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Interesting article on Saints signing older lower league players purely for their u23 squad, to help with player development, a support player so to speak.
Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
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Re: Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
Gary Dicker at Brighton has done something similar
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Re: Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
Burnley did just the same in 1973, signed Jimmy Robson to play in the reserves.
Lancashire played against us last Sunday.
Lancashire played against us last Sunday.
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I'm surprised we don't occasionally play our fringe (squad) players.
it doesn't happen very often in the PL2, but I believe they play other games behind closed doors (as they say )
it doesn't happen very often in the PL2, but I believe they play other games behind closed doors (as they say )
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Re: Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
Paul McShane doing the same for Man U u23s at 35 years old.
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Re: Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
When David Jones was training with us, I thought it was handy to have a quality professional utility player who’s job it was to train with with the team, fit into different positions for drills and to support the coaches and players.
Someone fit and experienced enough with no intention of appearing in the first team as they’re in a coaching role.
Someone fit and experienced enough with no intention of appearing in the first team as they’re in a coaching role.
Re: Signing a 32yr old player for the U23's...
We're way ahead of this, we had a support manager with Coyle and then Dyche has snapped up a whole variety of support players.