The biggest step to gaining Cat 1 or Cat 2 classification is mainly down to facilities at a club. Along with an audit of the club and the academy, they also require certain facilities including an indoor training pitch before you will be considered for Cat 2. At Cat 1 the club is also...
Great news for our lads in the academy. No disrespect to clubs like Exeter and Swindon who we usually have to play on a weekly basis, but we need the intensity of playing stronger sides to hopefully produce our own from an early age rather than just picking up players at 16 when they have been...
Totally agree, clean broom and get rid of NB & RH who have not had the clubs best interests at heart with appointments and transfer dealings since EH departed.
Yes the academy lads are certainly benefiting now this first phase of the training complex is complete. Unfortunately it does appear that work has now ground to a halt.
I was in the Range last night and spotted Fletch loading up on pick and mix. He certainly wont fit into the outfit if he scoffs all them himself :sick:
All that has been completed is one full size artificial pitch. There are plans for a second artificial pitch in a dome to be completed early next year but the grass pitches etc sound like they are 3 years away from being completed.
Nice to have the young lads training again after a long break.