Tom Cannon

[Neiler]

Like these two lads hugging each other, international teammates since forever ?

Exactly like those two lol, to be fair Jack Grealish he could play a bit of GAA and could have made something of himself.

 

[Austrax]

what atrributes does he have? who would you compare him to?

Someone more likely to slot a goal in unlike Maupassant. Definitely a waste of space for my money, Cannon should be given a chance instead.

 

[billyblue80]

Two more last night has to be worth a go even off the bench such are the paucity of goals on our team

 

[irishgoose]

Two more last night has to be worth a go even off the bench such are the paucity of goals on our team

Nah.

Start him.

 

[blueloon]

Two more last night has to be worth a go even off the bench such are the paucity of goals on our team

Nah.

Start him.

I’m curious, did either of you bother to watch the game , perhaps you could comment on his misskicks , quality of the opposition , the fact his younger strike partner Kouyate scored a hat trick. ?

 

[Lanolin]

Two more last night has to be worth a go even off the bench such are the paucity of goals on our team

I'm not necessarily against the idea, but to be fair to Maupay I reckon his scoring record for us might be a bit better if he was playing teams like Colchester United under 21s rather than United, Spurs and Liverpool.

 

[MikeH72]

I was astonished to find out that he’s nearly 20. Thought he was about 17. Why do we do this to our young players? Why wasn’t he out on loan 2 years ago? Yet another player who’s wasted crucial developmental years playing kid’s footy.

 

[Nymzee]

I was astonished to find out that he’s nearly 20. Thought he was about 17. Why do we do this to our young players? Why wasn’t he out on loan 2 years ago? Yet another player who’s wasted crucial developmental years playing kid’s footy.

But he's also 20, not 25, so it doesn't really matter. He can still go away and get that experience.

 

[MikeH72]

But he's also 20, not 25, so it doesn't really matter. He can still go away and get that experience.

Of course it matters. Why are we content to write off years of a young player’s career? He’s far less likely to develop into the player he could’ve become if he’d started that development plan when he was 17 or 18.

 

[Lanolin]

I was astonished to find out that he’s nearly 20. Thought he was about 17. Why do we do this to our young players? Why wasn’t he out on loan 2 years ago? Yet another player who’s wasted crucial developmental years playing kid’s footy.

Aside from the obvious and well argued point of loans not always being beneficial, did anybody even want him 2 years ago? We don't get to just place these lads wherever we want, someone actually has to want to take them and play them. I think you're slightly overestimating the appeal of taking an underdeveloped 17 year old kid from an academy when you're playing competitive league football.

 

[Goat]

Of course it matters. Why are we content to write off years of a young player’s career? He’s far less likely to develop into the player he could’ve become if he’d started that development plan when he was 17 or 18.

I get it, Rooney was a freak, but I always think its a bit suss when a lad gets to his 20s and hasnt been given a run out.

And before people start, yes im aware he was given 30seconds twice.

 

[MikeH72]

Aside from the obvious and well argued point of loans not always being beneficial, did anybody even want him 2 years ago? We don't get to just place these lads wherever we want, someone actually has to want to take them and play them. I think you're slightly overestimating the appeal of taking an underdeveloped 17 year old kid from an academy when you're playing competitive league football.

Actually this is why clubs in the 21st century, of which we are clearly not one of, have a network of clubs in the lower divisions and worldwide where they send young players to get minutes, it’s called a feeder club. So they can do exactly that, send young players wherever they want. Do we have any feeder clubs? This isn’t a brand new cutting edge development in football, teams like Chelsea and Man Utd have been doing this since the early 00’s. We are the most old fashioned football club in the world, we are not equipped for the modern game in any way shape or form.

 

[Goat]

Call the whole thing off, hes only 19, ive been duped!

His birthday is the day after mine!

 

[Nymzee]

Of course it matters. Why are we content to write off years of a young player’s career? He’s far less likely to develop into the player he could’ve become if he’d started that development plan when he was 17 or 18.

But I mean you have zero way of proving this lol

 

[MikeH72]

But I mean you have zero way of proving this lol

It’s just literally common sense. I can’t “prove” to you that it’s gonna be cold tomorrow either, but you couldn’t genuinely put an argument forward that it’s not going to be. How can you possibly argue that a player playing U21s football at the age of 19 is more beneficial than playing lower league football?