Just cannot see our youngsters gaining anymore from playing in League Two each week than they would just going out on loan in the Championship or playing regular top teams in youth matches.
Its all down to trying to make the Premier league think about England when building a team at 1st team and Youth level rather than simply trying to get the best team/players possible so they can achieve instant success.
If they want to create a B League why don't they just run it in parallel with the Premier League. For example, if it's Chelsea v Man U at Stamford Bridge the B League fixture would be Man U B v Chelsea B at Old Trafford. When a team gets promoted from the Championship they take the place of the relegated team. Simples...
On the coaches point, when i did my Level 1 about 6 years ago it was £215. When i looked into doing my Level 2, it was £500, involved taking a week off work and was wholly inflexible (ie. it was best suited for people out of work, but at a price that was hard to justify). I personally couldn't justify neither the cost or the use of leave to the missus.
No idea if it has got more flexible / inviting in the years since, but the whole thing was just filled with barriers.
The cost of doing level 1 and 2 has come down in price since then but still remains quite costly. Completed my level one in the summer (2013) at a cost of £175 and completed my level 2 in December (2013) which cost £340. I paid for these courses myself, however I do know that the Middlesex FA were offering reduced rates to FA Charter Standard clubs. In terms of flexibility both my level 1 and 2 courses were completed over Saturdays and Sundays.
Anyone coaching kids football I would certainly recommend the FA Youth module 1 and 2 course.
Absolute joke. As bullshit as the metro is usually, there was a great article in there today. Summed up things nicely by saying that the teams who are suffering are the teams in the lower leagues, yet the teams who have got us into this situation are the ones at the top. Lower league teams are compensating for the premier leagues mistake.
I also don't see how youngsters are going to gain the experience required to compete at the top by playing against conference teams. Why not just run a reserve league separate to the prem and football league? If it was done properly it would offer much more valuable experience and I'm sure it could also be of some commercial use.
I ALSO think there should be some kind of punishment for big teams who spend a lot of cash on young english players and then refuse to play them. I am sure that the likes of Rodwell , Zaha, Sinclair etc would be very able players by now. Look at Gerrard, Rooney and Lampard. Arguably England's best players and is it any coincidence that they were all given regular first team football as youngsters?
The ironic thing is that they've come up with this 'idea' at a time when our national side probably has more young players than ever. The likes of Shaw, Wilshere, Oxlade chamberlain, Walcott, Barkley, Townsend, Walker, Sterling are all under 23. So quite clearly young players are coming through.
England haven't failed to reach the finals of a major tournament since the mid 90's when you can say the influx of foreign players really took hold. In the 15-20 years before that they regularly failed to make the finals. At the same time 4 of the 8 players to get over 100 caps for England have done it over the past 15 years or so. There may not be as many players to choose from but it does seem to be creating players of real international standard rather than players like Carlton Palmer, Andy Sinton and Geoff Thomas who got regular games before the Premier League came about.
Give Hoddle a decent budget, total power and a blank sheet, keep Eileen away and he'll fix it. The problem is, the fix requires a little pain for somebody - including Dyke's employers. And they won't tolerate even the slightest discomfort!
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Its all down to trying to make the Premier league think about England when building a team at 1st team and Youth level rather than simply trying to get the best team/players possible so they can achieve instant success.
Anyone coaching kids football I would certainly recommend the FA Youth module 1 and 2 course.
I also don't see how youngsters are going to gain the experience required to compete at the top by playing against conference teams. Why not just run a reserve league separate to the prem and football league? If it was done properly it would offer much more valuable experience and I'm sure it could also be of some commercial use.
England haven't failed to reach the finals of a major tournament since the mid 90's when you can say the influx of foreign players really took hold. In the 15-20 years before that they regularly failed to make the finals. At the same time 4 of the 8 players to get over 100 caps for England have done it over the past 15 years or so. There may not be as many players to choose from but it does seem to be creating players of real international standard rather than players like Carlton Palmer, Andy Sinton and Geoff Thomas who got regular games before the Premier League came about.