DD by a mile for me. Thought he looked a bit of a liability in a couple of games last season and was getting beaten too easily but he's come on leaps and bounds. More assured on the ball than Morro and has improved his positional play - really hope we keep him.
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Diego Poyet is the stand out this season, but his performances beg the question why he wasn't playing sooner. Was he not ready back in August/September? I agree that Dervite has looked very good since Riga decided to play him ahead of Wood. Jordan Cousins, like Poyet, appeared ready as soon as he got the chance and he has been an automatic choice since. Could he have played sooner?
It makes you wonder what has been going on. If we are to survive and succeed going forward we'll need better player development, more decisive judgement about their capabilities and, perhaps, more courage in giving young players their chance.
Really pleased for the progress he has made, he's also the answer to our right midfield problems, if only Solly had two good knees.
Similar with Poyet to a lesser extent, has been highly rated throughout but regardless of the fact i believe it was a contract situation that saw him not featuring earlier in the season, he's still taking to 1st team football i'm pretty sure much better than anyone would have expected and moved his game on significantly over the last few months.
Not convinced Wilson has improved that much over this season, i think he was performing pretty consistently through the 2nd half of last season.
Dervite has improved in the sense that he seems to have cut out the noticeable, individual errors that were occassionally blotting his copybook (silly penalties etc).
Wilson and Dervite did well enough last season. A long run of games in one position has just meant Wilson has shown what he can do.
I saw Poyet and Cousins once each outside the first team last season (and Poyet again in pre-season). Always saw Cousins breaking through back to when I saw him play for England u16s on TV. Started to doubt it would happen for him, looked tidy in the Tonbridge game last season but it wasn't a performance that said he could really impress for the first team.
Poyet looked like someone that would come through in time but probably a season earlier than I'd have expected, again tidy without standing any area of his game that really stood out. He now looks our most composed player and one that could handle the step up to play with and against better players.
Everything I had read seemed to back that up, those regularly watching the u18s were saying Poyet was ok but not a great prospect. Can't remember what was being said about Cousins, but I don't think anyone was suggesting he should be in the first team until this season.