posted 4 days, 19 hours ago
Skimmed the above nonsense.
Doomed to fail from the start.
1. Lip service to 1 or 2 lassies when it’s tough for them to thrive in a male environment.
2. Didn’t have the balls to reserve places for pro youth or boy’s club so pandered to both and make a cvnt of it.
3. Not sure about the others but Holyrood & Braidhurst ffs two of the worst academic schools so no parent actually wanted them to go there.
4. Kids outside these catchments were never gonna travel for the ‘privilege’
5. Never sold it well with sfa oversight & appointments.
6. Kids looking envious at EPL team commandeering private school placements, boarding if need be. Even the ugly sisters choosing semi decent schools and boarding albeit under challenging conditions.
posted 4 days, 18 hours ago
Have said it for long enough, get rid of this 4 league nonsense and just make 2 big leagues
More variety...bigger stage for younger lads at smaller clubs to play on...and before the old firm crowd numbers question comes in, we can do it in the cup no bother
Top tier will always be self serving to a small number of clubs as long as it remains as small as it is....scrap it
2 old firm games a season would also have more meaning to them.....old firm playing 6 times a season sometimes is just ridiculous
posted 4 days, 5 hours ago
comment by Derek Lyle (U1734)
posted 16 hours, 13 minutes ago
I didnt vote in in that ... did you... I dont know a single person that voted in that so doesnt mean much.
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Probably going to end things here before we get into flat earth territory.
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there is no substance to that petition. besides they tend to be done with people with an agenda, ie the petition was brought out against B teams, therefore upon creating people are not gonna go shasing the vote for those that want them to be there it will be chased by those against it.
Instead of a daft online petition where it can be baised. I will look at the actual footfall results (ie what actually happnend and footfall was up massively (this is the smaller teams tickets not those sold by the B team fans despite that still being money.
But attendances were up (as much as 500% in some cases) when the actual real life vote happened the people turned up and paid the tickets more than they ever had.
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
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took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 9 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair dos, I've seen similar schemes be a shambles in other sports with my pals kids.
Being forced to drive down to Edinburgh every weekend and sometimes through the week for training and matches etc, having arrangements with their schools here so they wouldn't fall behind on coursework.
No flexibility and aimed at the wealthier kids whose parents essentially pay for their kids to play by bringing in sponsorship.
On the football side of things, I played with and against some really talented youth players growing up and have watched others too up here. The lack of facilities and pathway into the professional game up here has meant we've lost so much potential over the years as they've lost interest in their teens and ended up on the drink and gear instead.
Only a couple of brothers I know who made it to pro level and that was because their mum moved to Leeds and they made it into their youth set-up having played for other feeder youth teams. Obviously got dropped by Leeds with one now playing in Australia and the other for a non-league side in England. When they were up here one made it into the Caley youth set-up while the other was passed up for them.
posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
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I went to a proddy school
posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I went to a proddy school
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Tbf, Barry is a difficult read not always to be completed in one go.
I’d say well more than half our support are either proddy, originally proddy or more proddy than p@pe. No evidence other than gut feel based on casual revelation.
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posted 4 days, 19 hours ago
Skimmed the above nonsense.
Doomed to fail from the start.
1. Lip service to 1 or 2 lassies when it’s tough for them to thrive in a male environment.
2. Didn’t have the balls to reserve places for pro youth or boy’s club so pandered to both and make a cvnt of it.
3. Not sure about the others but Holyrood & Braidhurst ffs two of the worst academic schools so no parent actually wanted them to go there.
4. Kids outside these catchments were never gonna travel for the ‘privilege’
5. Never sold it well with sfa oversight & appointments.
6. Kids looking envious at EPL team commandeering private school placements, boarding if need be. Even the ugly sisters choosing semi decent schools and boarding albeit under challenging conditions.
posted 4 days, 18 hours ago
Have said it for long enough, get rid of this 4 league nonsense and just make 2 big leagues
More variety...bigger stage for younger lads at smaller clubs to play on...and before the old firm crowd numbers question comes in, we can do it in the cup no bother
Top tier will always be self serving to a small number of clubs as long as it remains as small as it is....scrap it
2 old firm games a season would also have more meaning to them.....old firm playing 6 times a season sometimes is just ridiculous
posted 4 days, 5 hours ago
comment by Derek Lyle (U1734)
posted 16 hours, 13 minutes ago
I didnt vote in in that ... did you... I dont know a single person that voted in that so doesnt mean much.
---------------
Probably going to end things here before we get into flat earth territory.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
there is no substance to that petition. besides they tend to be done with people with an agenda, ie the petition was brought out against B teams, therefore upon creating people are not gonna go shasing the vote for those that want them to be there it will be chased by those against it.
Instead of a daft online petition where it can be baised. I will look at the actual footfall results (ie what actually happnend and footfall was up massively (this is the smaller teams tickets not those sold by the B team fans despite that still being money.
But attendances were up (as much as 500% in some cases) when the actual real life vote happened the people turned up and paid the tickets more than they ever had.
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
posted 3 days, 23 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 9 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fair dos, I've seen similar schemes be a shambles in other sports with my pals kids.
Being forced to drive down to Edinburgh every weekend and sometimes through the week for training and matches etc, having arrangements with their schools here so they wouldn't fall behind on coursework.
No flexibility and aimed at the wealthier kids whose parents essentially pay for their kids to play by bringing in sponsorship.
On the football side of things, I played with and against some really talented youth players growing up and have watched others too up here. The lack of facilities and pathway into the professional game up here has meant we've lost so much potential over the years as they've lost interest in their teens and ended up on the drink and gear instead.
Only a couple of brothers I know who made it to pro level and that was because their mum moved to Leeds and they made it into their youth set-up having played for other feeder youth teams. Obviously got dropped by Leeds with one now playing in Australia and the other for a non-league side in England. When they were up here one made it into the Caley youth set-up while the other was passed up for them.
posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I went to a proddy school
posted 3 days, 20 hours ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Call Sign (U3627)
posted 2 minutes ago
Very late to the party here and only Silver by the looks of it really understands what it is that is being cut
This has nothing to do with our academies (pro youth). While I am not a fan our how our pro youth operates it works as can be seen at the players making their way into the Scotland set up and playing at teams across Europe.
The SFA Development schools are an utter shambles. The purpose was supposed to be about recruiting the best talent into just a handful of schools. Only really Holyrood in Glasgow did that - CS Jnr went for the trial while in P7 and despite doing well I found out that of the 16 places 12 already had their uniforms ordered.
Other dev schools (including one I know very well) use the funding as a community football thing. While they had some decent players attend the school used it as reward and punishment. It was treated as the school team. Recruitment for the places did not go outwith the usual catchment area.
So, it is for that kind of reason that the whole thing needed scrapped. A lot of money wasted just for schools to use it to fund their bog standard teams.
You only need to look at what schools made the quarter finals of most age groups to see who actually ran it as it was supposed to be.
Anyway, sorry for being late to this but I had to read all of the crap that was nothing to do with this decision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
took you a day to read through the comments!! oooft
bloody schools.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I went to a proddy school
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tbf, Barry is a difficult read not always to be completed in one go.
I’d say well more than half our support are either proddy, originally proddy or more proddy than p@pe. No evidence other than gut feel based on casual revelation.
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