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Fordy, your missing my point and to say I googled some ex players is way wide of the mark. I checked the results for our league, then checked the table, as most fans do on a Saturday night!!
As a club we operate on such a short term basis, almost Season to Season, this was implemented by Parkie under Lawn & Rhodes & produced success. All monies were fed into the first team to the detriment of everything else.
This engenders a short term approach to player development, When we bring in a young player, if they don’t look like the finished article within a very short space of time we demand they are let go or sent back because their not good enough for the mighty BCFC.
Patrick scored a worldie against Oxford away and he’s the best thing since Messie, then shock horror, actually he’s a young inexperienced player trying to learn his trade. We all decide he’s stealing a wage.
As stated in an earlier post lots on here thought McBurnie wasn’t good enough for god sake!
In my opinion we need to take a longer term view on younger players, they will make mistakes and be inconsistent, they will go through periods where they don’t perform and drop out of the team. Some won’t make it, however which ever way you dress it up, two of our “rejects” have played a pivotal role in helping Carlisle to the top of the league, two players BCFC IN 18th PLACE decided weren’t good enough. I’ve no idea how Devine’s doing for them, maybe he’s injured or can’t make the squad.
We don’t know what the deal with Wolves Is with Samuel’s, he’s never going to make it at Wolves, so we might have an option for him come the end of the season, just like we did with Paudie. Can we cut him some slack and see how he develops, we all thought Wells was useless when he first signed, we need to stop being so impatient!!

 

In all walks of life, people develop / mature at different rates.
The big problem with city is that we are looking for instant sucess. So any young player that appears in the first team is deemed as not good enough, if they dont reach and maintain a high level of performance. How often does that happen, very rarely throughout the whole of football.
People on here talk about structure and forward planning, these things take time and it does appear that we have finally joined the party. We are currently in a poor position , but i think we will have enough to survive , probably with a few bumps along the way and start to build for next season. As i say these things take time, we appear to have a reasonable set of youngsters at the moment, lets get behind them . It reminds me very much of the early eighties , a few old pros and a set of young players, who matured togethor over a few seasons and turned in to one of the best footballing sides in my lifetime.

 

Actually, it goes down fine.

Football clubs have lost millions and you only need to see by this current window that the market is slow in terms of buying.

If Wood isn't to sign a new contract then we are best of selling him now.
As for Staunton if the offer is right then we sell and use the money to improve.

 

Wood was quoted last week as wanting to sign a new contract or at least wanting to see if they can negotiate one

 

His two partners are Canadian and equally as ambitious as he is. Jason Neale has big plans for their academy hence the big investment going into it. Its a great set up at a very ambitious club, something we could only dream of.

 

If the end game was to build or buy the stadium, own training facilities suitable to progress, then I believe they would. The championship is rapidly becoming Premiership 2 and to attract top players, you have to have the infrastructure in place.

Clubs who go up and do not invest in the off field facilities, will in my opinion come straight back down in the next few seasons.

 

What you are really saying is that Posh are 10x better than us at spotting talent to sell on. That I can agree on.

If you determine ambition as always selling your best players to help pay the bills then Posh are very ambitious.

Ambition to me is building a side decent enough to get into the Championship.

 

Wells funded the team that brought us our cup run and play off appearances and McBurnie is the reason we are better off than a lot of our rivals during the pandemic

 

I was talking about the FA cup run and beating Chelsea and reaching the play offs

 

A bit weird though having no 'formal acknowledgement', no 'thanks for x years of service', no 'good luck for the future' don't you think.. ?

 

Yeah my sentiments too. I was gonna point out the flaws but Eric McManus put it perfectly. And as for this argument that they're a selling club? FFS every lower league club is a selling club, it's exactly the point being made that a small club on its arse like Peterborough can be turned into a club that has a chance of competing. As for lacking ambition, I'm not even gonna take that comment seriously.

 

We all know what you're suggesting when we're comparing ourselves to Peterborough. It doesn't need another 43 pages of going round in circles to determine that you'll accept no direct or even indirect criticism of anything the club does.

 

I guess it depends which way you look at it.

You can say that they do very well considering how small their crowds are.
Or you can take @Bigrod 's viewpoint - ie, maybe they get such small crowds (despite having a massive catchment area in an affluent part of the country, with no competing big clubs nearby) because they constantly sell their best players and scupper their own promotion chances.
Maybe if they achieved a better balance between finance and on-field success - instead of always prioritising finance - they would attract the sort of crowds that their advantageous geographical position suggests they ought to get. They could then stabilise at a higher level due to bigger ST sales and gate receipts. Just a thought.

 

Good point. For the money Peterborough have made DM should have built a true epoch, but they haven't. Where has that money gone, - would appear to be on finance payments for the stadium and other developments.

Once that has has been built, they then have to rely on being able to repeat the trick to finance a push up the leagues, what happens if Barry Fry pegs it or falls out with DM ?

Build the team then backfill the infrastructure, like Bournemouth & Watford did.

 

Another good point, but their catchment area is massively impacted by having thousands of Spurs & Arsenal fans around them, all ready to catch a train to home matches.

As for affluent area ? Peterborough is to that part of the world, what Keighley is to West Yorkshire. A boil on the bottom of humanity.

 

Longbridge gone

 

Wood.
He ain't signing a new contract.
Anyone offer +£50k, reckon he's offski

 

Hard to disagree. The priority outs for me:

DMH, Guthrie, Longridge. Each, offer nothing. Donaldson isn’t much better, but presumably he’s out come the summer anyway. The rest i think are worth keeping until the summer.

 

Longridge can’t get a look in. Reckon he, BRE, DMH and Guthrie will be told they can leave.

Think we could terminate Samuels’ loan too if better is about.

Wood doesn’t seem interested in signing a new deal (surely has been offered one?) but if he goes maybe Longridge would stay?

Id keep Don and get him involved in the coaching set up if he has coaching ambitions.

 

Is that Bruce Stowell ?