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interesting stats here, showing how reliant we've been on players over the age of 30 we've been.

40% of playing time, with the next highest (Man City) on 37%, then Newcastle 33% and Liverpool 32%. So it's not as if playing lots of players over 30 is bad per se.

In fact, we're bottom 3 for under 21s (but so are Forest and Fulham, and they've both had good seasons).

What I find interesting is that we're 9th for the 22-25 category but 19th for 26-29.

This seems quite a disjointed profile. We don't really trust youth, but we have a lot of players in the early stages of their career and few in their prime. In theory, you would like to hope, those 22-25 players will develop, improve, and progress into the 26-29 category.

But suggests our recruitment needs to not only bring down the average age but also find a better balance between youth and experience.