Is that in respect to the u17 lads or the u21 lads or across the board? To be honest, lads playing u23 football genuinely play duck all games throughout the year and their season finishes super early. PL2 has a 22 game season and there tends to be more squad rotation amongst those clubs than you get at senior level to try ensure there aren't young players who never play. Depends what the realistic expectations are for them next season but I don't think there was anyone available to the 19s who was overworked in 18/19.
I would have thought that McAuley had a falling out with Mohan, just because if you remove Idah, Connolly, Obafemi and Parrott from the mix - it's hard to think that McAuley isn't somewhere around the 30 man shortlist. He's obviously stalled somewhat but at the same time, he wasn't bad for Liverpool's reserves. His linkup play is pretty good, his runs off the ball have improved, he's not slow, he has decent feet and he's a natural goalscorer. It genuinely wouldn't be the worst move for himself or Afolabi to sign a short-term deal with Rovers if they offered and see how they cut it at that level
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