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Our brilliant youth academy
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Is that an advertorial paid for by the club?2
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Player farm. The new Crewe.1
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The Standard's a rubbish paper. No awareness at all of the bigger picture.0
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This is how they did it in 1928:WSS said:Is that an advertorial paid for by the club?
Athletic News 14 May 1928 (A Manchester based newspaper)
Situations Vacant Column
CHARLTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL
CLUB
Invite applications from
FIRST CLASS PLAYERS ONLY
Invitation is also given for trials in August to
YOUNG JUNIOR PLAYERS
possessing height, weight, speed and ability
A. LINDON Manager Floyd Road CHARLTON
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How do they work out it's the 6th best in the country?0
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Lookman wasn't really an academy product.2
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Sad but true.johnny73 said:Player farm. The new Crewe.
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So who are the five better ones?0
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I would say probably Southampton for one.seth plum said:So who are the five better ones?
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Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press8 -
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Even then we knew what was important.cherryorchard said:
This is how they did it in 1928:WSS said:Is that an advertorial paid for by the club?
Athletic News 14 May 1928 (A Manchester based newspaper)
Situations Vacant Column
CHARLTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL
CLUB
Invite applications from
FIRST CLASS PLAYERS ONLY
Invitation is also given for trials in August to
YOUNG JUNIOR PLAYERS
possessing height, weight, speed and ability
A. LINDON Manager Floyd Road CHARLTON2 -
Swisdom may be right. We can see the Premiership stars of the future playing in the U23's and U18's after all.7
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for fuck sake this is the one good thing about our club that we should be proud of, let's leave the negativity off this thread please, because I have found that video inspiring and uplifting and what we as a club are about.3
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Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press20 -
And surely the Academy is being, or soon will be, damaged with the club being in such a lowly position.1
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Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
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Is Chelsea in the Top 6 though?
What about Southampton - how many come through their ranks?3 -
Well as if going to Charlton v Bury isn't giving my kids a big enough buzz , a quick reminder of our magnificent academy will get their juices flowing
To quote HI "just win games"
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Very very begrudgingly agree.....but understand those who see the academy as something of a skewed threat to our future as things are at present anyway.Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press0 -
Look at Chelsea. Yes fucking look at them you myopic tit. You will notice they are not in the bottom half of the third division getting beaten at home by teams we have hardly heard of, they are top of the Premier league. I would swop that for us having the worst academy in the universe. Wouldn't you?Swisdom said:
Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
Twit.13 -
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Chelsea have a very good academy. Just depends what your measuring success on. If it's players breaking into their first team then they're awful. If it's producing pro footballers I suspect you'll find they're far better than us.1
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Partly because we'll never get to enjoy the fruits of it.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
Most kids to come through will instantly be sold the moment they're worth anything to Roland!!4 -
Completely agree, we should be proud of it.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
The sadness of it is that Duchatelet sees it more like a battery farm to fatten up and sell than a production line of talent to secure the club's future.1 -
They aren't where they are because of their ridiculously good academy they are where they are because of a ridiculously rich owner.Algarveaddick said:
Look at Chelsea. Yes fucking look at them you myopic tit. You will notice they are not in the bottom half of the third division getting beaten at home by teams we have hardly heard of, they are top of the Premier league. I would swop that for us having the worst academy in the universe. Wouldn't you?Swisdom said:
Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
Twit.
Having the sixth best academy in the country is something we should be fucking proud of. If and when we are to get anywhere again as a club then promoting younger players or selling them for a profit to keep us afloat is absolutely essential to that.
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We also have a ridiculously rich owner, he just happens not to give a shit about my club. Chelsea have an academy just like ours, good at developing players for other clubs. What is essential is winning first team games, everything else is peripheral, if you can't see that, you are not a Charlton fan, so why not just go follow someone else and leave us alone?Swisdom said:
They aren't where they are because of their ridiculously good academy they are where they are because of a ridiculously rich owner.Algarveaddick said:
Look at Chelsea. Yes fucking look at them you myopic tit. You will notice they are not in the bottom half of the third division getting beaten at home by teams we have hardly heard of, they are top of the Premier league. I would swop that for us having the worst academy in the universe. Wouldn't you?Swisdom said:
Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
Twit.
Having the sixth best academy in the country is something we should be fucking proud of. If and when we are to get anywhere again as a club then promoting younger players or selling them for a profit to keep us afloat is absolutely essential to that.4 -
What the fuck have this article or our academy got to do with winning first team games? Or me not being a real fan you fucking weirdoAlgarveaddick said:
We also have a ridiculously rich owner, he just happens not to give a shit about my club. Chelsea have an academy just like ours, good at developing players for other clubs. What is essential is winning first team games, everything else is peripheral, if you can't see that, you are not a Charlton fan, so why not just go follow someone else and leave us alone?Swisdom said:
They aren't where they are because of their ridiculously good academy they are where they are because of a ridiculously rich owner.Algarveaddick said:
Look at Chelsea. Yes fucking look at them you myopic tit. You will notice they are not in the bottom half of the third division getting beaten at home by teams we have hardly heard of, they are top of the Premier league. I would swop that for us having the worst academy in the universe. Wouldn't you?Swisdom said:
Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
Twit.
Having the sixth best academy in the country is something we should be fucking proud of. If and when we are to get anywhere again as a club then promoting younger players or selling them for a profit to keep us afloat is absolutely essential to that.
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The academy
Bit laughable to compare us with Chelsea to be honest. Surely an academy should either:Swisdom said:
Look at Chelsea. How many players make it through the ranks?Nug said:
Of course it's a positive, the academy has been doing this for a while long before these arseholes took over. The negative is why if we have the 6th best academy in the country are we languishing 13th in League One. Ask yourself that.Swisdom said:Why does EVERYTHING have to be a negative!
Our academy is one shining light of this club so let's enjoy some positive press
In the premiership we just wouldn't give these players a chance so take the rough with the smooth and enjoy the one positive of our lowly position.
Of course I'd rather we were higher up the leagues but we are where we are and a positive is the quality youngsters who do get a chance.
a. Produce players that move us in an upward direction on the pitch, or
b. Are so good they are sold for mega money upon which a significant amount can be reinvested into the squad to move us in an upward direction on the pitch.
I ask you, are either of these things happening at Charlton or likely to with Douchebag running the place?3 -
A should be happening - the players are good enough - but the coaching appears to be turnip
B won't happen because it appears to go into his pockets before the playing squad1 -
Duchatelet is transforming Charlton Athletic into a b2b enterprise. The product isn't football matches and entertainment for fans. The product is footballers, to be sold to other football companies. Our saturday afternoons are nothing more than adverts.9
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I don't know about turning, he's already done it. The 11 mill he's getting for Lookman will encourage him to continue, at least for the next couple of windows.Missed It said:Duchatelet is transforming Charlton Athletic into a b2b enterprise. The product isn't football matches and entertainment for fans. The product is footballers, to be sold to other football companies. Our saturday afternoons are nothing more than adverts.
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