Swansea's accounts

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Swansea wether people like it or not has always had a strong football tradition and has always produced good young local talent or rather found it and developed it

We have a far larger population to draw from and Cardiff is a far bigger city with a huge pool of youngsters mad on football right on its doorstep from inner city Grangetown, Butetown , Riverside etc

But they never get seen

Somethings going wrong

Nathan Blake was born in Cardiff, lived in Newport yet got spotted by Chelsea

And there are more

[goats]

Swansea wether people like it or not has always had a strong football tradition and has always produced good young local talent or rather found it and developed it

We have a far larger population to draw from and Cardiff is a far bigger city with a huge pool of youngsters mad on football right on its doorstep from inner city Grangetown, Butetown , Riverside etc

But they never get seen

Somethings going wrong

Nathan Blake was born in Cardiff, lived in Newport yet got spotted by Chelsea

And there are more

The amount of really decent youth I’ve played against who hailed from the areas you mention sludge is frightening, they just drift away from football in their late teens, no one comes in and develops them.

[City123]

Swansea wether people like it or not has always had a strong football tradition and has always produced good young local talent or rather found it and developed it

We have a far larger population to draw from and Cardiff is a far bigger city with a huge pool of youngsters mad on football right on its doorstep from inner city Grangetown, Butetown , Riverside etc

But they never get seen

Somethings going wrong

Nathan Blake was born in Cardiff, lived in Newport yet got spotted by Chelsea

And there are more

Gareth Bale is the pretty obvious example of a player on our doorstop who was ignored/missed out on, his uncle played for us ffs!

[the other bob wilson]

Gareth Bale is the pretty obvious example of a player on our doorstop who was ignored/missed out on, his uncle played for us ffs!

We were in Division Four when Chris Pike played for us and would have been in one of the bottom two divisions when Bellamy went to Norwich. I’m fairly sure as well that we were when Bale first teamed up with Southampton. I’m as critical as anyone of our youth development record, but Bale and Bellamy were never going to sign for us as kids.

[ivandobsky]

Gareth Bale is the pretty obvious example of a player on our doorstop who was ignored/missed out on, his uncle played for us ffs!

Yeah, I would've loved to have seen him warming the bench with Rambo in the Cup Final.

[Rjk]

Yeah, I would've loved to have seen him warming the bench with Rambo in the Cup Final.

Jones gets way too much stick for not starting with Ramsey in the cup final.

The kid was just 17, had only started a handful of games in his senior career, playing in a cup final, against a team from a higher division.

[ivandobsky]

Jones gets way too much stick for not starting with Ramsey in the cup final.

The kid was just 17, had only started a handful of games in his senior career, playing in a cup final, against a team from a higher division.

You think so ? That kid Rooney was tearing up the Premier league at 16. Anyway not meaning to open up old wounds
And we have to be thankful that Ramsey didn't come along during the Warnock years or we'd have never seen him in a City shirt.

[Rjk]

You think so ? That kid Rooney was tearing up the Premier league at 16. Anyway not meaning to open up old wounds
And we have to be thankful that Ramsey didn't come along during the Warnock years or we'd have never seen him in a City shirt.

Rooney had the physique of a 30 year old at 16 though ramsey was very much a teenager.

Totally agree with your second point - we'd have loaned him out to Weston super mare

[splott parker]

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Rooney had the physique of a 30 year old at 16 though ramsey was very much a teenager.

Totally agree with your second point - we'd have loaned him out to Weston super mare

Rooney looks about 60 now, birth certificate needs checking

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Jones gets way too much stick for not starting with Ramsey in the cup final.

The kid was just 17, had only started a handful of games in his senior career, playing in a cup final, against a team from a higher division.

Completely agree, people seem to mix up between what he was and what he became when it came to Rambo at that age

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Jones gets way too much stick for not starting with Ramsey in the cup final.

The kid was just 17, had only started a handful of games in his senior career, playing in a cup final, against a team from a higher division.

By the time of the cup final, Ramsey had started 12 league and cup games out of the previous 18 (including the whole 90 minutes at Middlesbrough) and made a further 3 substitute appearances.

In his first season at Arsenal, while he was limited to only some brief Premier League appearances, he was given plenty of Champions' League experience.

He was also the best player we had at the club, even at that young an age.

Of course Jones should have started him.

[Rjk]

By the time of the cup final, Ramsey had started 12 league and cup games out of the previous 18 (including the whole 90 minutes at Middlesbrough) and made a further 3 substitute appearances.

In his first season at Arsenal, while he was limited to only some brief Premier League appearances, he was given plenty of Champions' League experience.

He was also the best player we had at the club, even at that young an age.

Of course Jones should have started him.

I really don't agree. you could see he was going to be a quality player but he was still a kid, and playing against a powerful Portsmouth side
of those games he had managed a goal against Burnley and one against chasetown.

and as we played ,4 across the midfield at the time we would have been dropping one of mcphail, Rae, Ledley or whittingham.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I really don't agree. you could see he was going to be a quality player but he was still a kid, and playing against a powerful Portsmouth side
of those games he had managed a goal against Burnley and one against chasetown.

and as we played ,4 across the midfield at the time we would have been dropping one of mcphail, Rae, Ledley or whittingham.

Rae could have been dropped. Pompey went with a midfield 3 and Rae's aggressive style was completely nullified.

A better option would have been to drop Hasselbaink and go 4-5-1. Whitts played on the right that day and had a bit of a stinker. He could have been given a freer role with Ramsey out on the right.

Of course, that would have meant Jones having a plan B.