Saints Academy Thread

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Releasing players if they don't make it to our senior squad is ok if it is just a case of making room for those from below. That's normal...hope that's the case....and this is a routine clear out. I believe someone said that there was a good crop coming through....hope that's the case. Wait and see, I suppose.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
Releasing players if they don't make it to our senior squad is ok if it is just a case of making room for those from below. That's normal...hope that's the case....and this is a routine clear out. I believe someone said that there was a good crop coming through....hope that's the case. Wait and see, I suppose.
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I know where you are coming from and optimistically look at this as chance to bring through a better crop of youngsters but loosing such a large number in one summer surely is going to significantly impinge on the success of our academy
 
Dark Lord SFC said:
I know where you are coming from and optimistically look at this as chance to bring through a better crop of youngsters but loosing such a large number in one summer surely is going to significantly impinge on the success of our academy
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Not if these players just aren't good enough....though it is very disappointing that nothing has come of such a decent group of youngsters. This could be just normal house-keeping rather than a problem. Hope so...be interesting to see how the Academy performs in future seasons.

P.s. please don't look on this as me being happy...more I'm willing to wait and see.
 
Dark Lord SFC said:
I know where you are coming from and optimistically look at this as chance to bring through a better crop of youngsters but loosing such a large number in one summer surely is going to significantly impinge on the success of our academy
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I don’t see your logic DL. The success of the academy is not about match results it is about bringing Premier Meague players through to the first team. If 23 of those players don’t look like they will be good enough, the release them. If 3 look good enough or potentially, keep them.

I have absolutely no issue with this at all, unless someone tells me that one of those 23 is our next Gareth Bale.
 
Yeah I don't see the issue, are most of the 23 early 20s now? If so then it is time to move on if they aren't going to break through here. Who cares if the academy wins/loses/draws? Results are irrelevant at that level, all about development.
 
Confidence does help with development though.

But most of these players are only still here because we reduced the squad size when we started loaning out players, rather than them having a chance of breaking through. As I said earlier little was actually the only out of contract u23 I wanted to keep.
 
fatletiss said:
I don’t see your logic DL. The success of the academy is not about match results it is about bringing Premier Meague players through to the first team. If 23 of those players don’t look like they will be good enough, the release them. If 3 look good enough or potentially, keep them.

I have absolutely no issue with this at all, unless someone tells me that one of those 23 is our next Gareth Bale.
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The older lads who haven't made their mark I don't have a problem with as they are better off getting proper football in the lower leagues but the academy still has its fixtures to forfeit to given the lads an opportunity to play competitive football. Last season we had very young lads pitting their wits agains much older teams and getting beaten all to often. The back end of the season our academy teams began to hold their own a bit
Talented young lads won't learn a lot if they are playing in a team that is being out muscled and soundly beaten week in week out.
Hopefully we will see a new bunch of hopefuls coming into the academy to bolster the numbers
 
fatletiss said:
I don’t see your logic DL. The success of the academy is not about match results it is about bringing Premier Meague players through to the first team. If 23 of those players don’t look like they will be good enough, the release them. If 3 look good enough or potentially, keep them.

I have absolutely no issue with this at all, unless someone tells me that one of those 23 is our next Gareth Bale.
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Or Kevin Phillips... <whistle>
 
Dark Lord SFC said:
The older lads who haven't made their mark I don't have a problem with as they are better off getting proper football in the lower leagues but the academy still has its fixtures to forfeit to given the lads an opportunity to play competitive football. Last season we had very young lads pitting their wits agains much older teams and getting beaten all to often. The back end of the season our academy teams began to hold their own a bit
Talented young lads won't learn a lot if they are playing in a team that is being out muscled and soundly beaten week in week out.
Hopefully we will see a new bunch of hopefuls coming into the academy to bolster the numbers
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Fair enough. We think differently. I believe it benefits them playing against stronger players.
 
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