BristolDon wrote:
Look at the clubs that use non-league players, and see how much of their academy (if the have one) they use.
Now look at players who use their academies and see how many non-league players they use.
It's rare for a club to have enough funds to substantially invest in both areas, and so each club has to prioritise which area they want.
A valid sounding point. Although as most people don't know whether these players have non-league experience or not without checking each one individually, then I don't know how accurate it actually is.
As regards us, the non-league signings would not be instead of our academy players, or loans, they'd be instead of some, not all, of the bigger wage signings that we make such as Nicholls, Wootton, Walsh, Cisse, Agard, Sow, McGrandles, Upson, Gilbey, Aneke, Pawlett, Muirhead, Nesbitt, etc.
We don't
just have academy players and loans, we do buy in quite a lot as well.
And all of those dropped down from higher divisions and so presumably have good wages, and some are signed for transfer fees. And they're not all successes. Just like not all the loans or academy players are; and like not all the non-league signings would be.
But what's wrong with utilising the non-league market when we see fit instead of just one or two of the players dropping down from higher divisions. We'd still get some of those. And loans. And academy players. We'd just be opening ourselves up to consider a previously ignored group of players, without having any bigger of a squad or any bigger wage bill, probably a little lower.
Anyway, I can see that my suggestion seems to annoy some / most of you for some reason, and I've had my say, so you'll be glad to here that I'll let it drop.
i think we oughta look at non league players what’s the harm in scouting the national league, or even the north south national, there has to be some capable players down there we could be missing out on
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