Dane Scarlett got hooked. Just really poor selection and terrible having to hook a 15 yr old kid after 30 minutes.
Are Scarlett Hackett in England U16 group
Other than Mathurin not sure where you're seeing the flairNice team today Skinner Scarlett and Mathurin bench. Lot of flair
You said it was a really good team and now saying it not a surprise, how?Not a huge surprise looking at the team. We were probably gonna win 4-0 or loss 7-0 pretty naive stuff.
How was it a poor selection. The kid got injured from a late tackle he made.Dane Scarlett got hooked. Just really poor selection and terrible having to hook a 15 yr old kid after 30 minutes.
he was injued.
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Yeah fair play for fight back was fearing worst after 20 minutes. Seems White gave team more balance.
I know a lot of you keep up to date on the youth, so one question; are they all really that bad? If your a youth player and watching the current team you have to believe you can breakthrough.
If no one is capable of making the first team then why not just scrap it or do what other do a lot and buy young players?
The seniors may be having a bad patch. But consider we’ve just spent £30m on a 19 year old who 2 seasons ago was being mentioned alongside Sancho and Hudson-odoi. And even he isn’t guaranteed a bench place when all fit. Another £10m on 19 yr old sent out in loan.We still have a quality squad that are virtually all internationals. Any kid breaking into the seniors would have to be high quality and international standard as we’ve seen with Parrott. Even Skipp is making a very high quality England U21 squad. even our weakest area FB you have an international captain, an Argentina international an England international and a wales international with about 50 caps.
I'd like to preface this by saying I do read a lot of what you guys here in the youth pages post but don't post because I won't pretend to have the first clue most times how it's actually going within the academy etc. So thanks to you all.if only there was a way of getting them games elsewhere in the mean time.
it's funny that all this time we've been told poch knows best, poch sees them in training etc etc but now that the first team aren't doing so well those same fans are now coming around to what we've all been saying for the past few years, yet nothing has actually changed. if the first team is of such high quality that it's virtually impossible for any youth player to break in then you don't just shrug your shoulders and do nothing with them, otherwise what's the point of having an academy in the first place? if skipp can't get a game when dm is a position of obvious weakness then why reject him the chance to go and play a year under parker at fulham? taking young players out of football completely is just dumb, i'm sorry but whatever way you look at it, it is. poch's development model doesn't work, or at best it's a very inefficient one.
have you not noticed the lack of enthusiasm from posters in this thread recently? it's not because there's no good talents coming through, it's because we all know it's not going to lead to anything. you even said it yourself recently with regards to bennett, after this season his pathway is either to play no football for the foreseeable, or stay in the u23s. if you were him, or a similarly talented player, why would you stick around for that?
avb had no interest in the academy and he never hid the fact but at least he wasn't actively detrimental to the development of players like poch is and he was always open to bringing a player into the fold once they'd proven themselves elsewhere first like rose and caulker. i think we'd all take that over what we currently have. I think poch means well but he is stubborn and deluded.