Youth system

Right horse.

You want him to be head of Youth Academy? No, I don't.

What I would like, and this is...

Genuine jumble.

Eric Garcia, we signed in 2022 or 2021.

Chavis Park from the Youth Academy.

Kobars from the Youth Academy.

Eric Koundé, 2022.

Martin from the Youth.

He's only 21.

He was, yeah, he was, I think, Aston Villa, Youth Academy,

came in at Lorne, didn't really do much second half of the season alone.

At Dungannon as well.

Not much has changed over there in terms of the Perth Glorians as the players coming in.

A couple of local players from the Youth Academy down there.

Baxter 2 has come over from Central Coast Mariners, but they've lost a couple of players, including Chana McKenna and Grace Johnson.

So very intriguing to see how they go.

metadata.

Yes, because if your algorithm accidentally recommends a cheerful Youth Academy video to a furious, hardcore fanatic who only cares about first-team transfer rumors after a devastating loss, you have instantly lost all credibility with that user.

They feel like the app doesn't know them at all.

That proves the overarching point, doesn't it? It is a relationship problem.

Now, Tom Hamer has never had a loan in his career.

He came through the Oldham Youth Academy and then broke into the first team, making 105 appearances in all competitions for Oldham Athletic, both in League One and in League Two, before a move to Burton Albion in 2021, making 147 appearances for them.

Of course, moved to Lincoln City 2024 and is well on his way towards 100 appearances for Lincoln as well.

Now, I have it on good authority that Tom Hamer is pretty good at throw-ins, and that might explain why he is in the top 1% for chances created among championship defenders.

I liked...

Pedro Rodriguez I don't know just something about him I just thought he was cool like he was from the youth academy and he's just sort of he was a little bit niche you know like because not everybody looked at him and I thought he was amazing what about you though from when you were 14 15 obviously Ronaldo was the the main guy by far but who was sort of your personal your personal favorite on a niche level

he's not niche but like Bill was like I'll get to a niche one after.

Everyone we signed that summer, that was one of the great summers, I'll say.

into the first team.

But the thing is, that works for them.

For whatever reason, they just get, like, they've just got endless players in their youth academy who are just apparently La Liga winning, of a La Liga winning calibre, you know.

It's just incredible.

Yeah, Michael Leitch is a homegrown player.

He came through Ballymena's Youth Academy as a youngster.

I remember seeing whenever Ballymena signed him from Ballyclare in the summer, that was the old, let's dig up the picture of this guy whenever he was 12 or something like that, playing for Ballymena's Youth Academy.

But as he reached sort of Adult football, he felt that he had to go and make his name somewhere else.

He'd been at Ballyclare and by all accounts doing very well there.

Oren brought him back to Ballymena.

I'm assuming, Peter, from that there, I don't know the full ins and outs of it, but I'm assuming the very fact that he came through Ballymena's youth academy, he would be then technically classed as a homegrown player and therefore... wouldn't be taking up an extra space in the roster of players, if you wanted to describe it as that.

So again, it was one of those where probably Oren felt he didn't have an awful lot to lose by signing him, and probably then, if it worked out, he could stand to gain an awful lot.

Yes, it's a huge story.

I'm not really in favour of... other clubs suing them saying well if you hadn't done that we would have got the champions league if you hadn't done that we wouldn't have got relegated because you know and let's get it right okay you know dave who does the fucking um cleans the toilets with a toothbrush could have probably beaten fucking burnley and when he played for when they played for man's playing against man city like bernie weren't beating fucking man so he could have played the reserves at the Youth Academy and they probably would have beat Burnley in the season Burnley went down because they were dog shit.

These teams who are relegated and try and claim that they'd have stayed up if they'd beat City twice, they weren't going to beat City twice.

Even if City had just played the players, you know, from the fucking Youth Academy, they probably wouldn't have beat them.

So I don't believe that.

You know, other teams saying we would have won this cup and that cup and this league and this Champions, we would have qualified for the Champions League, we would have got 70 million quid if you hadn't have cheated.