Posters here far too eager to say that players aren't good enough if not knocking down the door. Look at players like Trippier who probably wouldn't have had such a class introduction into a side managed by a gaffer less interested in player development. Could Declan John have developed as well if given similar treatment? Instead we have posters ruling him out despite being still so young.

We have, for a number of years, been an unstable club who bounced from one direction to the next. It can't have helped those in the academy.

If we are to become a sustainable club we need a working academy system.