I agree that the Academy should be downgraded and the business model the Board clings to is looking somewhat outdated these days. The Academy is simply not producing the players the first team needs. There will be thousands of players looking for new clubs at the end of this season and there must surely be a fair number of decent players keen to re-start their careers. Dario used to say that we will go with what we've got, but that approach saw players like Buxton and Winnall dismissed after pre-season trials. I see the official site is advertising to fill another analyst vacancy at the Academy. How many more do we need? As for Lunt, I expect that the Board recognised they should show loyalty after he had been replaced and Artell was still in situ. Maybe they should have been removed at the same time?