Loan Time Allows Increased Game Time

29 February 2012 08:50
Not everybody can walk into a Premier League side and be a hit

Under-21 defender Danny Wilson feels ready for anything as he thrives in a loan spell at Blackpool. Wilson has only nine games for Liverpool under his belt with the most recent being in a Carling Cup win over Exeter in August. That game has proved to be his sole outing for Kenny Dalglish's side this season. The former Rangers defender joined Blackpool on loan in January and has since played eight games, with an FA Cup defeat against Everton the only blot on his copybook. Wilson said: "It's been great. I think I was maybe going a bit stale at Liverpool. I was playing reserve games but you want to be playing in front of crowds every week. Blackpool came at the right time for me. I've had eight games since the turn of the year and I feel good. I feel fit, I feel confident and I'm enjoying where I am at the moment. As long as you're out playing games you have the chance to impress people but I want to do the best I can for Blackpool. Hopefully if I'm doing that, it catches someone's eye at Liverpool." Wilson made himself a regular at Rangers in his one and only season in the Ibrox first team and he admits he needed the challenge of playing regularly at Blackpool, who are fourth in the npower Championship. Wilson went on: "I knew it was a tough league before going there but I've been surprised by how physically demanding it is. I think I need that as a centre-half. I just turned 20 at the end of the year. This is the time I need to be playing games and really developing. The Championship is a great league to do that in." Wilson has won five full caps but he returned to the under-21 set-up for the away qualifiers against Luxembourg and Holland, both of which Scotland won. Scotland are unbeaten in four games and one point behind the Netherlands ahead of tonight's game at St Mirren Park after ending their guests' 100% record with a 2-1 away win in Nijmegen in November. Wilson said: "That game is gone, this game is the most important one. I'm sure they will want to come here and prove a point to us and we can only be ready for that. We did well over there and we're confident we can do it again. But we need to go in with the right frame of mind. We know they're going to be good and we know they're going to have the ball. But they had a lot of the ball over there and we managed to play our own game on the counter-attack and got the goals at the right time."

Source: FOOTYMAD