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Player Dane Scarlett

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The problem (well, a problem) is that people see the odd player break out at 18 and never look back and thus expect that to be the curve for all young players.... Yet some may not grow into their adulthood (both on and off the pitch) until much later; so much so that depending on position even 21, 22, 23 is still relatively young.

It's not a linear path & process.... Even the notion of "make it" (or not) itself is fairly loose.

Mega-star.
Regular starter.
EPL worthy back-up.
HG squad player.
Sold for a decent fee.

....All/any of these things are to be considered a success in terms of the academy and our development program.
True. Skipp and Winks are first team players at a Premier League club but for many they didn’t “make it”.
 
From Oxford Forum (Wednesday);

I thought the energy he put into the first half yesterday was immense. (4 likes)

Between him and Ebiowei, he’s much more likely to have a better career and that’s because he works much harder and is less temperamental (2 likes)

Scarlett definitely put a shift in yesterday. Closed the Hull defenders down really well and hurried the keeper more than once.

Now.. and this isn’t a pile-on on Harris but I have to say I wis a little disappointed with his work rate when he came on. I thought he would really add some impetus against a tiring Hull defence after Scarlett had put the hard yards in, to prove that he deserves his Wales call-up, but he hardly lived up to his nickname. He looked a little bit sulky. (8 likes)


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I think he's a striker who needs service. He's always looking to get in front of defenders and thinks about his positioning. He's all about movement and finishing inside the box imo.
 
4 in his last 7 for Oxford in the Championship. Liam Delap (who's a year older) managed 8 goals last year in the Championship before breaking through in the Prem this season. Obviously harder to break through with us but he's in a decent place at the moment. Hopefully continues this form.

This season - 5 starts and 7 subbed on from bench totalling about 426 mins and 4 goals so far

So averaging about a goal every 106 minutes

Providing he gets minutes on a regular basis (and there's more than half the season to go) he'll finish season in double figures for goals scored, no problem
 

DES Buckingham has explained the call to opt for Mark Harris ahead of Dane Scarlett in Oxford United’s dismal defeat at the hands of Middlesbrough.
Oxford United’s head coach believed that Harris’ ability to get in behind the Boro defence would make him more of an offensive threat, pointing to the chance Harris had when he did exactly that.

With the score at 1-1, Ruben Rodrigues slid a pass through for Harris, who looked to poke the ball round Sol Brynn, however the Boro goalkeeper did brilliantly to get a touch on the ball and thwart the U’s striker

Scarlett replaced Harris seven minutes into the second half, by now with the score at 4-1 to Boro, and the Tottenham Hotspur loanee pulled one back for United when he collected a pass from Tyler Goodrham and fired across goal.

U’s head coach Buckingham said of Scarlett: “He’s doing well when he gets his chances. He is in the box, as he’s starting to show, very dangerous.

“He only needs half a chance in the box, and he takes them. We’ve got two very good centre forwards here in Mark Harris and Dane, who have been sharing that workload.

“We felt that Mark would be able to stretch the game a little bit and create similarly to the chance he did create, and get in behind, which we felt would be important for us to start the game, knowing we could bring Dane on''



Seems to me the Oxford manager is trying to explain why his selection criteria didn't work (Harris did not score) so had to bring on Scarlett, but by that time it was to late, Oxford already 4-1 down. But Scarlett did score
 
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