Player Suggestion Ethan Hodby

[ThatJa]

A Wilder type?

 

[BushBlade]

No, he's mainly a wide midfielder for a start so doesn't fit our formation and he's only 19 with nothing but youth team experience. He'd be years away from our CM.

 

[mattbianco1]

I imagine resorting to LinkedIn to find a club suggests he's probably shit.

 

[DifferentClass]

The white Ali Dia.

 

[Mouth of the South]

He'd have to be a Binnion type player rather than CW. Having just been released from a Category 1 Academy, he might be lucky and get taken on elsewhere but given his lack of success to date I suspect he'll be another one that doesn't quite make the grade and will end up playing non-league for pocket money rather than having a career in the game.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

He'd have to be a Binnion type player rather than CW. Having just been released from a Category 1 Academy, he might be lucky and get taken on elsewhere but given his lack of success to date I suspect he'll be another one that doesn't quite make the grade and will end up playing non-league for pocket money rather than having a career in the game.

There's non-league players that earn far more than your average Joe.

 

[Grizzly blade]

Scooter_mcgavin

9th tier players taking some quite staggering amounts considering the level they are at. £250 a game isn’t to be sniffed at and not uncommon, while I suspect there may be some getting more than that. Any game my lad played in at that level while on his apprenticeship was earning him £50 a game...almost half what he got for the week at his club. He was well happy.

York City still a pro club in 6th tier, and getting crowds some league one clubs would be envious of while no doubt being propped up by somebody with more cash than sense!

Another option is the forces.....if you have some qualifications you can join and get a trade, while playing football pretty much full time and getting paid a fair wage for the privilege. And that’s just playing for the barracks sides, get in the main sides and it’s even more lucrative with trips all over the place fully expensed. Certainly worth a look.

There’s more to life than pro football, and save the lucky few to have played in the top two levels the rewards are no better than your hard working graduate with a decent sought after degree. Certainly long term. The way I look at it, as long as my lad is happy and gives it his best he will always look back fondly rather than grudgingly at others who make it if he doesn’t. After all, we would all have loved the chance to have a crack at it when you get to my age and realise you have been grafting your bollocks off since 18 with a fair few years still to go. And when he’s got kids of his own, he will certainly be able to tell the man how he played with that pro, and against others.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Grizzly blade totally my point.

When Ridsdale was at Barnsley, the supporters club formed their own club - AFC Barnsley and they started out in the County Senior division 2.

They had players on £400 a game and this was back in the early-mid 2000s.

Additionally (and more of a rare case) is the likes of Konchesky, O'Hara and Pennant on 10k a week at Billericay.

 

[BigBed]

Hearing South Barnsley have tabled a £10m bid.

 

[Grizzly blade]

Grizzly blade totally my point.

When Ridsdale was at Barnsley, the supporters club formed their own club - AFC Barnsley and they started out in the County Senior division 2.

They had players on £400 a game and this was back in the early-mid 2000s.

Additionally (and more of a rare case) is the likes of Konchesky, O'Hara and Pennant on 10k a week at Billericay.

Obscene really. Though fair play if you can get it like

 

[Houston_Blade]

Grizzly blade totally my point.

When Ridsdale was at Barnsley, the supporters club formed their own club - AFC Barnsley and they started out in the County Senior division 2.

They had players on £400 a game and this was back in the early-mid 2000s.

Additionally (and more of a rare case) is the likes of Konchesky, O'Hara and Pennant on 10k a week at Billericay.

I played non-league 10 years ago and we signed David Reeves who used to play for Chesterfield. He was on £200 a game and £100 a goal. He scored 7 in 2 games and was asked not to come back by the Chairman. True story.

 

[Grappler]

Grizzly blade totally my point.

When Ridsdale was at Barnsley, the supporters club formed their own club - AFC Barnsley and they started out in the County Senior division 2.

They had players on £400 a game and this was back in the early-mid 2000s.

Additionally (and more of a rare case) is the likes of Konchesky, O'Hara and Pennant on 10k a week at Billericay.

Are you sure that is per week, Scooter? That is incredible if it is true?

 

[Houston_Blade]

Are you sure that is per week, Scooter? That is incredible if it is true?

A couple of lads I played with when I was younger had contracts in the Unibond on £500 per week at the likes of Harrogate Town, Matlock etc, they only got paid in the season though.

Alfreton were paying some players £25k a year as part timers before they went full time and then only a fraction more when they went full time, so a lot left as they had decent jobs in the day and football was a good side earner for them, it just wasn't worth packing up work as some were tradesmen on a decent whack.

I had a mate from school who played for Matlock from 17 until he was about 32 and he was always on £200-£300 per week and more if they had 2 games in a week, he was a self employed gardener on the side as well so earned heavier through the summer to cover his lack of football income.

Nothing compared to the odd massive salary as above but they have a mega rich chairman and it's a vanity signing. There's always been good money in non-league, just the money paid to the odd player is ludicrous now.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Are you sure that is per week, Scooter? That is incredible if it is true?

Yep, that's per week.

 

[kop_blade9]

He'd have to be a Binnion type player rather than CW. Having just been released from a Category 1 Academy, he might be lucky and get taken on elsewhere but given his lack of success to date I suspect he'll be another one that doesn't quite make the grade and will end up playing non-league for pocket money rather than having a career in the game.

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He'd have to be a Binnion type player rather than CW. Having just been released from a Category 1 Academy, he might be lucky and get taken on elsewhere but given his lack of success to date I suspect he'll be another one that doesn't quite make the grade and will end up playing non-league for pocket money rather than having a career in the game.

Or alternatively he could be the next Brooks who was not good enough at Man City and was released before we picked him up.
Maybe he got lucky....

 

[Mouth of the South]

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Or alternatively he could be the next Brooks who was not good enough at Man City and was released before we picked him up.
Maybe he got lucky....

Hope so for the lad but Brooks had several offers as soon as he left Man City. This kid has been hawking himself for several months now and it appears still hasn't fixed himself up with a new club.