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Has signed for Cleethorpes on a permanent deal, I had no idea he had been released? I heard there was no final youths coming up, I think I always assumed he was the year group below.
Best of luck to the lad. At the very least he has his name firmly placed in the Town history books.
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Pretty sure he was a winger/no10 when he made his debut, yet Clee have announced him as being a left back.
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Doubt if it will ever be beaten
Unless we uncover a lad with Rooney like potential I don’t think we will either, that or we end up with an idiot manager and the club on life support again…
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Pretty sure he was a winger/no10 when he made his debut, yet Clee have announced him as being a left back.
Sometimes happens with young players, they're better facing forwards so start at full back and progress further forwards as they gain experience and confidence. Gareth Bale is the ultimate example.
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Sometimes happens with young players, they're better facing forwards so start at full back and progress further forwards as they gain experience and confidence. Gareth Bale is the ultimate example.
I think we all know that isn't the case here, he was billed as an attacking player and thrust into the first team to try generate a significant transfer fee. If Boyd was as good as a certain someone made out at the time then he wouldn't be signing for Cleethorpes this summer.
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Always baffles me how quiet / lacking of an official statement about 2nd year Youth's - it's the same every season we have to just assume those that haven't got senior contracts, in this season's case none, have been released
Would be nice to see some names though, other clubs include 'youth players who have not been offered senior terms' on their retained lists so it cant be a case of not being allowed to do that due to their age? We just obviously don't?
Like you say, particularly with Boyd looking like being part of this years' released YTs, it would have been nice to hear about it officially from the club
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Completely agree, some of these lads have been with Town since under 8 level so some slight acknowledgment would be a nice gesture. Regarding Boyd, it was a huge surprise to everyone in the youth system when he was called up by Holloway, he’d not even played for the youth team at that point.
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Wasn’t he wanted by some premier league teams or a Scottish premier league team?
Personally I think chucking a 16 year old in to the first team, at any level is a huge gamble. Injuries, mental ability/aptitude and confidence could impact them personally and professionally
Or was it just so Holloway could get 5 more minutes on tv?
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Always baffles me how quiet / lacking of an official statement about 2nd year Youth's - it's the same every season we have to just assume those that haven't got senior contracts, in this season's case none, have been released
Would be nice to see some names though, other clubs include 'youth players who have not been offered senior terms' on their retained lists so it cant be a case of not being allowed to do that due to their age? We just obviously don't?
Like you say, particularly with Boyd looking like being part of this years' released YTs, it would have been nice to hear about it officially from the club
Maybe the club prefer to take a more dignified approach to letting youngest leave without plastering it all over the media, was recently talking to a bloke who had been in the Newcastle academy from the age of 8 and he was telling me of the hurt he felt on being released at the age of 18. He came and had weeks trial at town who he said looked after him so well but there was no money in the budget to sign him. He must have had something about him he played along side Andy caroll he made of course a bitter pill that some never recover f4om
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