Any news on a new striker??????

Quoted from monkeyboy

Shouldnt we also be trying to bring through youth? fed up with lets bring in attitude that has seen little success, bout time we brought our own talent through and actually give them some games.

I'm sure we'd all like to see young players come through, but if they are not good enough, they are not good enough. If we filled the team with young lads for the sake of it, then we'd be another Orient. Fans would soon start complaining that we were doing stuff on the cheap. How many local lads have made a career in the football league lately, whether on our books or someone else's?

I think Akheem Rose has the potential to step up to the first team. We should have him involved with the majority of the pre-season friendlies to see how he's progressing

Quoted from Stew0_0

I think Akheem Rose has the potential to step up to the first team. We should have him involved with the majority of the pre-season friendlies to see how he's progressing

I hope so and i hope Woods can do for us what he did for Walsall but it takes time and investment; something we didn't have for 6 years in non league.

Quoted from ginnywings

I'm sure we'd all like to see young players come through, but if they are not good enough, they are not good enough.

Do we give these lads enough chances/game time to show that they are good enough though?

Last pre-season, in general, the players who received the most plaudits were the 3 youngsters, and then all were subsequently not given any game time when the season started and farmed out on loan  

I'm not sure what the answer is but we seem to spend a significant sum of money on bringing youth players through and rarely see any return on that investment.    

Quoted from Quagmire

Do we give these lads enough chances/game time to show that they are good enough though?

Last pre-season, in general, the players who received the most plaudits were the 3 youngsters, and then all were subsequently not given any game time when the season started and farmed out on loan  

I'm not sure what the answer is but we seem to spend a significant sum of money on bringing youth players through and rarely see any return on that investment.    

Unless they are exceptional, then probably not. Managers are reluctant to risk youngsters with their job on the line, unless they are expressly encouraged to do so. Some clubs have to play the youth to survive financially and some of those will exceed expectations, but given the choice, most managers will sign tried and trusted pro's. Most youth players of most clubs get released and either drift out of the game, or drop down the leagues to prove themselves and work their way back up again- Dayle Southwell being a good example.

I wouldn't be surprised if Slade is in for David Mooney who was at Southend. I have no inside knowledge though.

Yep, could see that. He was at Orient with Slade, looked a decent player in the play offs for them  3 years ago. Big and strong target man.

If he's a striker called Mooney, sign him up now, if for no other reason that he'll probably score against us if we don't.

Hope we are in for mooney. Excellent video on youtube of his 50 goals for orient. Looks very handy with his head and both feet. Worked with Slade before so who knows??

I don't expect to see many youngsters involved in the early part of the season but that may change as time goes on. Personally I have not seen enough of them but would assume the lads that went out on loan will be better for the experience. Saw Rose in a couple of things thought he looked ok but had a fair amount of growing and bulking up to do.