Given the form of Marcus and the reviews from the A games as well as England age group games I would love to see some progression through the ranks if players are ready as it would be great for recruitment and salary cap.
My biggest worry is if with the current signings, progression and returning from injury players are we able to replace the pace and distribution of Daly and WLR?
Marcus Watson shows the small margins between being very good and very poor.
He's obviously performing really well for us at the moment, but most were calling for him to be released just a couple of months ago.
There's a very small gap between being a good club player and a poor one which is why it's very difficult to know when to promote academy players.
It's very easy to look very poor in this league.
That being said, fans and critics often focus on positive passages of play if a player comes through the academy, but are more likely to focus on the poor passages of play if a player is signed from another club.
That should give academy guys extra grace from us...... But they still need to have the right level of skill to get the grace from Dai