Former R's / Loan R's Updates

Good to see Chair and Smyth stepping up and taking their chance at Stevenage and Accrington.

It's now up to Owens, Wheeler and Oteh to do the same at their respective loan clubs. Just because they are with a Championship club doesn't give them any divine right to play for a lower league club. It's about proving they are good enough and have the right attitude and desire to play on a regular basis.

Going out on loan is a chance for the younger players to show they can perform against senior professionals and not just look good against their own age group.

They can only be given game time if they perform in training. They are at the stage of their career where they have got to step up. The club/McClaren have got them a loan deal and it's now up to them to show what they are made of. The loan club will want to play them and give them an opportunity to play League football but unless they show the right attitude and determination during the week then they won't get in the team. I think it will be clear to McClaren that If they can't get a game in the lower leagues then they aren't good enough for Championship football and need to be let go.

Well if Goss is that good then we should get him back to support our defence! 

btw Wheeler played well apparently in MK Dons 2-1 win over Forest Green Rovers but was replaced at 71 mins (along with 2 others in midfield)

Paul Smyth got a goal and assist tonight as Accrington won 2-1 to move closer to safety.

David Wheeler scored for MK Dons yesterday too.

Oteh started for Walsall but only lasted 62 minutes. They lost to compound a miserable run of form that looks like ending in relegation.

Sean Goss has been an unused sub for St Johnstone in recent weeks.

Another Chair masterclass

Check out the video from the Sky Sports page from about 35 seconds in for what would’ve been another standard Chair goal, as well as an assist out of nothing and a 92nd minute winner soon after!

This from the media:

"Former Spurs and Queens Park Rangers defender Steven Caulker was involved in a car accident that claimed the life of a team-mate in Turkey in the early hours of Monday morning.
 The former England international, who now plays for Aytemiz Alanyaspor, was part of a seven-man group who were travelling back from Kayseri on Sunday night after a 1-1 draw with Kayserispor when the vehicle reportedly went off road.
 The accident killed Caulker's colleague Josef Sural, a Czech Republic international striker who passed away in hospital after suffering a fatal head injury." Reports indicate that the two designated drivers on board were both asleep at the time of the crash. Sad business indeed.