Barry town- top of Welsh premier league at the split. Thanks to city academy

[Father Dougal]

https://wpl.cymru/news/Southam-Hales...r-Park/116569/

Interesting comments from macauley here about city academy- says he wishes he would have experienced proper men's football before leaving.

[Loramski]

https://wpl.cymru/news/Southam-Hales...r-Park/116569/

Interesting comments from macauley here about city academy- says he wishes he would have experienced proper men's football before leaving.

Good article, thanks for that.

The whole area of youth development is so complicated, it's hard to get your head around. Southam is muddying the waters even more for me. He was a full time footballer here till the age of 21 but no one even wanted to take him on loan. When he left here no one fancied him so he went part time with Barry, a year or so later he's good enough to move to a decent League 1 team. It's bizarre.

The change of position has obviously made a difference in Macauley's case but what lessons can City take out of this? Try everyone in different positions? Surely not. Send more youngsters out on loan? This seems to be getting harder to do and what if no one wants our players anyway as seemed to be the case here? What if they do go but don't play, like Mark Harris at Newport recently?

Not every player needs a loan spell though. Lads like Winks, Rashford and Alexander-Arnold have gone straight into top Premier sides so maybe it's not that crucial to go out on loan. Just play them and they'll develop but how did that go for youngsters like Ben Nugent and Declan John here? And if we haven't got any lads that are good enough then how can we criticise Warnock (or even Slade) for not playing them?

Some good looking players coming through our Academy now so hopefully our barren spell in that area will be coming to an end soon, fingers crossed. Maybe we'll be looking to send some on loan to Barry after what's happened with Southam?

[Loramski]

Here's Barry's equaliser with the last kick of the game at TNS on Saturday. I'm not an expert on body language but I reckon the players and fans enjoyed this.

https://twitter.com/MundialMag/statu...15895544451072

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

Here's Barry's equaliser with the last kick of the game at TNS on Saturday. I'm not an expert on body language but I reckon the players and fans enjoyed this.

https://twitter.com/MundialMag/statu...15895544451072

Cracking goal!
Spedger

[Father Dougal]

Here's Barry's equaliser with the last kick of the game at TNS on Saturday. I'm not an expert on body language but I reckon the players and fans enjoyed this.

https://twitter.com/MundialMag/statu...15895544451072

Yes jon hood is doing that every week or so at the moment!