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Partnership with Mount Pleasant Academy
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Charlton Athletic are delighted to announce a partnership with leading Jamaican football academy Mount Pleasant, with the long-term aim of further improving the quantity of elite players graduating from the Addicks' esteemed academy.
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/charlton-partner-mount-pleasant-academy
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/charlton-partner-mount-pleasant-academy
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Another worthless partnership. Bet the powers that be will want to bang on about this tonight as we sleepwalk towards relegation.4
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Not surprising given we were rumoured to be interested in Trivante Stewart, who was with them, yet decided to join Salernitana in Serie A over the summer.0
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4 sub appearances, 95 mins played, no goals, for anyone interested!ForeverAddickted said:Not surprising given we were rumoured to be interested in Trivante Stewart, who was with them, yet decided to join Salernitana in Serie A over the summer.
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I'm still waiting to see a friendly against Inter Milan from the deal we had 25 years ago. Not going to happen is it?DICKIE PLUMB said:Another worthless partnership. Bet the powers that be will want to bang on about this tonight as we sleepwalk towards relegation.15 -
Hasn't played more than 35mins in a game either - Not surprising given the jump in level he's madeNorth Lower Neil said:
4 sub appearances, 95 mins played, no goals, for anyone interested!ForeverAddickted said:Not surprising given we were rumoured to be interested in Trivante Stewart, who was with them, yet decided to join Salernitana in Serie A over the summer.0 -
About time we helped with the development of those young posties in their careers5
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I get the cynicism giving our current position and previous tie ups but if another league 1 club, such as Peterborough, had announced this some would be saying "why aren't Charlton doing things like this?"
I do think that this wasn't the marquee announcement the board were hoping to make before tonight's meeting but it might get us a decent player or two.9 -
I thought we had done a deal with a local massage parlour when I read the headline2
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Like a tribute to the glory days. Inter is the well known one, but we set up a lot partnerships with foreign clubs in the 2000s. Here’s one of them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/7244803.stm
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Scoham said:Like a tribute to the glory days. Inter is the well known one, but we set up a lot partnerships with foreign clubs in the 2000s. Here’s one of them:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/charlton_athletic/7244803.stm
Wonder if this fella is still going, and ‘made it’ could be a January signing!
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This is all going a bit ‘That’s Life , but Troy Caesar, c’mon down!
Not sure about the team, Life Running Eagles, would have gone down well in these parts!
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Too many appearances made there to suit us on loan.North Lower Neil said:
4 sub appearances, 95 mins played, no goals, for anyone interested!ForeverAddickted said:Not surprising given we were rumoured to be interested in Trivante Stewart, who was with them, yet decided to join Salernitana in Serie A over the summer.0 -
What’s that noise?
aargh, that’ll be methvens and co expenses claim for a trip to Jamaica falling on the investors table.6 -
Really interesting article, good insight on what the academy are trying to achieve.clive said:
I particularly liked this part
"Dan Mahoney and his analysis team did a fantastic job of showing us clips of the boys at half-time around how we need to defend higher and be more aggressive with our backline. That was such an important lesson for the boys. Sometimes you want them to fail and get it wrong so they can learn from it. We're all really pleased with how well they applied that information from half-time into the second half and were dominant. They dealt with Mount Pleasant’s transition and counter attack much better.”
Shows, rightly, that it's not all about winning but about developing them as players and as a team.
Also illustrates how the club, along with many others, use technology even at that level as part of their coaching. That's an investment in non-coaching staff and tech being used to improve players.8 -
Also thought the way he spoke about tactics was very similar to how NJ says he likes to play which is very positiveHenry Irving said:
Really interesting article, good insight on what the academy are trying to achieve.clive said:
I particularly liked this part
"Dan Mahoney and his analysis team did a fantastic job of showing us clips of the boys at half-time around how we need to defend higher and be more aggressive with our backline. That was such an important lesson for the boys. Sometimes you want them to fail and get it wrong so they can learn from it. We're all really pleased with how well they applied that information from half-time into the second half and were dominant. They dealt with Mount Pleasant’s transition and counter attack much better.”
Shows, rightly, that it's not all about winning but about developing them as players and as a team.
