[quote="chapylad":2r8k8vyi]Do you think Farke is his own worse enemy? What I mean is decent players like the young lad from Villa, Brearton Diaz, the lad from Forest, Ben Godfrey it seems all choosing other clubs over ours. Is that because they know they`re likely to be warming the bench unless someone suffers an injury? We have the experienced French lad an international who gets maybe 10 minutes a game, Schmidt who is rarely used with Farke preferring to play his favourites even if they are out of position. The French lad could/should have played in the back 4 with Ampadu in the midfield but he tries to shoehorn his favourites all the time. Whereas Parker and Wilder tend to play their loan players we don`t.[/quote:2r8k8vyi] All these "issues" but Farke has us sat at the top of the league, and if it wasnt for a few Meslier blunders we could be a fair few points clear. Hes rotated the squad a lot more than he did this time last season.

would be lovely but can't see it

Serious question here and not having a go (for once)! How many of our acclaimed youth signings over the last 2 or 3 years have made it in the first team? We were all in awe of the likes of Geldhart, Perkins, Greenwood, Cresswell, Gyabi and I`m sure there`s more. Yet none of those above have progressed with only Archie Gray who has now left and possibly Charlie Crew who should make it along with Joseph maybe. Have I missed others? And are these players we sign not getting coached properly?

Our academy system has been underperforming for years. It's only just getting back to anything like with the Niners putting good money in and good coaches but it will take time. Previous successive owners ran it into the ground.. one of my best mates, his lad is at Man U academy (He's 12, just signed for another 2 years and been with them since age eight) was telling me when his lad went to Man U he had the pick of loads of clubs and Leeds was one of them but the academy was really badly run (he's a big Leeds fan too so it was a horrible decision to make) so he chose Manchester to give his lad best coaching and set up etc.. he says Leeds have been well behind the big clubs in England for a long time.

Interesting that Trebor and hopefully things will start to improve. It does seem a shame that those I mentioned and I`m sure there`s others were all deemed the next best thing.

[quote="Trebor1":1aazrbc0]Our academy system has been underperforming for years. It's only just getting back to anything like with the Niners putting good money in and good coaches but it will take time. Previous successive owners ran it into the ground.. one of my best mates, his lad is at Man U academy (He's 12, just signed for another 2 years and been with them since age eight) was telling me when his lad went to Man U he had the pick of loads of clubs and Leeds was one of them but the academy was really badly run (he's a big Leeds fan too so it was a horrible decision to make) so he chose Manchester to give his lad best coaching and set up etc.. he says Leeds have been well behind the big clubs in England for a long time.[/quote:1aazrbc0] My mates 6 year old has been training with a few diff clubs, Leeds, Man U, Shef Utd and Sheff Weds this past year and he said Leeds were the worst set up. so still seems like a lot of work to do.