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Albion U21s v Wolves U21s - 7pm tonight at the Checkatrade.com Stadium
- Thread starter AZ Gull
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Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Plenty of time for him yet! I don't think we were ever going to see him in the 1st team this season anyway.
Don't forget he has had a long injury layoff, and he is very much one for the future, not the present.
But isnt that just the time for the keeper to shine, if the defence was excellent then he wouldnt have a shot to save ....................
- Apr 13, 2015
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I am more interested in seeing Hambo, he seems to be the invisible man,... the clips I saw told me he was very much an Ulloa type striker,.... its a real shame he is suffering from injuries,.... at least that is what they are saying.
- Apr 13, 2015
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I fear he will go the way of most of the so called wonder kids that arrive in our Dev squad never to be seen again. What happened to the icelandic kid?.... Hambo of course,.... plus there was a few home grown signings that came and just never appeared again.
Dare I ask the question.............. Is it time our dev squad/u18's had a more notable coaching team?.... spend big on someone with a track record of recruiting and training future stars.?
bn1&bn3 Albion
Well-known member
Not necessarily, if attackers keep being given too much freedom to shoot then it doesn't matter how good you are you will concede goals.
Napier's Knee
New member
I've seen Molumby a few times now and I agree - extremely promising. Tilley is very good and Dallison is clearly of the 'Brighton School' of central defenders - Dunkesque and I think has a future (although whether it will be with us who knows?).
Do we have a poor record in recruiting and training new players? I think that most players taken on by academies up and down the country fail to make the grade as professional players. We currently have four ex-academy players playing Championship football (if we include the injured March) and that's not counting Ince. Is that a terrible record?
have no idea BTW, I've never seen detailed statistics for clubs' academies but my gut feeling is that we're not particularly better or worse than other teams. Where we do fail is in finding strikers but I don't think our youth set-up, as a whole, is a poor one
pishhead
Well-known member
With Molumby he has the potential to be a cracking player by all intents and purposes he had been brought over to be part of the youth team bearing in mind his age. With regards to Dallison I'd like him to go out on loan to a league 2 club to get used to playing mens football in a full time environment.
pishhead
Well-known member
I think some people saw the new training ground as being this magical place that was going to see average players being suddenly transformed overnight. Unfortunately that won't ever be the case. It will be the 10/11/12 year olds coming through now that will see the full benefit of our great facilities. Mark Anderson being in charge of youth recruitment is a very shrewd move as he has a proven track record of being able to identify talent from a young age.
- Apr 13, 2015
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It's like the Bermuda Triangle,.... promising wonder kids come in, never to be seen again.
But that's not true is it? We do bring players through the youth system. What I don't know is whether we're better or worse than other clubs - my guess is that we're pretty average but I really have no idea how accurate that guess is
- Apr 13, 2015
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Oh its true,......
No that just isnt so, the better the goalkeeper the more shots he saves, many a goalkeeper has had a blinder, usually when inundated with shots on his goal.
Any coach worth their salt would factor in defending etc. in an overall team assessment, but quite clearly the ability and the performance on the goalkeeper would be how he coped with the saves/or not irrespective of the defenders own performance.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Despite your assertion, it isn't.
Tilley and Molumby are 17 and 16, respectively. You also mentioned Mar Larusson, who is 18.
Rea & Walton have been out on loan to the division below.
Jake's played 80 times for us. As has Rohan. Dunk's a future captain. Solly's a future England prospect.
You're wrong.
Not necessarily, you are just mentioning youngsters that you and others might feel have promise and included JFC, Dunk, Rohan !!! and Solly that have little to do with the current set up, be that Youth, DS or Academy managers and coaches.
But I have to agree with Heathgate, ultimately at some time it should be acknowledged that the 'magic bullet' is development and too many of the recent recruits to the U21's have been engineered by scouts and the recruitment department to reflect on the internationality of the training centre rather than spending the time and money on those youngsters that are already here, its vanity before substance.