Quote ="Mick Gledhill"Addy, Halley, L'Estrange, Hall, Lynch, Sheriffe, Crossley, Finigan, Kopczak, Olbison, Menzies, Reardon, Godwin, Nero, Sykes, Whitehead, Worrincy, Langley, Platt.
How Reardon and Worrincy can still play after the errors of last Saturday is beyond me.
Catalans to win at Odsal again where they have for the last three years by a god thirty points.
Is the season over yet?'"
Mick, you can't just throw the kids in and hope for the best. The result of the match is far less important than the future of the young players. Even in the remote chance we make the play-offs, we're not going to win anything.
There are four in the squad, who I assume will play today, (I'm not including Whitehead, he's a 'senior' for me now; unfair, I know) and that is sufficient, especially given the the form of the team in general. These lads should be progressed through the grades by the coaches using a proper, thought through process, not just pushed up, en-masse, into a mal-functioning team just because A. N Other and S. O. Else aren't up to scratch.
I fully appreciate the dilemma caused by the current injury situation, and the fact that 'best practice' can't always be adhered to, but at best, they should come through in ones and twos, not fours and fives, also it is better they come into a team that is playing reasonably well, but obviously, that isn't something that can be guaranteed. At the very least coaches should make every effort to ensure that their early first team games, what should be a time of opportunity, aren't a traumatic experience which damages their confidence, for me that is far more important than the two points this afternoon.
