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I’m not comfortable with him being played every week. A few games ago, Hill was saying that Burns had to be managed carefully and basically couldn’t play every week, yet a 16 year-old is being asked to play every game in our midfield. It doesn’t feel ideal to me for his development.
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Based on Saturday yes, but, at the moment, he’s the same as many of the squad.They have ability but show it one game in 3,4 or 5 and can also ruin one of their good days with a ridiculous, avoidable error.
Maybe I didn’t explain myself very well, I was trying to say that I don’t think it’s great for players to be playing every single game at that age. I’m all for investing in youth and developing our own players but we have to be careful with them, especially when they’re in such a terrible team.
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My fault, we posted at similar times and I was replying to les’s post on Sinclair, should have made that clear.
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I expect lee turnbull to take cribb to peterborough in the near future especially with the dale tonge connection.
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Didn’t Swann say Cribb was on a two year deal and was staying with the club on the podcast?. Oh wait, Swann said so….yep he’s leaving.
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Probably a unpopular opinion with people but what does Cribb actually offer?
I see plenty of people say he is good etc and whenever I have seen him I’ve not noticed him do anything worthy… what are his qualities?
And why are the top teams interested him?
Probably a unpopular opinion with people but what does Cribb actually offer?
I see plenty of people say he is good etc and whenever I have seen him I’ve not noticed him do anything worthy… what are his qualities?
And why are the top teams interested him?
Agree with this
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Give the lad a break. The lad hasn’t sat his GCSE’s yet and he is playing in midfield in a shite team.
He has a way to go but he has some skill and more heart than a few around him. Personally I dont think we should put a 16 year old into that situation in multiple games but let’s not be criticising him.
Plenty of older hairy arsed pro’s around him more deserving if you need to criticise players.9 users thanked author for this post.
That’s fair enough Sanfran, so when Swann said on the podcast Cribb was staying he could not guarantee that really, bit like building a new ground, redeveloping the current stadium or building the flats to provide the club an income rather then just be reliant on gate receipts. In fact it’s the same old drivel we have been hearing for about nine years now.
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Sadly no young player coming into the first team has really shone or provided that ‘wow’ factor which is a pity given the extremely poor squad of players we have been served up this season.
The last time I posted a comment on a player was about Jarvis who anyone with half an ounce of footballing brain could see was a complete and utter plank.
So as decried by others I gave him a chance and still he remained a plank, giving Jarvis and others of equal wooden talent is why we are where we deservedly are and will remain.
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As someone said previously … it’s hard to shine as a young, inexperienced player in a poor team struggling every game. I hope the five or six kids who are in or around the first team don’t get their confidence shot. I certainly believe that there is a league player or two by their early twenties amongst OMalley, Cribb, Pugh, Rowe, Lewis and Gallimore.
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And Wilson!
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Give the lad a break. The lad hasn’t sat his GCSE’s yet and he is playing in midfield in a shite team.
He has a way to go but he has some skill and more heart than a few around him. Personally I dont think we should put a 16 year old into that situation in multiple games but let’s not be criticising him.
Plenty of older hairy arsed pro’s around him more deserving if you need to criticise players.Is that our fault?
I only asked what he offered as I don’t see anything.
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You’ll all not be surprised to hear the academy is apparently a bit of a shambles.
It’s actually a miracle anyone emerges through the current system.
Essentially they stopped recruiting back in March 2020 for a significant period of time – and the coaching set up became a revolving door.
There is a constant shortage of personnel and they are chronically short of players particularly in the younger age groups.
At various points this season for example, because of a shortage of players, year groups have had to be combined – so you have a ridiculous situation where say year 8 and 9 players are being made to play together in competitive academy matches making it close to impossible to judge players properly against their peers – both team mates and opponents.
Players are now also approached at grass root clubs en masse.
I know of one club in the Hull Boys League where they tried to take 4 of their players in one go whilst the season was ongoing – not because there was any real expectation of them being of potential professional standard you understand, but just to get bodies in the building.
Because their reputation precedes them, to my knowledge not one of those 4 have yet elected to go.
I’m also aware of a couple of players this season (bearing in mind these lads are 12 and 13 and still chasing the dream) who were so disillusioned at the set up they decided to go back to grass root clubs – as in, they left a professional clubs academy without being released!
The stories go on and on.
Safe to say, the current set up seems to accurately mirror other areas of the clubs performance.
I suspect they’ll stagger on for another season or so but then the funding will totally dry up and they’ll end up folding it up.
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Was at the game today and watched Cribb closely…I’m sorry but how the hell is he making the starting lineup at the moment!? Looked lost and didn’t get anywhere near the opposition. The one or two times he was actually in possession he gave the ball away. Then to read Hill’s post match reaction saying he thinks he matched up to Ebou Adams. Absolutely no chance!
Dan Gallimore on the other hand, looked very promising at centre back.
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It’s difficult though isn’t it – a young player comes in, he’ll show promise and then after a handful of games he’ll start to struggle mentally and physically because he isn’t ready to play week in week out at that level, even though long term he’s probably going to be good enough.
Cribb has had a lot of intense football now in the last couple of months, and they’ve been hard games in a bad side who are about to be relegated.
He wouldn’t be human if he wasn’t starting to struggle a bit short term.
Gallimore has had significantly less first team football recently and so will at least have the advantage of a bit of freshness and won’t be quite as badly battle scarred.
Get half a dozen quick games into his legs playing with that shower and he’ll inevitably start to look like he’s in the same boat as well.
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