| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy 20:36 - May 30 with 2309 views | TresBonne |
Mainly from schools & college programmes, even some from abroad such as the Australian fellas. I like it! Let's hope some are absolute worldbeaters & good luck gents.
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 20:56 - May 30 with 2201 views | BigCommon |
Commented on the "Punt" thread about this... These are low cost, low risk punts, imo. |  | | |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:09 - May 30 with 2165 views | wkj |
Nice to see town going down the "signing regens" route |  |
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:22 - May 30 with 2104 views | wkj |
Seems i double posted somehow [Post edited 30 May 2023 21:22]
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:36 - May 30 with 2067 views | TalkingBlues |
They had a big clear out of the academy over the last couple of months, the message from on high now is “quality over quantity”. |  |
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:41 - May 30 with 2030 views | tractorboy1978 |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:36 - May 30 by TalkingBlues |
They had a big clear out of the academy over the last couple of months, the message from on high now is “quality over quantity”. |
The backgrounds of these lads don’t suggest that. |  | | |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 22:58 - May 30 with 1936 views | TalkingBlues |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 21:41 - May 30 by tractorboy1978 |
The backgrounds of these lads don’t suggest that. |
Don’t shoot the messenger, that’s direct from an academy coach at the club.
Pretty sure Big Phil can confirm there’s been a clear out and things are changing on that side. | |
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 23:28 - May 30 with 1831 views | tractorboy1978 |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 22:58 - May 30 by TalkingBlues |
Don’t shoot the messenger, that’s direct from an academy coach at the club.
Pretty sure Big Phil can confirm there’s been a clear out and things are changing on that side. |
There’s been a clear out for sure but there doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of pedigree in the background of those coming in to date. | | | |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 14:40 - May 31 with 1359 views | TalkingBlues |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 23:28 - May 30 by tractorboy1978 |
There’s been a clear out for sure but there doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of pedigree in the background of those coming in to date. |
Well, apparently it's all about quality now, so somebody is responsible for tapping these lads up and must be doing so within parameters outlined to them from above you'd think. Let's face it, 99% of these lads will end up being ejected at some point anyway, so there's always an argument as to how much quality is actually being brought in, nature of the beast. | |
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| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 14:44 - May 31 with 1339 views | PhilTWTD |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 22:58 - May 30 by TalkingBlues |
Don’t shoot the messenger, that’s direct from an academy coach at the club.
Pretty sure Big Phil can confirm there’s been a clear out and things are changing on that side. |
Most of the U21s have been released this summer. Mark Ashton said: “It’s [director of football operations] Gary [Probert]’s area. It’s that time of year, it’s always difficult. But what we’re not going to do is warehouse players,” he said.
“I know previous regimes would do that because I’ve had conversations with Lee [O’Neill] when he was here, they were always scared to death to release players.
“I don’t think that’s fair on the players, it’s tough, but I just don’t believe in warehousing them for the sake of warehousing them.
“And I think what you’ve seen now, when you’ve got the likes of Kieran [McKenna] and his coaching staff, the demands are going to be even higher, so they’ve got to be really sure they’ve got a chance.” |  | | |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 19:33 - May 31 with 1161 views | ReusersTown |
| We seem to be signing plenty of young lads to the academy on 14:44 - May 31 by PhilTWTD |
Most of the U21s have been released this summer. Mark Ashton said: “It’s [director of football operations] Gary [Probert]’s area. It’s that time of year, it’s always difficult. But what we’re not going to do is warehouse players,” he said.
“I know previous regimes would do that because I’ve had conversations with Lee [O’Neill] when he was here, they were always scared to death to release players.
“I don’t think that’s fair on the players, it’s tough, but I just don’t believe in warehousing them for the sake of warehousing them.
“And I think what you’ve seen now, when you’ve got the likes of Kieran [McKenna] and his coaching staff, the demands are going to be even higher, so they’ve got to be really sure they’ve got a chance.” |
Any idea how many of the recently successful youth teams (Fa Cup) have gone Phil? | | | |
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