Do you not understand the point being made though? Having another outfield player on the bench is only more useful if there's a realistic chance of that player getting on, otherwise it's just pure lip service and has no discernible impact on anything. If the manager has decided that a second back up keeper is more useful than a youth player then there's just no conceivable way that the youth player would be getting on the pitch is there? So why bother doing it? If we'd had no attacking options (for example) on the bench on saturday and chose to put an extra keeper on the bench instead of a kid then i'd be agreeing with you, but we had 4 attacking players on there anyway, so what difference would having a 5th have made? It's not that having 2 keepers is necessary or something I think we should always do, it's just that I don't see how it's a particularly big issue in context.
