Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
So pleased to see that the Academy lads are being taught to play a passing game. As Bellamy says, if they are comfortable playing the sort of football he wants, then they should be able to adapt when they get into the first team and, perhaps, need to play in a different way - it has to be better for someone who is comfortable in possession and used to playing a passing game to apply this when playing more of a percentage game in the first team, than to come up through an Academy which plays the percentages and then expect a youngster to be able to play out from the back etc..