[spireitematt]

Noticed Halifax released Jerome Binnom-Williams.

Is that Palace, Chesterfield and Halifax all let him go. He's had more releases than Englebert Humperdinck.

Shame, I'm sure there's good player in there struggling to get out. It would be fascinating to study what happens to young players who get as far as youth international caps and then they lose the ability to deliver onfield. It seems highly unlikely to me they regress in terms of skill ....... they can still play ....... but they don't ...... they make bad decisions on the field and off it. A confident fearless youngster suddenly becomes a fallible mistake-ridden man, it has to be inside the mind. AND they must be aware of that fact and be desperately attempting to cover it up.

I reckon he'll join a club down South.

So do I, but I'd still love to know how he and so many others reach a level at which it seems they are the verge of a successful career AND THEN not only aren't they good enough for the Premier League, they can't keep up with the journeymen at Chesterfield and Halifax. The wastage of Juniors who are released when they contracts are going to be awarded is ridiculously high, but even those who clear that first hurdle are in imminent danger of career-ending disappointment when the second hurdle looms. You'd think this selectiveness would make us the best, but a number of our young players are choosing to do a Jadon Sancho and leave our most successful clubs to travel abroad to further their careers.

And when you look, for sure we have produced some nice young players, but the only decent English goalkeeper was rejected by Ipswich and had almost given up on himself when plucked from the Non-League football that developed him. AND our apparent England No1 cannot do things which decent Sunday League keepers 45 years ago would have treated as routine. So for all we are doing right we must be doing a lot wrong. And there are JBWs scattered across the Non-League game.

I think it's because too many young players if or when they reach a Premier League club think that they've made it and a lot don't work hard enough as they think that now they've made it then they'll just walk straight into the first team. Look at Jamie Vardy he was released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16 and he went to Stocksbridge Park Steels and he went from the reserve team into the first team and worked hard and from there he went to FC Halifax, Fleetwood Town and Leicester City, winning the Premier League, playing in Europe and playing for England. It's the ultimate underdog story.

If you work hard enough, apply yourself and show willing and determination then you'll succeed and that goes for anything.