Gordon Strachan has been claiming that his team are inexperienced and that he beeds a few wise heads to guide the younger players in their quest for domestic and European glory. Players however in this day and age tend to grow up quickly and perhaps we are not quite as short of experience as the manager is making out.
Boruc, Zurawski, Nakamura, Neil Lennon, and I think by this stage Shaun Maloney are seasoned professionals.
Jarosik and Miller both have international experience and have played at the highest level.
All of these apparently inexperienced players will be regulars next season (Lennon perhaps not so much).
The other guys we have brought in like Riordan and Caldwell I am confident will be sewn into the team, and will be brought on by the other players.
What's more, this side (or most of it anyway) has had a year playing together, and has enjoyed success together. They recovered from injury together - so important for morale btw - and learned to trust one another.
Losing BBJ, Sutton, Dublin and Keane does not excuse us at all. There is plenty of experience in that team without them, with plenty of young, hungry, talented players waiting to come through and make an impression
If anything we have an ideal situation. We DO need a few more players, and we DO need to offload Stan soon.
If we bring in the right guys we can have no excuse not to challenge in Europe.
I'm speaking from experience!
Boruc, Zurawski, Nakamura, Neil Lennon, and I think by this stage Shaun Maloney are seasoned professionals.
Jarosik and Miller both have international experience and have played at the highest level.
All of these apparently inexperienced players will be regulars next season (Lennon perhaps not so much).
The other guys we have brought in like Riordan and Caldwell I am confident will be sewn into the team, and will be brought on by the other players.
What's more, this side (or most of it anyway) has had a year playing together, and has enjoyed success together. They recovered from injury together - so important for morale btw - and learned to trust one another.
Losing BBJ, Sutton, Dublin and Keane does not excuse us at all. There is plenty of experience in that team without them, with plenty of young, hungry, talented players waiting to come through and make an impression
If anything we have an ideal situation. We DO need a few more players, and we DO need to offload Stan soon.
If we bring in the right guys we can have no excuse not to challenge in Europe.
I'm speaking from experience!