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1 minute ago, NorfolkG said:

But he has to pay coaches, etc. It’s very cheap for what it is.

He can’t give it away.

I'm not suggesting he should, but he has commented on the cost of football for children and the fact that it is becoming a middle-class sport, whilst running his own academy that would not be affordable for many families.

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5 minutes ago, Gaz of the 20/20 said:

I'm not suggesting he should, but he has commented on the cost of football for children and the fact that it is becoming a middle-class sport, whilst running his own academy that would not be affordable for many families.

I think what he is charging - let’s keep in mind it is childcare, an experience and skill development combined - is very good. I am surprised the week price is that cheap. The coaches can’t be getting much.

I get that he is making a point about taking football away from certain groups and this could be construed as a counter-argument. I just don’t think it is.

Going to a soccer academy, in my opinion, is very different to being locked out of publicly-owned sports parks - that is an actual scandal.

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The coaches being boys who killie let go in last few years. Hawkshaw,Syme,McLean,Johnston and Lidington. I’d imagine Boyd will give them a lump some each at the start. I also think he will be trying to get his courses well known before expanding to Glasgow and bigger communities. 

Regarding his course it’s probably a decent deal. There will always unfortunately be people who can’t afford it. 

In terms of hiring pitches to play etc that is nonsense. We don’t need to have organised fun where people need to pay to play! Kids would always play on the streets and local parks or any bit of grass available.

Now kids have a wide range of technology available to them that they can choose instead. This encourages “laziness” and them to stay in house on their £1000 iPad or £400 PlayStation (£40 per game not included). Not socialising with pals or expressing themselves. 

Instead of kicking a £5 football about in the streets. Jumping fences to get ball back or leg under motors scooping the ball out. That now is almost considered dangerous in society. The possibility of kid being hurt or abducted by some sort of paedo or maniac etc. Parents now want their kids in eye shot pretty much all the time. 

The young boys who would run about from 9 am till 9 pm kicking a ball into gardens and off walls no longer seems to exist. 

When we then do find a proper street footballer who’s been brought up playing in park etc, we say he is too small or doesn’t offer enough defensively. Instead of trying to accommodate this rough gem we use some of our SFA coaches/developed athlete robots who couldn’t kick your arse but can run like Mo farah and be as big and strong as Anthony Joshua.

That wee guy ends up demoralised knowing he is the best technical player and is on the bench behind a less able machine. He gets released having been sold the dream that he would be a star in his mid teens. 

Then having chucked school early can’t cope with working life and enters our other society issue drug and alcohol abuse which has probably cost us many right good players over the years. That becomes the priority over football for many at a certain age. 

This isn’t saying that these issues don’t also happen in Belgium or Serbia or Wales. But they are bringing real star quality through and we are lagging way behind. Now is the time to put a total restructure in place get rid of the dinosaurs and have 5 years of blooding a new generation of versatile and exciting young talent. 

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1 hour ago, Gaz of the 20/20 said:

I think Kris Boyds comment regarding football becoming so expensive for kids would hold a lot more weight if he wasn't charging for the Kris Boyd Academy which was exactly the same situation as what he was critical of.

*edit never saw the article above which just about sums it up

Yes, to an extent. But camps are one-off things and are essentially used as sport-specific childminding during school holidays because parents can’t cover the whole period themselves. The childminding cost would exist in some form anyway.

Boyd was clearly talking about week-in week-out participation in a team, which costs a monthly fee plus often extras for kit. 

They’re clearly different things. And the Record, if we had any vaguely decent journalists left, would be able to recognise that. 

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2 hours ago, skygod said:

I have no idea what race has to do with it. Kids from poor communities can be of any race.

You seem to equate "black communities" in England with poverty but there is a substantial black middle class.

This sounds like an argument from the 1980s.

 

I would suggest our lack of physicality has a lot to do with race. Nearly every team we play is physically bigger than our midgets. 

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1 hour ago, struass said:

The team he picked last night would struggle to beat most SPFL sides. That’s the worry. We have an average at best bunch of players 

No excuse about our players ,plenty of EPL players in the team plus supposedly the 2 best players at Septic.Losing goals for fun and look disorganised  that's down to the manager .Wales ,Ireland and Northern Ireland manage a lot better than us with a smaller pool of players to pick from.

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