Hi awaywego
Very nice to meet you yesterday, and intend to meet up again at a Scunny game in the near future.
To be honest I have not slept all night, been waiting patiently for the backlash to your brilliant post, especially the last sentence, I think you may have stunned the doom mongers in to complete silence while they actually check what you say is true?…
Yes, we ditched the ridiculous pocket emptying academy we had, and instead invested in building kids football teams of all ages… boys and girls, more than half our teams won their respective leagues this year and the women’s team climbed up to the top league from nowhere….this was something Dave Hilton had in mind to do at Scunthorpe I think?… but before he even had chance to explain why it would be so much better than a show piece academy producing sod all he was shouted down by the usual suspects… who don’t realise it is fine for big clubs like Man Utd, Chelsea, etc to have one, because the yearly cost would be about half a weeks wages to one of the players who warms the bench on match day!… but a big drain on clubs at our level,
It’s called business acumen!
30+ teams of kids with parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters tagging along for the match and a training session helps us have those facilities described in another post on here yesterday…
