sounds like a plan
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These are the 1st pictures of what the wall could look like. The club will be setting up a "wall forum" to decide the colour of the bricks
[h=1]Waggott Reveals Club Ambition[/h]By Covsupport News Service
Updated Monday, 17th March 2014
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Waggott On Club's Ambition
Coventry City Development Officer Steve Waggott has said that the ambition is to have half of the match day squad made up of players who have come through the club's youth development system.
Writing in his notes for the City V Port Vale programme, Mr Waggott said: "My role is to have an eye on next season and, on top of that, the long term future of the club.
Our Category Two status for our Academy is integral to that and the ambition is to see fifty per cent of the first team squad on a matchday represented by players who have come through our youth development system.
"Part of that means developing an even stronger scouting network that builds a wall around the Coventry & Warwickshire area and captures the very best talent we have in our area for Coventry City.
"It also means extending out across the region in a bid to attract talented youngsters from further afield to come into the club at a young age.
"Parents and children alike want to see an opportunity to progress from the youth system into first team football and what this club is showing, with Steven Pressley at the helm, is there is a clear pathway through from Academy to the first team.
"Of course, there will be further challenges ahead but our aim will be to begin next season with a strong squad that can build on the foundations laid this year.
"In the short term, we must ensure we maintain League One status, mid-term, have a squad of players that can get us where we need to get to and long term have a youth development system that keeps producing the next generation of players.
"All of the above looks quite easy when you write it down but it is going to mean a great deal of work and continued investment and getting every single penny possible out onto the pitch."
Personal friend of the wife had two boys at the academy, both deemed not good enough and released but were both picked up by premier league clubs. When the club found this out they went back in for both on improved terms, their mother was under the impression they were only doing it for the chance of financial gain in the future. I just hope SISU don't look at the academy as just another way to line their pockets by signing kids willy nilly so they can claim compensation in the future claiming to have had involvement in their development. Cynical I know but I would not put it past them.
It is a plan. But a plan necessary due to our lamentably low gates meaning we have to in order to comply with FFP. There is another alternative headline to this story: 'miscalculation in gate sizes leave City with no choice other than playing kids'. But the one they've run with has a 'favourable slant' to it.
This is actually the model we should have run with seasons go, rather than waste money on crazy contracts. As I stated at the time; have a plan of sustainability and articulate it to the fans and people will buy into it
It was a model that was designed for this Club ages ago and has nothing to do with this season.
It was a model that was designed for this Club ages ago and has nothing to do with this season.
Well why not implement it 'ages ago', instead of running up huge debts, then?
If they'd have implemented it from the word go; perhaps we wouldn't have run up those huge debts, and be playing in Northampton now, eh?
Well why not implement it 'ages ago', instead of running up huge debts, then?
If they'd have implemented it from the word go; perhaps we wouldn't have run up those huge debts, and be playing in Northampton now, eh?
Current, and was the reason they brought Pressley in.
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Well why not implement it 'ages ago', instead of running up huge debts, then?
If they'd have implemented it from the word go; perhaps we wouldn't have run up those huge debts, and be playing in Northampton now, eh?
I disagree and you only have to look at Andy Thorn's tenure in charge to see that, Youth was promoted from within and was given a chance, now in actual fact we got relegated, but had we of kept Juke it might of been different I guess we will never know, the like of Christie, Thomas, Bigi, Ruffels and further youngsters Norwood, Nimely, Gardener and so on, were brought into the Club, problem being was we had a manager who was absolutely useless and couldn't pull it off.
Last season we struggled Thorn was sacked (overdue IMO) and Robins was brought in, now I read a comment recently and I think it may of been a previous set of notes on the Matchday Programmes which stated that the Club tried to bring in Pressley before they brought in Robins, meaning that even then the Club was preparing to bring in the man they felt could manage the set up that they wanted, Robins ended up leaving with his Sky Blue blood and Pressley came in, SP gave Wilson his chance, also Jordan Willis and has now the culture is trying to be changed completely.
This was definitely the plan before this season, I won't disagree that this season has made the ethic at the Club even more demanding but it was in the pipeline beforehand.
That's down to Ranson and his spending of considerable sums on poor players generally, and very poor managers.
He even wanted to get rid of the Academy to save money.
That's down to Ranson and his spending of considerable sums on poor players generally, and very poor managers.
He even wanted to get rid of the Academy to save money.
That's down to Ranson and his spending of considerable sums on poor players generally, and very poor managers.
He even wanted to get rid of the Academy to save money.
I am on about the fact that as soon as a premier league club came in they saw the opportunity to make some money out of kids that they had not deemed fit to play for us. I fully support the premise that you nurture youngsters through and then sell them on for a large profit, as will probably happen to Wilson in the summer, that's business. But going back to my original point, you cant expect to make money by just signing up any youngster that is local to us expecting a sell on fee. The academy should be used to promote players to make our club better not for profiteering and supporting the owners.
.....he along with Hoffman and Elliott wasn't it?
Hasten to add that although this is a plan, it could be seen as reactive to a circumstance where there is no choice.
A but like losing your license through drink driving and then proudly announcing you have a plan to improve fitness by walking more..
Totally meaningless if you don't play in Coventry.
By the way Steve, a lot of your Coventry players will be gone in the summer. Don't try and kid us.
Callum will go. Cyrus will go. Possibility Conor will go. & others like Moussa will be off.
Lying bastards.
Now we've established that SISU did in fact over spend on players, we can agree then that Andy Thorn had adequate financial support and spending was not the reason why the club was relegated from the Championship in 2012
This FFP is going to ruin a lot of careers for those lower league footballers between the ages of 27 and 34 who seemingly swap clubs/get a new contract every 1 to 2 years. I can see a lot of clubs taking this approach and binning off signing the likes of Andy Webster in order to balance the books by bringing through a youngster instead.
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