Taylor1996 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Researching it, it would appear that he was in the standby list for Wales u21 back in November. (Grandmother is from Newport) Banks is knocking on the door at Crystal Palace and he's contributed 6 goals in 11 matches in EPL2. Looks like we might lose a good young player. 20 year old, on the fringes of an EPL team. Apparently, that isn't deemed good enough to get into the Scotland u21 squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theabsentee Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 After reading this & doing the research I'm pretty angry. He really does sound a extremely promising player but should we be at all surprised with the coaching staff the sfa employ for our younger groups. Scott Gemmill & even Billy Stark seem to have job security no matter what results they bring. I watched that must win under 21 game against Greece (albeit on a Sunday league level pitch) & it was blatantly obvious early on we lacked creativity but Gemmill kept Ferguson in a holding role for the full game & had Turnbull on the bench until the 72nd minute. Banks didn't even make that squad even though he was already performing very well & even captaining Crystal Palace's PL2 team. I'm still pretty pissed about losing Harry Souttar who could potentially have solved one half of what's been a team weakness for 20 years & now this. Sorry this is long winded(I'm rather well oiled😉) but surely if we can be so well informed about youngsters coming through then it's the least we could expect from the paid coaches.. Their job isn't just about picking & coaching the younger groups it's about taking a personal interest & encouraging their development. I find it hard to believe a young lad born & bred in Scotland who has already been representing us, came through our performance schools would be considering defecting to Wales if Gemmill, Mackay, Stark or whoever had been in regular touch with him & taking a interest in his welfare as well as his performances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 (edited) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NkT_CCcjrs (Watch from 2:50) I've seen him being interviewed. He seems like a nice, grounded, lad. So I don't blame him in the least if he takes up the offer from Wales. I agree. In the Greece match we had Middleton (Gerrard is so impressed by him as a winger that he's talking of converting him into a left back...) And McLellan. No disrespect to those two, but to be knocking on the first team door, at 20, supersedes their achievements. With no one creative on the bench. Then we have the u19s, with Kai Kennedy, who looked out of his depth at Championship level. Fine, he's only 18, but still. It's too early to judge, but if Banks does become a mainstay at EPL level, Gemmil, Stark and Mackay have failed us, yet again. At full level we have Fraser and Forrest and no one else. Johnstone is there, but his career has been blighted by injury... This far. And don't even get me started on Harry Souttar. With our luck he'll turn into a Tartan Japp Stam*. *Not saying that he definitely will. Edited January 13, 2021 by Taylor1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudScot Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 4 hours ago, Taylor1996 said: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NkT_CCcjrs (Watch from 2:50) I've seen him being interviewed. He seems like a nice, grounded, lad. So I don't blame him in the least if he takes up the offer from Wales. I agree. In the Greece match we had Middleton (Gerrard is so impressed by him as a winger that he's talking of converting him into a left back...) And McLellan. No disrespect to those two, but to be knocking on the first team door, at 20, supersedes their achievements. With no one creative on the bench. Then we have the u19s, with Kai Kennedy, who looked out of his depth at Championship level. Fine, he's only 18, but still. It's too early to judge, but if Banks does become a mainstay at EPL level, Gemmil, Stark and Mackay have failed us, yet again. At full level we have Fraser and Forrest and no one else. Johnstone is there, but his career has been blighted by injury... This far. And don't even get me started on Harry Souttar. With our luck he'll turn into a Tartan Japp Stam*. *Not saying that he definitely will. It wasn’t too long ago you were saying Kennedy and other under 19s players should be fast tracked into the senior squad 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syecosse Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Does not sound like kennedy is doing that bad, new contract and was doing well at Caley, however I do agree as we seem to have some players coming through that have hardly played or been involved with the u21s like Holsgrove, Hickey, Banks and Anderson(Newcastle), all exciting players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
er yir macaroon Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 4 hours ago, Taylor1996 said: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NkT_CCcjrs (Watch from 2:50) I've seen him being interviewed. He seems like a nice, grounded, lad. So I don't blame him in the least if he takes up the offer from Wales. I agree. In the Greece match we had Middleton (Gerrard is so impressed by him as a winger that he's talking of converting him into a left back...) And McLellan. No disrespect to those two, but to be knocking on the first team door, at 20, supersedes their achievements. With no one creative on the bench. Then we have the u19s, with Kai Kennedy, who looked out of his depth at Championship level. Fine, he's only 18, but still. It's too early to judge, but if Banks does become a mainstay at EPL level, Gemmil, Stark and Mackay have failed us, yet again. At full level we have Fraser and Forrest and no one else. Johnstone is there, but his career has been blighted by injury... This far. And don't even get me started on Harry Souttar. With our luck he'll turn into a Tartan Japp Stam*. *Not saying that he definitely will. I would blame him if he took up Wales’ offer. He’s played for our youth teams and has every possibility of playing