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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    4 hours ago, AuldReekie said:

    Interested in your reasons.

    I'm interested in it alongside our clear desire to develop a decent academy. For me, the merry-go-round of managers and players, hoping to hit a good combination for a while (alongside a good owner/board) and move up the leagues, doesn't really build up a longer-term foundation for the club. A David Wotherspoon (just as an example) joining the Pars and then moving on doesn't really do anything for me - we use him, he uses us, hopefully we get a bit better, but often we'll pay inflated salaries for guys who have reached (roughly) the level we're at. Of course, there's nothing wrong with this - if well run, the club can make a success of it.

    But I am interested in trying to establish credible academy, where decent players might start their career or at least see Dunfermline as being instrumental in the early stages of their career. We hopefully produce some players that are able supplement the first team squad - such players are cheaper (in wages at least), they are in investment and from a romantic point of view, I'd love to see players go on from Dunfermline to play at a higher level. The challenge of course is ensuring that the academy pays for itself, whether that's by producing players that can play for the first team, sell-on for fees that fund the academy, facilities that can be used by the community, etc.

    It's undoubtably a harder business strategy to execute. 

    Think these things come organically, don't think it sets you up very well for the future. The 2 provincial clubs with the best rack record for producing talent and selling them in the last 15 years   find themselves in league 1.

     

    I'd rather we just make use of the sizeable budget we should have at this level and make the correct decisions footballing wise. That board set us back fucking years with that Peter Grant appointment.

     

    I also will die on the hill that the academy money is a total waste of money and we should have just made a base at East End. Already got a gym, lay an astro which turns into a money making exercise itself. 

     

    That'll come across very negative but I'll still support them all my days.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    6 minutes ago, madton said:

    I'd be amazed if we were in for him.

    We have a very good Championship level CB( OConnor) on the bench who can't get a game because of the form of Broadfoot and Baird,  another playing RB( French) who can play CB too and even one at LB( Strapp) who has played there in emergencies.

    The last position we need is a CB.

    Mental the turnaround you've had since the Friday night game at Cappielow early November.

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    Walking Down The Halbeath Road

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    26 minutes ago, RRFC_Liam said:

    I very much doubt partick needs him now since they have Muirhead, Neilson, O’Reilly and that Williams, plus Inverness signed that Carragher so realistically I think it’s between the 2 of us for Ashcroft and if the rumours are to be believed he’s coming our way 

    Aye I'd imagine he'll be a Raith player by the end of the week sending Pars social media into fucking meltdown 😭😂

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