It has been a funny old season for Albie Morgan. Lee Bowyer was keen to send him out to a League One or Two club to get some minutes under his belt and learn the game at the beginning of the season.

Bowyer hinted that the youngster could figure i‎n his plans in the second half of the campaign.

Morgan demonstrated that despite his tender years, he had enough skill to impose himself in League One. The first leg of the Play-Off semi-final at Doncaster readily springs to mind.

But he was understandably erratic at times and was largely anonymous in return leg at The Valley.

It was surprising though that no League side came in for him, so Morgan was loaned to National League team, Ebbsfleet.

He played five games for them before being recalled to The Valley when the injury list grew.

“Albie needs to go and play some games, he needs to get his fitness up and learn the game.‎  It is better than U-23 football,” said Bowyer, who went on to explain that there could be another couple of youngsters heading for a temporary move away from The Valley:

“We’d like to get a couple out. I don’t think it would be a bad thing for Josh Davison, but we’ve got to evaluate the striker situation at our place. He did well for us when he played.

‎”Ben Dempsey, maybe it would be good for him to go and play as well. I’ll look at the ones who are in and around us.

“Alfie (Doughty) will stay with us.” 

Doughty‎ has made the biggest impression of all the youngsters given game time recently, and he appears to have adapted to the wing-back role well.
He could figure prominently during the rest of the season.