Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
there's a lot of improving we could do without becoming a category one academy, as some other clubs have shown.

https://trainingground.guru/articles...nkings-2017/18

This ranking from a couple of seasons ago shows how poor us and our friends out west have been at this.

This season 12 out of the 24 teams in the championship have a player that came from Reading's academy regularly in their first team.

Cardiff don't even have any in our own first team unless you count Ralls, and I don't think we should.
According to Wales on line the Jacks Cat 1 Academy has produced 10 players that are now playing in the Premier League and Championship. Recently Dan James, McBurnie and Roden have gone for big money £50 m+ .I know others are also playing in Division 1&2 so a Cat 1 Academy definitely pays off!