Re: Aydin : Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:25 pm
Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:
For all those brownie points they still have finished below us in 5 of the last 6 seasons. The exception being the anomalous % table.
They have just had a "well regarded" coach call it a day due some mystery behind the scenes shenanigans.
I guess they are playing catch up regarding the academy as they did go with a joint Hull area one when FC were the preferred end choice of any decent prospect. Then they were one of the teams who weren't given an elite licence. The age group of the likes of Aydin and Batchelor where they must be light?
They have just had a "well regarded" coach call it a day due some mystery behind the scenes shenanigans.
I guess they are playing catch up regarding the academy as they did go with a joint Hull area one when FC were the preferred end choice of any decent prospect. Then they were one of the teams who weren't given an elite licence. The age group of the likes of Aydin and Batchelor where they must be light?
Our academy’s productivity has been really poor for a while. I’ve got a nasty feeling I’ll miss somebody here, but of our academy products who debuted in the 2010s, I can only think of Liam Salter, Jordan Cox and George Lawler who have made 100 SL appearances. Frankie Mariano and James Green very got close (I’m assuming the numbers on Wikipedia are correct, which I know is not always the case). Of those, only Lawler is still in SL, with Cas. Joe Cator could still get there but has had bad luck with injuries while at Hull. Mikey Lewis debuted in 2019 and I’d expect him to get there, all being well.
There’s a lot of optimism that things are going to get much better. Without some explanation as to why the previous decade yielded so few players who made any sort of impact in SL and what is now being done differently I’m hopeful rather than confident. I mean, I’d expect it to get better just because the bar is so low. But it’d be a massive leap to go from that to where it’d make a substantial difference to our chances of being more competitive.