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Crayfish wrote:Take with a large pinch of salt.Tom Sang was supposed to be the next big thing and he can't get into Cheltenhams side. We heard in the past that the likes of Tommy O Sullivan and Sion Spence were hugely promising Dan Martin too but where are they now? The youth set up has been so awful in the last few years that it is difficult to take anything they say seriously. Is there another club in the championship that has a youth set up that has produced less players than us?
Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:25 pm
Forever Blue wrote:Opinions of them ?
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Vaughny72 wrote:Taz is from Bridgend, I teach his brother who was saying Taz is back with the U18s because they are a much more highly rated group than the U23s and the club want to bring them on together. He’s just been called up for Zambia U21s too apparently. Big future hopefully. Lovely lad too.
Sat Nov 14, 2020 7:53 am
Sven wrote:Forever Blue wrote:Opinions of them ?
Annis, you may recall earlier this year, I spent an evening in the company of a certain Andy Dibble and his lovely wife. Also there was another couple, one of whom was related to Taz and who was waxing lyrical about some of the things being said of him, so ever since I have taken an active interest in his football development
Everything I have heard about this St Mellons prospect has been positive and I genuinely believe her will break into he first team at some point soon
He has lightning pace, has a good footballing brain and wants to learn
We've talked about it before, but this is one prospect that would have benefited even further from the mentoring of Mr Bellamy
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thomasblue wrote:I have always believed the ones who make it are the ones who are given a run of games early and have regular, not every game, but regular football from 18 years old.
If you leave it until they are 21 or over it is normally too late
They learn by being thrown in the deep end.
We always seem to leave it to late to blood the players, someone like Bagan now need first team minutes consistently to develop into a Premier league quality player, if he sits on the bench for the next few years he will stagnate and end up being released or shipped off to league 2. Similar to Coxe, who had the potential to grow into our right back role but was never really given the opportunity.
Give them games and they can shine. There are loads of examples currently like Bellingham at Birmingham and Ampadu for Exeter , if those players had not been given the chance at a early age they would be lower league as the talent wouldn't have been allowed to show its potential.
I dont know much about these two but if they are not given a chance in the next 2 years they will not make it
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