Of course an Academy is necessary....

[Gamma]

walking down the road and si a yute playing football in the street .... did tappa play dacosta cup?

[Bricktop]

all dat too...identifying talented 8-12 year old's is the simple part...

[Sir X]

Look guys I cant follow none a unnuh, could it be you all saying the same thing, or is it just a grey area , middle ground that can be compromised.Stoni suggestion seemed like it , but I cant find it to repost.

Why cant all the above be fused together, does it have to have a set route ? programs like this have to be flexible to change.

Where is the JFF conference , suh we can present and set a feasible route.

[Don1]

Questions:
- Best young players...who would you have them play against?


- Regularity of those games?

They're to play in a 3 team Academy League... starting AD 2045

Memba dem cyaan get "contaminated" playing against non-academy types

Mi spleen!!

[Bricktop]

each other...the best play against the best...at 8 years old you playing six a side...if you have even a pool of 150 that is 13 twelve man teams...how does Manchester City's academy players play against? why yuh making this more difficult than it is?

[Karl]

i meant just that! high school extra curricular football is NOT the place to develope young footballers for a pro career or even to maximise their football potential. if young talented footballers are there are there, remove them asap and put them in a specialised football academy if that is what they want. who knows some might prefer to concentrate on academics and not be interested in pro football as a career....

i repeat for the umpteenth time. you do not read and try to comprehend. you read and try to interpret ..... dangerous dangerous practice.


i go on to say it has its' place as extra curricular activity and should be kept in the school curriculum.

How will you know if the youngster is talented at football - say at Cedar Valley Primary when currently one or more of the following is the case:
- no football program;

- a program but not teacher trained to do the necessary work with the kids?

On thinking on *the many Cedar Valley Primary Schools across our island, do you think you need to revisit "schools must be a part of any system to unearth and develop our talented footballers"? ...schools are as fact our academies?

*Just an example of a school I know that during time of my visits had no trained person competent to teach at the appropriate ages not only sports (a sport discipline) but in academic areas. ...so please use "the many Cedar Valley Primary Schools" as reference to all our schools with such short-fall.

Aside: I try at all times to comprehend. It is what I comprehend that shapes my responses to posts.

and btw - Are you sure you always respond to posts within the context of "topic under discussion"? I think too often some of us narrow responses to the last entry in a thread...forgetting that the context within which the post is made is relevant.

[Bricktop]

having your most talented young players contracted to clubs such as Waterhouse and Harbour View will not develop top level talent...the best need to play against the best...there is no compromise...

[Gamma]

there is community football, corner leagues etc. that is how you caould see them. if a yute isn't playing no one can assess him.

there is always the possibility a coach/scout see a young fellow and feel that he could make a good ball player and invite him to tryout...all that is in play.

[Karl]

there is community football, corner leagues etc. that is how you caould see them. if a yute isn't playing no one can assess him.

there is always the possibility a coach/scout see a young fellow and feel that he could make a good ball player and invite him to tryout...all that is in play.

No one can object to that happening. ...but it cannot be a stand alone. Surely it must be a supplement...and only a supplement...to the well thought out rational structured "youth development program".

[Karl]

They're to play in a 3 team Academy League... starting AD 2045

Memba dem cyaan get "contaminated" playing against non-academy types

Mi spleen!!

Bricktop takes the cake!

[Bricktop]

with you clowns around it is there for the taking...not my problem unnuh don't understand the game of football

[Bricktop]

youth players worldwide are developed in academies...nowhere else

[Karl]

youth players worldwide are developed in academies...nowhere else

You think repeating that nonsense makes it true!

[Gamma]

it would be the PINNACLE .... of football development.

i have never said nor intimated that if there is no academy there would be no football being played. in order to develop the very best football player a football dedicated academy is required.

how can you get simple statements so wrong so often?!! it is simply amazing!

[Karl]

it would be the PINNACLE .... of football development.

i have never said nor intimated that if there is no academy there would be no football being played. in order to develop the very best football player a football dedicated academy is required.

how can you get simple statements so wrong so often?!! it is simply amazing!

No it is not getting a statement wrong! It is implicit...to me more like being clubbed over the head...in your statements that you ignore schools as necessary...and thus having a very, very, very... - How many "very" should I use? - important part to play in our development of talented homegrown youth. An indispensable part to play is the/would be the accurate way to term the part our school MUST play if we are to succeed.