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3 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I’m more concerned about how we fund the stadium playing at league 2 level. Would think more than 2/3 years at this level could see us vacate the stadium. 

Using the saving from the academy, that isn’t value for money and is a bit of a waste of time.

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1 minute ago, peelyfeet said:

Realistically it means that a local young talent would have the choice of joining City, Utd, Liverpool, Everton, Blackburn, Burnley, Wigan, Stoke, Crewe (possibly Leeds) before us, if they wanted to pick a higher rated academy from age 8 upwards.

Let them do that and we sign them when they get released

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4 minutes ago, Anderson said:

And there we have what we call small time mentality. Worrying for me. 

You do realise we are skint ? 
 

I do not think this news as a football decision is great but from a business perspective pretty inevitable. 
 

The future of the lads who turned out start of the season must be in doubt and that is really shit. 

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37 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

it means less hours coaching, less coaches per player ratio.

It means the academy will be playing other CAT 3 teams instead of CAT 1 and 2 - so instead of playing Liverpool, Everton, City, United, Burnley Wigan we play Morecambe, Rochdale, Oldham, PNE, Fleetwood, Shrewsbury etc

It also means we don’t need the big tent indoor pitch, probably been sold to Fleetwood :(

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Other category three academies include Portsmouth, Wimbledon, Plymouth, Walsall, Southend, Luton, Bradford City, MK Dons, Gillingham, Swindon Town, Exeter City, Northampton Town, Preston North End, Oldham, Rochdale and Shrewsbury Town.

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1 minute ago, Ruba Mustafa said:

IMO it’s nothing to be too concerned about, will make little difference at first team level but the savings to be made must be important enough to swing the decision.

We can always move up again when we win the lottery. 

It’s all relative, we trained at Bolton dogs last time we were at this level, now we are in a very good facility with excellent pitches and 3G. 

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7 minutes ago, DomRepWanderer said:

The Preston model seems to be working just fine, and all well and good if we're following that model.

They are being bankrolled by an Eddie Davies like figure - tune of 60 odd million last I heard....

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22 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Their own official twitter had a quote that Hemmings is propping them up to tune of 5-7M a year....sound familiar? He's 84.....

Nah you are wrong. totally different. ask their fans. its a loan........hmmmmmmmm hahaha. plenty more going the way we have gone 

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1 hour ago, Anderson said:

And there we have what we call small time mentality. Worrying for me. 

Was suggested on here ages ago by folk who know their onions that this could be way forward. City/ Utd/Liverpool (Blackburn at one time who scooped up the captain of the Bolton Town Team a certain Keith Hill not to mention Gary Flitcroft, Jason Wilcox etc) will always get best local talent. Lots of good young players wont make it so lets be scouting them and become known for giving them a first team chance when they are chewed up and spat out by the billionaires 

Small time or realistic and ultimately (,given 'success' of our academy) more productive on and off the pitch?

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How does all this hemmings money fit in with ffp?

If plenty are doing it, then ffp doesn't seem to be fit for purpose. Not particularly arsed, if Preston have a good backer then good luck to them, though it just increases to possibility of another club facing problems at some stage.

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