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See we will have to pay a tribunal fee of probably 50,000 for him...signed from Plymouth youth set up with another lad whos name escapes me..................anyone know much about them.

Linkage? I'm told these lads are a bit good. We shall see.

Dan Evans is the other...

Linkage -

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4441750.Crewe_the_template_as_Byrne_relishes_new_role/?ref=rss

Would he have played in the pre-season friendly last summer?

I must say I quite like it that we are poaching youth players from other sides.

Plymouth's youth side has kept us afloat over the past few seasons, god bless em.

Apparently Plymouth's youth man Mike Pejic isn't happy. Not with Swindon, but with Plymouth's senior coaches who are not taking his advice.

They were both members of the highly successful Plymouth Under 18's team last year.

Did they pip Town to the title?

Thanks...looks promising...no Swindon won it Arch.

No we pushed them into 2nd.

Oh yeah, thats right.... I think Plymouth were leading going into the last couple of games or so.

It'll be interesting to monitor their progress over the next couple of years.

Plymouth won the reserves league last season.

In answer to Michael's question: I don't think either Evans or Broomfield played in that friendly. I believe they were a year or two behind that batch of youths.

Thank you Rich.

Do we know how old these two lads are?

Also, what position do they play?

Broomfield is a striker, about 16.

Broomfield...should be a sweeper.

i went out with a broomfield once, i swept her away with my good looks :)

A quick groom on Bebo and I'm sure he'll be there :D

This sort of ambition will not end well.

Signing youth players or grooming?

nought wrong with a bit of grooming.

Im sure he scored 8 against us last year.

***Bump***

Some Argyle fans ain't happy with Swindon/Plymouth/Sturrock/Byrne/Anyone.

http://www.pasoti.co.uk/talk/viewtopic.php?t=31626&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=swindon&start=0

I missed this news last week. What the fuck is going on?

We're paying £50k for a couple of school kids?
We're poaching players from a Championship club?
We've got a decent youth setup which is the envy of other clubs?

How is this possible? Is it a wind up?

Makes me laugh - one guy commenting on there reckons this'll sour relations between the clubs. He seems to think we've raided their youth team while they weren't looking and escaped with two players in the back of a van. If Plymouth really wanted to keep them they should have made an offer - Swindon did nothing wrong.

The figure of £50k has been plucked out of the air, the fee is going to a tribunal but apparently Byrne has exploited a loop hole in the contract system so we may not even pay a fee at all.

Is the Broomfield/Evans deal any different to the way we brought Tozer/Joyce/Morrison in without complaint?

Very different, i may be wrong but i am sure those 3 were released where these two were not.

This could be bollocks of course

Hmm, you're probably right although I'm sure Tozer wasn't released.

Is this to do with the Bosman ruling? If so, we'd have to pay a fee to cover the cost of their training and development at Plymouth thus far SO LONG AS they have been offered a new contract by Plymouth. If we got in there before Plymouth offered a contract we might get away without paying, but other than that I'm not sure how it'd work?

As far as i have heard these lads were offered a apprentiship with Plymouth but they chose to go to Swindon instead, Dan Evans is a centre back & they are both 16, Tozer, Joyce & Morrison were all released by Plymouth and were taken up to Swindon by Dave Burns..........get on Burnsie, Pejik bought a few lads down from up north with him and these boys were suplus to requirements, their loss our gain  ;D

Dave Burns?

Only when he pees.

 :D