Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Mansfield View Post
Agreed but I believe it costs a shedful of money to set one up and maintain it. The Jacks have one so it remains to be seen if they can afford to keep Cat 1. There's bound to be cost-cutting down there.
It's an interesting point about Swansea. Going off forum chat there seems to be some paranoia that virtue signalling on dipping into the academy will be used as subterfuge while their owners asset strip. If that does become the case, then it will be sometime still before the board is justified in cutting the academy budget. They should be trimming the fat off their senior squad anyway. But I wonder if them being successful if and when they utilise their strong dvp talent might show us the way somehow.

It could take a couple of seasons for that scenario at Swansea to play out. But if they do stay down for that time, I suspect a lot of clubs may be looking on to them as a litmus test for the academy structure given that their dvp side came within two games of winning PL2.