When the Giants allowed a 13-play, 87-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter, the defense was using a few first-teamers, including safeties Gibril Wilson and James Butler and linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka...
The club have already signed Matt Miazga, the 20-year-old US international, although he is thought to be more of a long-term project than an immediate first-teamer.
"Ben Moon is starting to become a regular first-teamer, Dave Ewers has had some good first team exposure, but we need to have three or four of them establishing themselves in the first team in the next few years," he added.
Although hopes are high that the prolific 20-year-old will eventually become a regular first-teamer it is felt the forward is not quite ready for Premier League football and will need time to adjust with Newcastle's under-21s.
MK are building a reputation for producing talented youngsters, with 22-year-old winger Adam Chicksen now a regular first-teamer, while striker Seyi Ojo was signed up by Liverpool last year at the age of 14.
An occasional first-teamer, he was the A-side's regular half-back, taking and giving muddy weekend hits while, in midweek, winning no end of painting prizes and exhibiting with West Riding Arts, the London Group, and the Young Contemporaries.
In 1989, the Pistons won their first championship without a selection on the first, second or third teams, but Isiah Thomas had earlier been a first-teamer for three straight years and Dumars was a third-teamer the next year.
His father, Eorl's granddad, was a first-teamer at Huddersfield.
Weston Hicks, a first-teamer for six consecutive years, headed to J. P. Morgan.
Ginter, the hero against Augsburg, was now a bona fide first-teamer, and was regularly joined in the starting XI by fellow young defenders Oliver Sorg and Christian Günter, goalkeeper Oliver Baumann and attacking midfielder Daniel Caligiuri.
