tomogull wrote:Very pleased to read the the Youth Academy is to be 'watered down' rather than being completely disbanded. I'm beginning to suspect that Forever is one of the ten because that was his suggestion on here a while ago !!!
Lol Tomo, no I'm not one of the ten, oh how I wish, I had enough money to commit, if that was the case I wouldn't hesitate investing. It's been my own personal belief the academy should have been watered down 18 months ago, and been posting all the way a long.
I fully understood the notion, short term loss (first team) to put money into the youth set-up for long term gain of the club, but I never saw the long term gain against the amount of money a cat 3 set up was actually costing, the club in my opinion was taking far, far to much money away from the first team, to put into the youth set-up ( and training ground) which can take 12 years plus to provide a production line of fit for purpose talent, time the club just did not have and could not afford, point proved, TUFC got relegated.
Water it down is a shame, there's staff I know personally, and having some form of youth set-up is the way forward, but a youth set-up at the level the club can afford, no club, should ever find itself in a position, where by, it's spending as much if not more, on it's youth set-up than it is, on it's first team, and that's exactly the direction TUFC were heading.
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