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Anyone watch Soccer Saturday earlier?

 

Did Stelling do anything when James brown scored for Gateshead?

 

The panel jokingly asked him if he was going to do anything, he said he didn't care because he didn't play for Hartlepool anymore.

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Anyone watch Soccer Saturday earlier?

 

Did Stelling do anything when James brown scored for Gateshead?

 

The panel jokingly asked him if he was going to do anything, he said he didn't care because he didn't play for Hartlepool anymore.

 

Oh well, at least they won

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Ian Harte was being outpaced by Nol Solano 10 years ago - God knows how he's still a Premier League player.

 

On a similar note, Nicky Shorey has seemingly been around since the Dark Ages.

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Weimann looks like a good support striker type, but keep seeing him scuff easy chances

 

That's because he's an average footballer.

 

Desperately average. Another overrated Villa youngster - just like that Albrighton a couple year ago, Delfouneso, Bannan etc. Even Agbonlahor.

 

Best of an average bunch. Not that Lambert looks as if he has much choice. Highlights the plight of English football at youth level when Villa can field almost an entirely Academy built team, and not one of those players looks as though they have a future.

 

Not exactly. They're young, certainly, and more Academy players than most, but only five of the players they used yesterday (including the subs) were Academy. Clark, Baker, Bannan, Agbonlahor, Weimann. Lambert has actually bought quite a few players, it's just that they're young, and have struggled to adapt to the Premiership. Five of them (Vlaar, Bennett, Lowton, Westwood and Benteke) were bought last summer, and Sylla in January.

 

Of the five Academy products, I wouldn't say they don't have a future. It's just that so many of them have been thrown in together at the same time, partly because of injuries to more experienced players. Ideally you want to bring them in one or two at a time, with more experienced players to guide them. They haven't really had that, particularly in defence. Sides with bigger and better squads, like Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal etc, can afford to use them occasionally, such as in the Cups, or send those players out on loan. It was much easier for us to transition, say, Caulker, Walker, Naughton and Jake Livermore into the first team because of this.

 

English football at youth level isn't too bad, and I hope more and more clubs are concentrating on technical skills rather than physicality, and winning. The level of coaching is certainly improving. The problem is that the better youth players are being concentrated in a handful of clubs, and that is being exacerbated by our loan system. Thus you get a situation where one side in a crucial relegation battle brings on a Spurs player to try to make the difference, and shortly afterwards, a Spurs player scores the decisive goal for the opposition. I hate that (while simultaneously being kinda chuffed).

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Weimann looks like a good support striker type, but keep seeing him scuff easy chances

 

That's because he's an average footballer.

 

Desperately average. Another overrated Villa youngster - just like that Albrighton a couple year ago, Delfouneso, Bannan etc. Even Agbonlahor.

 

If you're going to pick on one of the younger playres we have and highlight his averageness, you've picked on totally the wrong one. Weimann has been superb for us at times this season.

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In the Liverpool game Steve Gerrard got away a ridiculous headed challlenge on Bale, didn't even get a yellow, which it should have been in the least.

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