Nothing to lose tonight – so let’s see top kids

I would love to believe that Josh Pask, Nathan Holland (above right) and Josh Cullen (below right) will be involved in tonight’s squad against Manchester United.

Sadly I don’t think it will happen with the manager and club possibly  more focused on a finishing position than blooding youngsters.

I’d be delighted to be proved wrong and that at the very least the exciting Holland gets some minutes down the right wing where we have had no penetration at all this season and where the former Everton youngster can be lethal.

Like his former under 23 skipper Declan Rice this is a player with everything before him and one who may well have been involved this season but for an injury which kept him out until February.

Josh Pask has looked an incredibly exciting prospect at the centre of defence and deserves a chance of a place in the action for a few minutes at the least.

Cullen is becoming a squad regular and looking pretty tidy – all three deserve to know they are in the first team frame and hopefully will at the very least be on the bench.

A tiny cameo performance will do their confidence the world of good at this stage of the season and show the fans that there’s a lot to come from our academy.

Go on Dave do it mate if there’s nothing to lose in the match situation.