Exactly. You only have to watch these games and it's very obvious. "Premier League 2" just doesn't have the intensity of a senior game and it's by playing in senior football that you find out if a player can handle themselves.
I watch our U23s a reasonable amount and bloody loved the Southend...
He's playing competitive football that matters. He's playing in matches with an intensity U23 football can not match. The EFL Trophy was brilliant for our U23s but it'll last 3 games. This is competitive senior football week in week out. Bugger the attendances, it's playing with blokes who if...