Quote Cherry.Pie="Cherry.Pie"DaveO mentioned on another thread about the problem with giving players the 'project' tag as many are established players and are quite simply signings like any other, or they are promising players who any team would be chasing.
What qualifies as a 'project player' exactly?
To some extent some of our 'projects' are just the club trying to get the most out of the salary cap by getting enough players in so we can have depth without having to use 18 or 19 year old forwards every week, or providing depth in a position where there isn't enough.'"
Well, yeah. As I see it, a project player is one who is no longer a youngster, is seen as having future potential, but not yet ready for the first team.
The biggest problem with that concept is the lack of reserve games (yeah, I know, Rogues and I, and others, keep whinging about that!) with which to turn that potential into reality.
This means, in essence, that they must be seen as ones who primarily need training and fitness, rather than game time, in order to to convert them.
