Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:37 pm  

bezzerscr wrote:

You do realise that the club being rated as a C academy (most of the rating refer to before Marwan arrived) means we CAN NOT RUN A U 16 TEAM for a period of four years. The ruling also means a reduction in relation to funding for the academy setup

Koukash has been here almost 4 years now hasn't he? How often do these ratings get reviewed and what is the criteria?

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:44 pm  

Four year cycle so our next grading is due in 2019.
The last one covered the period 2010 through 2014

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:46 pm  

Criteria includes education, welfare, facilites etc

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:53 pm  

So basically clubs that didn't have the resources to fund it, get a funding reduction for 4 years. Surely any change of ownership with the criteria fulfilled would prompt an immediate review?

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:03 pm  

Not so much financial more to do with quality but that usually comes down to finance.
Never grasped why if academies are about producing more players, why the rfl punish clubs by taking funding away which only impacts on young players

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:19 pm  

theredshed wrote:

So basically clubs that didn't have the resources to fund it, get a funding reduction for 4 years. Surely any change of ownership with the criteria fulfilled would prompt an immediate review?

You would expect so but it doesn't
Equally Catalans got a top grading before they'd played a game and it won't change for 4 year's.

[Bullseye]

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 5:07 pm  

Is this different to the annual accreditation?

Re: Academy scrapped : Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:01 pm  

TheButcher wrote:

If true, it's a massive mistake.

The academy should have been a priority years ago, before MK came around. We'd be producing decent talent every year and it would be paying for itself. Instead, we never bothered. Impressive that we have managed to produce so many decent youngsters tbh. Imagine what we would be producing if we'd have got this right ten years ago?

MK should have sorted this as his first project instead of buying-in expensive bell-ends.

To scrap it now is madness, and leaves us off worse financially in the long run. You don't produce youngsters you don't get the SC discounts. Current operational rules say you need a percentage of home grown youngsters in your squad, and we'll be left buying-in expensive signings or forking-out for other clubs youngsters.

Makes no sense.

Perhaps is going to run a reserve/A team

Re: Academy scrapped : Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:09 am  

Who knows?

We'll have to wait and see.