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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Wed 21 Aug 11:58
Dad`s Army down the road with the fewest minutes...
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Topic Originator: parathletic
Date: Wed 21 Aug 12:11
That must include Summers, Moffat, Benjamin, Holmes, Fagan-Walcott and all the loaness.Fenton is away, so is it KRH, Otoo,Tod jnr and Sutherland that remain?
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 21 Aug 14:15
I think these stats may have been issued in tandem with a report from the SFA as reported by BBC Sport -
`Clubs in Scotland are failing to bring through enough young players, a report, external by the Scottish FA has said. The governing body says Scottish football is "significantly underachieving its potential" in youth development compared to countries of a similar size.
Using a range of data to compare leagues across Europe, it shows players under the age of 21 in Scotland are playing fewer minutes in the top-flight than countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Croatia. Meanwhile, game time for young Scottish players in major European club competitions ranks below countries with smaller populations and fewer resources, such as Montenegro and North Macedonia. It also stresses clubs are missing an opportunity to reduce wage costs and increase transfer revenue by developing their own players.
The report was commissioned by the SFA`s professional game board at the end of 2023, and a working party comprised of SPFL and SFA representatives will now consider its findings.`
More details are available at the BBC Sport website.
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Topic Originator: Rigger Al
Date: Wed 21 Aug 14:59
Quote:
wee eck, Wed 21 Aug 14:15
I think these stats may have been issued in tandem with a report from the SFA as reported by BBC Sport -
`Clubs in Scotland are failing to bring through enough young players, a report, external by the Scottish FA has said. The governing body says Scottish football is "significantly underachieving its potential" in youth development compared to countries of a similar size.
Using a range of data to compare leagues across Europe, it shows players under the age of 21 in Scotland are playing fewer minutes in the top-flight than countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Croatia. Meanwhile, game time for young Scottish players in major European club competitions ranks below countries with smaller populations and fewer resources, such as Montenegro and North Macedonia. It also stresses clubs are missing an opportunity to reduce wage costs and increase transfer revenue by developing their own players.
The report was commissioned by the SFA`s professional game board at the end of 2023, and a working party comprised of SPFL and SFA representatives will now consider its findings.`
More details are available at the BBC Sport website.
let`s get the league structure changed so teams can take the chance to blood young players ,as it visits too cut throat and clubs can`t or won`t take the risk of dropping down leagues
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 21 Aug 16:35
Some of the key issues offered for a lack of progress in youth development after consultations with clubs are:
The gap between under-18s football and the first team
A lack of strategic and long-term approach at clubs
Lack of support for players aged between 16 and 21, including building their mentality
Insufficient player development at an early age.
Who knew? 😒😒😒
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Topic Originator: Par-timer
Date: Wed 21 Aug 16:56
There is some evidence that developing players for sale does work, though. QP who top that table got six figure fees for two different players in the summer, Dundee got money for Max Anderson and will probably cash in on Luke McCowan, and we haven’t done badly ourselves. Our old policy of signing promising young-ish talent from lower league teams (Nisbet, Edwards, Turner, E Murray, Lang, O’Hara etc) to develop them and potentially sell on has worked better in some cases than others but has generated significant income overall and enhanced the team in the meantime.
These guys were already up to speed with men’s football and seemed to generally find the transition to DAFC level and then beyond easier than those released by Premiership clubs but with little first-team experience.
It will be interesting to see the balance sheet impact of our genuinely homegrown players over the next few years, and for other clubs at our level with a pathway. Whilst Hearts, Aberdeen and others are able to sell on young talent for seven figure fees occasionally to make an Academy viable, it’s hard to see anyone paying over 250k for a championship player, and then only rarely.
Signing up more experienced championship players unlikely to ever command a significant fee (eg Wighton, Chalmers, Mehmet, Todorov etc in our case) is therefore seen by many clubs as the least risky option…
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