ming the merciless":20gn083q said:
Fantastic work. No doubt it will pay off and some talented youngsters will be identified. Not only that but it will raise the clubs image with the youngsters which can never hurt.
Schools however are awful organizations that will do absolutely nothing to help and support talented young players. Sore subject I'm afraid for me. If you are good at maths science you can get all the help and support you want from them. If a lad is exceptional at football they don't want to know. Grr
Just throwing this out there, but is it the job of a school to produce footballers? Schools get judged on grades, and as far as I'm aware, PE isn't graded (or at least it wasn't when I was at school). There are exceptions to the rule, such as Reuben's former school, for instance, where the opposite happens and you don't get anywhere
unless you're exceptional at sport, but there aren't too many of those around.
As a parent, I'd be a bit concerned if my son's school was prioritising sport over English and Maths or whatever. I take him to football coaching on Saturdays, but during the week he goes to school to develop his mind, not his stepovers.
Edited to add: Just in case anyone misinterprets what I've said, I do think that sport is a hugely important part of the curriculum, and good on Argyle for getting involved. I just don't want to see our schools copy the American model, where talented sportsmen can pretty much breeze through school knowing that they'll end up with a sports scholarship to a university.