gobsmacked at how this thread has gone! Pete, Im usually with you on a lot of things but im assuming youve taken a bump to the head or smoked something wonderful. I'll put it down to happy bias
Duffy, Vellios and Barkley have a combined total EPL appearances of 36, 22 of which are apparently Vellios alone and id bet not 1 of them is for a full game. Yes, we want to see more youth coming through, and yes we would like to see Moyes use more variety but to say these kids are in the same bracket of Jones, Welbeck, Cleverley is boarding on delusional! The 3 young Utd players are going to be top draw players, and well on their way in my opinion, an opinion made on watching them play, which I cant say for the Everton players mentioned because our 3 dont play. Simple as that. Fault of Moyes? Maybe. Or maybe theyre not good enough. We cant know because they dont play. Would SAF play them? Maybe, depending on how good they are. If he didnt think they were good enough, he wouldnt. But again, hypothetical situations.
If we was going to do a mix team, id have this (similar to Baileys I know):
..............Howard .............
Coleman Jags Vidic Baines
....Carrick ........ Felli .......
Mirallas Rooney Welbeck
................RVP.................
Subs : De Gea, Evans, Rafael, Osman, Nani, Valencia, Pienaar
Near misses from selection : Jones, Smalling, Distin, Cleverley, Gibson, Evra, Vic....
Some people seem to have forgotten De Geas terrible form for the first 3-4 months of the season, and both Jags and Coleman are only in place by the skin of their teeth, partially down to bias and the fact that I cant stand Rafael. None of our strikers deserve to be there because theyve not been scoring (the fact the service has been mostly poor is a crap excuse, weve got a leftback that is one of the best at creating opportunities statistically.) and midfield wise, weve not been good enough.