Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
You are missing the point entirely mon ami. The criteria is that some of the kids have to hit the first team to keep hold of the Academy status irrespective of whether they are deemed good enough by the first team coach.

Pep gets this, SD didn't, and that's why we lost our Academy status.

Me and thee have been having this debate for years now and quite frankly with the lack of real "talent" breaking through, I'd close the whole expensive charade down.

It looks to me to be more and more like a vanity project we neither need nor can afford. I don't think ALK share that opinion.
What is your point ? You're saying we lost Academy status because Dyche wouldn't play players who quite clearly were not good enough. Of course he wouldn't, was he supposed to risk losing games by playing players who weren't good enough, just to ensure the survival of an academy that wasn't producing good enough players anyway ? You're talking nonsense mon ami.

Anyway, where's the list ?