Walton Stag wrote:That’s a shame,especially for the people heavily involved at academy level. He has scored a lot of goals and obviously has talent but if he isn’t going to stand half a chance with the first team, then you have to ask what a young lad at our club has to do to be good enough. Anderson appeared to have a future when making a few cameo first team appearances last year but I have heard little of him since. I know he had a few games at Ilkeston and played in our reserve fixture last week. I assume he has been on loan elsewhere in the meantime.
We are struggling at CH tomorrow and yet I have not read one mention of George Cooper. Another one, allegedly not good enough to add to several promising former academy players not to make the grade.
What a shame. We have spent lots of time,money and effort over a few years now without one making any impression at first team level. Alistair Smith is probably the best we have had but not to have anybody anywhere close since is frustrating.
Did you see the fans forum section on the academy? I came from watching that feeling more positive than other posters on here. They talked about Mason and Nunes being projected to be the Number one and two keepers in the future, there were also positive comments about Abdullah.
The session on it was really informative not least because they had already hit their target of selling one player a season to support funding as well as developing good players
