Point of youth team ?

[billy best was god]

Since 1967 I have heard every year what a great youth team we have, and “The future is rosy”. But the truth is how many have gone on to a have a football career? Many have great promise but finish up at Canvey. So my question is there a point of having a youth team as the only local youth team player who I can remember doing well was Spencer Prior?

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

:tumbleweed:

 

[Badger74]

Andy Edwards
Jay Martin
Steve Brown
Michael kightly
Mel Capleton
Justin Edinburgh
Leo roget
Leon Cort

Thats in 2 mins

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I thought Franck Moussa was reasonable too Wardy ...

Oh but Leon Cort came from Millwall after he finished his apprenticeship i believe

 

[Mick]

I thought Franck Moussa was reasonable too Wardy ...

Oh but Leon Cort came from Millwall after he finished his apprenticeship i believe

Indeed he did, having started out at Dulwich Hamlet. Not sure Kightly is a plus point for the idea of a youth team !

Ps Capleton was at Tottenham and not a product of the youth team . Maybe 2 mins was a bit hasty.

 

[SUFCEssex]

a bit older but glenn pennyfather and garry nelson.

 

[Badger74]

Dont think he did but maybe.
Herd
Ferdinand
guy at palace what his bloody name!!!

 

[BrettieAngell]

Dont think he did but maybe.
Herd
Ferdinand
guy at palace what his bloody name!!!

Stuart O'Keefe.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Dont think he did but maybe.
Herd
Ferdinand
guy at palace what his bloody name!!!

O'Keefe.

As I say any time people question the validity of the youth team, next time we're away, why not go and watch the youth side if they're at home? Go and watch the calibre of the football they play and the determination they show. I guarantee you won't leave disappointed.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

guy at palace what his bloody name!!!

William? Charles perhaps?? or maybe Stuart O'Keefe

And 2 minutes is usually Badgers lot according to his missus :hilarious:

 

[BrettieAngell]

Also the lads who went to Everton and Liverpool!

 

[EastStandBlue]

Also the lads who went to Everton and Liverpool!

Femi Orenuga and Michael Ngoo. Femi's brother Keith is also quite highly thought of and is still at the club, for what it's worth.

Medi Abalimba also went to Derby, while Duran Reynolds is now at Dagenham.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

Yeah, but apart from

Prior, Edwards, Moussa, O'Keefe, Ferdinand, Ngoo, Orenuga, Nelson, Pennyfather and Johnny Herd

What have the youth team ever done for us ....

The other lad who went to Derby of course !!!

ahh, too slow ..Damn you ESB :blush:

 

[BrettieAngell]

Yeah, but apart from

Prior, Edwards, Moussa, O'Keefe, Ferdinand, Ngoo, Orenuga, Nelson, Pennyfather and Johnny Herd

What have the youth team ever done for us ....

The other lad who went to Derby of course !!!

The roads??

 

[Badger74]

William? Charles perhaps?? or maybe Stuart O'Keefe

And 2 minutes is usually Badgers lot according to his missus :hilarious:

And all the rest

 

[Mick]

O'Keefe.

As I say any time people question the validity of the youth team, next time we're away, why not go and watch the youth side if they're at home? Go and watch the calibre of the football they play and the determination they show. I guarantee you won't leave disappointed.

If you are just looking at it from a simple balance sheet perspective - what has it cost for the last 5/10 years? what have we got out of it ? - I'd guess we were heavily in the red, just like the rest of RM's operations? There's a lot more too it than that; there's the community aspect and all the work done with children of all ages. A thriving and well run club should be very much a focal point for the sport, shame our club is neither at the moment.

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

The roads??

And the wine .. or to keep it Shrimpers related, the whine !!!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Andy Edwards
Jay Martin
Steve Brown
Michael kightly
Mel Capleton
Justin Edinburgh
Leo roget
Leon Cort

Thats in 2 mins

Positivity from you....has your account been hacked?

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Stuart O'Keefe.

He didn't really come thru our youth team, he was bought in from Ipswich I think at an age where he had already gone thru Ipswich youth team

 

[Mick]

Femi Orenuga and Michael Ngoo. Femi's brother Keith is also quite highly thought of and is still at the club, for what it's worth.

Medi Abalimba also went to Derby, while Duran Reynolds is now at Dagenham.

I've seen Reynolds a couple of times playing for Grays where is is on loan (and will probably get to play against us in the Essex Senior Cup). He looks quite reasonable in the Ryman League One North but a fair way from League standard. So he is more in the "finish up at Canvey" category of the original post.