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Originally Posted by Number6
A few seasons back I was chatting to one of our youth coaches before a game. In a nutshell he described our development policy as like fishing. The big clubs (Utd. City, L'pool Everton etc) are Japanese factory ships, permanently out there netting all of the fish. They then jettison the offloads but several years later, by which time they become disillusioned and drift out of the game. The smaller clubs are like a local 4-man trawler picking up the stuff the big boys don't want, but still trawling, and quite often they don't make the grade. Then you get the single fisherman who line-catches single fish. These are the independent scouts who see potential and recommend someone that the trawlers don't see as fitting into their net size. A good analogy I thought.
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Something fishy about that.