“Good players are good because they shoot a lot” - what a load of tripe!
It's not how it works
I agree, we should give these lads a try, even if its only for 15-20 mins in a game as we won't ever know if they are good enough unless they get a chance. We are a club that could really do with having a productive youth setup, it could really help us in the long run. If we are not going to make the most of it we should just go down the Brentford route and scrap the academy and save ourselves a load of money each season.
I say this every time but I just completely disagree with this idea. We employ coaches and managers to decide whether these players are good enough. If we're doing it properly then there should never be a situation where players are just getting pitched in to see if they're not good enough or not, that decision should have been made way before we get to that stage.
Tbh id get rid of the youth setup and save the money if it was up to me.
Save money, hmmm, we sold Rooney, Rodwell, Jeffers over the years, for really good money, it pays for itself when the likes of Hibbert, Osman, Gordon come through for the first team also.
If the goal was three feet wider or seventeen feet taller, or didn't have a GK standing in the middle of it I'd say 50/50. The rare occassions Gray scores a goal feels like when a broken clock just happens to show the right time.
We are the sort of team who should be making the most of the academy, it could really benefit us as a club. Just think we should be doing a lot more with it that's all.
