You don't seem to have an understanding of how academy and reserve football works. Its basically a learning area for potential players, which in all clubs is littered with players that don't make the grade and are discarded, its a tough school to impress in. We have been set back by Jordan having a hissy fit over the Bostock saga and disbanded the academy.
You only need to get a few gems come through to make it viable, in recent years we have had Zaha, AWB and Mitchell, but most never make it for various reason and drift down to lower league or semi pro football.

Really. Thanks for the condescending lesson.

AWB would never have played if we weren’t desperate. His positioning and lack of discipline getting drawn into the middle make confident of that. Same with Mitchell. Roy likes the finished article or players like RLC it’s pretty certain is a matter of when and not if. Ask Roy to play cards for a fiver and he’d try and lower the stakes to a shilling.

He’s brought through Tyrick Mitchel this year into the first team and is now choosing him ahead of Van Aanholt. Furthermore, he’s bought Eberechi Eze, a 22 year old dynamic, flair player into the set up which shows me he’s not too afraid to bring in youth.

I agree. Roy always goes for the safe steady option and will not risk younger players unless absolutely necessary (eg.AWB). He is not interested in the long term future... his job depends on results in the here and now and prem survival is success for his career. However we cannot sustain a squad of overpaid journeymen and sooner or later we will come unstuck. Our American sugar daddies have lost interest. Our academy used to be so strong but now Im not so sure.

Anyone wanting Roy out can think again, he will see this season out and possibly start the next now. He gets the squad organised and we should have beaten Arsenal last night.

We are definitely looking more solid now at the back with Tomkins and Mitchell returning. Thought the young left back is starting to settle and apart from one ball he gave away in a dangerous position played really well. What’s more he can cross the ball too. Roy just needs to let a couple of more youngsters to come through the ranks and get some game time, and it will be job done.

so based on the fact that we are not beating teams that we should have, and if he could only change his fundamental approach to player selection, we're onto a winner? Cool.