Of course an Academy is necessary....

[Gamma]

ahm ... whatever.

[Karl]

Yup! ...gone off topic!!!

[Gamma]

good with me.

[Karl]

it is EXPLICIT that schools are not the place for honing fine football skills as football is extra curricualr to academics. football should remain as n extracurricular activity .... that is not to say that players can be discovered playing schoolboy football, but for their further development they must go to the specialised institutions.

there is no need to imply anything as i have time and again explicitly stated my thoughts which you conveniently ignore and would rather imply and speculate ... WRONGLY i might add!

Let's stop right here!
Pleeeease?

[Gamma]

it is EXPLICIT that schools are not the place for honing fine football skills as football is extra curricualr to academics. football should remain as n extracurricular activity .... that is not to say that players can be discovered playing schoolboy football, but for their further development they must go to the specialised institutions.

there is no need to imply anything as i have time and again explicitly stated my thoughts which you conveniently ignore and would rather imply and speculate ... WRONGLY i might add!

[Bricktop]

where are top level football players developed? make it short and sweet for me nuh please :snicker:

[Karl]

it would be the PINNACLE .... of football development.

i have never said nor intimated that if there is no academy there would be no football being played. in order to develop the very best football player a football dedicated academy is required.

how can you get simple statements so wrong so often?!! it is simply amazing!

No it is not getting a statement wrong! It is implicit...to me more like being clubbed over the head...in your statements that you ignore schools as necessary...and thus having a very, very, very... - How many "very" should I use? - important part to play in our development of talented homegrown youth. An indispensable part to play is the/would be the accurate way to term the part our school MUST play if we are to succeed.

[Gamma]

it would be the PINNACLE .... of football development.

i have never said nor intimated that if there is no academy there would be no football being played. in order to develop the very best football player a football dedicated academy is required.

how can you get simple statements so wrong so often?!! it is simply amazing!

[Karl]

youth players worldwide are developed in academies...nowhere else

You think repeating that nonsense makes it true!

[Bricktop]

youth players worldwide are developed in academies...nowhere else

[Bricktop]

with you clowns around it is there for the taking...not my problem unnuh don't understand the game of football

[Karl]

They're to play in a 3 team Academy League... starting AD 2045

Memba dem cyaan get "contaminated" playing against non-academy types

Mi spleen!!

Bricktop takes the cake!

[Karl]

there is community football, corner leagues etc. that is how you caould see them. if a yute isn't playing no one can assess him.

there is always the possibility a coach/scout see a young fellow and feel that he could make a good ball player and invite him to tryout...all that is in play.

No one can object to that happening. ...but it cannot be a stand alone. Surely it must be a supplement...and only a supplement...to the well thought out rational structured "youth development program".

[Gamma]

there is community football, corner leagues etc. that is how you caould see them. if a yute isn't playing no one can assess him.

there is always the possibility a coach/scout see a young fellow and feel that he could make a good ball player and invite him to tryout...all that is in play.

[Bricktop]

having your most talented young players contracted to clubs such as Waterhouse and Harbour View will not develop top level talent...the best need to play against the best...there is no compromise...