Quote Originally Posted by Notts78 View Post
The interesting thing about this whole thread and people’s thoughts on youth does raise a question. Why do young players that come through our academy get more patience? Yet young players brought in, I will use Sam as my example, are deemed crap after 8 minutes of football? Another player deemed crap by many on here who is also playing League 1 is that Virtue fella we had on loan.
Very few former youth players that have been released by Notts and have gone on to better things. That is a fact.
Aside from fans normally giving more time to ‘one of our own’, isn’t all that to do with the fact that Sam is 23 whereas young players coming into the team are well, young, normally 18-19. Virtue was similarly 22-23, and never looked good for us, although he was always going to have a difficult time when being seen as the direct replacement for Ryan Yates.