I think Darren Moore is doing a good job, he will make mistakes along the way but overall we are going well.
As said previous i dont think he has the luxury of building a team over a few years, developing players, etc i think his remit is get promoted ASAP or likely scenario he will be out of a job.
Some things i think he gets wrong, i know people say we need a big squad for the championship and i agree to an extent but realistically we all probably know the team for saturday and it will just be who plays centre midfield out of Barry and Brunt, whoever plays saturday against Preston will also play against Reading the following saturday, with the other coming in to play midweek against Sheffield Wednesday.
They then have two weeks off so I think this rotating and keeping players fresh thing just doesnt happen, injuries aside we probably know what the team is as it has been for most of the season! When your winning everyone wants to play so that tiredness doesnt quite seem so bad!
As stated above, i think Moore is under pressure from the board to get promoted ASAP so has gone with
the tried and trusted players, rather than risking giving the youngsters a run of games which us fans maybe want, however i just cant help but think if the youngsters were really that good, he would include them.
Field i think we confirmed we had turned down loan offers for previously and he is obviously around the first team, Fitzwater i think said that Moore had said he was very close to the first team but loaned him out.
I havent seen enough of the others to comment but i do find it strange that last season we had players on loan at Redditch and Hereford, year before that we had a few at Kiddy Harriers and Evesham United, this season we have one at Barrow and i think another non league club.
I think we are a catergory A academy, i dont know about this season but previous seasons even as a championship club, Villa loaned players out to other championship clubs and league one, i think Wolves are similar to Villa, the bulk of our loans seem to be league two and non league, the two who went to championship and league (Leko and Harper) had both came back by Xmas.
Like i say i dont know enough to judge but i think the above and the fact Moore was the loans manager, worked within our academy so knows what they are like, yet still doesnt pick them perhaps means they just arent good enough which begs the question why they havent been loaned out to give them game time.
PS - Whilst on about the academy, the fact our under 23's lose every week really grates me, i know people say there are a lot of 18 and 19 year olds playing but they also have some senior players involved too, the club have to look at this, losing every week achieves nothing, its okay saying they are learning from the defeats, i think thats rubbish, you creating a losing mentality, the gallant pride in defeat is okay every now and again, not every week.
Winning breeds confidence, you also learn from winning, its okay having the odd bad spell but from what i have seen for nearly two years now our under 23's seem to lose nearly every game, that has to change.