[h=3]Solly on the March for Albion[/h]3:00pm Wednesday 6th November 2013 in Albion By Andy Naylor
Opportunity knocks for Solly March
**Albion have turned to youth on several occasions already this season, with Oscar Garcia's resources ravaged by injuries.
* Jake Forster-Caskey, Rohan Ince and Vitalijs Maksimenko have all started matches for the Seagulls.
* Now, with the casualty list mounting, Solly March has an opportunity for more game time.
* The gifted teenager will probably not start against Blackburn Rovers at The Amex on Saturday.
* The Seagulls are more likely to compensate for the loss of the hamstrung Will Buckley by deploying David Lopez wide on the right.
* Oscar's fellow Spaniard, not a natural winger, has been used in that role before but there is a good chance that March will, at some stage, get more minutes than he has managed so far at The Amex.
* March has been a regular on the bench for the first team since an eyecatching strike from 25 yards in the Seagulls' closing pre-season friendly at home to Norwich in August.
* That spectacular goal, cutting in from the right flank onto his favoured left foot, emphasised March's versatility.
* His long-term future is probably as an attacking central midfielder, a position he normally occupies for the development team.
* The 19-year-old did that job for 45 minutes against Cardiff at Lancing on Monday evening before he was substituted.
* March was not injured. The half-an-outing was pre-planned, which suggests he could have a part to play against Blackburn.
* Oscar's assistant Nathan Jones, who was at Lancing on Monday night to watch Albion's next generation, said: "If I was a young player at the club I would be thinking if I train well and graft I might get a chance here, because of the depletion of the squad.
* "Jake has done fantastically well, Rohan has done really well when he has been involved as well. They are in and around it. It's up to them to stake a claim."
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**Albion have turned to youth on several occasions already this season, with Oscar Garcia's resources ravaged by injuries.
* Jake Forster-Caskey, Rohan Ince and Vitalijs Maksimenko have all started matches for the Seagulls.
* Now, with the casualty list mounting, Solly March has an opportunity for more game time.
* The gifted teenager will probably not start against Blackburn Rovers at The Amex on Saturday.
* The Seagulls are more likely to compensate for the loss of the hamstrung Will Buckley by deploying David Lopez wide on the right.
* Oscar's fellow Spaniard, not a natural winger, has been used in that role before but there is a good chance that March will, at some stage, get more minutes than he has managed so far at The Amex.
* March has been a regular on the bench for the first team since an eyecatching strike from 25 yards in the Seagulls' closing pre-season friendly at home to Norwich in August.
* That spectacular goal, cutting in from the right flank onto his favoured left foot, emphasised March's versatility.
* His long-term future is probably as an attacking central midfielder, a position he normally occupies for the development team.
* The 19-year-old did that job for 45 minutes against Cardiff at Lancing on Monday evening before he was substituted.
* March was not injured. The half-an-outing was pre-planned, which suggests he could have a part to play against Blackburn.
* Oscar's assistant Nathan Jones, who was at Lancing on Monday night to watch Albion's next generation, said: "If I was a young player at the club I would be thinking if I train well and graft I might get a chance here, because of the depletion of the squad.
* "Jake has done fantastically well, Rohan has done really well when he has been involved as well. They are in and around it. It's up to them to stake a claim."
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