Subject: Youth Monitoring

Seeing as he's 18 and a Very Good striker i wouldn't bet on the price being low.
I like the 3 Good trainees you have near the end there. They could be very useful.
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Phil Dunleavy solid 2
Keith Murphy solid 3
Jason Carson average 4
Trevor Zounos very good 8
Jeremy Coady good 8
Ian Reidy adequate 9
Graham Keanrey good 10
Dwayne Gavin good 18
Mike Shelton average 18
Jeremy Tillbrant very good 20
James Elce good 27
Johnny Cuffe average

I'm looking forward to Tillbrant. He had a talent of 4 weeks when i had a formidable coach.

I think the best juniors are ones that come out at something like average 6 weeks. Because they're in the junior school for a short time you have a good chance of them being 16-17 and if you have time to assess this talent you can pick one out to train up who'll overtake 20 yo out standings pretty quickly. Matthews, for example, was only an adequate youth :) My problem is that I never seem to get any like that with talent....

Here's what gets me - say he comes in at average 6, then at 3 weeks he pops to adequate.

How do you tell his talent then? I presume when they first appear, they can be at any sub-level? As far as I can wor it, you need to wait for them to level-up, and then for them to level-up again.

So by my reckoning, if an average 6 had a talent of 4 weeks, it would be very hard to actually deduce this. I suspect I might be missing something

Nope thats exactly how it is.
Although you could train them after they've been pulled to find out.
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It can be quite hard to pin their talent down alright. Especially as young players like that tend to train really quickly anyway.
If you start regular friendlies you have potentially 5 more training slots to try guys out, then as you get better and better trainees you can cut out the chaff. Their are some good programs like Sokkerviewer out there that you can track your training with -plus is also quite handy for it :)

Here's mine at the moment.

Junior Skill level Weeks

William McGuinness outstanding 1 Reject
Gordon Foran very good 1 Reject
Conor Tobin solid 3 Reject
Gary Campbell adequate 5 Reject
Jake Bell adequate 7 Reject
Mick Clery adequate 7 Reject
Joe Cashin good 8 Reject
Joe Swift average 9 Reject
Darren Chawla adequate 12 Reject
Mark Power solid 14 Reject
Adrain Saha adequate 16 Reject
Alex Cody average 17 Reject
Matt Keegan adequate 24 Reject
Gerard Dealhunty average 27 Reject
Alan Rice good 29 Reject

and mine... havent got round to minitoring when they pop yet

Rob Monaghan adequate 2
Rick Zounos adequate 2
Jimmy Gill solid 3
Simon Henderson adequate 5
Matthew McArdle good 6
Paddy Richardson very good 9
Danny McDermott average 10
Wayne Webb solid 10
Anthony Fisher solid 11
George Elce solid 14
Johan Kealy adequate 15
Glen Cobey adequate 16
Dennis Grehan good 17
Rick Stewart adequate 17
Andy MacTause very good 17
Robbie Deegan good 19
Phil Place average 21
Thomas Brogan average 27
Keith Treanor good 27
Simon Fransson good 28
Stephen Charles average 28

pulled from excellent and selling cheap since i dun feel like training up so many skills. not sure how quick he'll pop, have lost track of figures

Corey McAleese, age 20
value: 81 000 €, wage: 1 175 €
very good form

tragic stamina,
unsatisfactory pace,
tragic technique,
very good passing,
tragic keeper
very good defender
tragic playmaker
adequate striker


pulled from very good. gonna give this lad bitta defence training

Dave Draper, age: 17
value: 50 000 €, wage: 825 €
club: GB Rovers, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

hopeless stamina, tragic keeper
weak pace, good defender
good technique, average playmaker
unsatisfactory passing, tragic striker

From outstanding.

William McGuinness, age: 18
value: 74 500 €, wage: 1 075 €
club: Killygarry FC, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


average stamina, tragic keeper
hopeless pace, average defender
very good technique, good playmaker
average passing, adequate striker

From Very Good

Gordon Foran, age 20
value: 67 000 €, wage: 1 025 €
very good form


tragic stamina,
solid pace,
unsatisfactory technique,
adequate passing,
hopeless keeper
very good defender
tragic playmaker
hopeless striker

I put a bid in on McAleese. I won't be around at the deadline though so I'll probably miss out.

I like McGuiness but i notice he's not up for sale. Not that i'd be able to afford him anyway.He looks like one to keep an eye on anyway.
Out of the players we've had this season i like

Colm Colleary
Steven Fisher
Stephen Mcmillan
Murray Lally
Brendan Brumpton
Peter Lockerbie
Kevin Foxton
William McGuinness

There are a few others with potential

I'm considering training him myself. I have the problem now that I have trainable players in both midfield and defence and to get the best out of them I would need to concentrate on one or the other.

This is my 'Formidable' pull

Jason Hughes, age: 18
value: 85 500 €, wage: 1 200 €
club: evilbunny united, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


poor stamina, hopeless keeper
average pace, hopeless defender
hopeless technique, good playmaker
very good passing, good striker

I like him as well