Laudrup1
Well-Known Member
Ofcourse we’ve been in a position to do so! Perhaps even more so in our years in the lower leagues.
Ok, players that came through the ranks might not have went on to big things and we might have only won the lower leagues by 15pts as supposed to 25 or 30 or whatever it was.
But you can’t tell me there wasn’t at least an opportunity to utilise our “academy” instead of bringing in the likes of Cribari, Celic, Ortiz, sandaza, Bell. Or maybe if not our “academy”, at least recruit the best young talent in the country at that time.
The best talent in the country disnt want to come due to the mess we were in and because the likes of Jimmy Sinclair were in charge.
Nothing about the club on or off the park was conducive to youth products.
We brought through the decent ones we had and even then, Ross Perry and others featured more than they should have as they weren't good enough before we started going further down the talent pool