for our u21s in due course. Why should he spit the dummy? Middleton has played and scored in the Europa league so his inclusion was justified. I do agree the u21 lineups have been ridiculously negative but that doesn’t justify a 20 year old player jumping ship. It is unclear indeed if this has actually happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfingers Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 He appears to be born and bred Scotland who has already played for our under 19s. I would be mortified if he picks wales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow jock Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 He was on loan to my club (Clyde) from Dundee Utd, most of the time he was a standout (albeit was League 2 at the time) looked a real prospect, great feet & has an eye for goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 2 hours ago, bigfingers said: He appears to be born and bred Scotland who has already played for our under 19s. I would be mortified if he picks wales. Me too. McGeady all over again. Only thing I would say is it Gemmill and Stark to blame or is it some invisible suit at the SFA who is interfering? Would not mind someone like Gordon Strachan in the role vacated by Mackay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 On 1/11/2021 at 9:48 PM, Taylor1996 said: Researching it, it would appear that he was in the standby list for Wales u21 back in November. (Grandmother is from Newport) Banks is knocking on the door at Crystal Palace and he's contributed 6 goals in 11 matches in EPL2. Looks like we might lose a good young player. 20 year old, on the fringes of an EPL team. Apparently, that isn't deemed good enough to get into the Scotland u21 squad. Oh, and I suppose her dying wish is that her grandson plays for the ould country! Shades of McGreedy; at least he had the excuse that Eire had a better chance of qualifying than Scotland but that's not the case now. We must absolutely nail down the Dembeles and the anderson and the Banks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 4 hours ago, er yir macaroon said: I would blame him if he took up Wales’ offer. He’s played for our youth teams and has every possibility of playing for our u21s in due course. Why should he spit the dummy? Middleton has played and scored in the Europa league so his inclusion was justified. I do agree the u21 lineups have been ridiculously negative but that doesn’t justify a 20 year old player jumping ship. It is unclear indeed if this has actually happened. My thoughts too. He probably should have featured for the U21s already but he was playing for the U19s as recently as 2019, so he can't completely be off the radar. The boy isn't even 20 yet and if he's seriously contemplating ditching Scotland already you have to wonder how committed he really is anyway. 29 minutes ago, Third Lanark said: Me too. McGeady all over again. Only thing I would say is it Gemmill and Stark to blame or is it some invisible suit at the SFA who is interfering? Would not mind someone like Gordon Strachan in the role vacated by Mackay. McGeady's heart seemingly was always set on playing for Ireland though, rightly or wrongly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookerman Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 This one would be really Annoying if it turns out to to be true as the Peformance Schools was set up to hopefully have kids devloping to become Futer internationlist for Scotland, not for bloody wales! Questions have to be asked do the peformance school coaches or the sfa just forgot about them when they leave the program. Would like to think they would at least keep in contact with them and keep them in the loop if they decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy C Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Whilst I get the fact that we benefitted at the same time, this appears to happen far, far too often to be a simple coincidence. The suspicion that people involved in the system are the problem is understandable, but whatever it is it needs getting to the bottom of. There tends to be complete silence when this happens as well, they could be working feverishly behind the scenes for all we know, but find themselves in a position whereby there's nothing they can do. However the impression they leave with the support is one of being completely asleep at the wheel and reacting only when it's too late. No wonder people get frustrated. *Caveat of course is that nothing has been confirmed in this case as yet; hopefully it's something and nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, ProudScot said: It wasn’t too long ago you were saying Kennedy and other under 19s players should be fast tracked into the senior squad 🤣 Yes, and you seemingly missed the point in me saying that. My point was, the system we were playing at the time, we were going to fail with whomever we picked. Edited January 13, 2021 by Taylor1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 The SFA are at the root of the problem. As always. It's a good point that was made about the Performance Schools. I, too, thought that one of the points of the Performance Schools was to educate the kids, teach the kids, and keep their names on the database. Apparently not apparently, it's to turn them into good footballers, with an education underneath them, and then ignore them for other nations to cap. Aaron Hickey was a Performance School graduate. He's a regular in Serie A, and yet the only time he's represented Scotland is once, at u17 level. This is a complete shambles of a way of running a football organisation. Everyone in the SFA should be fired and replaced by competent people, along with football people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0Neils40yarder Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 12 hours ago, bigfingers said: He appears to be born and bred Scotland who has already played for our under 19s. I would be mortified if he picks wales. He should be mortified if he picks Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 (edited) In one of Banks's interviews he pinpointed one of the reasons why