chiefdave
Well-Known Member
It doesn't even seem to get used for players returning from injury to get some minutes anymore.
Not sure what the solution is here. Play up to U18s and then go back to the old fashioned reserves?
It doesn't even seem to get used for players returning from injury to get some minutes anymore.I don't really see what benefit we're actually seeing from that both from a player development perspective or from a business POV.
Its rare but sometimes a player comes through who becomes a valuable asset, both playing and financially. We are still seeing some financial rewards from Maddison all these years later.It can't be cheap to run an U21s side, would be interested to find out how much of an overhead it actually is for us.
When you include wages of players and staff, as well as the cost of food, drink, travel to games, treatment, equipment and any other extras that inevitably the average fan wouldn't even think to consider it can't be inexpensive.
I don't really see what benefit we're actually seeing from that both from a player development perspective or from a business POV.
It’s rare but sometimes a player comes through who becomes a valuable asset, both playing and financially. We are still seeing some financial rewards from Maddison all these years later.
Its rare but sometimes a player comes through who becomes a valuable asset, both playing and financially. We are still seeing some financial rewards from Maddison all these years later.
It doesn't even seem to get used for players returning from injury to get some minutes anymore.
Not sure what the solution is here. Play up to U18s and then go back to the old fashioned reserves?
We'll always have that Pompey goal. Good luck to him.
Damn you beat me to it with this jokeHow are Plymouth beating us to our own players?
king and Lampard what are they doing?
Actually its probably more like "He calls it a bap" !He calls it a pasty
I've no problem with those from the academy stepping up into a reserve team to develop but haven't seen the point in signing all these youngsters from other teams to play in the U21's that we clearly don't think are good enough.Maddison more or less came straight from the academy though, this is a different conversation. He was 17 when he broke through and started playing games semi-regularly.
I'm more talking about allocating budget to the likes of Cashman, Jay McGarth, Tom Costello's etc. Individually they'll be low cost but collectively it's a pretty wasteful use of budget as we've reached the stage now where their ability to get first team minutes will be reduced to near enough nil.
If a player is good enough coming out of the academy they in theory should either get integrated into the first team or go out on loan. Why let them rot in the U21s playing against nobodies most of which either won't even be in football within the next 3-5 years or will be playing in the Capelli Sport MFL Premier Division.
I can't actually think of a player that genuinely has benefitted by spending a season or two solely in the U21s.
couldn’t really have gone any better for him here with that goal, and he will never top it and not likely to get much game time so makes sense for him
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