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[whosbrianwilson]

Felt a bit sorry for Richards. He made 2 or 3 very good saves and then dropped a clanger, which I feel was at least 50% down to Offord. One of them had to take responsibility, something that generally Offord doesn't do too well. The dream team forward line were innocuous most of the game, apart from Longs miss.

[MikeSB]

Felt a bit sorry for Richards. He made 2 or 3 very good saves and then dropped a clanger, which I feel was at least 50% down to Offord. One of them had to take responsibility, something that generally Offord doesn't do too well. The dream team forward line were innocuous most of the game, apart from Longs miss.

Just my opinion but the GK needs a GK coach or none at all. He made TWO glaring errors looking at the highlights and hasn't Offord had 14 years academy/coaching training and he still doesn't know how to play this game. Lets look at how some of the top teams in this league can play 100% better than us without spending over one million pounds per season on coaching players that clearly doesn't work and never has for some years now. Stockport in the play offs and may get promoted and just come back into the league?

Time for a complete Board change and get rid of ALL the players and start again and in the conference based on our last few seasons and especially the last two with over 2 million pounds spent on RH? I would suggest that is a complete failure that no fan on here apart from the odd one will accept.

Its actually a disgrace and who came up with that ridiculous shirt design needs to go back to school.

[Timmy58]

Just my opinion but the GK needs a GK coach or none at all. He made TWO glaring errors looking at the highlights and hasn't Offord had 14 years academy/coaching training and he still doesn't know how to play this game. Lets look at how some of the top teams in this league can play 100% better than us without spending over one million pounds per season on coaching players that clearly doesn't work and never has for some years now. Stockport in the play offs and may get promoted and just come back into the league?

Time for a complete Board change and get rid of ALL the players and start again and in the conference based on our last few seasons and especially the last two with over 2 million pounds spent on RH? I would suggest that is a complete failure that no fan on here apart from the odd one will accept.

Its actually a disgrace and who came up with that ridiculous shirt design needs to go back to school.

Do Stockport not employ coaches then? Maybe we are the only team that do!

[MikeSB]

Do Stockport not employ coaches then? Maybe we are the only team that do!

They do have a lot of coaches...They probably cost the same as our academy..

How about Brentford's academy?

Brentford controversially closed their category two academy in 2016 on the grounds that running costs of about £2m a year meant it equated to bad business. Their switch to a B-team model, which develops players aged 17-21 and has its own games programme, has been highly successful. Their previous structure was also exploited by elite clubs who signed their best youngsters on the cheap.

More than 20 players from Brentford’s B team have graduated to the first team, including Marcus Forss and Mads Roerslev. Huddersfield and Wycombe have since introduced productive B teams.

Chris Mepham was Brentford B’s most notable success, sold to Bournemouth for £12m in 2019. Last summer they signed Daniel Oyegoke from Arsenal and Matthew Cox, who recently helped England Under-19s to the European Championship title, from AFC Wimbledon. As it stands, Cox will start the season as understudy to the first-choice goalkeeper, David Raya.

I wonder where Brentford are in the league and yet they ditched their academy for older recruits, something I have asked for at CAFC...Strange that I seem to be at the forefront when we will ditch our Cat2 sooner, rather than later and bear in mind Brentford has far more money than us and think getting rid of theirs for a B team was like going back to the reserve team of the past and shows the past is the future you know...All been done before, with great success and its sad to see our club suffering probably due to the same reason as Brentford found...A bad business decision..Its probably a good time now to ditch ours!