SaintRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 21 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said: That's come out of nowhere, seems odd to sell our most promising centre half from the academy but I presume they had their reasons. I suppose Mel's comments about the academy not really producing CB's makes a little more sense with this context but still surprising 7 minutes ago, Topram said: Didn’t expect that, for as well as our academy is doing it doesn’t seem there’s many CBs coming through, I thought he had the most promise Joe Bateman is the player seen as the top prospect among our youth CBs, I believe. Followed by Ethan Wassall, who I think gets a little overlooked (by myself too, sometimes) due to being the managers son. He is a mainstay in the team on performance, rather than nepotism. Max Hunt started really well and caught some eyes but I don't think he was particularly highly regarded of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 minute ago, SaintRam said: Joe Bateman is the player seen as the top prospect among our youth CBs, I believe. Followed by Ethan Wassall, who I think gets a little overlooked (by myself too, sometimes) due to being the managers son. He is a mainstay in the team on performance, rather than nepotism. Max Hunt started really well and caught some eyes but I don't think he was particularly highly regarded of late. Has Bateman been primarily playing as a centre half as of late? Didn't look out of place v Scunthorpe as a fullback so interesting to hear his strongest position is at CB. Admittedly haven't followed the academy as closely recently as i'd have liked to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViewsFromTheMiddle Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said: Has Bateman been primarily playing as a centre half as of late? Didn't look out of place v Scunthorpe as a fullback so interesting to hear his strongest position is at CB. Admittedly haven't followed the academy as closely recently as i'd have liked to You’re thinking of Buchanan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 I thought Hunt would have been the next to make the step up and seemed like the sort of player Cocu wants his defenders to be. Decent defender who coud play the short and long game. Is this what Mel meant about shuffling things about to get players in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Given that Mel Morris said only recently that centre backs develop later, is it a little early to be giving up on a twenty year old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gisby Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Looking at many of the comments in this thread it just goes to show that most of us (me included) no nothing about developing young players and who’s got the potential & who hasn’t ? .... unless we all do and those at DCFC don’t!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 9 minutes ago, angieram said: Given that Mel Morris said only recently that centre backs develop later, is it a little early to be giving up on a twenty year old? I'm not convinced selling them to someone who, I assume, wants to play them is giving up on them. If we were releasing them I'd agree but surely starting for carlisle is more attractive to him than playing for years in a youth setup in which he might be aware there are others ahead of him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViewsFromTheMiddle Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Tbf, when was the last time we let go of an academy player and they stepped back up to this level or above? He might but the record would suggest it’s unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superzak Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Gone to carlisle on a permanant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Clearly the club don’t think he can force his way into our first team either now or in the future so he now has a great opportunity in professional football and hopefully we have a nice sell on if he does very well - good luck to him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 27 minutes ago, ViewsFromTheMiddle said: You’re thinking of Buchanan. Nah right player, wrong game. Must have been one of the pre-season friendlies then but he definitely played RB, and looked okay. Never seen him at centre half though hence my curiosity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Hopefully we got a few pounds to contribute to month end salary costs. If they don’t get paid in January it will be some other Hunt’s fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 10 minutes ago, ViewsFromTheMiddle said: Tbf, when was the last time we let go of an academy player and they stepped back up to this level or above? He might but the record would suggest it’s unlikely. Offrande Zanzala will get to this level, imo; but to your point I certainly agree that at this time none have appeared to be bad decisions. Besides, it's all a tad moot. Even if they went away and became superstars doesn't mean they'd have become superstars if we kept them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, i-Ram said: Hopefully we got a few pounds to contribute to month end salary costs. If they don’t get paid in January it will be some other Hunt’s fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 hours ago, SaintRam said: Max Hunt started really well and caught some eyes but I don't think he was particularly highly regarded of late. Always thought he looked like 'the tall kid' picked to play at the back and then everyone else starting growing up. Think Carlisle is his level, will be happy to be proven wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68 Guns Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, superzak said: Gone to carlisle on a permanant Thanks for the info. Having read the latest posts on this thread I was so grateful for your breaking news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Not every academy product is gonna make our first team, the ones that don't need to make us money via sell-on clauses or fees like Luke Thomas, all good business either way hopefully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneBiblicalKazim Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 4 hours ago, JustOneChrissyMartin said: Don’t think we should play him. Too many players called Max. Told you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramslaar Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, YorkshireRam said: Nah right player, wrong game. Must have been one of the pre-season friendlies then but he definitely played RB, and looked okay. Never seen him at centre half though hence my curiosity He played in the preseason game at pride park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Very odd. just the sort of non-league prospect we should be buying and developing. He seemed to have all the right physical attributes. i was disappointed that he looked a bit naff in some of the early clips i saw but @Curtains told me I was wrong on that. It didn’t really matter as it was early days. however after elsnik I’m starting to regard loans away as a sign the player is probably on his way out. In my view we could have done more with elsnik, Thomas, and maybe walker and guy. it will be interesting to see what happens with Mitchell-Lawson. this seems a strange move because wassall and Bateman don’t look particularly special and at least hunt looked like he had potential. furthermore the u18s don’t look too good at the back either. disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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