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More than once! He saw a lot of himself in Geard. He tried not to favour him,but could probably given him more support and mentoring. I guess he was busy running a successful football club. When you look at players like Tuck,Horscroft and Chapman,they had nowhere near Geards ability,but at the...

I can only think of one person who made reasonable progress through that youth system and that was Micky Ring who had far less ability than Geard,but a far better attitude. Geard was undoubtably his own worst enemy,but I think that if he was in the system today,things have progressed so far in...

He played in the Youth team under Shepherd and Fogden.He played in the ressies under Gutteridge and Aitkin who were about as good as Shepherd and Fogden. Mullers was a good manager and Ken Craggs was a good number two,but scratch the surface at that time and there was some real crap dealing with...

Bad scouting and bad coaching! Many,many excellent players were lost in the 70's and 80's when youth players were in the hands of people like Mick Fogden and John Shepherd. Glen Geard,whilst pretty brain dead,was as good as Wilshire,Ramsay,Rooney and even Gazza. He needed decent coaches and...