It would've been good to see a couple of our youngsters go out on loan in January but no one seemed to want them which makes it hard for us, or anyone else, to say they should be involved in our first team set up, whichever way we're playing.
I take your first point. The weird thing is that so many of the trialists don't seem like Warnock-type players at all, most of them look like they'd be happy to play a possession based game but we now spend most of the time kicking it away even though there's never a target man to aim for. There's some muddled thinking going on. We drew 1-1 at Barnsley today, our goal was scored by Jason Akiotu, a left back who's been released by Palace and says David Alaba is his footballing role model. What's Warnock going to make of him? The mind boggles.
A couple of points in defence of the club here. Firstly, the injuries at that level have made it hard to have any kind of a settled side recently. An outfield 10 of Coxe, Brown, McKay, Abbruzzese, Obi, Veale, Duffus, McKay, Waite and Harris with players like Young, Humphries and Meite to come in would've been fine. Maybe it wasn't the plan to use this many trialists?
Secondly, the club have been very unlucky that three of our best talents, Waite, Abbruzzese and Veale, just haven't grown enough. I haven't seen quite enough of Veale to be sure but I think the other two are terrific players who would be playing first team football somewhere already if they'd filled out more. It'll be a great shame if Waite doesn't make it. I agree with you, he's always enjoyable to watch whatever nonsense is going on around him.