Didn't minturn play last game, and played well.
Big step up last night for them. Blooding our own youngsters, or having the choice to is perfect for this comp.
Should be allowed to field who we want
Minturn did indeed play well in the last game,didn't look out of place at all in the 1st team, hes impressed me at academy level too but last night nothing worked for him, lets hope his head doesnt drop.
Fox and Gordon both impressed and Francis did a few loose passes but in the main did ok, especially when Gordon and Francis were not playing in their natural positions.
TBH we pretty much can play who we want in these games the rules are way laxer than they used to be, lets face it, Colchester had 1 teenager on the pitch all game, we had 6! and not one starter was a starter from our last game 3 days ago.
I dont think we cant use the "why cant we play who we want" as an excuse any more in this cup as it pretty much allows all L1 and L2 teams to play almost any player, we chose to play a very very inexperienced team whereas Colchester chose to play a team with nearly 3,000 1st team games between them! a quantity that our entire 1st team squad of 30 players can't match!
Even with Grant our team could muster only around 800 and 622 of those were Grant! even on their bench they had 2 players with 400+ games behind them, and if you ignore Midly who was never going to get on the pitch our bench had a grand total of 1 1st team appearance between them!
The result and some of the defending was very poor and the standard was the worst we have seen in the 4 games we have played in this cup but TBH the difference in the sides were the 3 experienced players in Grant for us and Judge and Chambers for them.
As long as our players came through unscathed I am not bothered by losing at all, it was good to get valuable 1st team game time under the belt for our 6 teenagers Minturn, Dabre, Francis, Gordon, Fox and Dworzak in a competitive match.