Next season.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of youth players will not have a long, let alone successful careers in professional football. If you look at the England U-19 or U-20 team 10 or 15 years later, it invariably makes for sad reading. 

When you consider that PL clubs, with vastly superior coaches and facilities, routinely fail to produce young players, you see just how unlikely it is that we will be able to consistently bring through young players into the first team. Up to a very late stage in their development, it is very difficult to tell if players will cut it at the level of league football. I always think back to Marvin Brown at BCFC, who was hyped up to the stars and who never came close. Oddly, it is the ones hyped to the stars who invariably fail to make it (Mike Davis) and the ones who aren't regarded as outstanding (Andy Gurney, Lee Archer and Lee Browning) who go on to have responsible careers in the lower leagues. Quite clearly, there are factors other than ability at play, including the ability to overcome setbacks and to perform under pressure. 

A lot of our successes have been players released by other clubs (Gareth Taylor) or even by ourselves (Chris Lines). I would suggest this is where our limited resources should increasingly be focused.