are late 20's early 30's who can't or won't improve isn't necessarily a decent alternative either. Much of the experience these young lads have is at a lower level in many cases, that's if they've any at all.
    I for one am willing to persevere watching their hopeful development as both a team and individuals. Not for a second we'll develop 11 John Stones, but if we get an Eaden, a Liddell, a couple of Moses and a Watson ill be a happy chappy.
     
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    #9 Woodbine, Dec 26, 2014
    What's required is a mix of youth and experience. Notts County took Gary Jones when he left Bradford and not doing a bad job. Play off contenders...
     
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    #10 Jimmy viz, Dec 26, 2014
    **** me Gary Jones now he is *****.
     
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    #11 Woodbine, Dec 26, 2014
    Yeah he looked ***** when they beat us at Oakwell...
     
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    #12 Dr Zazlos, Dec 26, 2014
    If he looked ***** then we must have been sh@tter
     
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    #13 Jimmy viz, Dec 26, 2014
    Glad you agree. They poxed a win at Oakwell due to daft mistakes still let's not let the truth get in the way of slagging the team off.
     
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    #14 Jimmy viz, Dec 26, 2014
    Do you genuinely believe that Notts County deserved to best us? If so you were probably sitting at home moaning (again)
     
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    #15 Woodbine, Dec 26, 2014
    Yep just trot out the usual ill informed garbage. That'll work...
     
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    #16 Jimmy viz, Dec 26, 2014
    Of course I bow to your superior knowledge. Err let's buy a big dirty sod and kick em upon the air. All our players are ***** sack the manager. Neanderthal.
     
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    #17 redrum, Dec 26, 2014
    Id rather see a few young home grown lads coming through our academy then buy promotion like brizzle loved to see stones and them comingthrough just dont enjoy selling em for next to nowt.
     
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