Portsmouth

[gazan]

Also, MSB, you fail to mention that the new BoD came into being just months before Covid happened. Hence, any immediate plans they had were instantly curtailed in order to tighten our strings while there were no crowds.
Further, if academies are such a waste why do all the top clubs have them? It's the real world not Roy of the Rovers or Bernard Briggs.
If we didn't have an academy, how would we afford to pay all these incomers that we would need. You always seem to forget about the economics of the supply line from the academy. Without the youngsters to cross-subsidise the likes of Chris Porter, we wouldn't be able to afford him, never mind all these 'better-paid' players we keep hearing about.
But then I outlined this argument only a month or so ago. Why am I having to repeat myself???

[Wartman]

Also, MSB, you fail to mention that the new BoD came into being just months before Covid happened. Hence, any immediate plans they had were instantly curtailed in order to tighten our strings while there were no crowds.
Further, if academies are such a waste why do all the top clubs have them? It's the real world not Roy of the Rovers or Bernard Briggs.
If we didn't have an academy, how would we afford to pay all these incomers that we would need. You always seem to forget about the economics of the supply line from the academy. Without the youngsters to cross-subsidise the likes of Chris Porter, we wouldn't be able to afford him, never mind all these 'better-paid' players we keep hearing about.
But then I outlined this argument only a month or so ago. Why am I having to repeat myself???

But does it have to be Cat 2 ?