Fat_green_belly":2knay72d said:
Yep. Thanks for the report.
This looks a really good result as they drew 0-0 with parkway recently and are fancied
to do well this season.
Also glyn hobbs and shane krac are well thought of at this level. If they
played of course. Also on the tavi website i recognised a few ex argyle names in
lewis coombes and dan evans? Also a pic of a jason vincent who may be the same boy
who was with us last season.
http://tavistockfc.com/team/
As for louis he may go out on loan this week. Hopefully over DAs 4 years we will
gradually see some of these boys come into the first team squad. Like gosling and
mason did back in the holloway era.
I see little to suggest that DA will be looking to ensure our younger players make the breakthrough to 1st team football.
We didn't see it last year, we aren't seeing it this year (so far anyway).
If we don't see him looking to take a chance on youngsters as we look to secure promotion, I couldn't see us looking to give. a chance to youngsters if we were to be promoted.
Maybe there're not good enough (though personally I think it is hard to say that when they aren't being given a chance), are the players coming through of the right quality? Perhaps not.
Is that something that we can address?
Personally I think that one of the (many) things we need to have in place as a club, if we are to be successful, is an effective youth development system and right not that does not appear to be the case.
Perhaps in recent years when times have been hard we have not been able to focus on this area as much, maybe not things are on a slightly more 'even keel' (thanks to the hard work of JB and the current board) we could see developments in this area which bear fruit in years to come.
Everyone loves a homegrown youngster breaking through into the 1st team (don't they?)!