A lot of those players are pretty average though.
Lesniak, Walkes, Harrison, Sterling will all be lucky to play Championship football in their careers. Then you have Amos, Oakley-Boothe, Georgiou, Carter-Vickers who simply won't make it here and will probably play Championship football in future and make a good career out of it.
The next lot of academy prospects seems to the best we've had since the Townsend, Kane, Mason days so I have no doubt they will get more chances.
Would be interested to see how that compares to other teams in the Premier League though....
I don't disagree on most of your comments. The strange thing is that Poch did not give playing time to some of our better prospects - perhaps the best example being Milos Veljkovic now a fixture at Werder Bremen and played in WC for Serbia equally at home playing as either a DM or CB (and we could certainly do with him atm) - whilst giving token minutes to others.
But looking forward, the next wave of academy prospects coming through seem to be of a higher standard than we've had for a few years, so I'd hope a number of them get a try out, and we still have a group of around 19 year who I haven't given up on, including Eyoma (on bench yesterday) and his CB partner Tangana, GK's Whiteman and Austin and our Dele lookalike (in playing style) Roles.