My son attends one of the weekly training courses for the 5-9 group. The pathway the club has simply is not broad enough. Development of kids prior to academy age is being left to chance, well meaning parents, and junior clubs. I see no wide ranging strategy to significantly alter the gap in coaching prior to nine. There is a park in Ashton Road all summer the club could have utilised for the above group. There are numerous parks to be utilised. What City are doing places a lot of emphasis on parents to spend a lot of money getting their kids to coaching instead of making it free/very cheap and very easy to access. Nice video, but City are not being cohesive. Edit ... I will add my son loves attending the evening course.
See City train kids at Keynsham. That is a more than decent set up there now. Keynsham Town Fc with an artificial pitch!!!
One thing the video does show is how far ahead of rovers our youth development now is, i remember when the gas use to bring through bucket loads of local talent marcus stewart to name one of many, but it now seems to be us doing so and at a higher level. I mean joe bryan, bobby reid, joe edwards now of yeovil in the champ to name three in the last year
