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Originally Posted by Barney
Where did you get the stats from?
If they're nailed on fact, then that is something for all involved in the youth team set ups over the years to be very proud of.
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I am a Youth historian.....the stats are factual......relatively straightforward to analyse......450+ players have played in the FA Youth Cup (I have every team line-up since 1952).....how many play league football is in the record books as with all the other stuff...
The rest is just number crunching.....I then compared it against all the other Premiership clubs and a few in the lower divisions who have a good youth culture and we are head and shoulders above everyone.....
We are the top club with our youth players in areas like .....number of trophies, international appearances, league appearances, players making the first team (150+)....players playing over 70 league games (52).....and so on...
Our system works fine.......people just need to be realistic with expectations like I mentioned above in a previous post...