Southampton

[Merrick's Marvels]

1 hour ago, Trueredsupporter said:

A former poster coaches for Southampton in.somerset he is damning about city's coaching and scouting set up. Saints are all over the South and southwest. Bristol city start and end in bristol. 

 

 

You probably know this but there's a reason why they're all over the south west compared to City, though.

They argued with the FA that it's impossible to scout players to the south of them, so they should be allowed to increase the size of the area to the north from which they could take youngsters for their Academy. The FA agreed.

This is why they were able to set up a satellite academy centre as far away as Bath - hardly local to Southampton but, hey, who cares. The only clubs negatively affected were a bunch of lower league nobodies - exeter, swindon, ragass roverzzzz and, er, little old bristol city.

So we've got a lot of catching up to do, certainly on the scouting side (cue another broadside from @Harry!). I would say things have improved in respect of the academy though and we can realistically say to any youngster thinking of joining our academy there's a clear pathway to first team action at City - I'd like to think another Herbie Kane or Jacob Maddox wouldn't leave City to join a LIverpool or Chelsea these days.

But I agree with your general point - for too long we've been pretty shit at,er, quite a lot and there's still plenty of room for improvement.    

[Galway Red]

4 hours ago, maxjak said:

Instead of the seemingly constant Nepotism ..............why don't we show some bravery and ambition, rather like Norwich and Southamptom have, by recruiting a foreign coach, preferably a German one?   We have 4 to 5 months to research,   investigate and seek out a replacement for Holden this coming summer.  Surely we have the wherewithal to to find someone suitably talented?  By using advice from senior managers at other clubs and trusted knowledgeable contacts within the game, we should be capable of finding a few viable candidates, interview them, and thus replace a manager, who is a lovely bloke, but who is never going to get us to where we need to be?  

We really need to shed our parochial, provincial stance with regard to recruiting managers, and embrace the greater arena of european football,  so as to find and recruit a coach with fresh input, ideas and wider contacts, where we can find players and a tactical stratergy to take us forward.  This season we are mostly playing mind numbingly tedious football, which is not only lacking any excitement or entertainment, but is now also failing to bring us any points.  Recently outmuscled and outhought by the mighty Rotherham, Millwall and Birmingham, we are seemingly going nowhere fast......and I truly believe a drastic change of perspective is urgently needed, if we are ever going to achieve our ambition of reaching the Premiership?   Those who fail to acknowledge their historical mistakes, are doomed to repeat them.................and that just about says it all, IMHO ?

 

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