Academy Awarded Category One Status (merged)

[HawkTheSeagull]

Brilliant news !!

 

[supaseagull]

Premier league facilities...league 1 players!

 

[warmleyseagull]

You know that was a jokey swipe at the moaners, don't you?

Assumed so. Jokey swipe at jokey swipe.

 

[Hyperion]

Don't out-swipe my swiping

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Not just great because we can poach other teams youths, but the other cat1's can't pinch our's presumably!

 

[dazzer6666]

Very big deal for the long term. Outstanding work by all concerned. Will happily put up with a couple of seasons of mid-tableness anticipating what this might mean longer term.

 

[red star portslade]

Not just great because we can poach other teams youths, but the other cat1's can't pinch our's presumably!

No one can take our Garath Barry, but we can now take every other ****ers not graded. Happy days.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Do palarse have category one?

 

[Mackenzie]

Do palarse have category one?

Two I think, although they were looking to try and upgrade last year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2286174/Crystal-Palace-upgrade-youth-academy.html

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Do palarse have category one?

Don't think so , we need to be cherry picking from these types of club as the compo they get is virtually nothing.

 

[Mackenzie]

I think these are the category 1 academies ....Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Reading, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby and BRIGHTON.

 

[red star portslade]

I think these are the category 1 academies ....Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Reading, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby and BRIGHT

I think It stinks.

 

[Dougie]

Don't think so , we need to be cherry picking from these types of club as the compo they get is virtually nothing.

if you do fast track them to your first team soggy .

 

[Mackenzie]

I think It stinks.

What, the ability to wonder into another clubs academy and say I'll have that one, that one and that one?

 

[red star portslade]

What, the ability to wonder into another clubs academy and say I'll have that one, that one and that one?

No! As a lover of football. Wondering how the unfortunate clubs who can't provide the Cat A facilities will survive - if they are not able to produce their own talent to sell on to survive.

It stinks.

 

[Mackenzie]

No! As a lover of football. Wondering how the unfortunate clubs who can't provide the Cat A facilities will survive - if they are not able to produce their own talent to sell on to survive.

It stinks.

Yeah its a pretty unfair system, we've been very fortunate to get the top rating.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

if you do fast track them to your first team soggy .

Your academy starlets will love moving to the Albion and training at Lancing , there is proper hotel standard accommodation instead of a 8 berth caravan.

 

[Hillian1]

Sad times.

We are now part of everything I despise in football.

 

[AZ Gull]

Yeah its a pretty unfair system, we've been very fortunate to get the top rating.

Fortunate suggests it was a random occurrence; I'm sure there has been a great amount of hard work, by a large number of people, to achieve the rating.

Of course, what IS fortunate is that we have a very rich chairman who is a genuine fan of the club and who has a long-term vision of owning a financially self-sustaining club.

 

[red star portslade]

Your academy starlets will love moving to the Albion and training at Lancing , there is proper hotel standard accommodation instead of a 8 berth caravan.

So why did those brother's from Hove Rivervale choose Charlton over Brighton? I'm telling you now, It's a ****ing disgrace the younger one Is at Charlton. Not seen a kid better.