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Quoted from Rams62

I wish I could get him to have a plan b) m8, but he has no interest in school work; football, golf and girls. That's about it.

Me too apart from golf! lol

Thank you to everyone for your advice and inside info.
We wrote to Burnley & Bolton - no response.
We took him to football cv trials at Sheff Utd and Man City last season. Me and his mum try not to view him with rose-tinted specs.In fact I am probably his harshest critic, however, he played in the under 15s last season and my honest opinion is he could have done the under 18s game as well and nobody would have known the difference.
We got interest from Sheff Weds, Leeds Utd., Barnsley, Huddersfield, Grimsby and Stalybridge Celtic.
He has trials coming up at Preston NE and Doncaster Rovers, plus I hope a week's trial at a Midlands club at half term.
I think (I hope) he can get an apprenticeship. I think he will progress rapidly with the right mentor to take him under his wing.I've noticed at school he responds better to male teachers; responds better to me than his mother too.He is 6' 2" tall and still growing; lean, good muscles and very agile.Catching crosses, punching, shot - stopping and one on one situations are his strong areas. Foot work and goal kicks need improvement.
Whatever.
Grimsby need to get back to the league. You must be the biggest club in the conference, surely?

Apart from Luton, I'd agree with that. Counts for very little though.

All the best whatever your lad does.

I believe we 'blooded' young Andy Pettinger in the 2003/4 season when Aidan Davison got injured/suspended and before we brought in that keeper from Hull (I forget his name now... he did well - Northern Irish bloke).

I thought Pettinger looked perfectly at home in goal for Town's first team after waiting a little while to get his chance. I don't believe he put a foot wrong but like most managers say, it wasn't the right time to be playing a youngster, i.e. in a losing team that was struggling against relegation.

We've had a few youth keepers given the odd chance in pre-season friendlies only to never see them again.

It is a tough route for keepers, limited opportunities, many teams at lower levels do not even have a keeper on the bench now. I think the youth and goalkeeping coaches at GTFC are pretty good and the youth team has performed well in recent times. Despite this first team opportunites are restricted and the club cannot afford to give young players a contract if they are not going to perfom in the first team. Down to funds as so many decisions are I am afraid. Good luck to your lad though but he really needs to think of a plan B

Quoted from Rams62

Thank you to everyone for your advice and inside info.
We wrote to Burnley & Bolton - no response.
We took him to football cv trials at Sheff Utd and Man City last season. Me and his mum try not to view him with rose-tinted specs.In fact I am probably his harshest critic, however, he played in the under 15s last season and my honest opinion is he could have done the under 18s game as well and nobody would have known the difference.
We got interest from Sheff Weds, Leeds Utd., Barnsley, Huddersfield, Grimsby and Stalybridge Celtic.
He has trials coming up at Preston NE and Doncaster Rovers, plus I hope a week's trial at a Midlands club at half term.
I think (I hope) he can get an apprenticeship. I think he will progress rapidly with the right mentor to take him under his wing.I've noticed at school he responds better to male teachers; responds better to me than his mother too.He is 6' 2" tall and still growing; lean, good muscles and very agile.Catching crosses, punching, shot - stopping and one on one situations are his strong areas. Foot work and goal kicks need improvement.
Whatever.
Grimsby need to get back to the league. You must be the biggest club in the conference, surely?

Is he single?  

Quoted from moosey_club

Is he single?  

LOL!!!, No, but he IS 15....  

Quoted from Biccys

LOL!!!, No, but he IS 15....  

i was asking for my niece  

My view is that if he is good eniough,he will come to the fore wherever he ends up and he could do a lot worse than come here.We have a very good youth team who seem to always go far in the youth competitions and won the thing not that long back.I assume youth games are scouted vigourously,so potential stars will be spotted.

A few people have commented that we don't have many players coming through from youth level but you could say that about any team.Very very few make it to pro and i believe we are second only to Leicester in producing players that go on to have a pro career,so i wouldn't be too hasty in dismissing our club.

Good luck to the lad wherever he goes.

Quoted from Biccys

LOL!!!, No, but he IS 15....  

actually........so your protest is on grounds of age not gender......15 being too high or too low? Growing tired of that closet Biccys?