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Offline NeilH

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2011, 09:26:35 AM »

Two recent tweets from Joey Barton who is in holland on tour:

1. The infrastructure in youth football here is something to behold, its no wonder that they consistently outperform their population


Who's writing Barton's tweets for him??  :o

He's correct of course. The infrastructure for football is incredible here. I live in a small village and we've got facilities here that most British towns would be envious of. When I go home and see the state of the amateur game and facilities in the UK, it just makes me sad.

Offline villa `cross the mersey

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2011, 09:44:31 AM »
NeilH - our friends live in the East - Winterswijk. I agree the facilities are superb

Two recent tweets from Joey Barton who is in holland on tour:

1. The infrastructure in youth football here is something to behold, its no wonder that they consistently outperform their population


Who's writing Barton's tweets for him??  :o

He's correct of course. The infrastructure for football is incredible here. I live in a small village and we've got facilities here that most British towns would be envious of. When I go home and see the state of the amateur game and facilities in the UK, it just makes me sad.


I agree NeilH - my friends live in the east of Holland - Winterswijk. The facilities are superb and more importantly used extensively by the people who live there.

By the way, Holland is the place to be every new year - VCTM jnr is setting off fireworks for about 12 hours !!

We recently met a great Dutch family from Eindhoven - so our yearly visits mean travelling to and from both Winterswijk and Eindhoven.

Can I ask what you do in Haarlem? - Isn`t that near to Schipol?

cheers VCTM

Offline NeilH

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2011, 09:58:00 AM »
Quote
By the way, Holland is the place to be every new year - VCTM jnr is setting off fireworks for about 12 hours !!

We recently met a great Dutch family from Eindhoven - so our yearly visits mean travelling to and from both Winterswijk and Eindhoven.

Can I ask what you do in Haarlem? - Isn`t that near to Schipol?

The new year fireworks are something to behold, especially in the south the country. For a health and safety conscious nation they seem to lose their senses when it comes to New Year fireworks. I think 364 days of following the rules gets chucked out of the window for 1 crazy day.

Yep Haarlem is not far from Schiphol, near enough to Amsterdam for work (where I commute to ) and far enough away to avoid drunken Brits on stag do’s. It a nice place to live and I love it here.

Getting back to the facilities debate, you just have to watch an under 10’s game over here being played to see that we as a nation are failing monumentally to get the basics right. Sure they play matches here, but so much of the early training for kids is about learning the key football techniques so that when they play football (which incidentally is always on smaller pitches for kids) they are not just hoofing balls around. I’ve driven past my local football pitches in middle of winter and the floodlights will be on and kids will be training, with pleasure. In fact many amateur teams here are over-subscribed due to the demand from kids to play..... Its hardly a surprise then that the national team continually punches way about its weight and continues to produce players of the ilk that we’d kill for.

Offline villa `cross the mersey

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2011, 10:56:09 AM »
Hi Neil - have sent you a PM

Loving the Airplane footer on your posts !

Offline Salsa Party Animal

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #34 on: July 25, 2011, 02:30:20 PM »
Holland love football and we love celebrities and computer games. Sad :(

Offline eamonn

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #35 on: July 25, 2011, 09:51:28 PM »
Can he find us a young Freddie Bouma please?

No offence to Wild Willy (could probably still have done a job for us at left-back last season) but he and Carlos must be the among the least-cultured players from their respective countries playing at the highest level
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Offline curiousorange

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #36 on: July 25, 2011, 09:54:15 PM »
Get him to have a butcher's Verhoek (sorry, sorry) at Wesley.

Offline TheSandman

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #37 on: July 25, 2011, 09:56:01 PM »
2? who is the other one? I thought that MON did the scouting from his TV

Paul Montgomery who is apparently very respected in the field.

Offline Mazrim

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Re: New scout employed
« Reply #38 on: July 25, 2011, 10:06:09 PM »
And Glenn Roeder of course. Who is Chief scout.

 


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