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Originally Posted by Chris H
But is an occasional cameo, in a game that's already out of reach, really helpful in developing a player?
Would Frazier Campbell have been better off hanging around in the Reserves, playing an occasional Carling Cup tie, and getting an occasional runout in a game that's already over? I think he has benefitted far more by having spent the season playing competitive matches in the Championship, helping push Hull City to promotion. Evans, likewise, is better off having spent 2008 with Sunderland, playing against Premiership sides every week, fighting to keep the club away from relegation. Situations like these provide critical experience to a young player.
Much better for them than what Eagles and Simpson got, training with the senior side but rarely getting more than a Reserve match. They would have got a little bit more time had we won a couple of Carling Cup matches, and they might have got 6 minutes against Aston Villa (had the new 7 sub rule been in effect), but what good is that?
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I never said that it wasn't a good idea loaning Evans out, the experience he gained is surely much more useful to him than sitting around at Old Trafford and waiting for his chance. It was only an example which possibilities there might come to give talents a chance - not talking about a 22-year old Chris Eagles (who might make it at another club anyway, he seems to good to play for the reserves), but rather about players who are more 17, 18 or 19 years of age and considered big talents.
There's nothing wrong with loaning players out, but it's always possible that the players won't want to come back as they experienced first team football (see Rossi to a certain extend) - and I think that
could possibly become better with this new rule (seven players on the bench)