Quote Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw View Post
Agreed, Bob.
Hopefully we’re seeing a change of attitude with Neil Harris (publicly at least) championing youth.
It’s a chicken and egg, thing.
In an ideal world, both Cardiff and Swansea would be producing top notch players for Wales and other nations through their academies.
Well, you'd like to think the talent has always been around in south Wales to produce the occasional first team player for both clubs and it should be in the future as well. The big concern for me is whether, with Sion Spence and others opting to decline contract offers from City this year, we are reaching the stage where the club has acquired a reputation as a bad one to be a youngster at and this will affect the decisions of the best teenagers from this area in the future.

It's been remarked in the Lloyd Humphries thread that it becomes harder for youngsters to get into the senior team as we become recognised as being a top end Championship club with Premier League possibilities and that is a fair point, but, by the same token, with that higher standing, it should mean that we would have a better chance of getting the very best young talent in the area to commit to us - especially if we had a reputation as a club that was unafraid of giving young players a chance in the first team.