Bit of confusion here.   Issacson is at AFC Sudbury.   Wack is talking about Josh Stokes who has gone on loan to Cambridge Utd from Bristol City.

I got that.........in the end! 

Academies and “local lads” don’t work at this level because if they are good enough they will be picked off by bigger clubs, which most are, at the level we’re trying to achieve.  That system would only work if the crowd are happy to simply be better than Wisbech!

To Clubs at our level, there's much more to Academies than just finding a "Gem" to sell on.

For example most, if not all, will be local Lads, so there's a Community involvement.

Also, if handled correctly, there's a fair few Bob to be made out of it as well.

Quote from: Pink on September 15, 2024, 02:07:35 PM

Just for balance, one area I do have direct experience of, is the media aspect and obviously being outside of Lynn, I do have a reliance on this. Very pleased to say that this is continuing to be excellent, with abundant, relevant posts and timely interviews, so hearty thanks and congrats to the media team....please keep it up, it's a huge improvement on recent years.

Except strangely enough they couldn't advertise a price reduction?

Maybe they weren't informed.   

1-0 home win for the Linnets in the Cup.

Att. 622


https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/linnets-progress-in-fa-cup-9383181/



https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/sport/linnets-boss-relieved-with-fa-cup-win-9383184/

Unlikely Rod He just signed Jordan Yong

I still think he may end up in Setch's capable hands.   

Quote from: Mallard on September 10, 2024, 08:53:05 PM

That’s very sad.  Thought he was going to be the first one to take the clear path away that's the Chairman’s vision to first team regular.

Certainly has taken the clear path away.

Sadly with many Clubs at all levels, the pathway is Academy, first team squad, loan, deemed not good enough and then out.

Like him or not but without Adam Lakeland (and Sam Walker) we'd have been relegated last season - no doubt in my mind.

Surely that was more down to Joe's investment coming just in the Nick of time?   

It's a results led business. Simple as that.

If the results are not as expected, you get impatient supporters and more importantly, impatient Chairman (and maybe in our case, an impatient investor).

Nothing new there, except that Managers seem to get replaced far more quickly these days than in years gone by. They rarely get enough time to prove what they can do long term for the Club. And that's down to the demands on them to deliver the goods from day one!

Of course none of us know if Joe is chewing Cleeve's ear off, or if he thinks he's getting value or money or not. We don't know if AL is under any pressure or is being left alone to get on with the job.

I don't know what other Social Media platforms are saying, but I've not seen anything on here that even hints that people don't like Lakeland or Walker or have any real concern about their ability to deliver whats being asked of them. One or two may have an opinion about certain aspects of the games so far, but that's football and not criticism. You get that everywhere and after every game..........Non- league, Football League, Championship or Premiership. Social Media postings is just modern day "terrace talk".

Sport Football News (from about 3 weeks ago).

English ticket prices in Germany would lead to 'a s***storm,' claims Bundesliga CEO Seifert.

Borussia Dortmund season tickets cost just £160 compared to £900 at Arsenal



While English football fans prepare for a protest march over rising ticket prices on Thursday morning, and the Premier League chief Richard Scudamore defends his success in the “bums on seats” business - 80,000 German fans attended the German Super Cup in Dortmund on Wednesday night, most paying around £12 for their ticket - the Bundesliga CEO claims English-priced tickets in Germany would be met with “a s***storm” and “would not be accepted.”

“Bayern Munich makes €30 to €40m less a year in ticket prices than Manchester United,” said Christian Seifert, the Bundesliga chief executive. “Over ten years that is €300m. The league has no power to interfere with this, the clubs decide on their own. But some kind of common sense prevails. But it’s very hard for the clubs. Every year in the magazines you see double pages about how much are the prices of tickets, and bratwurst, and beer and everyone gets in a s***storm if the price of bratwurst goes up by 10 per cent.

“[In the future] you cannot tell, but from today’s perspective, the clubs would not change the strategy. It would not be accepted.”

A season ticket in Borussia Dortmund’s famous “Yellow Wall” stand behind the goal is around £160, while the cheapest at Arsenal is close to £900.


 Around 1,000 of Dortmund’s season ticket holders are British nationals who fly in for the matches.


“For the Yellow Wall, they could easily charge double the price,” Mr Seifert said. “But they choose to have a price that lower social classes can afford.

“They also could sell 90 per cent of their tickets as season tickets but they choose not to. They like to give as many people as possible the chance to go to matches. We see the Bundesliga as an important part of society.

“We have a holistic approach, based on the financial, the game and society. If we don’t have success in all three dimensions, we don’t consider it a success, at all.”

When West Ham host Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, the cheapest ticket is £55, and the most expensive, non-hospitality seat is £77.

When Bayern Munich played Arsenal in last season’s Champions League, the German club subsidised the cost of their travelling fans’ tickets to the Emirates, which were almost £80.


Bayern Munich’s former chairman Uli Hoenness claimed the difference between German and English football was that “the fans are not seen as cows to be milked.”

Mr Scudamore has claimed that Premier League attendance is at 96 per cent, but this does not necessarily reflect the number of people passing through the turnstiles, merely the tickets sold.

With an average attendance of 43,500, the German Bundesliga is the second most attended sporting league of any kind in the world, behind only American Football’s NFL. The Premier League average is 35,500.

It is the second time in a year in a row that English fans have protested over ticket prices. Since last year the television revenues clubs receive from Sky and BT Sport has almost doubled, but it has not led to a decrease in prices, which Match of the Day host Gary Lineker called “just greed.”

Bundesliga clubs spend an average of 39 per cent of their revenues on players’ wages, around half what is spent by the Premier League.