Maynard said "I think as a management team, if you look at our record going back to Wealdstone, we believe if you're good enough, you're old” enough
"And you saw that the other night, they didn't just come in to make the numbers up, they came an performed to a very high level against League One opposition, who didn't really have a lot of youngsters in their group.
"We've got to make sure we manage it. Even though they performed to a very high level we can't bring them in too early because coming into League Two is very difficult and a lot to ask, but five or six of them train with us most days now.
"If you look at the young lads coming through, I think we've got a really good batch. You can never predict in the future whether they will play regular games in our first team, but at the minute they're progressing very well and it's huge credit to our academy staff and I think it bodes well for the future.
"I do believe there is a pathway here. When you look at Premier League clubs it's very hard to have a pathway."