SteveRoyal What does age have to do with it?
If the players are good enough, they're good enough.
Southampton took us to the cleaners at the MadStad, some excellent players, but they went down
because they were too young a squad. A sprinkling of youngsters is great for their energy and
optimism but you can't (or it's very, very rare) win with a really young squad.
As I posted, "Fergusson's kids" actually had an average age on the pitch of 27+
SteveRoyal They might be inexperienced but that's what the old heads are for. We don't need millions of oldies just to even out the average age of our squad.
I don't think managers add older players just to make the average age over a certain figure!
They add the oldies for their experience and that happens to up the average age.
The youngest squad in the Championsip last year was Saints. How did they do?
What was the average age of Wolverhampton. Birmingham, Sheffield United and Burnley?
Ingi in defence, and Armstrong are level headed enough and experienced enough at the back.
Harper, Matejovsky, Tabb(?) and Gunarsson are all experienced enough in the middle.
N Hunt is experienced enough up front, hopefully joined by another striker.
No worries.
If Armstrong plays, if not we will have two 20-year olds in defence, which might be OK as long as the CB we bring in is older/more experienced.
Ingi is still out injured, will be for a fair few games?
