COOPER’S kids will not hold the reverence of the Busby Babes or even Fergie’s Fledglings, but it will no doubt be used by many to refer to the 2014/15 team, regardless of what they achieve.

The youthful collective age of the squad is no myth, Town’s average hovers around the 22.7 mark, depending on how many youth team players you count toward the total.

By comparison the average age of the rest of the squads making up the rest of League One’s top four are all over 25.

That might not make pretty reading for Town fans looking for reassurance but despair not.

Looking at the average age of the squads promoted in the previous five seasons none are above 25, in fact the oldest squad to get out of League One since the 2009/10 was Rotherham’s side which came through the play-offs last season at 24.9.

So it seems age is not as big a factor in your squad’s chances of promotion as it might have been presumed.

Of course these are crude figures, which provide only limited insight into the relative experience of the players who played the majority of the games.

Even so can age be used as an excuse? Perhaps not.

After boxer Carl Froch knocked out George Groves at Wembley last summer he talked up his experience in the championship rounds.

He has been there and done it against some of the best, he knows what it takes to get through.

Do Cooper’s kids?

This season they have known the joys of victory in the season’s early months, picking off teams with abandon and making it all look easy.

May now looms large on the horizon and if we are not in the championship rounds then they are imminent.

One thing is certain about this current crop of Swindon Town players – they do lack experience.

Wes Foderingham and the Thompson brothers are the only players with league title honours, with Andy Williams and Jonathan Obika also having play-off wins on their respective CVs.

Cooper called for his side to show some maturity after the defeat on Tuesday night, but they have to learn to win under the weight of expectation on the job.

Not an easy task.