RabidAl Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 There is a combined youth system for those clubs already, the fife elite football academy. It's been going for a year or two now which is why we just have the 20's. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/football/championship/fife-elite-academy-gets-4-star-status-1.855874 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Good luck to you guys next season. If its any comfort, this time last season, Morton had 4 signed players, two of whom were keepers. The much maligned Jim Duffy managed to assemble a squad that just about did the business in the end, including a couple of inspired moves in signing and then getting back Declan McManus plus swopping Barrowman for Forbes. Generally though, a number of his lower league signings have improved and might make decent championship players and he has now got rid of those that most of us thought would not. It can be done. As for scrapping your youth system/under 20s, that would not be a good move in my opinion but you do have to see at least a couple of first team players coming through regularly now. Oh; this comes as a bit of a surprise to me, as I thought your team won the league. This will be a bit of a disappointment to the Morton fans to say the least. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Maybe a daft idea but perhaps the way forward is to have a three or four team combined youth team where each side has five players? Cowden, Rovers, East Fife and us. We can't really sustain an SPL level U20 side when there hasn't been any sales from our youth setup since Jackie McNamara We keep missing local talent and Cowden have brought through better young players on a pittance and sold them on. Difficult to judge but we need results and players sold on to justify it. Our youth setup has been largely neglected for years, until just recently. Just because we had a shit season doesn't mean we should totally scrap it. You seen to be hugely reactive and with zero patience. Incidentally Morton once signed one of our former youth players for £200,000 from Forfar. I also once saw one of youth players score 8 goals against Edinburgh City in an under 21 game. Think he's at Cowden now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Erm, no we didn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/morton/4079531.stm From Brechin, not Forfar. Edited May 16, 2015 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/morton/4079531.stm From Brechin, not Forfar. I think the point was more about the fee, than the player himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Ah. What was the fee then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordieBoy80 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 100k if I recall correctly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) It was a '£200k' deal, factoring in the fee, wages, potential bonuses etc Eta: we could have Stevie Crawford's son and Brian McClair's nephew popping up in the first team next season. Bert Paton's Footballing Stud Farm has already supplied us with Ryan Williamson and the now departed Ross Millen. Edited May 16, 2015 by Shandon Par 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 100 grand for Templeman, what a riddy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) Well it was £80,000 - at most - for the transfer fee (always clutching at straws when the value of the player's contract is chucked in), and also not from Forfar. Other than getting those basic facts wrong a solid 2/10 post IMO. Edited May 16, 2015 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars fan Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 It was only a fiver actually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTon Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Looks like we're very close to signing Buchanan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I'm convinced 90% of his goals have actually came against us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-zero Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Is Ryan goodfellow any good for league 2? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Probably, if he's being signed as 1st choice then it will be his make or brake season, as it is usually when keepers get their first season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-zero Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Probably, if he's being signed as 1st choice then it will be his make or brake season, as it is usually when keepers get their first season. We already have Allan Fleming signed so not sure who would be 1st choice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islay Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Ben Richards-Everton following @officialdafc on twitter. I believe his contract is ending soon with Thistle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arizio Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Said that on .net myself Islay would definitely take him 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islay Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Said that on .net myself Islay would definitely take him Interesting to note that the only clubs he follows on Twitter are Airdrie, Dunfermline and Thistle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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