Originally Posted by
MikeSB
Two things..
How come Bury and Accrington plus many others our size and less able to pay their players like Maynard more than we can? They don't have academies and some clubs have seen the light that the PL and the Championship doesn't need to sign untried youth players from L1 and L2 especially when they have dozens of their own, most who even so don't make the grade? ie the world of football has moved on and our board is stuck in a time warp.
Secondly, The National league and L2 is of a similar standard nowadays and when Tranmere played Wrexham last season over 8000 fans turned up, when we had a job to get in 6000 when we played Port Vale!
760,000 pounds a year on the academy MUST mean we starve the first team of funds and we have to play academy graduates no matter how bad they are.