We don't seem to be learning any lessons, despite our failure to integrate more than 1 youngster, Saido Berahino, into our first team.
The decision not to send any of our top young players out on loan is looking worse every week, especially when so few were used last night in a completely second eleven.
Young players take time to develop and need football. Berahino had loan moves at lower league clubs and slowly built to first team with us. Tyler Roberts had loan moves at lower league clubs before deciding his path would be blocked here, and last wekeend started up front for the top team in our division. Ditto Chris Wood who now plays premier league football. Keemar Roofe and Romaine Sawyers didn't get near the first team and left, only to bounce back to the championship after getting a bit of football under their belts.
There are others from our academy like George Thorne, Yan Dhanda and Izzy Brown who are with championship clubs, showing we do produce some footballers from every academy set up, but we don't know who to bring them through.
The likes of Field, Harper, Leko and Edwards needed another loan move if they were not part of our plans, as they are now in a key development stage. Atleast 3 of the 4 should have been considered for a league 1 loan mov le to a club that were lacking in that partocular area of the pitch.
I'm not saying all of these kids are going to make it to the first team of a championship ornpremier league club, butbour past record suggests that a couple of them may very well do that, but our failure to help them on that path os losing us money and potentially putting players off in the future who feel we are no different to a Chelsea or a Man City when it comes to giving players opportunities.