Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
So pleased to see that the Academy lads are being taught to play a passing game. As Bellamy says, if they are comfortable playing the sort of football he wants, then they should be able to adapt when they get into the first team and, perhaps, need to play in a different way - it has to be better for someone who is comfortable in possession and used to playing a passing game to apply this when playing more of a percentage game in the first team, than to come up through an Academy which plays the percentages and then expect a youngster to be able to play out from the back etc.
City 123 asked who the other player who Bellamy thinks is ready, or very close to being ready, for the first team is and I've been wondering the same thing. Before Christmas, I would probably have gone for Jarrad Welch who was in really good form, but he doesn't seem to have played since Christmas so, as he's surely too young to be one of those the club want to get rid of, I can only think he's injured.
I'd also mention James Waite, Cameron Coxe, and, maybe, Jordan Blaise and Marco Weymans as possibilities - I see Warnock mentioned that, because we've got a lot of injuries, one or two youngsters would be travelling up to Leeds, so there may be a new name on the bench this afternoon.