Also illustrates how the club, along with many others, use technology even at that level as part of their coaching. That's an investment in non-coaching staff and tech being used to improve players.1 -
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBN9CkCuW2f/?igsh=MWowam4wa3Bjanc1YQ==Looks like this is one of the goals we scored against Mount Pleasant.0
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https://x.com/cafcofficial/status/1849776160806220188?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904QWonder if we’ll sign one or two for our academy, sounds like a few showed some promise.1
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Just posted this on the transfer thread in response to another comment, but probably more appropriate here…
Is the deal with Mount Pleasant still there? Methven posted the other day that he and the owner, Peter Gould, had bought a controlling stake in Belgian club - RAEC Mons. Sounds very much like we’ve been “dumped”!He stated that “With an academy at Mount Pleasant stacked with youth and senior internationals aged 15 to 17, the time had come for us to find a permanent European home for the top Caribbean talent to fulfil their potential. I wouldn’t have come to Jamaica unless I truly believed that the Caribbean region is the next frontier for elite talent - but that talent needed a proper platform crafted for player development and sympathetic cultural adaptation. Together with our local Belgian partners, Hubert Ewbank, Bernard Courcelles and Simon van Kerckhoven, that is the work we now embark on.”4 - Sponsored links:
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We could always do the thread derailment/Methven character scrutiny here2
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Getting back to it:@Swisdom said - I had a chat with Charlie about this last season. Just before we signed up with Mount Pleasant.It’s fascinating really. When the slave trade all started apparently Jamaica got first refusal on the African slaves so they obviously chose the fittest and strongest. Since then they have just maintained a gene pool of excellent physical specimens and this leads to the thought process they Jamaica is a potential goldmine.
he had some statics but I can’t recall them. But it was quite an enlightening and interesting chat really and hopefully explains our current tie-in with all things Jamaican
To which I replied:
This is horrifying. Our academy strategy is ultimately inspired by slavery and some sort of racial science? He actually implied this?
I guess we'll be looking at Ethiopia for box to box midfielders who can run all day and not get tired based on the mind-boggling VO2 max performances of its runners, and the Netherlands for goalkeepers cos they're the tallest people on the planet.
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Rest of the comments have been about how it is derailing the Rumours thread, so here's a more appropriate thread.5 -
Yeah that’s some weird eugenic level shit right there.6
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Fascinating is one word for it I suppose.0
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Repeating something that is that horrific and calling it fascinating and not calling it what it is - pseudo science with roots in racism and borderline eugenics.Stu_of_Kunming said:
Posting what a senior member of staff had said? Swisdom wasn’t agreeing with it, just stating what was said.cantersaddick said:
I don't think calling out a post like that is the derailing. It's posting something like that in the first place that derails it.thenewbie said:
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It is eugenics, nothing borderline about it.cantersaddick said:
Repeating something that is that horrific and calling it fascinating and not calling it what it is - pseudo science with roots in racism and borderline eugenics.Stu_of_Kunming said:
Posting what a senior member of staff had said? Swisdom wasn’t agreeing with it, just stating what was said.cantersaddick said:
I don't think calling out a post like that is the derailing. It's posting something like that in the first place that derails it.thenewbie said:
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Absolutely mental thing for someone to say in the first place. To then be repeated as a positive is unbelievable.13
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Fair. Was probably being a bit niceDiebythesword said:
It is eugenics, nothing borderline about it.cantersaddick said:
Repeating something that is that horrific and calling it fascinating and not calling it what it is - pseudo science with roots in racism and borderline eugenics.Stu_of_Kunming said:
Posting what a senior member of staff had said? Swisdom wasn’t agreeing with it, just stating what was said.cantersaddick said:
I don't think calling out a post like that is the derailing. It's posting something like that in the first place that derails it.thenewbie said:
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@SouthLincsAddick said the following:If that’s the level of cod science Charlie was spouting as fact it’s no wonder he’s been a disaster at every job he’s had. If there was ever such an advantage I’m sure the horrendous conditions slaves had to suffer would’ve made any advantage negligible. In fact the high rate of cardiovascular disease in Jamaica has been traced back to low birth weights during slavery. Scary that such frightening opinions can come from such an expensively educated person and yet Eton seems to churn them out.1
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I'm shocked that anyone could find it 'fascinating' as opposed to being downright offensive.cantersaddick said:
Repeating something that is that horrific and calling it fascinating and not calling it what it is - pseudo science with roots in racism and borderline eugenics.Stu_of_Kunming said:
Posting what a senior member of staff had said? Swisdom wasn’t agreeing with it, just stating what was said.cantersaddick said:
I don't think calling out a post like that is the derailing. It's posting something like that in the first place that derails it.thenewbie said:
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