Quote Originally Posted by Jeterpool View Post
I think to have 3 young players (Cowburn, Jackson and Ugarkovic) in our team featuring regularly is an achievement. Cowburn and Jackson are essentially shoe-horned in the position because we didn't recruit a reserve left back. I would think we'd have eassumed Ki-Je would still be here. Kitto can't get back into a winning team unfortunately.

I agree the likes of Borello and Kamau have come along this year, but Mauk has been in the City fold for maybe 3 years and only now is performing.

This year we needed to consolidate and improve on last year and Miller has relied heavily on experienced players. That's why we were seeing the likes of Cam Watson getting extended runs in the team.

Perhaps if we get to a point where finals are no longer a chance we will see a Brennan, Cooper or Pavicevic get a go especially if we don't see Enver, Nordstrand, Milos or Leo (being they're the direct squad competition those young players have) being part of the club next season. Cooper still has a year but to be honest, he has 32 appearances for the team already so I'd think he is quite established.
You make some good points in reponse to my post and yes what you are saying does make a lot of sense Jeterpool.
I suppose Miller pretty much all season has taken a pretty conservative, low percentage approach to not only games this season but his selections abd he has every right to do that because at the end of the day it is the result that matters.
Having said that, there has been numerous times during the season where I feel in particular Cooper (and lesser extent Pav and Lundy) could have been thrown on with 15-20 to go, to not only see if he can make a difference but expose him more at this level. This is essesntially what I'm talking about not proposing to go down the Mariners path as Frodo has assumed I am getting at.
Anyway that's my opinion and going by the way many were asking the question of "Where's Cooper" earlier in the season, I think many would be in agreement with me.