In fairness to Williams he's done really well coming back from various injuries and always seems to play well for the U23s, forcing himself into the England U20s/21s before injury disrupted things for him. At one time you'd say he was behind Davies, Dowell, Ledson and Walsh in our "Golden Generation" of midfielders often lacking the subtlety others showed, but he's certainly got the character and determination .
Walsh is a puzzle to me. Like everybody else I've watched him over the last few years at u18 and u21/23 and he's always been impressive. He did well at Yeovil and in comparison seemed to do better than Ledson at Cambridge in terms of fans comments. Yet there have been no England Youth call ups , no pre season first team games, no featuring in the squads. What is it that's missing , he doesn't seem to be the type of player who would shirk tackles and hard work in training, gets regular praise from Unsy after games, steps up and takes vital penalties showing leadership qualities, so is it his size? Fifteen months ago he was scoring his wonder goal for the u18s ...... with Davies playing alongside him that day, how times have changed. His exploits for a winning U23s team won't have gone unnoticed by other scouts, but he's got a contract until June 2019 so we absolutely shouldn't be writing him off or the club selling him on yet. Walsh is the type of player that defines a club's set up in that our coaching staff should be working with him on whatever weakness he's deemed to have got and preparing him for first team football in the next 15 months. He eventually may be deemed just not good enough, but we're a long way from that yet.
