poor behaviour from GTFC

I would question the lads need to write a blog, however he is just yet another victim of a strange coaching set up we have in this country. Unfortunately size and speed still matters too much in junior football and you only need to look at the local junior game to see how much pressure is put on youngsters to win rather than develop. This pressure is one of the reasons local adult football is in decline.
Anyway going off piste.
Good luck to the lad for the future, as others have said, get your head  up keep scoring goals and developing your game and if you are good enough it will happen, but as I'm sure you are aware the chances are very slim. Just look around the changing room with Clee Town and you will see any number of local lads who were with Town academy and didn't progress as far as they would have liked.
Enjoy the game for as long as you are able.

That's just how it is at that level you are given a chance for success but there are no equal outcomes and for each kid that makes it there are 10 times as many that don't. Sometimes you get knocked back and you keep going and have success sometimes you realise it's not possible and move on. The cream always rises to the top. Very few people will make it as pro footballers at league level. If so many people could make it we'd have a lot more top English players in the international side.

dave C knocking the club again! surely not!

I was not too bad a player when I was younger, but due to having chrons disease I had problems with height and weight, and I was told I was too small to play, it happens, you get on with it, nothing article to me

Gtfc have not produced a player for yonks

Good job a young Lionel Messi never came knocking on BP's door, eh?

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Gtfc have not produced a player for yonks

Except for Venney, Clifton and Max Wright who are in the first team squad? Or Dayle Southwell now playing for Wycombe?

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I've done a lot of years in junior football and its a common trend for clubs to insist the dad goes with a child as they want to see how big they are and therefore how big the kid is likely to be.
Football in general tends to treat kids as disposable and its a pretty brutal process with so few making it. I tend to advise parents now not to go when the kids get invited to training especially at 9 or 10. If they're good enough they'll still be knocking at 12 and 13. Trouble is the parents and the kids are blinded by the potential and frightened their kid will be left behind.
The best kid I've ever seen signed for a championship side, screwed his education up and got dumped. It's a great shame but I don't see it changing much

Maybe you should recommend the parents do go but wear platforms and a couple of big coats?

So the kid has been told by his parents and mates how good he is , how he's going to make it big time , told how much money he could earn . Bit of a reality check as it will be for hundreds of others , bit of a " Poor Me " write up . Go get a proper education  then decide where your  future lies .

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http://www.grf-football.co.uk/i-told-small-play-football/

GTFC should be ashamed.

Some of the stuff you put on here slagging off the club reminds me of that lad Rattray who used to post on here but got kicked off. Are you Aaron?

For a few years now there has been a trend to talk kids up and not to criticise them or even show the realities of life. This is true of most things, not just football.

If the lad was good enough he would have been kept on. The club would have at the very least given him a decent shot at another position that doesn't require physical stature. John McDermott started out as a weedy midfield kid from Middlesboro who became a weedy winger before being converted to a pacy full back.

It is true that not too many league strikers in recent years have been really small and those that are generally play alongside a target man. It seems unlikely to me that he would have been rejected solely because the side was going to play 4-3-3 because no side would play 4-3-3 for 90 minutes week in and week out.  If this lad was good enough to do a job then a club of higher standing than Cleethorpes Town would have taken him.