McCourt is out-performing all my expectations. He was 1 goal in 40 games before he came to us. Unfortunately we do need a couple more players to discover goalscoring potential and deliver on it. As things stand Dennis has never to be injured, avoid being sold and grab 25+ goals for the season for us to get near the high fifties in goals we'll need to avoid the drop.
I'd like to know how many players we've sent out on useless loans to Matlock, Alfreton and Sheffield over the last few years and how many of those players found a place in any EFL first team. I'm thinking in terms of ZERO! That's why I don't blindly trust Jack, because he hasn't had time yet to overhaul all the idiot structures behind a failing club. Port Vale's Neil Aspin just sent two young players out on loan, to where .... Halifax, where a challenging level of football might bring them on. And Aspin has been responsible for bringing through loads of talent from non-league to EFL success in the last few years.
If Ricky is going to be ANY USE TO US, by next season he has to be at least a Vanarama centre forward. Brownell and Charlie Wakefield need also to be at least that good. Ideally they'd be Div 2 standard and we'd be there too. If Port Vale can find decent Vanarama loans why can't we? Marshall Willock at Kettering is a great loan for him to start out on, but we'll want him to be stepping up on his next loan. How about back at Solihull for a month for instance.
If there is a problem with Ricky or any of our youngsters our advantage is we're small. We should be able to pick it up and deal with it ........ and that doesn't mean we give the same answer every time ...... he's not performing send him to Alfreton. Maybe Ricky needs carrot not stick, maybe even a diet of carrots would be good! It should be just big clubs who carry out development as if it were an industrial process and end up with Reece Mitchells littered about the non-league scene, but we are still mimicking them and it is a recipe for permanent failure. I think Jack Lester is an intelligent and creative man. I want him not only to keep his eye on our first team's immediate plight, but also to do something about the black hole between Juniors and First Team into which so many of our youngsters fall. We have talent available, why carefully nurture it until it hits 17+ then behave as if it is sink or swim from here on in, time to man up boyo!
JACOB HAZEL SCORED TWO MORE FOR FRICKLEY ON SATURDAY. 18 goals before mid-November, let's buy him or maybe we could just learn the lesson.
The answer to your question Dancing is Ricky hasn't gone to Matlock to learn to ply his trade, and saving a few bob may only be a happy side effect. Football clubs aren't allowed to administer punishment beatings ........... that's why he's at Matlock. The message to Ricky is shape up or ship out. IMO he'd learn more about being a centre forward by chatting to Bob Newton in the bar.
I'd like to know how many players we've sent out on useless loans to Matlock, Alfreton and Sheffield over the last few years and how many of those players found a place in any EFL first team. I'm thinking in terms of ZERO! That's why I don't blindly trust Jack, because he hasn't had time yet to overhaul all the idiot structures behind a failing club. Port Vale's Neil Aspin just sent two young players out on loan, to where .... Halifax, where a challenging level of football might bring them on. And Aspin has been responsible for bringing through loads of talent from non-league to EFL success in the last few years.
If Ricky is going to be ANY USE TO US, by next season he has to be at least a Vanarama centre forward. Brownell and Charlie Wakefield need also to be at least that good. Ideally they'd be Div 2 standard and we'd be there too. If Port Vale can find decent Vanarama loans why can't we? Marshall Willock at Kettering is a great loan for him to start out on, but we'll want him to be stepping up on his next loan. How about back at Solihull for a month for instance.
If there is a problem with Ricky or any of our youngsters our advantage is we're small. We should be able to pick it up and deal with it ........ and that doesn't mean we give the same answer every time ...... he's not performing send him to Alfreton. Maybe Ricky needs carrot not stick, maybe even a diet of carrots would be good! It should be just big clubs who carry out development as if it were an industrial process and end up with Reece Mitchells littered about the non-league scene, but we are still mimicking them and it is a recipe for permanent failure. I think Jack Lester is an intelligent and creative man. I want him not only to keep his eye on our first team's immediate plight, but also to do something about the black hole between Juniors and First Team into which so many of our youngsters fall. We have talent available, why carefully nurture it until it hits 17+ then behave as if it is sink or swim from here on in, time to man up boyo!
JACOB HAZEL SCORED TWO MORE FOR FRICKLEY ON SATURDAY. 18 goals before mid-November, let's buy him or maybe we could just learn the lesson.
The answer to your question Dancing is Ricky hasn't gone to Matlock to learn to ply his trade, and saving a few bob may only be a happy side effect. Football clubs aren't allowed to administer punishment beatings ........... that's why he's at Matlock. The message to Ricky is shape up or ship out. IMO he'd learn more about being a centre forward by chatting to Bob Newton in the bar.