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Subject: What a lot of baloney!

Author:
disbelief
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Date Posted: "Wed, May 18 2011, 7:42:00 GMT"
In reply to: never mind! 's message, "Same old story." on "Wed, May 18 2011, 1:31:45 GMT"

I suppose Adam Caves, Ollie Thomas, Mark Evans, Neil Mason,Callum MacBurnie etc - to name just a few of the current or near immediate squad - are all "bought in players" are they? The reality is that if we can get one of two players who are good enough to progress from our Colts each season we will be doing well. From what I see there is plenty of opportunity to do this at Moseley club and the problem is that these daftly located England Academies unnaturally pull our own produced players away from us to other clubs. Sort that out and we could probably have a few more in our squad. Come on management isn't about time you got an Academy at Mose?

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[> [> Subject: Good posts but one additional clarification

Author:
Kevin
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Date Posted: "Wed, May 18 2011, 18:13:09 GMT"

Good posts "disbelief", BN and BRD. The only point I would add is about Academies. The reasonable gripe at Mose is that those with the England Rose are funded by the RFU at "PRL cartel clubs" - that is, with the money of Moseley and all the other 1,000 clubs in England and their members. As I understand it, all Mose are asking for is to be able to keep and develop all their own players which they have produced by using their own money in their own Academy. It is not to go on a poaching mission. Our youth set up is immemsely strong in its own right and we have had some outstanding products over the years. There is a whole Premiership side out there of people who started or came through Moseley.All Mose are asking for is a level playing field and some benefit from the work which everyone at the club puts in to develop players. We have an enviable record of developing p;layers up to and into the 1st XV- despite what the first poster claimed - but with our own Academy we could do even better.

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[> [> [> Subject: academy status

Author:
baz
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Date Posted: "Sat, May 21 2011, 1:57:27 GMT"

I appreciate there are problems with premiership clubs poaching young players that we have put the time and effort into, in many cases coached, and supported largely through voluntary efforts with no real support from the RFU. So could there be any scope for sorting some kind of system where young players sign to the club for a set period but have to be bought from us by higher level outfits, pretty much as it runs for the rest of rugby. Clearly this way even if Mose didn't hold on to players there would at least be some financial reward for bringing those youngsters on.

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