Wycombe offering 1.2 million for Connell

We need to make our minds up as fans.

We (myself included) have criticised the academy set up as being underutilised. Now we have players in and around the first team from the academy and we seem to be hell bent on writing them off.

The Jonathan Bland I saw against Man U U21's wouldn't have gotten into Athersley Rec's side. The one I saw at Reading, in a poor team by the way, looked every inch a L1 player. Give him a chance!

We have to put faith in these lads for them to flourish. We cant slate the academy for not producing players, then cry like big babies when they produce players!

They might turn out eventually to not make the grade. Unless we give them the opportunity, we'll never know.

Personally I'm excited to see Bland, Barratt, Yoganathan, Jalo etc. What the Club needs to do is supplement these lads with quality and experience to bring them on in the right way.

A bit of dead wood out (easier said than done, I know) and some more experience and guile fetched in, I think we'll have a good season.

As a fan base we really do need to alter our pessimism and doubt. We're just going to manifest it with our negativity.

COYR!