Quote Originally Posted by Wartman View Post
I agree with you Timmy (you may sit down with shock) �� the club must retain an academy that provides players for the first team wether it needs to be cat 2 is a different question ? Coaching of footballers is long established although I do agree with Mike that a sprinkling of natural talent goes a long way also. I also agree with Timmy that a lot of the experienced players that have been brought to the club have been improved I think Porter is certainly a more rounded striker now than he when he came, Paul Green certainly improved at the club I suppose the counter to that might be Murphy who seems to have got worse but that all might have something to do with the individual themselves. I certainly don’t think we need to be ripping up the clubs strategy going forward after 1 truly poor season, but lessons do need to be learned and we move on.
I very much doubt whether Porter was made a better player here as he was scoring goals before by the same technique and he scored loads of goals from pens. Of course we need to change the academy structure where non playing staff are in vast numbers compared with the players. There. is no way experienced players can be 'coached' to play better. Jimmy Greaves shows how to score goals and you don't need ten years academy training to see all that in a couple of hours on the internet. It doesn't bother me what they do tbh.