Quote Originally Posted by wanderlust View Post
Nope. Don't think I'll be rising to that nonsense BT.

The big change in youth set ups was when clubs like Manure started taking on 100s of kids a year - which eventually expanded across the world - and then having a brutal filter system.
In youth development all clubs have a filter system, the youngsters are constantly monitored and evaluated then a decision made, you're either in or you're out. What's brutal about that, it is what it is. Sadly the overwhelming majority are out, but there is no way round that and it was ever thus, even when we were unearthing gems every year in the 50s and 60s, the vast majority were still shown the door as ****agers and left to make their own way in the footballing world.