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Willie Carlin

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Was given the boot by Adams before he was sacked along with Kingsley James and 4 more young players. Chappell has been brought back in. James should be given another chance as well.
 



I believe we also have some of the youngsters who'd be shipped out to Fradi coming back on trial next week. Fradi bombed them all out wanting only Hungarians in their youth squad.
 
Was given the boot by Adams before he was sacked along with Kingsley James and 4 more young players. Chappell has been brought back in. James should be given another chance as well.

Wasn't one of the other young lads Connor Brown? I'd always heard good things about him and it's not like he had chance to prove his worth after getting what sounded like a serious knee injury.
 
Wasn't one of the other young lads Connor Brown? I'd always heard good things about him and it's not like he had chance to prove his worth after getting what sounded like a serious knee injury.

Yep, Adams released him and I believe Pembo was involved in bringing him back.
 
I'm getting vibes that Adams wasn't particularly liked, from all this.
 
...Or that his judgment wasn't up to much.

Bent... Collins ... Doyle...

Pity we cant get Jamie ward and mark Yeates back, at least to see how their commitment to the cause would be now Adams has gone
 
Was given the boot by Adams before he was sacked along with Kingsley James and 4 more young players. Chappell has been brought back in. James should be given another chance as well.

One of those four, left because he didn't like the way Pembo ran the academy. No bling, no mobiles, black boots etc and thought he wasn't going to play by those rules.

No way should he be given another chance now he's realised that he was onto a bloody good thing.
 
Yep, Adams released him and I believe Pembo was involved in bringing him back.

The more I think about it, the more Adams' tenure was summed up by that dumb silence when asked about his position after the Reading game.

Terrible tactics, terrible selections, terrible signings. I know many blame McCabe and he has to take his share of the blame but Adams' really was a disaster.

One of those four, left because he didn't like the way Pembo ran the academy. No bling, no mobiles, black boots etc and thought he wasn't going to play by those rules.

No way should he be given another chance now he's realised that he was onto a bloody good thing.

Is that young Mr Foster or another one?
 
One of those four, left because he didn't like the way Pembo ran the academy. No bling, no mobiles, black boots etc and thought he wasn't going to play by those rules.

No way should he be given another chance now he's realised that he was onto a bloody good thing.

Jesus, never made any mistakes when you were a kid?
 
Jesus, never made any mistakes when you were a kid?

Not much sympathy from me. It's a huge privilege and a great opportunity playing for the Academy. This isn't school - it's something that only those with the most talent and the best attitude will graduate from.

If he still needs to learn the most basic lessons, then he can do it elsewhere.
 
Jesus, never made any mistakes when you were a kid?

His attitude stank, and he wasn't going to follow the new regime. That's fair enough if you don't want to play by the rules then on your way.
Its nothing to do with making a mistake, it shows an obvious flaw in his character to think he is somehow different to everyone else.

If I made a mistake at 18 and left a job which was a brilliant career with a company who had put lots of time and effort into my development because I thought the grass was greener. I wouldn't expect them to welcome me back when I found out the alternative wasn't that great.
Anyway he has been replaced, why should someone else get binned because he thought he was better than he was?
Fuck him, you want to make it in our academy you follow the same rules as everyone else. Let him stand as the example to set going forward.

To answer some of the previous questions Connor Brown had a very nasty injury last season and was let go. The lad was devastated, seemingly someone had a change of heart because he was offered another year.

You do have to remember that we can't keep everyone signed up, some just won't make the grade. Players are let go at the end of each season, this is just the way it goes if they aren't going to make the grade and it happens throughout their time at the club.

Got to also pick up Pup's point about Jamie Ward and Yeates. Can't see why anyone would be desperate to see either of them pull on a Blades shirt next season?
 
You do have to remember that we can't keep everyone signed up, some just won't make the grade. Players are let go at the end of each season, this is just the way it goes if they aren't going to make the grade and it happens throughout their time at the club.

That's the key really. The problem is partly one of expectation. Both the club and fans will raise expectations one way or another on particular players that are performing well at, say, 17 or 18 yrs to the extent that if they then don't make the grade and then release them we've let people slip through the net. We do a lot to try and nurture talent, but at the end of the day if players aren't showing the kind of development after several years following that initial promise, we have to accept they probably aren't going to either make the grade or become sellable to the lower leagues.

Our youth system has been littered with players over the years that at one stage were expected to become key people in the first team - think of Anneson, Nicky Law (who in the Prem we apparently turned down 500k from Chelsea for), Ian Ross, Colin Cryan, Ashley Sestanovich, Tyrone Thompson to name but a few. I see McCabe in the star has highlighted Evan Horwood and Kevan Hurst as players we seemingly didn't give enough opportunities to. I'd be willing to agree had they gone on to be successful Championship or above players - our aspiration should not be for the Academy to produce League 1 and 2 standard players, and those two are prime examples where their development hasn't matched the promise they once had, which is why they are where they are. We need to aim to produce players of a higher standard, and that's what by and large we do - a natural result of that is to move on the players that in the club's view aren't going to make it with us (but who might make it at a lower level).
 



The other major point Loughboro is also it costs to keep kids we don't think are going to make it. Relegation has cut budgets as you would expect throughout the club, so contracts being offered to kids we have serious doubts about simply isn't going to happen.
I bet our academy budget is already far above any others in League one.
 
The other major point Loughboro is also it costs to keep kids we don't think are going to make it. Relegation has cut budgets as you would expect throughout the club, so contracts being offered to kids we have serious doubts about simply isn't going to happen.
I bet our academy budget is already far above any others in League one.

True, but I think it would have been cheaper to keep Nicky Law and Ryan Cresswell than signing Ryan France and Jonathan Fortune/Nyron Nosworthy/Neill Collins. But you need a manager that can spot the youngsters that can actually do a job and also has the guts to play them.
 
Just to clarify, Brown and Chappell are back, James might be a possibility, Parrino has been offered the same terms as last season to come back for another year, Yeates is still officially on the books..........let's see what the end of next week brings.
 

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