Reserves last night

KillersBeard

In the squad of 16 that drew away to Watford and remain top of the table;

Thirteen of the players are home grown, only two of the squad have had first team experience with only one actually playing and 11 of them are still, or have just come through the Academy side.

Bodes well.

WSS

i agree, youngsters are being given decent experience and they can only gain confidence from seeing people like Grant etc getting playing time.

Get a few out on loan and you never know we may see the next batch of Rufus', Parker's, Lisbie's in the next couple of years

Henry Irving

Just shows how poor we are that we could only draw with Watford and that we have no scouting system as there are no players coming thru.

Why do we waste money on the Academy and then send players like Wright out on loan and let Arter play for Ireland. What are they going to learn playing competative football?

Kinsella out : - )

AFKABartram

does bode well, though traditionally we have had a strong, well performing and home grown reserve team for about 15 years

Henry Irving

Seriously it is great to see but we are playing at a lower level reserve league now and that is a factor.

I still think the big difference is Pardew's belief in running with a smaller squad and getting young (and some older) players out on loan whenever possible.

pete_tong1

Good to see my valley gold money doing something. even though i dont have a sniff of winning anything from it.