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So lee Marshall in a trial game for Sheffield Wednesday today it's a fucking joke he hasn't been given a chance in our first team and landonlo playing ahead of him who is too lightweight and not good enough yet especially in the current position were in.
I do wonder if LP has made a fuck up putting LW in charge.

All things considered, is it really "a fucking joke"?

Doubt lw has a say on this tbh

Have you ever seen Lee Marshall play?

IT'S A TRIAL.

Lee, being a first year pro and being thrown into our current team wouldn't do him any favours or the side imo.

These type of games can be for a variety of reasons.

on one hand it's disappointing our youngsters are moving/considering going elsewhere before playing for us.

on the other hand if it allows us to keep players like ajose/obika  I'll take it. not that I'm convinced it will.

Complains that a youngster (Marshall) is not being given a chance, also complains that another youngster (Iandolo) is playing and not ready yet.

OK then.....

Do players that have come through the academy have appearance fees? Hence why Iandolo plays regularly but seems like Marshall doesn't get a look in (and Randall was sold before he could make a big impact)

For a coach supposedly championing youth, it seems strange we are willing to get shot. Especially so when you see some of the shit youngsters we have brought in

Maybe he isn't good enough

Didn't he take a long time to sign his first contract - was it just for a year?

Hes having a trial at a higher division club, who have a better academy than we do and probably a much higher standard of coaching (for that age group at least).

Good luck to him, the club get a fee for a youngster if the trial pays off, he gets a higher standard of matches against better opposition.

He is obviously not considered good enough for our first team yet or LW and LP would have played him regularly so he has nothing to lose but all to gain.

And the major point in all of this.....as hard a a notion as it appears to be to a lot our fans, one that many are unable to comprehend.....we are, always have been and probably always will be a selling club.

We sell players to higher division clubs to forward the players careers and help fill the club coffers....that would be the same with our without Lee Power at the club.

Maybe.  But for a young player who has had little opportunity to show off his talent here but still manages to interest a club way above us should tell you something.

Ditto for the 2 who went to Wolves.

But then BOO, Balmy, Barry and Iandolo who have all had different degrees of exposure with us probably couldn't attract interest from any FL club.

This whole thread feels like nit-picking and complaining for the sake of complaining.

Not once have I read/heard stuff like "we need Lee Marshall in, he could make a difference."

It's announced that he's on trial elsewhere and suddenly he's the missing link.

It's nothing to do with the individuals concerned. But when what are considered to be promising youngsters we've brought the youth system are allowed to leave without having a chance at Swindon  but the young shit we've brought in play regularly it makes you wonder where priorities lay.

Our academy is great for young players confidence, they come here, no one ever sees them play a game, the coaching staff see them very day in training and decide they won't make the grade and thus they are allowed to look at other options.

However by that stage to most of our fans are convinced that they are the next Marcus Rashford, whatever you say about Power's system it works in hyping up players, look at Miles 'Vardy' Storey and Ty 'De Gea' Belford as two such examples.......

No but they see him every evening he comes home for his tea?  ;)

Genuine question who are the people considering them exciting talents?

Lee Marshall











(Now that he's having a trial elsewhere)

Who mentioned exciting talents?

I'm just questioning why young players not deemed good enough for us are being signed by clubs higher up the food chain, presumably for money.

They may be doing something ridiculous like signing players for the future? Imagine that, signing players based on potential.

They're not yet considered good enough for our FIRST TEAM, yet. I doubt very much that Marshall will slot straight into Wednesday's first team either. Rather they'll potentially see him as a good enough prospect for the future and take him on to continue his development.

To ask why he's considered good enough for them but not for us is completely missing the point.

Exactly. But shouldn't they be given the opportunity here first. Especially when we regularly play some right old shite instead

Madness!

Well, if they are not good enough for our first team but Barry, BOO etc are they must be proper shit

Yes. Maybe they are simply too shit right now, but have the potential to improve in the future.

Nomoreheroes has been on a one man Lee Marshall campaign for some time now, to little effect.

You honestly don't believe that do you?

Those 2 at wingbacks are probably one reason we are where we are

I don't think it can be explained any clearer. I'll pass on the baton to anybody else that wants to pick it up......

Ok promising. Of course it is for money we could be cashing in on someone who may be worth fuckall in 12 months. People need to realise we can't afford to not cash in on these type of players who 'might' be good enough.

That's what I thought as well. Could it be that he's been looking around for a move himself?

