Ben Whiteman

[Yogi]

I agree and ideally we need to develop a South Yorkshire academy to nick all of the youngers from this area.

It will be interesting to see where this new area is for a new facility that the club has hinted at recently and exactly what plans we have for it.

I'm also interested to know why Aidy Boothroyd is here - "Coach Mentor and Consultant" is his official title and considering he's been on the FA staff, perhaps he's consulting on CAT 1 academy status.

The pigs don't have any money and are still in a continuing decline (think we all hope they haven't bottomed out yet), but a S Yorks focus could bring in players like John Stones who went through Barnsley's academy, so ideally we could be able to corner the entire County.

UTB

We’ll struggle to completely dominate South Yorkshire in terms of youth recruitment as Leeds have already gone cat one and they’re active across the whole of yorkshire. In addition to that both the Manchester and Liverpool clubs are incredibly active in Sheffield and Yorkshire as a whole cherry picking the best young lads.

Cat one won’t help us to reverse the tide when it comes to those clubs but what it will do is allow us to keep hold of the best of our own youngsters and we lose a couple every year from the youngest age groups. What it would do is seriously undermine the productive Barnsley set up and Wednesday may as well pack it in but they may as well do that now really.

Gives us scope to go and recruit nationwide though like Norwich and Villa have been in recent years. Going Cat one might not raise the ceiling of the academy products we produce as we’ve been good in that regard anyway Maguire, Walker, Brooks all really exceptional talents but it should increase the frequency with which we produce Championship quality players and that would go a long way in helping to build a squad.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Really liking the look of Peck and Osula at the moment. They could get game time this season if injuries kick in.

Arblaster will be the next one to break into the 1st Team squad.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Arblaster will be the next one to break into the 1st Team squad.

or Sydie Peck? - trained with the first team squad last week.

for sure it looks like we've got 3 or 4 that could come into the squad next season - all depends who departs to make way?

UTB