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How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 13:06 - Oct 7 by Butty101
I see your lover boy Mount was dropped for Chelseas last game. He might want a cushion to make his forth coming bench time more palatable.
Most of the players were dropped from the previous game, but there was on player who led the fight-back, and scored the first goal before their team levelled at 3-3.
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 14:13 - Oct 7 by 130yrs_and_one_Cup
Two points here,
1. Not sure many fans around the country would call Soton a big club, maybe just a small number in South Hampshire.
2. Not sure that many people think your academy is up to scratch these days, so maybe it wasn't such a shock
1. I agree with you not many fans in the country would call Saints a big club, but they would call them the biggest club South of Birmingham excluding London.
The fact is in the past 60 years you have had 9 years in the top flight and around a quarter of that time has been spent knocking around the bottom 2 divisions, whilst we have spent most of the time in the top flight.
A kid starting work this year at 16 will have never known Pompey as anything but a club in the bottom 2 divisions, he sees your antiquated stadium as cute, but ultimately speaks about you in the same tone as Swindon Town, Exeter City perhaps at a push Oldham.
Whereas although we arent talked about at the same level as liverpool, we don't pretend to be, we dont even pretend to be Everton, Newcastle or Villa, but we are seen as being in the next tier, a club with a decent sized stadium and a solid following.
2. Our academy is seen as being prolific over not just the past 10 years but the last 50, those that know about football now that winning youth tournaments and leagues is not a great barometer, we have several youngsters break into the squad in the last couple of years, Vokins, Smallbone and Valery for example, not to mention Obafemi, most clubs are lucky to get 1 every 3 years.
A successful academy is usually judged on producing around 1 genuine first team regular every 3 years and being able to get fees for a number of others
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How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 15:20 - Oct 7 with 14625 views
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 15:12 - Oct 7 by SaintNick
1. I agree with you not many fans in the country would call Saints a big club, but they would call them the biggest club South of Birmingham excluding London.
The fact is in the past 60 years you have had 9 years in the top flight and around a quarter of that time has been spent knocking around the bottom 2 divisions, whilst we have spent most of the time in the top flight.
A kid starting work this year at 16 will have never known Pompey as anything but a club in the bottom 2 divisions, he sees your antiquated stadium as cute, but ultimately speaks about you in the same tone as Swindon Town, Exeter City perhaps at a push Oldham.
Whereas although we arent talked about at the same level as liverpool, we don't pretend to be, we dont even pretend to be Everton, Newcastle or Villa, but we are seen as being in the next tier, a club with a decent sized stadium and a solid following.
2. Our academy is seen as being prolific over not just the past 10 years but the last 50, those that know about football now that winning youth tournaments and leagues is not a great barometer, we have several youngsters break into the squad in the last couple of years, Vokins, Smallbone and Valery for example, not to mention Obafemi, most clubs are lucky to get 1 every 3 years.
A successful academy is usually judged on producing around 1 genuine first team regular every 3 years and being able to get fees for a number of others
You are hilarious Nick. Do you actually believe half of the stuff you write?
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 15:42 - Oct 7 by ThermosNBlanket
How is your academy of horse punchers doing? Must hurt so much that our captain playing in Prem not league 1 is from Skatesville
Our academy is a bit average to be fair, but in the last 10 years or so we have produced 5 Prem regulars, 5 Championship regulars (6 if you include a lad we took as an 18 year old), 4 who regularly play for the club, and others who play in top leagues in other countries. So, judging by Nick's comments, maybe it isn't that bad.
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 15:49 - Oct 7 by SaintNick
No but I do believe some of it, which is perhaps a little bit more than I think that you do of your own proclamations
Portsmouth in league 1 couldnt even field 1 player originally from their own academy last saturday. What happened to all those great players you where telling us 130?
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 15:49 - Oct 7 by SaintNick
No but I do believe some of it, which is perhaps a little bit more than I think that you do of your own proclamations
"A kid starting work this year at 16 will have never known Pompey as anything but a club in the bottom 2 divisions"
So this kid won't have remembered Pompey playing in the Championship, and even playing your club?
I love the way you lot pluck figures out of the sky "this 16 year old kid", well a 26 year old kid would have thought the same about your club at the same age. I would have thought the 16 year old might even remember us winning the FA cup as well.
"In the past 60 years", people do live a lot longer than 60 years Nick, a fair number remember your club being a perennial 2nd tier club
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 16:07 - Oct 7 by 130yrs_and_one_Cup
"A kid starting work this year at 16 will have never known Pompey as anything but a club in the bottom 2 divisions"
So this kid won't have remembered Pompey playing in the Championship, and even playing your club?
I love the way you lot pluck figures out of the sky "this 16 year old kid", well a 26 year old kid would have thought the same about your club at the same age. I would have thought the 16 year old might even remember us winning the FA cup as well.
"In the past 60 years", people do live a lot longer than 60 years Nick, a fair number remember your club being a perennial 2nd tier club
Pretty sure a 26 year old is not classed as a kid.
How is your next generation of youngsters coming on? on 16:02 - Oct 7 by Butty101
Portsmouth in league 1 couldnt even field 1 player originally from their own academy last saturday. What happened to all those great players you where telling us 130?
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