Quote Originally Posted by Arabs4ever View Post
It was great when we had a reserve team and we could see the kids playing against proper footballers instead of this same age based pish. The players I remember seeing coming through were Dailly, McKinnon and Bollan. As they had the experience of reserve team football and we had a fairly successful first team they came in and gave the team that blend of youth and experience.

Much rather have home grown than useless Aussies. In saying that Curtis Good was a good one imo.
Seeing the likes of Ross Graham coming into the first 11 and nailing down his place is great.
Likewise other academy graduates. Fans will always identify with lads living the dream.
Think it's the same at most clubs.

But being brutally honest if we had a first 11 that was successful every week it wouldn't bother me if there was no Academy players in it.