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Current Player Dane Scarlett

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Dane Scarlett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Signed: 12th August 2024 (On Loan)

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Swaby39 said:
Indeed, and how many times do we have to make this mistake in this country? I know football seems to make its own rules on this but just how many of us could’ve coped with millions of people knowing your name at just 17!

I think this is why more and more young English lads are going the Jude Bellingham/Jadon Sancho route and going abroad where they provide the platform to play for their stardom rather than someone put it out as a headline without their knowing and spend years trying to live up to that hype.

Look at social media around this kid. He’s 20 and already been judged by fans who couldn’t lace his boots - imagine it were your son. Very sad and no wonder he’s a little camera shy as people have already spoken for him for years.

Perfect environment for him. Get settled in, Dane, and go smash it.
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Great post and touches on something that often seems forgotten about with young loans. It's all well and good excelling at youth level, domestically and internationally, but mens football is a different kettle of fish and takes getting used to. Add into that he's a teenager moving away from friends and family and going to a club with lofty expectations and demanding fans and, possibly most importantly, suddenly being asked to fit in with Cowley hoofball and it's not entirely surprising it didn't work out.

Hopefully we reap the benefit of him having been in and amongst mens football for a year or so. Ipswich performed better than expected so not a huge surprise he didn't get a lot of time there. There's enough to not write him off but it does seem like this needs to be the right move where he kicks on and I think Des will have made it the best atmosphere possible to do that. Up to Scarlett now to take his opportunity, hopefully we'll see something of him tonight.
 
Swaby39 said:
Indeed, and how many times do we have to make this mistake in this country? I know football seems to make its own rules on this but just how many of us could’ve coped with millions of people knowing your name at just 17!

I think this is why more and more young English lads are going the Jude Bellingham/Jadon Sancho route and going abroad where they provide the platform to play for their stardom rather than someone put it out as a headline without their knowing and spend years trying to live up to that hype.

Look at social media around this kid. He’s 20 and already been judged by fans who couldn’t lace his boots - imagine it were your son. Very sad and no wonder he’s a little camera shy as people have already spoken for him for years.

Perfect environment for him. Get settled in, Dane, and go smash it.
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Good post. I can only come at it from a dad who's kid rides race bikes at a junior national level - it's brutally competitive and you have a window of 16-18 to "get noticed" then it's off to under 23's if you haven't. This isn't the end of things, as each kid develops at a different pace, but the pressure to achieve is pretty immense at such a unique age - training every day of the week for hours, racing most weekends, here and on the continent, plus GCSEs and A-levels etc.

When you've given everything over a long multi-day stage race with 50-70 other young riders it's tough, chapeau to them all.

I hope OUFC is a good home to Scarlett, we've history of being a kind and nurturing place for those that need it.

Good luck young man.

COYY!
 
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MarkG said:
Tipped as a possible replacement for Harry Kane.
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This is really the sort of attention he doesn’t need - unavoidable as it is, I know.

The reality is he needs to graduate out of the EFL first and be allowed the time and space to do that. No player develops in a linear fashion and talking about him in this way just adds kilos to his shoulders.

I really like that Des is being selective over the opportunities for the younger players to make sure they get the most out of their minutes. Throwing them in the deep end could spoil their potential later in the season. We don’t need to hurry this along since nobody seems to have properly figured us out. We’re doing so well and hardly scratched the surface of our squad yet with plenty, like Scarlett, up our sleeve.
 
Hope he gets the chance to prove himself for us, unfortunately the way things are at the moment it's difficult to see what kind of situation would be a good one to introduce him to a game.

Who'd'a thought we'd ever miss the pizza pot trophy?
 
Carlislehotdog said:
Hope he gets the chance to prove himself for us, unfortunately the way things are at the moment it's difficult to see what kind of situation would be a good one to introduce him to a game.

