not heard owt as yet, might find out on weds though

answered your own question really, ACADEMY.. will he make the step up? hopefully so but in jk i trust..if he doesn't want to be with us then fair enough..reminds me of a certain danny who?

doubt that very very much, think if he came then people on the backroom team would leave so go towt him elsewhere ryans family

Perhaps, but out of the two who would go on to have the superior career for Trinity, a player who will knuckle down and work hard or a player who at 17 is already thinking about money.

I'm not one of the people you are speaking of, but for mine, Annakin should have been MoM in last years Academy Grand Final. I'd like to see his future secured before too long, but will try and get to the Reserve game today to see if he's progressing!

I agree, Cain Southernwood certainly has a lot of football talent , and in the age limit rugby of Academy level he did everything he was expected to on the field of play. That said, I think Anakin was the standout player throughout the season and in the grand final.

I'll be there today as well.

I here annakins name time and time again as being a real talent in the academy.
Why has he not been signed up yet by the club?

that was his choice !!!!!!

he's bulked up and looks a strong lad this year

Was he offered a contract and refused it?

in a way yes

If, as aluded to by feline he chose not to sign for us, isn't there, as with Cain, a possibility/probability he has set his sights on elsewhere?

Explain?

all players look to see whats on the table, their choice whether to sign or not
loyalties to clubs go out of the window when a wad of money is flashed in front of them, we need to bridge that game with the other clubs starting with the new stadium and facilities, you have to get player to want to play for the club and not the salary, very hard to do

no he wanted to sign but the club would not match the money he was on in his job, so he said no

Fair enough!!
Maybe he's not as hot a prospect as some on here think, in JK the BoD we trust etc etc!

Quite right!
But with all this seasons salary budget back in the bank, maybe if we value this kid it's time to show it?

Not 2 happy with the guy we ave just sighned, =#FF0000Edit

Bigal1.

If you dont care to elaborate then why post it in the first place. Perhaps you know something most on here dont know, Take a bow squire you are now officially in the in the know club

I don't think there was a stand out player as such. Clearly Annnekin and Southernwood were the ones to catch the eye but they won IMO because they were a team. Individually there were better players at other clubs. However we had again IMO even quality throughout. I reinforce this because at the beginning of last season there was a thread bemoaning the lack of talent at junior Academy which I agreed with. So to be fair none of us saw it coming and Southernwood was just considered the best of an average bunch with potential which is all they have at that age.

What I'm saying is that no way was he good enough to carry the team alone which is sometimes the case at that level. The team as a whole layed him a platform for which I'm told he did not always use as agreed.

He's potentially a quality player but he's improved little in the last year IMO although I realise he had an injury at some point.

What is for certain is that he is way to fragile for SL and may remain so for a while. He could counter that by improving other aspects of his game and general athleticism but that would involve listening to advice, not his strong point I'm told.

Mark Colbeck springs to mind.

I'd like to see that quote, I must have been trolling because I'd never seen Tomkins play until last year on SKY - not like me at all

A point i raised at the time.

Find the quote Jonh and you can humble pie me - that would be nice for you.

As I've made clear, these are not my opinions on Southernwood but those of people who actually know him and trained him. These are opinions even those as up themselves as you and I have to bow to - no?

Yep, agree with most of that.

As I said earlier I really hope Annekin can be persuaded to sign on and develop with us because unlike Cain he certainly does have the size and strength and potetial to break into the team earlier as I think he's still a year younger than most of last season's team.

Even with him though I suppose it isn't guaranteed he will make the step up. Someone I'd compare with him who I watched plenty of at the same level was Tom Haughey, absolutely outstanding at academy level and a real similar blockbusting style of running the angle like Annekin but struggled with shoulder problems and never really made the top grade unlike a whole host of lads from the same academy team who he regularly outshone week in week out (Mason, Feather, Snitch, Handforth etc...)

Mark Colbeck eh? What a player he looked when he broke in looked to have all the ability in the World, wasn't there some sort of incident in Town that had an affect on him in the long run?

If i remember right he got done for attempted murder or something very serious, bags of talent but not so much on the brain cell front.