Neal wrote: 19 Dec 2017, 08:40 What would happen if Loanees were not allowed.
Football at the levels below the EFL League 1 would cease to function to thelevels that we know it now.....
WE are a club that pioneered the 'loan' system right back in 1949 when taking Don Mills from QPR to benefit his heath ~ he was suffering from acute acne and it was hoped the sea air would benefit him ~ it was later that he came back on a permanent basis when signing from Leeds United in 1952
Then in the mid-sixties Frank O'Farrell resurrected the concept, bringing in Billy Kitchener from West Ham (by the way his iniial target turned him down; that was Frank Lampard!) and then others followed like John Docker from the Hammers, David James and then Trevor Shepherd from Coventry City and so it has gone on and grown.
The next time you are at Plainmoor take a look round and look at the sparse crowds; how do you think the club can function and how many can they actually afford to pay a living wage to on those sort of gates?
That's why we have the loan system and that's why it is used so prolifically especially in the National League.
The mindset of a loanee is pertinent indeed; but is it any different than that of a youngster who has dropped down from a bigger club and taking a punt on resurrecting his career at a much smaller one hoping that is stay will be minimal and leading to stepping back up again? Depends on the individual I suppose but it's a two way thing ~ a club's attitude to loanees coming in and vice versa and I don't think the attitudes of the likes of Chris Hargreaves and Kevin Nicholson were particularly conducive to certain of their loanees busting a gut when they were here.
Nicholson confided to me how too many of those loanees lacked stature, determination and competitiveness; the problem you get when failing to (or are unable) to do your research properly I guess.....Owers and Kuhl do at least appear to be going for more robust and capable types of loanees; but whether or not that has worked out in the cases of Murphy, McQuoid, Evans and Barnum-Bobb is debatable.
The club's record and reputation in assimilating loanees is all important as Axel Andresson's comments on the good vibes he got before committing to coming down illustrate; I wonder what advice George Dowling got from Shaun McCoulsky though?
Whatever we think the loan system will go on because the simple reason is that football at our level is so reliant on it, and in our case we are simply incapable of producing our own aren't we![quote=Neal post_id=216739 time=1513672857 user_id=342] [i][b]What would happen if Loanees were not allowed.[/b][/i] [/quote]
[b]Football at the levels below the EFL League 1 would cease to function to thelevels that we know it now.....[/b]
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[i]WE[/i] are a club that pioneered the 'loan' system right back in 1949 when taking Don Mills from QPR to benefit his heath ~ he was suffering from acute acne and it was hoped the sea air would benefit him ~ it was later that he came back on a permanent basis when signing from Leeds United in 1952[/b]
Then in the mid-sixties Frank O'Farrell resurrected the concept, bringing in Billy Kitchener from West Ham (by the way his iniial target turned him down; that was Frank Lampard!) and then others followed like John Docker from the Hammers, David James and then Trevor Shepherd from Coventry City and so it has gone on and grown.
The next time you are at Plainmoor take a look round and look at the sparse crowds; how do you think the club can function and how many can they actually afford to pay a living wage to on those sort of gates?
That's why we have the loan system and that's why it is used so prolifically especially in the National League.
The mindset of a loanee is pertinent indeed; but is it any different than that of a youngster who has dropped down from a bigger club and taking a punt on resurrecting his career at a much smaller one hoping that is stay will be minimal and leading to stepping back up again? Depends on the individual I suppose but it's a two way thing ~ a club's attitude to loanees coming in and vice versa and I don't think the attitudes of the likes of Chris Hargreaves and Kevin Nicholson were particularly conducive to certain of their loanees busting a gut when they were here.
Nicholson confided to me how too many of those loanees lacked stature, determination and competitiveness; the problem you get when failing to (or are unable) to do your research properly I guess.....Owers and Kuhl do at least appear to be going for more robust and capable types of loanees; but whether or not that has worked out in the cases of Murphy, McQuoid, Evans and Barnum-Bobb is debatable.
The club's record and reputation in assimilating loanees is all important as Axel Andresson's comments on the good vibes he got before committing to coming down illustrate; I wonder what advice George Dowling got from Shaun McCoulsky though?
[b]Whatever we think the loan system will go on because the simple reason is that football at our level is so reliant on it, and in our case we are simply incapable of producing our own aren't we![/b]