Who'd'a thought we'd ever miss the pizza pot trophy?
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I think that, on 80 minutes, had we been a couple of goals up against Stoke, rather than one, Des would have given him some minutes to save Sparky’s legs. Unfortunately, a 1:0 lead is too precarious a situation to throw him into. Unlike some on this forum, I’d like to give the boy a chance. One day we’ll be looking at him and his success and reflecting ‘he was with us once.’ Let’s hope the opportunity wasn’t wasted.
 
TailsWeWin said:
I think that, on 80 minutes, had we been a couple of goals up against Stoke, rather than one, Des would have given him some minutes to save Sparky’s legs. Unfortunately, a 1:0 lead is too precarious a situation to throw him into. Unlike some on this forum, I’d like to give the boy a chance. One day we’ll be looking at him and his success and reflecting ‘he was with us once.’ Let’s hope the opportunity wasn’t wasted.
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I’m not sure if this is accurate, as against Preston we were 3-1 up, against ten men, and on the 76th minute made a substitution which was the last of our three ‘windows’ - and yet Scarlett did not come on for Harris, despite us clearly having won the game, and having a free sub spot to use.
 
Swaby39 said:
I really like that Des is being selective over the opportunities for the younger players to make sure they get the most out of their minutes. Throwing them in the deep end could spoil their potential later in the season. We don’t need to hurry this along since nobody seems to have properly figured us out. We’re doing so well and hardly scratched the surface of our squad yet with plenty, like Scarlett, up our sleeve.
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Thing is, with Scarlett, at this point it's not like this is his first rodeo.

Went on loan to Pompey in League One in 2022/23, and played in 34 games (19 of them starts).
Then went on loan to Ipswich in the Championship in 2023/24, and only got twelve sub appearances (I think less than 200 minutes in total) over half a season before going back to Spurs.

At this point in his career, he really needs to be playing if he's going to continue to develop.

And the problem is, unless (God forbid) something happens to Harris.....and soon, before Goodwin is ready to go......then I'm not sure how many opportunities he's actually going to get with us? Right now, he feels like someone that we've signed 'in case of emergency'....and I can't imagine that's what he or Spurs want. Perfectly fine for us, of course......but if nothing changes, I suspect this might end up being another half-season thing.
 
Carlislehotdog said:
Hope he gets the chance to prove himself for us, unfortunately the way things are at the moment it's difficult to see what kind of situation would be a good one to introduce him to a game.

Who'd'a thought we'd ever miss the pizza pot trophy?
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4-0 up against Bristol City at the weekend is a perfect opportunity to let him stretch his legs.
 
I...don't get this lad. At all.
Yes, he only got a few minutes in a tight game that we were battling for a point. However...

He can't, or won't run.
He can't, or won't chase down.
He can't, or won't track back.
He can't, or won't harry for possession.

What he can do is run the wrong lines and, when not in possession, stand with a body posture that makes it look like he's soiled himself.

How on earth this lad is the captain of the England U-20 I will never know.

Needs massive improvement, and sharpish.
 
Berliner said:
I...don't get this lad. At all.
Yes, he only got a few minutes in a tight game that we were battling for a point. However...

He can't, or won't run.
He can't, or won't chase down.
He can't, or won't track back.
He can't, or won't harry for possession.

What he can do is run the wrong lines and, when not in possession, stand with a body posture that makes it look like he's soiled himself.

How on earth this lad is the captain of the England U-20 I will never know.

Needs massive improvement, and sharpish.
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Radio Oxford mentioned about him not chasing down the keeper and that maybe he was told not too, Jerome said Tyle didn’t do it in the first half too.

But there was times Dane should have pressed a bit more in the middle of the pitch.
 
He was a mixed bag in his performance i mean he did do some good things but he also was lazy he won’t close the GK down

I dunno what it is with this lad he’s obviously got quality but does he have the desire to fight for the shirt realistically if your going in to battle you leave him at home because he ent got no fight in him
 
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