i thought that when i read it earlier, this bit...

“Success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan – and a lot of our job is dealing with orphans. People have got to realise that.”

I fleetingly wondered if he meant me and, if he did indeed mean me then what relevance me knowing that would have to; a. me and b. the academy. then, after a short while contemplating this utter horses**t i realised that i didn't know what he meant so i gave up on michael bailey and steve weaver's wonderful world of meaningless twaddle and went and did something else.

Posted By: Tombs on January 4th 2019 at 12:56:48

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"we will never really be over-competitive in the Under-18 and Under-23 leagues,” (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 4, 10:58:20
- It's a good interview. (NCFC) - Grans_Canary, Jan 4, 13:04:19
- chuckle-worthy (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 4, 12:49:07
  - i thought that when i read it earlier, this bit... (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 4, 12:56:48
    - Think he is having a pop at Gregg Broughton there (NCFC) - Chalk Hill Bitter, Jan 4, 14:10:15
      - Wrexham & Hudds not on list of FAYC winners (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 4, 14:41:12
        
        Huddersfield scrapped their academy under Weaver as it wasn’t (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 4, 15:17:01
- Also says we’d be doing something wrong if we were. Which I assume means that (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 4, 12:13:51
  - I guess so. What about the team that won the youth cup under Adams? (NCFC) - APB, Jan 4, 12:18:59
    - Seven of the 2012-13 yoot side played for NC 1st team (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 4, 13:05:25
      - The murphs, toffolo, king, mcgeehan (NCFC) - Basil Wrathbone, Jan 4, 13:16:20
        
        Ah, Morris has an ACL (NCFC) - Basil Wrathbone, Jan 4, 13:17:38
        
        I would hope that Morris has two ACLs! (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 4, 13:23:55
    - not many of the Chelsea side went on to bigger and better things (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Jan 4, 13:04:01
      - Nathan ake (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jan 4, 13:33:18
      - Boga was at Birmingham last season (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Jan 4, 13:21:57
      - Loftus-Cheek was in that team, I think. (NCFC) - APB, Jan 4, 13:18:48
        
        i think you right on that (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Jan 4, 13:29:10
        
        Our cup winning team of the late 80s was also an exception. (NCFC) - APB, Jan 4, 13:34:49
        
        Looking at that winning team (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Jan 4, 14:36:23
        
        I wasn’t disagreeing. (NCFC) - APB, Jan 4, 15:10:13
        
        8 of that 12 played for City. Massive success-rate (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 4, 15:06:22
        
        Pretrty sure not Fox. Donowa & Spearing though. (n/m) (NCFC) - mr carra, Jan 4, 14:23:50
    - McGeehan is playing Pro, not sure about any of the others, shows how big the step up is (n/m) (NCFC) - Gazzaman, Jan 4, 12:27:34
- Makes sense. Would rather have the players out on loan playing men's footie (n/m) (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Jan 4, 11:02:58

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