Scotland never produce top players, unless it's by accident: Tierney, Robertson, McGinn, Darren Fletcher, Barry Ferguson, James McFadden, etc. “The majority of my time so far has been testing. It’s like a ‘body MOT’ where the doctors and sport scientists check out your fitness, mobility, reactions and tailor a programme for you based around that. The amount of coaches is a big difference (Between Scotland and England). If I’m in the gym there’s three coaches just working me." Edited January 13, 2021 by Taylor1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Scotlandfan Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Taylor1996 said: In one of Banks's interviews he pinpointed one of the reasons why Scotland never produce top players, unless it's by accident: Tierney, Robertson, McGinn, Darren Fletcher, Barry Ferguson, James McFadden, etc. “The majority of my time so far has been testing. It’s like a ‘body MOT’ where the doctors and sport scientists check out your fitness, mobility, reactions and tailor a programme for you based around that. The amount of coaches is a big difference (Between Scotland and England). If I’m in the gym there’s three coaches just working me." He’s comparing what it was like as a youth at Dundee United to a player playing as a professional for an English Premier League club. Obviously they’ll have more opportunity to have sports scientists and more time with coaches etc. Dundee United would love to do all this too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 12 minutes ago, Super_Scotlandfan said: He’s comparing what it was like as a youth at Dundee United to a player playing as a professional for an English Premier League club. Obviously they’ll have more opportunity to have sports scientists and more time with coaches etc. Dundee United would love to do all this too. No. He we talking about his time at Dundee United, as a whole. He was a part of the first team and pre-season training at United before he left, so he probably got a gist of the general situation. It wouldn't cost millions to hire extra coaches, etc, and replicate what the big clubs do, but in a far smaller scale. All it would take is professionalism and a clear vision. Dundee United would love to do this? Maybe they should grow up, sell their stadium, groundshare with the club down the street, and maybe they'd have enough pennies in the bank to do it. But only small clubs groundshare, like AC Milan with Inter Milan and Roma with Lazio... Celtic and Rangers could easily replicate what the EPL clubs do. Celtic missed a trick when Rangers had to rebuild. Celtic should've dotted youth academies all over Scotland, hired top coaches and sports scientists, etc, and they would've ended up with an Ajax style conveyer belt of talent. But apparently, short term gain outweighed their long term targets, as they spent tens of millions on foreign players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 Correction on my part. Turns out that Banks is 19, not 20. He'll probably make his EPL debut this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 6 hours ago, 0Neils40yarder said: He should be mortified if he picks Wales This. Its on him if he accepts a cap from Wales. Good luck to him if he does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 See Palace signed him for 300k, another reason why our clubs can never improve when promising youngsters almost inevitably leave for basically nothing. Where is the incentive to produce your own players? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 3 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said: See Palace signed him for 300k, another reason why our clubs can never improve when promising youngsters almost inevitably leave for basically nothing. Where is the incentive to produce your own players? Apparently selling your ground and ground sharing will solve the problem. 3 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said: This. Its on him if he accepts a cap from Wales. Good luck to him if he does. There arent enough facts to confirm what this young lad wants to do. If he takes the huff and picks wales because he wasnt picked for us, well that says a lot about him. I am sure he will be on the SFAs radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, ParisInAKilt said: See Palace signed him for 300k, another reason why our clubs can never improve when promising youngsters almost inevitably leave for basically nothing. Where is the incentive to produce your own players? I think it's primarily a Scottish problem. Jado Sancho left Manchester City to Borussia Dortmund at 16 years old for £8 million. Why aren't clubs grabbing Ajax kids for next to nothing? When Ajax sell their youngsters, they're sold for tens of millions. Look at Dinamo Zagreb. A team from a country of 4 million people and yet the club constantly develops around 200 youngsters per year, at a cost of £1m, uearly. They've produced Marko Pjaca of Juventus, Real Madrid’s Luka Modric, Atletico Madrid's Sime Vrsaljko, with Mateo Kovacic, Milan Badelj and Vedran Corluka are fellow graduates. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Aberdeen shell out £800k for a right-back (Ronald Hernandez). He's not even played 10 matches and they're trying to sell him. And, they're about to lose 23-year-old Scott Wright for nothing in the Summer. Brilliant way to run a football club. They haven't learned from their Paul Bernard experience. Plastic pitches, two clubs pretty much on the same street, the champions going away on holiday... During a pandemic, 4 leagues of 42 clubs in a nation of 5 million, performance schools only being introduced in 2012 (when other nations did it in the 80s and 90s) All in all, Scottish football is not run professionally. That's me being kind. Edited January 14, 2021 by Taylor1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor1996 Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 FAO The weirdo that follows me around and leaves laughing emojis on ALL of my posts. My previous post you CAN laugh at, as Scottish Football is a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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