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Development Centre Suspended

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Development Centre Suspended

This club is a circus being run by incompetent clowns.

My cousin played every Tuesday night down at the Sports Arena. I've not spoken to my Uncle yet but I assume he has got the same email from the club.

Every week he was buzzing to go and play. For him, it wasn't even about getting into the academy, it was more simply to play football infront of coaches that had a PNE badge on their tracksuit.

Sad.

California_PNE said:
This cover girls also?
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I don't think they have a Dev Centre for girls. Think there is a different path.
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
I don't really care about this, I'd prefer they scrapped the entire youth academy completely if I'm being honest. Seems a bit of a shitty way to communicate it though with very little notice provided.
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I’m interested in this. These days pne will clearly be down the list for any young local lads to choose. I know I’d send mine to Rovers ahead of us if they were good enough based on facilities, pathway and opportunity.
So, if we were to scrap youth footy but set up an u23 team instead, would that work?
Proper shame all this, should’ve been number 1 priority over 10 years ago
 
Accountant-led decision. Did we tell you we pay our tax bills on time?

I was at Poolfoot Farm this weekend. Fleetwood's training ground was packed with young players and their families. Families from all over Lancashire sharing their love of football. Groups eating pizza and socialising over a beer. This happens when shrewd owners (no, not perfect) place the community at the heart of an ambitious vision for the future.

We all know how important it is. But community engagement has no immediate positive impact on a spreadsheet. Nothing you can easily track, anyway. And when an owner's ambitions fail to look beyond a spreadsheet, businesses lurch from one resented unconnected piece of expenditure to the next.

Of course, there is a plan ...

We are a business asset (Not a football club) looking to tread water, minimise costs and exist until sold. And in this light Ryan Lowe, whatever his strengths or weaknesses, is overachieving with his hands tied behind his back.
 
Are we able to remain a Category 3 Academy without the U9 to U11 age groups?
 
Tight on the kids this.. although the academy is probably a waste of money. If any decent kids come through they ain't going to be playing for pne are they. Sad but true
 
jumping mouse said:
Accountant-led decision. Did we tell you we pay our tax bills on time?

I was at Poolfoot Farm this weekend. Fleetwood's training ground was packed with young players and their families. Families from all over Lancashire sharing their love of football. Groups eating pizza and socialising over a beer. This happens when shrewd owners (no, not perfect) place the community at the heart of an ambitious vision for the future.

We all know how important it is. But community engagement has no immediate positive impact on a spreadsheet. Nothing you can easily track, anyway. And when an owner's ambitions fail to look beyond a spreadsheet, businesses lurch from one resented unconnected piece of expenditure to the next.

Of course, there is a plan ...

We are a business asset (Not a football club) looking to tread water, minimise costs and exist until sold. And in this light Ryan Lowe, whatever his strengths or weaknesses, is overachieving with his hands tied behind his back.
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Agree with that apart from the bit about Ryan Lowe
 
There is literally zero signs of evolution at this club and it hurts a lot. When i try to look at what exactly PR and co are trying to do with the club its just a cloudy unclear mess, just like looking into a deep abyss.
 
Thracia said:
Are we able to remain a Category 3 Academy without the U9 to U11 age groups?
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Flippin_lump said:
A question that you don't know the answer to. Well I never eh. Shows we are all a work in progress... Yes we are able to keep cat 3
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For clarification, I have this poster on Ignore, principally because of moronic trolling comments like these - I highly recommend it.

My question is basically asking how we can comply with e.g. rule 151 of the EFL Youth Development Rules without the U9 to U11 age groups - and if we can't, does that affect our Categorisation.
 
Thracia said:
For clarification, I have this poster on Ignore, principally because of moronic trolling comments like these - I highly recommend it.

My question is basically asking how we can comply with e.g. rule 151 of the EFL Youth Development Rules without the U9 to U11 age groups - and if we can't, does that affect our Categorisation.
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For clarification, this poster is my son and we've fallen out so he's ostracized me and cut me off from contact, igorned me on here and deleted me on grinder. This man is a berk and I highly recommend calling him a berk.
 
Although there will be devil in the detail this feels like a massive backwards step, not just in developing kids, but also having a link to the city and it's youth footballers.



Over the years I have worked with friends who are North End mad, and their kids are, only for them to end up at Rovers or Blackpool where the kids are better supported.

It's so short sighted. I was going to compare us to a lower league club, but I suspect most non-league clubs have coaching for the youngsters too
 
It really does make me wonder who is responsible for identifying the areas in which ‘cost savings’ are to be implemented. Clearly there is a remit from the ownership to reduce costs as a means of mitigating the ongoing losses, but who is tasked with this remit?

One can only assume that PR is the individual directly below the ownership whom is instructed to identify and implement cost cutting measures. This being the case, why would the ownership not realise that PR himself represents a significant cost which could be cut? A competent accountant could easily subsume PR’s role in respect of financial management. It is just good business practice to utilise someone external when you are looking to restructure a failing business.

We are talking here about a ‘business’ which spent in the region of £30m last year (excluding non-cash costs such as depreciation and amortisation). What is the financial impact of suspending the development centre? Has a cost-benefit analysis been undertaken in relation to this decision? (Minimal and no are obviously the respective answers).

The entire operation is a shambles from top to bottom and unless we can find a new owner in the next 6-12 months, we are well and truly screwed. Oh, and as an aside, if Peter or one of his minions reads this forum, you may want to consider filing the PNE Ltd Confirmation Statement on Companies House, it is now overdue…..
 
Club are trigger happy when it comes to firing out statements that suit an individuals egotistical agenda, but very coy when it comes to explaining this decision. Another strike against the owners and their minions.
 
Was the centre at Cottam? Thought there was some exclusive deal with North end at Cottam also? Where's this leave the towns premium facility
 
25 years or so ago whilst working in the fylde area some friends who's family had historically supported North End asked me about my knowledge of Rovers Youth system which I had gleaned from working in the Blackburn area for some years, and their son had an offer to go there for coaching. I told them that, at that time, Rovers probably had the best academy in the area and was highly thought of in the town. Their son went to Rovers and ultimately did not make it professionally but the whole family continue to go to Ewood to support Rovers.
That is how support is encouraged.
 
Garden Gnome said:
25 years or so ago whilst working in the fylde area some friends who's family had historically supported North End asked me about my knowledge of Rovers Youth system which I had gleaned from working in the Blackburn area for some years, and their son had an offer to go there for coaching. I told them that, at that time, Rovers probably had the best academy in the area and was highly thought of in the town. Their son went to Rovers and ultimately did not make it professionally but the whole family continue to go to Ewood to support Rovers.
That is how support is encouraged.
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So you turned some pne fans into rovers fans. Good work pal.
 
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