Everton Youth Teams Thread



Eggs said:
…I think it’s down to lots of things but mainly because boys in places like Liverpool don’t spend most of their leisure time playing footy. You rarely see kids playing street football nowadays, all those endless hours of enjoyment but you were honing skills, building competitiveness and attitude. Kids have access to computer games and social media, organised school football is not like it was.

I’m not particularly knocking it, it’s a sign of the times and also negatively impact the health of the nation with obesity etc.

Academies are picking up kids as young as 5 and make them & their parents feel like they are doing them a favour, in reality they ditch nearly all of them as quickly as they sign them.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the top European leagues are full of Africans and South Americans, where poverty and football continues to go hand-in-hand.
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EFC_FRANCIS said:
I think you've got some massivley flawed logic in that argument.
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I played footy for hours every day as a kid. I'm still sh*t tho. An hours organied training/coaching is much more beneficial than 4/5 just kicking it about with your mates.
 
davep said:
I played footy for hours every day as a kid. I'm still sh*t tho. An hours organied training/coaching is much more beneficial than 4/5 just kicking it about with your mates.
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If you are playing in your own peer group, you reach a level and unless you are tested against or alongside better players you don't find out fast if you can up your game.
 

W84 Dum Freeze said:
If you are playing in your own peer group, you reach a level and unless you are tested against or alongside better players you don't find out fast if you can up your game.
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Exactly. And in un-organised "street" football being around better players doesn't necessarily make you better - in that kind of football the "good" players just end up dominating and everyone else sees less of the ball. Hardly condusive for improving as a player.
 
davep said:
Exactly. And in un-organised "street" football being around better players doesn't necessarily make you better - in that kind of football the "good" players just end up dominating and everyone else sees less of the ball. Hardly condusive for improving as a player.
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Especially when the woman who drives the milk float joins in for five minutes and runs rings round you.
 
I hope that TFG start to work ruthlessly with our younger age teams because for too long they have just been stagnating with little to no prospects of ever getting into our first team.

If it were me, I would look at the U21s and ask the coaching staff to score each player on a scale of 1-10 (1 being "never going to make it" and 10 being "nailed on for our First Team). Anyone lower than say 7 or 8 would be shipped out with U18s promoted in their place.

I would then repeat the same decision whenever a player hit 18/19. We need a production line of players who have realistic prospects of playing for us, not Salford or someone else lower down the pyramid.
 

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