Subject: Season 9 Youths

In terms of keeping he's already our best U-21 keeper. Needs some pace and maybe a level of passing.

i'll train him in pace and passing for as long as I can so

Dwayne Potts Solid 13 Diamond
Roy Neville Solid 13 Welchy
Mick Grant Solid 13 Executor
Brent Walshe Good 13 Diamond
Noel Lean Good 13 Madrista
Liam Daley Good 13 Nin
Kaz Barry-Murphy Adequate 13 GB Shane
Shawn Purcell Adequate 13 Gyro
Noel Gleeson Adequate 13 Shaneteam
Kevin Davis Average 13 Turnipfish
Gerry Cash Weak 13 GB Shane
Dennis De Mange Weak 13 Nin

i had great luck today:)))

Wojciech Rydel, age 17
value: 252 000 zł, wage: 3 800 zł
very good form

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


just excellent!:) talent 3,5weeks:)

I had a load of rubbish but my decent youths turn up next week i think. I did get a lot of pops from my trainees though. If Jonathan Holt doesnt make the national team in his career it will be my fault. He's 18, valued at 160k while only having weak stamina and has a talent of 3.5.

Michael May, age: 17
value: 39 750 €, wage: 725 €
club: Super Athletico, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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

For sale EUR1.00

From excellent(?!?!?):

Dwayne Potts, age: 18
value: 47 750 €, wage: 825 €
club: Ulster Emmigrants, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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


I keep getting guffters like this. Had been excellent for about 3 or 4 weeks too :(


Next one better be better.......


From very good:

Brent Walshe, age: 17
value: 53 750 €, wage: 875 €
club: Ulster Emmigrants, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


poor stamina, tragic keeper
tragic pace, unsatisfactory defender
solid technique, solid playmaker
poor passing, poor striker


Sweet, fekkin miles better

Noel Lean, age: 19
value: 58 000 €, wage: 950 €
club: Lucan United, country: Ireland
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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

from solid
anyone??

From Excellent

Roy Neville, age 19
value: 73 250 €, wage: 1 100 €
very good form


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

I think "depressing" sums up this bunch.
The more the youth system is tightened up, the more it benefits the big nations. I wonder why the devs did this, just as Poland are starting to be challenged by other nations O_o

I wouldn't go too far down the conspiracy route ;) I think its more an effort to sort out the economy like Hattrick did.

I don't think the changes are as big as you think they are either; like I said I have a good few high talent juniors on the way and I've done ok in the last 2 seasons. Also, squads are improving so it could be that youth pulls are perceived as not being as good as they used to be.

Aye i know. I'm not the greatest fan of the devs as is well known.
There's no doubt the squads are improving but i can look back 3 or 4 seasons and say that had you got an excellent pull or better, you would have at least got a reasonable player out of it 80% of the time. Thats certainly not the case anymore. I used to look forward to Excellent pulls, now i barely take any notice unless they're formidable or higher because Excellents tend to have major weaknesses most of the time.

Quickly trawling through the old youth threads there doesn't seem too much of a change in quality.Also, players don't have to be monsters to end up NT quality. Here's a good example- he wouldn't exactly get you too excited if you saw this as a formidable pull today but he's ended up a NT player.

Andrew McCauley, age: 19
value: 85 250 €, wage: 1 200 €
club: Super Athletico, country: Ireland
very good form

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


Andrew McCauley, age: 23
value: 554 250 €, wage: 7 175 €
club: Super Athletico, country: Ireland
good form, excellent tactical discipline

Statistics:
Official matches: 55
Goals in official matches: 0
Assists in official matches: 1

National Team member
Matches for national team: 1
Goals for national team: 0
Assists for national team: 0
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I disagree. McCauley clearly has potential when he was pulled. Especially if it was at the start of the season.
The problem with recent pulls comes when they're being pulled with Tragic or Hopeless pace or technique and it's happening fairly regularly.

Stop picking on my players !! :) He ended up as an NT player due to his brilliant training but in fairness he only ever played one NT game a long while ago.
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He was just the first I saw that I recognised. I forgot to mention the ace training he got but I thought that was implied with him being an Athletico player ;)