Why is our Academy so poor?
A number of factors really, we compete with 3 big clubs for local lads, 2 of which are currently giving young players far more first team opportunities than we do. The third offers an education we cant match.
Up untill recenty we had a back log of players staying far too long in the u23s thus limiting opportunities for u18s to move up (we are slowly rectifying this but broadhead is an example)
We have been extremely poor in choosing loans for our youngsters, during key development stages. Such as sending Gibson to Reading when they had a settled CB partnership.