Osbourne is a nice kid and has shown real maturity and guts deciding to move on for regular first team football.

Having said that there was no way he was ever going to be anything but a squad player at Notts. He just doesn't come close to Roberts or Enzio. Now we have signed Rodriguez and Sloth, he would have been even further down the pecking order.

I think a fair few of our fans haven't bought into the 'Moneyball' concept of Football Radar. They still believe the academy is the way forward. Not a chance when we are competing with Forest, Derby and Leicester on our door step. IMO there is no point wasting the little money we have on develpoing youngsters, only for the few that are good enough, to be snapped up by the vultures. Let's use the in-house recruitment skills we have, to find saleable talent elsewhere...