Ok now the reality of our situation has had time to sink in I'm thinking of a whole load of different things. The main one is this whole Div 3 crap. Would it be better to get Prem / Champ clubs to adopt lower ranking teams who might struggle financially and act as a "Parent club"? If such a system would be implemented it would obviously have to work on a regional basis. So who would you like to see as Rovers "Parent club"? Our catchment area would include any club south of say Birmingham. Much like in Football Manager (yes I know ) they would send youngsters to us for a season long loan and they would in return get first option of any talent emerging from our club (just the way it has always been selling our best players!). So who would you seriously think would accept us as their "feeder" club?
Good question. If we are doing south of Birmingham then one of.... Brighton, Cardiff, Southamptpn or Swansea would be my choice. How about your choice?
Norwich is a bit far! Are they good for youth players coming through? I dont recall seeing that much youth from them. Would be good to get a club that has a great youth set up like Southampton where we would get some quality youth players who are hungry as they see their parent club introduce their youth into the 1st team.
Yeah I think they do have a good youth set up I only suggested it as we have had several of their players who came from the youth team, Ramasut and Shore never played for them before coming to us and of course Cureton was also from the youth team and played 29 games at Carrow Road. Now you mention it I think Cardiff would be the best bet as we've had connection with them and the surrounding areas for years as we used to have youth teams in South Wales.
I was thinking Reading or Southampton would be ideal as not too far and with regards to Southampton they have produced some good young talent. However I thought Southampton and Man Utd had closed their satellite academies last year? Would Arsenal be too wide of the mark as I'm sure they could be a parent to at least 3 full teams. In any scenario it would keep wage costs to a minimum allowing the feeder clubs to prosper allowing the premiership teams to give back and give financial breaks to the smaller clubs whilst blooding their younger players allowing them to improve and dare I say help with the amount of English talent coming to fruition at the top level and available for the national team.
Top teams like Arsenal can have their pick. Very doubtful that they would pick us. They will want their players playing championship or at worse league 1 level - not non league! Would be great though
What the river Severn and Salisbury Plain If they became parent clubs Cardiff to Newport Southampton to Portsmouth
cant see an agreement with saints and pompey. thats like having an agreement with rovers and you lot. locality would be handy but not an ideal partnership. plus you can have more than 1 feeder team. so if saints did pick pompey they could still pick a further 2. seeing we have had good players come through our youth so top teams may choose us. macey to arsenal and sinclair to chelsea to name 2. mehew is linked to top teams too.
