You are quoting one season

Clearly we had good players at that level but did they turn out to be more or less valuable than players we developed in the seasons after that.
We have still produced a ton of valuable talent while NOT winning.
(Maybe because we have focused resources on those individuals?)

Maybe the tactics of a game are based around those players.

The fact is while the VAST majority of youth players won't make it there is a smaller correlation between a winning youth team and producing first team footballers.

You would rather produce 1-2 quality talents a year than 5-6 players who are LG1 or LG2 quality at best.

And to be fair Webber and Weaver had been saying this for years.
They are not glossing over recent results. It was an ingrained philosophy that their job was to produce first team sellable talents not spend a ton of resources coaching players who they probably knew were not going to make it.

Posted By: usacanary on May 22nd 2024 at 12:18:56

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Weaver on Webber and soccerbot etc (NCFC) - loz, May 22, 11:06:24
- Post 2017 youth-recruits for NCFC (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 11:36:12
  - A bit unfair when you are ... (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 12:26:41
    - Not unfair at all (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 12:45:39
      - and of course your reply and "analysis" is completly objective...LOLz. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 19:25:02
  - The strategy of going for youngsters who have broken into first teams hasn't worked (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, May 22, 12:24:01
- Read that earlier, decent read (NCFC) - jamesward, May 22, 11:07:05
  - Weaver interviewing at Man C (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 11:18:03
    - Totally 100% disagree. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 11:39:28
      - Our FAYC-winning side of 2013 (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 11:52:27
        
        You are quoting one season (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 12:18:56
        
        And I invited you to find me a season that produced a better return (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 12:33:50
        
        OK, so what about the seasons before and after. (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 17:58:20
        
        The following U18s season produced just ONE first-team player (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 18:27:50
        
        Thats the extent of your analysis...... (NCFC) - usacanary, May 22, 19:20:52
      - You can do both though (NCFC) - jamesward, May 22, 11:44:14
        
        quack (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, May 22, 11:53:04
    - No he is absolutely right. With the slight caveat that (NCFC) - Legacy Fan, May 22, 11:38:22
    - I've heard a few things on the grapevine to lead me to believe we are well rid of him (NCFC) - Jim, May 22, 11:32:32
      - That took me by surprise I must say (n/m) (NCFC) - inutero, May 22, 11:52:26
    - He seems to be a big advocate of players playing way above their age group (NCFC) - jamesward, May 22, 11:21:19
      - setting them up for the premier league experience (NCFC) - Tombs, May 22, 11:50:40
  - Under appreciated (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, May 22, 11:12:43

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