This went largely unnoticed along with Adam Wharton, both penning long 5 year professional deals with our club.
It's easy to get swept up week by week by results for the first team, as that is the main event.
But over the next 5 years we need to know the club will be still be there, in the second division at the very worst, mid table, playing at a very good standard mixing it with some huge football clubs with tonnes more money than us.
Our future looks good with our home grown players being the centre of what we are doing. And they secure our future as we could sell to survive. I feel the Ash Philips in particular deal is massive for our club.

And also, only one other football club in ALL the 92 league clubs can boast a better amazing stat like this ....last Sat our club passed 600 consecutive games by fielding at least one player from their academy in the clubs first team.
The other being Manchester United.
That is some achievement, especially when you consider there are another 90 league clubs nowhere near what we are doing.
I think we need respecting alot more for what we are doing. One day, that model will be successful, and suddenly lots of other clubs will be told, look at what BRFC are doing and follow that model.