Levi like any young player needs to feel he is making progress and it will be obvious to him he is slipping backwards.
I don't think he did do particularly well at Blyth. He was mostly on the bench and the team was mostly losing.
The one thing I do agree with you on is that scoring goals at any level helps a forward ….. and he isn't a natural goalscorer at the moment. And he is better at Staveley than nowhere which is what we seem to have on offer (and one of the first things Pemberton or anyone else needs to change).
It just distresses me to see that as a club we seem to have no idea of the tiers into which football is divided. We took Ricky German up and down the tiers at random on loan and now we're doing the same with Levi. We took Ricky who was a committed captain and best player in our Junior side and turned him into a player who didn't know what was expected and wanted away.
It is a sad commentary that you are probably right that no one went up to watch Levi at Blyth ……. so if we can't travel that far how do we ever recruit promising players coming through at places like that. Pembo travelled 50,000 miles for Kidderminster - Sheridan managed Proact to home and back. He wouldn't have gone to Staveley anyway. The truth is we should be watching sides like Staveley, Ilkeston, Buxton and Matlock as well as going further afield to Warrington, Spennymoor and Stamford ……….. but ...….. We haven't grasped that we need to recruit players on the cheap, but the cost is hard work behind the scenes.
I don't think he did do particularly well at Blyth. He was mostly on the bench and the team was mostly losing.
The one thing I do agree with you on is that scoring goals at any level helps a forward ….. and he isn't a natural goalscorer at the moment. And he is better at Staveley than nowhere which is what we seem to have on offer (and one of the first things Pemberton or anyone else needs to change).
It just distresses me to see that as a club we seem to have no idea of the tiers into which football is divided. We took Ricky German up and down the tiers at random on loan and now we're doing the same with Levi. We took Ricky who was a committed captain and best player in our Junior side and turned him into a player who didn't know what was expected and wanted away.
It is a sad commentary that you are probably right that no one went up to watch Levi at Blyth ……. so if we can't travel that far how do we ever recruit promising players coming through at places like that. Pembo travelled 50,000 miles for Kidderminster - Sheridan managed Proact to home and back. He wouldn't have gone to Staveley anyway. The truth is we should be watching sides like Staveley, Ilkeston, Buxton and Matlock as well as going further afield to Warrington, Spennymoor and Stamford ……….. but ...….. We haven't grasped that we need to recruit players on the cheap, but the cost is hard work behind the scenes.