“When I was a young player at Blackburn, Jack Walker came in and appointed Kenny Dalglish as manager,” Wilcox said. “So you go two ways. Do I go elsewhere and take my chances or have I got stomach for fight and see what happens? Luckily for me, I was the only home-grown player under Kenny at Blackburn which was a great privilege and now I’m passing my experience to younger ones. The ultimate is to get them into our first-team, but secondary, we have to give people careers and make them the right person to deal with life’s ups and downs.”