01-10-2018, 17:40
Well ..... your positive nature is looking bloody hard for positives Pooch!
Huddersfield seem to have a very dubious attitude to youth investment. Great that we won, but our manager said he was using every available player at Maidstone, yet Levi Amantchi (our most promising youngster) wasn't there and only on the youth team's bench. I really do wonder how long it is before we turn him into Ricky German.
If Mr Pemberton were being groomed to take over, who would be grooming him - AC? Would he bother, or even know how?
As we so rarely produce a youngster who reaches first team level and/or being sold on, I've started questioning the economics and effectiveness of the whole operation. I'm thinking scrap the whole operation. Recruit no-one under 16, start picking up promising discards from other youth operations and run a second team in a competitive men's league. The side-effect of this would be when we had a player who had clearly lost his confidence like Gozie Ugwu, we could give him some games to get some goals and confidence instead of discarding him in a year-long loan deal.
Huddersfield seem to have a very dubious attitude to youth investment. Great that we won, but our manager said he was using every available player at Maidstone, yet Levi Amantchi (our most promising youngster) wasn't there and only on the youth team's bench. I really do wonder how long it is before we turn him into Ricky German.
If Mr Pemberton were being groomed to take over, who would be grooming him - AC? Would he bother, or even know how?
As we so rarely produce a youngster who reaches first team level and/or being sold on, I've started questioning the economics and effectiveness of the whole operation. I'm thinking scrap the whole operation. Recruit no-one under 16, start picking up promising discards from other youth operations and run a second team in a competitive men's league. The side-effect of this would be when we had a player who had clearly lost his confidence like Gozie Ugwu, we could give him some games to get some goals and confidence instead of discarding him in a year-long loan deal.