Yesterdays XI

Philips - 26 years old, 149 senior appearances, undisclosed fee

Ng - 25 years old, 192 senior appearances, cost £500k
Nelson - 28 years old, 395 senior appearances, free transfer
Flint - 32 years old, 372 senior appearances, cost £4m+
Morrison - 30 years old, 385 senior appearances, cost £3m
Bagan - 20 years old, 17 senior appearances, academy

Vaulks - 27 years old, 325 senior appearances, cost £2m
Pack - 30 years old, 478 senior appearances, undisclosed

Bacuna - 30 years old, 384 senior appearances, cost £4m
Colwill - 19 years old, 12 senior appearances, academy

Moore - 29 years old, 301 senior appearances, cost £2m

So yesterday's starting XI between them cost at least £15m, had an average age of just under 27 (which is brought down dramatically by the only "kids" starting) and had over 3,000 senior appearances between them. That is not a cheap, inexperienced side. It baffles me that people keep saying we're just throwing in kids when we'll have, at most, 3 in the starting XI. The problems isn't "throwing in kids" it's the shit situation a certain manager left us in regarding huge contracts for bang average hoofballers