ADAMS: TIME TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

STAINES TOWN’S on-loan starlet Brandon Adams is telling his Queens Park Rangers team-mates that they must leave the Football League comfort zone and get their hands dirty in Non-League football.

Concerns are growing that young players are too content with in the more relaxed and pressure-free environment of pro clubs’ academies.

Striker Adams is already feeling the benefit of his youth loan and on Tuesday night he scored two wonder goals as mid-table Staines ended Dulwich’s unbeaten away record to secure a vital Ryman Premier Division victory.

His first of the night saw him glide through six Hamlet players before a composed finish opened the scoring in a game the Swans won 2-0.

“I’m enjoying it, I can’t tell you how much,” the 18-year-old told The NLP. “You can’t not enjoy your football when you are scoring goals.

“When I picked the ball up I just thought ‘let’s see what happens’ and I carried on running. Everyone backed off, I found myself in the box and I thought I would have a swing at it with my weak foot at I managed to get enough on it to go in.

“The experience I am getting is priceless. When we’re playing in the league for QPR U23’s, it’s more about individual performances and progression than actual results.

“Even if you were to lose 2-0 say, and ten out of your 11 players won their one-vs-ones then you leave the ground content.

“In Non-League it’s just not like that. If everyone has had a good game and you lose, the manager’s not happy!

“It’s a more competitive edge to it. Take Tuesday night, we came off the pitch flying because we had won against a side higher in the table.

“I’ve been encouraging all the lads at QPR I have spoken to massively to do the same thing. Nothing beats scoring in front of a crowd and you don’t get that at training grounds scoring in front of no-one at youth team level.”

Adams doesn’t know how long he’ll be at Staines for but he is up for making his stay a sizeable one.

“The way youth loans work are that there is no direct minimum players can stay, and there’s no direct maximum – it’s all down to the clubs and it’s see-how-it-goes to a certain extent,” he said.

“I’m happy to stay for as long as I’m needed, I just want to keep scoring goals really and to carry on feeling the benefit.”