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findus	Sep 2 2011, 03:32 PM Post #16
Jerry Kerr Posts: 4,444 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: September 10, 2010	Naebody Sep 2 2011, 11:45 AM Though such hothousing usually makes me a bit nervous, this is all uplifting stuff whose argument is nearly strong enough to make me want to join Arabtrust. Agree with that, will be very interesting to see where this takes us over the next 10 years (assuming it continues for that long). I'd like to think a least 1 or 2 young chaps out of each year turn out to be very good footballers. Anyone know if the scheme is for the same one mob of guys from first year to say fourth year, or will they do the same for each new batch of first years every year? That is, will they end up running four concurrent courses for each year group?



Morvant's Finest	Sep 2 2011, 03:56 PM Post #17
Tommy McLean Posts: 2,106 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: January 13, 2011	Not that I noticed Findus, but there was a young kid that looked about 13-14 at most, who said he had ambitions to be playing for Barcelona in 5 years time. Fair play to him for his ambition but I thought he was perhaps a little too premature to be living up to Levein's maxim about our players wanting to have the ambition to go on to play somewhere else....



Naebody	Sep 2 2011, 04:22 PM Post #18
Twat Posts: 5,210 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 13, 2010	There are, to be fair, some monstrously affected hairdos on show -- though no more so than the city at large. Dundee haircuts are inexplicably bowf. Every time I head north I'm struck by how ornately ridiculous the average young gent's hair is. And, when point this out to the average young gent, I'm struck again.



yasser	Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM Post #19
Ivan Golac Posts: 1,250 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: November 15, 2010	findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose.



findus	Sep 2 2011, 06:23 PM Post #20
Jerry Kerr Posts: 4,444 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: September 10, 2010	yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose. Seriously, what the hell is your problem with gingers?



yasser	Sep 2 2011, 06:31 PM Post #21
Ivan Golac Posts: 1,250 Group: Members Member #31 Joined: November 15, 2010	findus Sep 2 2011, 06:23 PM yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose. Seriously, what the hell is your problem with gingers? Seriously I don't have a problem wi gingers, other people do and if like me you'd grown up as a ginger you'd know what I mean.



findus	Sep 2 2011, 06:43 PM Post #22
Jerry Kerr Posts: 4,444 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: September 10, 2010	yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:31 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 06:23 PM yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose. Seriously, what the hell is your problem with gingers? Seriously I don't have a problem wi gingers, other people do and if like me you'd grown up as a ginger you'd know what I mean. Hmmmmmmm... ok ok, apology accepted.



whatsthatonyourback	Sep 2 2011, 06:49 PM Post #23
Waldo Jeffers Posts: 4,443 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: September 10, 2010	yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:31 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 06:23 PM yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose. Seriously, what the hell is your problem with gingers? Seriously I don't have a problem wi gingers, other people do and if like me you'd grown up as a ginger you'd know what I mean. I've seen some physically horrific persecution of "gingers" at school and am with you all the way on this, yas. I dread to think what psychological damage was done to some of them. And I'm ashamed to say my thought at the time was "thank fock I'm not ginger - but at least when they're getting it, I'm safe". So, gingers, I salute you - an inadvertent human shield to me throughout my school days. Although, come to think of it, if everyone had been as nice to gingers as I wish they would be, maybe I'd have got the ginger-treatment instead. Maybe I have to rethink my policy of tolerance and equality to gingers in the face of the hypothetical and retrospective alternative.



Skeletor	Sep 4 2011, 01:12 AM Post #24
Most likely to be Ann Widdecombe Posts: 2,157 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: September 10, 2010	whatsthatonyourback Sep 2 2011, 06:49 PM yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:31 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 06:23 PM yasser Sep 2 2011, 06:17 PM findus Sep 2 2011, 02:54 PM Any gingers? runs It was only a matter of time I suppose. Seriously, what the hell is your problem with gingers? Seriously I don't have a problem wi gingers, other people do and if like me you'd grown up as a ginger you'd know what I mean. I've seen some physically horrific persecution of "gingers" at school and am with you all the way on this, yas. I dread to think what psychological damage was done to some of them. And I'm ashamed to say my thought at the time was "thank fock I'm not ginger - but at least when they're getting it, I'm safe". So, gingers, I salute you - an inadvertent human shield to me throughout my school days. Although, come to think of it, if everyone had been as nice to gingers as I wish they would be, maybe I'd have got the ginger-treatment instead. Maybe I have to rethink my policy of tolerance and equality to gingers in the face of the hypothetical and retrospective alternative. What would it have been, "Ayyyyyyyy he disny like biscuits, and is indifferent to cakes and breads - Get him!"



Naebody	Oct 26 2011, 11:45 AM Post #25
Twat Posts: 5,210 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 13, 2010	Naebody Sep 2 2011, 11:45 AM Here's a video (also apparently on Facebook) that details the youth set-up and rattles the donations tin in a not terribly subtle manner. Though such hothousing usually makes me a bit nervous, this is all uplifting stuff whose argument is nearly strong enough to make me want to join Arabtrust. So, there's been a relapse of the rumour that Cathro's resigned. If that happened, my faith in all things United would sink from dispirit to dejection. Anyone know anything?



reekie	Oct 26 2011, 12:06 PM Post #26
lum raker Posts: 3,201 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: September 16, 2010	Just the chattering from the boards. Seems to be from several, different sources though. It would bring me, I think, to the brink of depression.



Setenza	Oct 26 2011, 12:18 PM Post #27
Knitting with only one needle Posts: 6,057 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: September 10, 2010	If he's resigned to move upwards somewhere else, then it's less depressing than if he's resigned because we've gone back on the plan for youth that we've heard so much about.



Micky	Oct 26 2011, 07:36 PM Post #28
Gordon Chisholm Posts: 948 Group: Members Member #4 Joined: September 10, 2010	Quote from EF: Quote: Aye, apparently he doesn't boo the kids and go on 200 page rants on internet forums about them. FFS how is that going to prepare them for playing for United You have a login there, Whatsa?



Naebody	Oct 27 2011, 12:52 PM Post #29
Twat Posts: 5,210 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 13, 2010	And so it came to pass. Quoth the Express. Quote: THE SFA are set to appoint Ian Cathro as their new youth supremo. The governing body have taken on board the recommendation of Scotland manager Craig Levein and are set to add the Dundee United academy director to their staff. Cathro, 25, has worked wonders in a short space of time in revolutionising the youth set-up at Tannadice. He was appointed at United by Levein, who had witnessed his work at first hand at coaching schools around Dundee. Now he will work closely with SFA performance director Mark Wotte as they look to raise the standard of Scottish talent. It caps a remarkable rise for Cathro, who struggled to make the grade with Angus clubs Brechin and Forfar. And The Sun. Quote: DUNDEE UNITED are in a fight with the SFA after accusing them of poaching highly-rated youth chief Ian Cathro. SunSport can reveal Cathro — just 25 — handed in his notice and is set for a key role as part of performance director Mark Wotte's team at Hampden. But livid United chairman Stephen Thompson believes the young coaching guru is in breach of contract. He's also furious at what he believes is a case of tapping-up. Scotland boss and ex-United manager Craig Levein is a huge fan of Cathro but Thompson won't let him go quietly. Cuntbiscuits.



Ivan	Oct 27 2011, 01:25 PM Post #30
F*cking plebs. Posts: 1,749 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: September 10, 2010	Ach, if Cathro really knows his shit then the further his influence is spread the better. The key for United will be whether they continue with his method after he leaves or use this as an excuse to chuck the towel in.

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