They tonked Grimsby 4-1 earlier. Cardwell x2, Dixon and Sutton. All looks good for the future hopefully.
It's the period between now and the first team that's traditionally the problem. Bruce and his team seem to be nurturing the development squad to improve our output.
I don't like the idea of a 'development team' at all. They should give a player first team experience as soon as they're good enough. That's what other clubs do. Leaving them to play hardly any football for two years just stops their development completely. Sorting out a decent reserve league would help too of course.
Football is broken, this idea that you can move from an academy to the first team is frankly impossible these days. Look at Stewart, a promising youngster from one of the best academies in the country and most on here wouldn't rate him as a league 1 player.
If you are truly good enough you make the jump - Rooney, Barmby, Giggs, Beckham, Scholes etc all made it into their first teams at a young age. The problem lies in professional teams getting their hands on too many youngsters too early and keeping them for too long when it is obvious they won't make the grade as a premier league player - or a championship player even Players like Stewart Cooper and Cullen would all have been better off plying their trade in lower leagues. But they wouldn't get paid as much - so they start at a club, get paid a decent whack and then regress as footballers It's ****ed basically..