Considering the amount of 'promising' players we've sold in the past before making their first team bows, I can't think of any who've actually made it (Walcott excluded as he was about 10) - Leigh Mills was meant to a certainty to make it and he got nowhere near

Didn't one of our youth players get released a few years ago and end up at Sheff Weds? Again never heard of since!

Harry Grant, now at Chippenham Town.

On a different note, is Tommy Smith still injured/recovering? He certainly looked good enough at Crewe

The list of youngsters sold for good money (£50k+) at Swindon is large considering the size of our club, as you state hardly any have ever made it anywhere else with the only exception being Paul Rideout who was sold for £250k aged 18.

Hardly any others even made it onto the bench at their new clubs, Ben Tozer, Leigh Mills, Alex Henshall, Jamie Stephens, Jared Thompson and a few others, admittedly Thompson has not been there long yet.

Not bad business at all really.

Yeah.  Mind you I have no idea who Jared Thompson is.

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/9759501.Swindon_Town_teen_poised_for_Chelsea/

Its a bit unfair to include him but hes one for the future.

He used to open the batting for my U15s team! He was lighning quick between the wickets and in the field.

On that basis using the logic of many of our supporters I assume that you think he is brilliant and the saviour of our club....

I think he's a tidy little player.

Apparently he's an arrogant little shite with a bit of an attitude problem though. And that's from someone who knows him well

Just cos I know him from youth cricket days. Always hoped that he would do well.

I should have asked: Where is this being reported? Checked the Adver, BBC and Official site but saw nothing.

Given the very vast majority of our youth players never make it anywhere of note, surely the right thing to do is bite anyone's hand off if they offer money for them?

As for the argument that they haven't been given a chance - they are not being signed based on current ability, they are being signed as a gamble based on potential in several years time.  It's what clubs further up the chain do with their Elite programs - hoover up anyone with a sniff of a chance, because they can afford to stock pile- when one of the 1000 they go for pays off, they rake in savings (see what Ibrahimovic is currently likely to costa  club for one year).  Even players like Byrne are treated this way by clubs like Wolves - big money for us, a bit of a punt for them.  If Byrne can't make the team at Wolves, I'd imagine Marshall will about 80th in line at Weds.

Again, where is this being reported?

Google doen't find anything.

Fanzai.

That still going?

News in itself

Must be somewhere else or noone would know about it!

It was tweeted by ‏@WednesdayYouth, the account seems geniune.

Anybody know how Marshall did in this game today?

Started. Played first half only in a 0-0 draw against Millwall

Cheers. Would like to see him given a run at some stage so we can all make an informed opinion on him.

Out of contract in the summer, so as mentioned above somewhere, maybe his decision.

Should have had more of a chance this season with all the injuries we've had.

Probably being touted about by his agent after being told he is unlikely to get another contract here.

It's not like X Factor.

 ;D

I know, even X Factor is more watchable than us at the moment!!

We tried that with a certain striker and half the people still think he might come good, despite seeing precise what he can do.

Bloody crook Simon Cowell trousering all the profits from the voting lines but never investing in some decent judges

Remember this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swshYx_7thE

Any more on this ?
Is the lad surplus to requirements and the club are trying to help him get a club before the mass exodus of 1 year pro's getting released all over the country, or are they trying to cash in on him ?

Obviously, first thought is they are cashing in.

But as he is out of contract in the summer I can't imagine another club paying for him when he'll be free then.

There may be some compensation due because of his age,  but I don't really know how that works tbh

Maybe... just maybe... Sheff Wed rang the club, expressed their interest and we are happy to see him go on to a better platform. He's not ready for our first team, we have no reserves, he's out of contract - it'd be a cunt move to not let him go to there so they can have a look at him. We get some small compo if he does go, so long as we offer him a deal.

Not everything has to be "cashing in", "flogging our future" etc... It's a perfectly normal set of circumstances that happens at every club up and down the country without any sort of conspiracy theory.

Its an odd one. I remember him having a trial up at Liverpool about 18 months ago after our youths did really well then got slaughtered by Liverpool. I thought he was on his way out then, but he's still here.

The fact that he doesn't seem to have made the team much this year and has a few unused sub appearances doesn't bode well.

It's something like we're due compo if you offer a player a contract at the same terms or better and he's under 24. The player can refuse to accept but the club will get some dosh. A high profile case of this is Danny Ings to Liverpool although the Fa have flaffled about with  that.

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Clubs don't usually disclose trialists names so I bet Lee Power is LIIIIIVIIIIIID.

I think it was a fan account that disclosed it, rather than the club itself.