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the 1967 British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village said:
In that case tell us how you know Ginnelly and Simpson wouldn't have made it? They were never given the chance but meanwhile the manager persevered with under performing players.

To quote Ginnelly on Alex Neil
"He told me no.matter how well I played I wouldn't be selected for the first team," you, therefore tell me what that would have done to Ginnelly's mindset?

You are the type of fan who all those years ago would have been arguing the youngsters like Tony Morley, Mel Holden, Mick Baxter, Steve Doyle, Mark Lawrenson, Graham Houston and many others didn't have it in them. I had seen them in the reserves and knew they had it.
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You don't know until after the fact, that's the whole point. Whereas you seem to be obsessed with the idea that all of them will make it, and if they don't, it must be somebody else's fault.

They're a gamble. We should take those gambles because the rewards are worth it. But some gambles will lose. That's just how it works.

I didn't know ahead of time Simpson or Ginnelly wouldn't make it. But by the looks of their career since failing to make the grade here, they won't. That doesn't make it incorrect to sign them, but the way you approach the idea makes you look a blinkered fool.

I'm literally all for giving youth a chance and trying to develop it as best we can. I'd rather we spent money on a U23 squad to maximise our investments, or a better recruitment team, because that's a much more frugal way of improving the club than by wasting money on first team no hopers. But that's down to Hemmings, not me, and not any manager.
 
the 1967 British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village said:
Keasden tell me what the "utter bollox" being spoken is? Would that be the "Trader Concept" which has just delivered Brentford to the Premiership?
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You know Brentford got there by using state of the art analytics, right? That's their whole big thing, winning at the recruitment side by using the analytics that you love to decry? That's how they're able to cover so many players in so many nations?
 
JK said:
Sorry to disappoint folks but I believe this is one of AW's associates rather than the man himself. 😉
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HunterLionheart said:
You know Brentford got there by using state of the art analytics, right? That's their whole big thing, winning at the recruitment side by using the analytics that you love to decry? That's how they're able to cover so many players in so many nations?
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Would that be the same analytic s that just saw us lose out on Baah and Gomes while sanctioning the signing of Neil Collins MkIi I.e. Lindsay?
 
the 1967 British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village said:
Would that be the same analytic s that just saw us lose out on Baah and Gomes while sanctioning the signing of Neil Collins MkIi I.e. Lindsay?
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I imagine Watford did use some level of analytics yeah. They're a pretty smart club.

Weird how you're deciding that Lindsay is to blame on Beet though. He's not our head of recruitment, Ridsdale is.
 
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