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Post by Wembley_Gas on May 13, 2016 1:00:06 GMT
How does this affect Jamie Lucas please? Is he a first team squad player or 2nd year scholar ? I'd be gutted if he's been let go Lucas, Greenslade, Thomas and Preston are 2nd year pros, Malpas, Broom and Lyttle are 1st year pros...having all graduated through the youth ranks. They have made 1 league start (Lyttle) and 3 sub apps (Lucas 2 and Broom 1) and as such were not included amongst the senior pros offered written deals today. Instead their futures will be deliberated next week. In their favour is that they have spent one or two years training with the current squad who will be comfortable in knowing what they can do and that they epitomise what we are trying to do in bringing through our own talent through the system and equipping them to be professional footballers on and off the pitch. What is now against them is that the "bar" has been raised, the standard they were aspiring to, and not getting much game time at, has gone up a notch. DC now has to work out whether they can overcome that hurdle. Some youngsters can do that, Steve Yates and the two Marcuses (Stewart and Browning) would have made it starting off their careers at any level from championship down. Trought, Hogg, Archer, Gurney, Maddison etc might all have to have been let go if we had stayed at championship level but were quite capable of cutting it at L1 level. So .....one or two of the seven we are talking about might be the victims of the team's success, whilst others might possess enough of the footballing commodities (pace, composure, skill, ability to follow game plans, mental strength, ability to deal with pressure, etc) that are valuable at all levels of the game to warrant some sort of new deal. They are not fully developed, and it is not always easy to see what the mature footballer will achieve when looking at the young man before you...so mistakes can be made here just as easily as at the stages where decisions are made about which academy lads get to be 1st year scholars and which scholars get to be 1st year pros. We just have to trust that the majority of the decisions made here will be the right ones, we've all seen a bit of each of these lads to know they have something about them, whether that's enough to see them establishing themselves in a L1 squad remains to be seen. There is one thing in their favour though ...ALL teams are going to be running with bigger squads next season because of the change in the loans laws. The days of signing two strikers on loan on the same day (Goldberg & Wall, Gall & Partridge), any fringe winger you can lay your hands on (Martin, Dawson, Della Verde, Monakana, Cowan-Hall) a revolving door of guest keepers (Beasley, Glennon, St. Lewis Hamilton, Taylor, Evans, Walker, Williams, Daniels, Forster, Andersen, Culkin, Etheridge, Chapman, Nicholls, Logan et al) and shoring up the midfield and defence (Leary, Lund, Norburn, Dorman, Branston, Bolger, Pulis etc) not to mention bolstering the attack (Hitchcock, Eaves, Beardsley, Mohamed, Cunnington, McBurnie etc) are consigned to the past. Hence inflating your squad with hungry youngsters who are, lets face it, cheaper than bit part journeymen, might not be a bad policy. I'm going to miss the old loans system, we'd have never got Cureton, Parkes, Jacobson or possibly the return of Lines without it (to name just a handful of the temp to perm deals we've done)...good job we are beefing up the academy at just the right time....and hopefully one or two of these seven can be as inspiring as Lockyer, Harrison and yes, Ollie Clarke..the last full successes to make the transition from scholar to first teamer.
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Post by kingswood Polak on May 13, 2016 13:09:57 GMT
How does this affect Jamie Lucas please? Is he a first team squad player or 2nd year scholar ? I'd be gutted if he's been let go Lucas, Greenslade, Thomas and Preston are 2nd year pros, Malpas, Broom and Lyttle are 1st year pros...having all graduated through the youth ranks. They have made 1 league start (Lyttle) and 3 sub apps (Lucas 2 and Broom 1) and as such were not included amongst the senior pros offered written deals today. Instead their futures will be deliberated next week. In their favour is that they have spent one or two years training with the current squad who will be comfortable in knowing what they can do and that they epitomise what we are trying to do in bringing through our own talent through the system and equipping them to be professional footballers on and off the pitch. What is now against them is that the "bar" has been raised, the standard they were aspiring to, and not getting much game time at, has gone up a notch. DC now has to work out whether they can overcome that hurdle. Some youngsters can do that, Steve Yates and the two Marcuses (Stewart and Browning) would have made it starting off their careers at any level from championship down. Trought, Hogg, Archer, Gurney, Maddison etc might all have to have been let go if we had stayed at championship level but were quite capable of cutting it at L1 level. So .....one or two of the seven we are talking about might be the victims of the team's success, whilst others might possess enough of the footballing commodities (pace, composure, skill, ability to follow game plans, mental strength, ability to deal with pressure, etc) that are valuable at all levels of the game to warrant some sort of new deal. They are not fully developed, and it is not always easy to see what the mature footballer will achieve when looking at the young man before you...so mistakes can be made here just as easily as at the stages where decisions are made about which academy lads get to be 1st year scholars and which scholars get to be 1st year pros. We just have to trust that the majority of the decisions made here will be the right ones, we've all seen a bit of each of these lads to know they have something about them, whether that's enough to see them establishing themselves in a L1 squad remains to be seen. There is one thing in their favour though ...ALL teams are going to be running with bigger squads next season because of the change in the loans laws. The days of signing two strikers on loan on the same day (Goldberg & Wall, Gall & Partridge), any fringe winger you can lay your hands on (Martin, Dawson, Della Verde, Monakana, Cowan-Hall) a revolving door of guest keepers (Beasley, Glennon, St. Lewis Hamilton, Taylor, Evans, Walker, Williams, Daniels, Forster, Andersen, Culkin, Etheridge, Chapman, Nicholls, Logan et al) and shoring up the midfield and defence (Leary, Lund, Norburn, Dorman, Branston, Bolger, Pulis etc) not to mention bolstering the attack (Hitchcock, Eaves, Beardsley, Mohamed, Cunnington, McBurnie etc) are consigned to the past. Hence inflating your squad with hungry youngsters who are, lets face it, cheaper than bit part journeymen, might not be a bad policy. I'm going to miss the old loans system, we'd have never got Cureton, Parkes, Jacobson or possibly the return of Lines without it (to name just a handful of the temp to perm deals we've done)...good job we are beefing up the academy at just the right time....and hopefully one or two of these seven can be as inspiring as Lockyer, Harrison and yes, Ollie Clarke..the last full successes to make the transition from scholar to first teamer. @wembley Gas thank you very much for the comprehensive reply. That was a great answer and gave me all the information I wanted. Brilliant
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