Rodney, on 05 November 2019 - 11:40 PM, said:
This amazing academy that's produced err Jamie Hewitt and who else? Most end up going on loan several Pyramids below us and don't pull up any tree even then .Wouldn't be a loss at all imho.
not an Academy of such, but apart from Jamie Hewitt we've had some good youngsters come through the junior ranks.
The king Ernie Moss, Alan Stevenson, Les Hunter,Steve Hardwick, Gary Bellamy all came through.
Darwikwa and Bowery, Kev Davies (developed through us via the dee dahs) all brought in decent income.
McGuire, Rowley, Wakefield and Sharman are all currently in the 1st Team squad,,also Rawson and Levi out on loan could do a better job than McKay.
Didn't the young forward Russ go to Leicester last year.
Wish we still had the likes of Roberts, Thompson and Lancashire helping to coach the youngsters..I can never understand why we le
t the likes of Alan Young and Miquel Lira go.
We don't have a competitive reserve side so I would argue that we do need a junior set up especially now as we are not in the EFL anymore. I think that we lack a figure head since Smith and Lira left.