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« Reply #75 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:26:34 » |
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Has anyone mentioned our youths? Who's in charge of them now?
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« Reply #76 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:47:28 » |
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Actually, I don't think that is the point people are making. On the contrary, most seem more worried that we're having to put youth players on the bench given what we've spent this summer. It was di Canio's casual dismissal of the kids he selected that diverted the discussion onto his apparent lack of interest in the youth team.
Bodin has had a pretty good record of bringing kids through in the past, and making some tidy money for the club in the process. The non-relationship between his youth setup and the first team manager feels unhealthy, and I think that problem lies with the manager's short-termist attitude, and mistrust of the footballing staff who preceded him at the club. It's also at odds with the board's stated policy of investing in developing youth.
I suspect Bodin would have gone by now if he didn't have the board's support, because he clearly doesn't have the manager's.
That's probably enough from me on this.
I have highlighted the funny bit. Please tell me apart from his child who he has bought through and made us a profit on. On DiCanio i am actually bored now. Last season he was enthusiastic with his rants and made the players believe in themselves yet this season he just seemsto crucify them.He did last year aswell but you would often hear alot of encouragement but i am not hearing that this season. He needs to be careful as make no mistake alot of managers would love to manage this crop of players and dare i say it may even get more out of them. |
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« Reply #77 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:52:01 » |
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I have highlighted the funny bit. Please tell me apart from his child who he has bought through and made us a profit on.
Apart from those who've gone on to our first team, recently I can recall Henshall to Man City and Stevens to Liverpool. Wasn't there also a kid who went to Chelsea last year, though I don't know if we got money for him? |
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« Reply #78 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:57:20 » |
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Apart from those who've gone on to our first team, recently I can recall Henshall to Man City and Stevens to Liverpool. Wasn't there also a kid who went to Chelsea last year, though I don't know if we got money for him?
Not one of them he bought to the club |
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« Reply #79 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:59:26 » |
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Not one of them he bought to the club
Didn't know that, but I meant he brought them on, not in. Who spotted those talents then? |
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« Reply #80 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 13:59:55 » |
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Bodin isn't solely responsible for players coming through,he is currently youth team boss but over the years has had other age groups. I wouldn't say individuals are responsible for players coming through or being sold. It is a collective effort.
A number of players playing pro football here or elsewhere will have been coached by Bodin at some point though
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« Reply #81 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:02:51 » |
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Not one of them he bought to the club
In fairness though, that's not Bodin's job is it? (To bring them to the club). Isn't it his job to develop them once they're here? Which on the evidence of those coming through to the fringes of the first team and/or being sold on, he seems to be doing isn't he? Apologies if I've got this wrong/missed the point |
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« Reply #82 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:09:32 » |
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I am just struggling to see who our next top youngster is
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« Reply #83 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:12:28 » |
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Blimey, these people who watch all the youth games are beginning to get me worried with their superior knowledge of our blighted future.  |
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« Reply #84 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:17:43 » |
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Instead of being a sarcastic prick how about naming the players who will prove me wrong and make us lots of money
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« Reply #85 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:21:45 » |
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Thompson?
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« Reply #86 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:21:56 » |
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I don't know. I don't watch the youth team. Tell me why you don't rate the current crop.
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« Reply #87 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:25:57 » |
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I don't know. I don't watch the youth team. Tell me why you don't rate the current crop.
Brilliant.I dont not rate them i just dont see any of them making us alot of money at all.Nathan thompson made his first team debut before bodin took over the youths.I would love to be proved wrong |
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« Reply #88 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:48:55 » |
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Instead of being a sarcastic prick how about naming the players who will prove me wrong and make us lots of money
nobody can answer that as it is an impossible question. Well mystic Meg perhaps? |
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« Reply #89 on: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 16:05:44 » |
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nobody can answer that as it is an impossible question. Well mystic Meg perhaps?
If we have any proper good youth team players, then they are soon hoovered up by other clubs, so the best we can hope for is a useful lad who might come through and improve a bit with age, so be ready for Div 3/4 football a la Thompson/Bodin, to be good enough to be a pro... As for PdC, the Herthab approach is best, amazing really that 2 or 3 indifferent performances and people want him out. I think PdC is right to highlight the relegation threat..we're only 5 points better off than 10/11 at the equivalent stage, when we also had a side full of steady Div 3 journeymen, with a home record to match that dire season. That season we looked at least a mid table outfit until December...when things started to unravel, had Wilson been a bit more bolshy and less of a yes man maybe it wouldn't have happened. |
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