12-09-2018, 18:22
Blimey like Chesterfield you have nothing between youth and first team ...........
For us that means we pick the best of the youngsters to give a one-year contract. We have no reserve style team for them to play in. They get perhaps a couple of unhelpful loans and the odd friendly (and if they're really good they get to sit on the first team bench) before being released for failing to make the grade, at which point the more stupid members of our fan-base blame the young player himself for not wanting it enough, being too slow or too fat, not good enough, or brave enough ........
For us that means we pick the best of the youngsters to give a one-year contract. We have no reserve style team for them to play in. They get perhaps a couple of unhelpful loans and the odd friendly (and if they're really good they get to sit on the first team bench) before being released for failing to make the grade, at which point the more stupid members of our fan-base blame the young player himself for not wanting it enough, being too slow or too fat, not good enough, or brave enough ........