We have no long term plan.

[Pocket rocket]

The club doesn’t still have a long term plan.

TS said that he wanted to look at a longer term model developing young players and selling them in for a profit similar to the Barnsley model.

Well to do that takes bravery from the management team. There’s none of that if a player has a bad game then they’re out.

Rodak on loan how is this a long term signing ?

Wood how is this a long term thinking decision?

Ajayi looked good when he came he looks like he’s been coached to be worse then dropped for most games. Again 1 bad game and he’s out.

Purrington his confidence must be shot to **** dropped for someone who is average at best.

Bray what’s happened to him ?

Newell looks half the player he was.

Up front David Ball why sign him if we’re not going to play to his strengths ? He was a good player before he came to us but looks poor now that can’t be just a coincidence. Yes he’s been injured but a lot of the passes bypass him.

JCH why get him to sign another contract ?

Brin mentioned on another thread about MK Dons bravery for developing their home grown academy players when do we do that ?

TS vision was all good and proper but he has a manager who looks lost tbh.
Warne needed a really experienced assistant with him not his pals who could help him.

We don’t have a plan as a club yes trying to win games at any club is obviously important but nothing has changed from last year apart from most of the opposition is easier to play against.

Are we looking at longer term or just plodding on week by week ?

Next week could get ugly for the Management team if we lose again. Already people having a go yesterday and it’s only going to get worse.

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[Yak]

It’s not just that though is it?
Supporters aren’t willing to give the young ones time they are instantly judged and then that’s it.

Maybe it’s a bigger problem with the whole club?

[kempo]

A very good post pocket.

Developing youth is an interesting one.

Doing this correctly is a speculate to accumulate situation ie significant investment is needed in infrastructure set up,increase in better coaching staff and so on.

A couple of huts at the training ground does not represent significant investment.

But yes,a very good post rocket

[Silly-miller]

Pocket we do have a long term plan but it’s not working lol

[kempo]

In the long term we are all dead so plans should always be short or medium term.

[Casper64Frank]

Pocket, MK Dons had a helping hand financially when they sold Dele Alli to Spurs for £5M.
Some of that cash was used on their Academy set up.
We are nowhere near that situation and nowhere near the Academy we had in the mid 70's.

Very easy spending someone else's cash.

EDIT : Good post Pocket....did your nipper help you write it lol..

[Pocket rocket]

Lol Casper yeah I’m nearly on joined up writing now😆.

Agree with you about the money situation.
Look at the players we have though it just doesn’t look from the outside like the young uns if that’s what you call them are been given time.

I also think that Warne is stuck with playing them for the long term because TS came out and said he expects the play offs which doesn’t necessarily fit the model we’re trying to work to.

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[millertop]

Is that down to TS or Warney though?

[Pocket rocket]

A stronger manager with more experience would probably do what he wanted but Warne loves the club and probably wants to please everyone.

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[tony260674]

If we are going to go down that route (and I favour it) then we must not overreact to every mistake that these young players make by dropping them from the team. One of my friends who support Barnsley suggests that the supporters have seen these young players come through, make mistakes, keep their place and improve before moving on for huge fees and are now educated to see the mistakes of their long players as a learning experience. They don't get dropped and the fans don't get on their backs. For me we should have played Ajayi and Purrington week in, week out. They will make mistakes this season, then less next season with a full years experience behind them. They then become mainstays to build the team around or the move on for big fees. You do need some experienced players around them but that is a long term plan.