Dave Jones has heaped praise on Cardiff City's teenaged midfielder Aaron Wildig ahead of Tuesday's promotion showdown with second-placed West Bromwich Albion.
Manager Dave paid tribute to 17-year-old's Aaron's performance in Saturday's FA Cup tie at Chelsea and said: "It's a great learning curve for him. He's done absolutely brilliantly. There doesn't look much of him so he has to show other attributes in his game, which he's doing.
"He's comfortable on the ball and he sees a good pass. He can get stronger and the more he trains with us the better he will be.
"Aaron is still growing. We can't do weights with him because he has a back problem. We've got to be careful with him and monitor him, and there'll be a time when we have to pull him out and say enough is enough, we can't get any more out of him.
"He's got a big future at this club, he's another player who has come through and it just shows you that if we have a good player at this club we treat him properly.
"Unfortunately, the problem is that the big guns will start looking and come calling again if we're not in the division we want to be in."
Dave also vowed that City, now in fifth position, would keep battling to the end in the Championship, which he described as a "snakes and ladders division."
He said: "It will be a massive effort between now and the end of the season. West Brom are a very good side. They'll be wanting to keep their run going and we are both high scorers, so it should be quite a feisty game. We won up there and everybody knows that we'll have to work just as hard if not harder to beat them again.
"Nothing's impossible. We just can't give up now and say the top two are out of sight. If we win tomorrow night and win our game in hand, that gap will look a lot narrower. Forest are dropping points and everybody will drop points before the end of the season.
"Nobody at this club is giving up on anything. Five more points will make us safe and then we can concentrate on doing something else.
"Everybody at this club is working double shifts, and everybody is bright and sharp. We've cocooned ourselves into staying fit and get out on to the pitch and doing the job.
"It's a matter of keeping them going. Sometimes when you're in a spot of bother there's only one way I know to deal with it, and that's to come out fighting and scrapping. That's what our players are doing.
"While there are games to be played and points to play for, you're always in with a shout in this division. It's the ones who don't believe that can get problems. Look at QPR - I think they were in the top four a few months ago then they fell away drastically so it can go the other way as well.
"That's why I am saying you never give up on anything in this division. Plymouth had a great result on Saturday which pulled them round a bit but they still in the mire. When we played Scunthorpe away, they thought a few more points and they'd be safe, but all of a sudden they're back in it. Ipswich were talking about a play-off spot and they're just above the bottom three now.
"It's a crazy, crazy division. This division is like being on a snakes and ladders board."
Dave also revealed that City were waiting on the fitness of Gavin Rea and young Wildig, although Jay Bothroyd had come through the Chelsea match after having a pain-killing injection to enable him to play.
The gaffer said: "Fatigue kicked in a little bit with Gav at Chelsea because he hadn't trained, he'd just been in rehab for the injury. We brought him off near the end as a precaution and did the same with Burkey. Jay is a bit sore but he's had another couple of days rest."
