Have to disagree there.... Wilf developed when we literally had no one because the club was rock bottom. He was allowed the time to improve whist being in the first team when he was particularly raw and wouldn’t have had such a chance in a better team

AWB was set to go out on loan but got his chance due to injury, he perhaps would not have got his chance

Mitchell same as above

I don’t think loaning young players with Premiership aspersions to teams below tChampionship level
is a good thing. Football is like chess you will only really improve when playing with players of a higher standard. At lower league level you get away with more mistakes and their play will get sloppy. Much better to keep them around the first team and blood them in slowly. We should have at least one youth team player on the bench for every game IMO

I wonder how many a) category we actually have

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I look in at the BBS most days primarily to read the "Academy" thread which like most football threads on a forum is full of people who haven't a clue what they are talking about but where there are a couple who do and whose input is worth reading.

One of them reckons that Pierrick has gone backwards in recent years and has so far failed to fulfil his early promise

Unfortunately he's injured again

To be fair Levi Lumeka played 15 games (missed a lot of the season due to a big injury) for Troyes as they won the Ligue 2 title so he'll be featuring in the French top flight next season. It feels more like we mis-used him (a common trend for Palace and youth players in recent years).

Let's also not forget that Harry Kane hardly set the world alight when he was out on loan at Leyton Orient as a youngster.

Edited by inflikted (02 Jun 2021 10.10pm)

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Yep, Lumeka has been a hit there from what I could glean from twitter.

Hiram Boateng and Sullay Kai-Kai will have decent football league careers and expect both may end up as Championship level players. Ladapo and Keshi Anderson, whilst not proper academy graduates, will also have decent careers in the FL.

No one is ever going to churn out tens of top level players, but to have products of our club scattered through the divisions is something to be proud of.

Of the current lot I think Banks, Rak-Sakayi and Omilabu will get opportunities this year. I also like the look of O'Brien, but harder to get chances at centre-half.