Owen Windsor

Happy to share my story of overcoming faecal incompetence and illiteracy any time.

Quoted from Croxton

https://cumbriacrack.com/2022/.....-albion/  

Thanks.

I do think that the mental affect on a young player who has been released from a premiership club is potentially massive. They go from big wages and an expectation of a career in the prem or maybe championship to suddenly having the real possibility that if it doesn't work out for them at their next lg1/lg2 club it could be their professional career over.

Now that we have Brendan Kiernan who is a trained counsellor, and also a mentor to young players released by clubs, as well as Giles Coke, this is the sort of player we could take a punt on as they would have so much support

Quoted from toontown

Thanks.

I do think that the mental affect on a young player who has been released from a premiership club is potentially massive. They go from big wages and an expectation of a career in the prem or maybe championship to suddenly having the real possibility that if it doesn't work out for them at their next lg1/lg2 club it could be their professional career over.

It's easy to forget the lad is 20 years old, at 20 I was out most weekends pissing my wage packet up the wall after watching Town starting to tumble down the divisions, before snacking on a kebab late at night and then rolling out of bed on a Sunday to play five a side. These young lads are expected to be grow mentally very quickly, and not all of them can cope in the way more senior professionals would. Windsor was a kid plucked from the South West, thrust into a Premier League academy in the Midlands and ended up very quickly having three loan moves that clearly didn't turn out for whatever reason. I'm sure finding out he was getting released he probably felt his dream was crumbling. I agree with Paul Simpson, stay up in Carlisle, maybe play a bit, at least then he could put himself in the shop window, but sadly sounds like his head had gone.

I thought early doors he looked decent for us, he took his goal at Cheltenham very well, I very much doubt he will turn up here, I would imagine he will end up more closer to home and at NL / NL South level, either way I hope he gets sorted.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Now that we have Brendan Kiernan who is a trained counsellor, and also a mentor to young players released by clubs, as well as Giles Coke, this is the sort of player we could take a punt on as they would have so much support

Hopefully he takes a leaf out of Kiernan's book and works his way back from rejection.

You'd think he'd be looking at getting himself set up somewhere such as Solihull if he's in that neck of the woods (assuming he can't get a League club around there). They've a good record of developing players who end up in the League, one way or another.

Agreed with what people are saying RE: Windsor. Showed glimpses of potential here whilst not blowing anyone away and his record suggests it’s been similar elsewhere. I’d have no qualms with us taking a punt on a 20 year old with potential, who hasn’t proven himself yet. Could go either way of course, in five years he could be established in the Football League or playing in the tenth tier who knows. Worth a risk as a third/fourth option.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Now that we have Brendan Kiernan who is a trained counsellor, and also a mentor to young players released by clubs, as well as Giles Coke, this is the sort of player we could take a punt on as they would have so much support

Isn’t Sean Scannell doing something in this area too?