Time To Grow Up, Tosh Tells Yo

Byline: Chris Wathan

JOHN TOSHACK has begun the countdown to his final qualifying bid ... by telling his side it's time to deliver.

The Wales boss has previously hit out at former players turned pundits like Neville Southall, Ian Rush and Kevin Ratcliffe for saying his young team need to stand up and be counted.

He argued it was too soon to expect too much from his kids, pushed through after injuries and suspensions ruled out so many senior servants.

But now, with six months before the Euro campaign kicks-off, Tosh has admitted the time has come for his boys to become men and stand on their own two feet ahead of the Euros.

Wednesday's game against Sweden at the Liberty Stadium will mark the first of four friendlies before the qualifying campaign - the last of Tosh's tenure - starts in September.

And then it is time for the excuses to stop, with a challenge for a place in Poland and Ukraine simply a must.

Toshack has often tried to protect his young players. He adopted conservative tactics to avoid harsh lessons in the unforgiving world of international football and ensure fragile confidence was not having flopped in the last campaign, Toshack has now admitted: "It's time for them to stand on their own two feet.

"I said it to them after the game in Finland, they are young lads but most of them have 25 caps or so now - I can't protect them any longer.

"It's a case of off you go now. "I've been frightened before ...perhaps not frightened, but I've been aware that if you throw them in and get a walloping off somebody it can set them back more than just a couple of games. We couldn't afford that. Longines Replica Watches But in fairness, that hasn't happened and we've shown steps forward in the last two games. We know what happened in Finland, and although a series of circumstances didn't help, we had no complaints. We had chances to nick it but we didn't so that's it and we can't argue.

"That is done and gone now and we went on, scored five goals from the last two game with a young side and it's showed this is the way for us.

"Yes they are young but they have to stand on their two feet and it's off you go."

It's strong stuff from Tosh who has previously been almost apologetic for his youngsters finding their feet on the biggest stage. The veteran manager was admittedly hamstrung by having to introduce a new Replica Seiko Watches generation almost en masse.

But Toshack clearly feels it's now time to cut the apron strings after seeing so many of the young guns fire.

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But Some of the teenagers who have made their debut under Toshack are not exactly rookies any longer; Wayne Hennessey is now a Premier League goalkeeper, Chris Gunter an ever-present in Nottingham Forest's top-flight push, Jack Collison a big league star and Aaron Ramsey one of the most talked-about players in British football with Champions League games to his name.

Joe Ledley - although injured for this clash - is a veteran of 32 caps, Lewin Nyatanga an old head of 30 international appearances - even this nation's youngest ever goalscorer, Gareth Bale, has 23 outings to his name.

It's not to say Wales should be the finished article yet - but it's enough to suggest the supporters can expect more when the competitive actions g
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