There was an interesting interview with Stuart Webber, the technical director of Norwich the other day.
Amongst other things he said that he prefers young players, as where an experienced player will run around an obstacle, young guys will run through walls for you.
He went on to say that given the nature of the championship, most of the teams who go up have the same approach - unless you have a special manager like Neil Warnock, who does it with older guys.

He's an interesting character, was at Huddersfield in recruitment when they went up, and is now strongly linked with a move to Southampton.
I think it is definitely a role that we really need to push on and fill