by Dave » 15 Jul 2015, 17:35
Robbie Herrera was one of the youth team coach's, Craig Easton was head coach with the college link up course. Yes it is shame, but then it's a shame when anyone falls victim to restructuring, finding themselves out of work, personally hope they all find alternative employment soon.
Academies tend to have maximum squad numbers, I doubt that many of the players released by TUFC would have been taken on by ECFC/PAFC as their academy squads would have already been set, only in the case of a real talented player above the standard of what those clubs already had, would one of our former academy player (8-16 year olds) been taken on, I suspect the majority would have been offered development/performance centre places by those clubs.
Not entirely sure either of the other two Devon clubs would have had vacancies, no secret Yeovil are re-starting theirs could be opportunities there for some of our ex-coaching staff, especially with Geoff Harrop now working for YTFC ( as I posted couple of months ago
) part of a wider problem could be, as more academies come under pressure regards lower league club financing, for example, should Cheltenham fail to gain promotion, will their academy survive in it's current form, maybe not, further restricting academy places for young players and coaching vacancies.
Part of the problem here regards keeping Robbie Herrera as a first team coach, is the budget, there would have no point closing the academy, and then re-deploying coach's into the first team , where's the saving, suspect Robbie will probably end up at Yeovil if they haven't already filled all academy coaching vacancies.
The Likes of Robbie, Matt Williams and others may be better starting their own football development coaching school/holiday football clubs etc and linking themselves with professional club academies.
Robbie Herrera was one of the youth team coach's, Craig Easton was head coach with the college link up course. Yes it is shame, but then it's a shame when anyone falls victim to restructuring, finding themselves out of work, personally hope they all find alternative employment soon.
Academies tend to have maximum squad numbers, I doubt that many of the players released by TUFC would have been taken on by ECFC/PAFC as their academy squads would have already been set, only in the case of a real talented player above the standard of what those clubs already had, would one of our former academy player (8-16 year olds) been taken on, I suspect the majority would have been offered development/performance centre places by those clubs.
Not entirely sure either of the other two Devon clubs would have had vacancies, no secret Yeovil are re-starting theirs could be opportunities there for some of our ex-coaching staff, especially with Geoff Harrop now working for YTFC ( as I posted couple of months ago ;-) ) part of a wider problem could be, as more academies come under pressure regards lower league club financing, for example, should Cheltenham fail to gain promotion, will their academy survive in it's current form, maybe not, further restricting academy places for young players and coaching vacancies.
Part of the problem here regards keeping Robbie Herrera as a first team coach, is the budget, there would have no point closing the academy, and then re-deploying coach's into the first team , where's the saving, suspect Robbie will probably end up at Yeovil if they haven't already filled all academy coaching vacancies.
The Likes of Robbie, Matt Williams and others may be better starting their own football development coaching school/holiday football clubs etc and linking themselves with professional club academies.
