All this talk of a crap defence and now moan u and fulham want to nick one of our promising stars, Stephen Taylor England under 16 captain....

bastards

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

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A Promising player

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

Is he the one won the award the other night. If it is he's mad B&W and I don't think we'd sell him. He's the next step in our promising future. Very good player.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

I read somewhere that this very highly-rated local lad had become disenchanted by the ongoing farce regarding our so-called Academy, and the impending loss of Alan Irvine, and was considering other attractive options. The article was warning of disastrous consequences if we didn't get our act together regarding the Academy.

This came out a couple of weeks ago before word of the long-awaited progress on the Planning Application became public. However, it is looking as though we could well lose this particular potential star to ManU because of all the fannying around.

I also read somewhere that the overal Planning situation for the Academy is still not finally resolved, as they now need to get approval from North Tynside for development of the adjacent property to Darsley Park - Darsley Park being in Newcastle, and the other property in North Tyneside! Anyone else see this?

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

Andy - Stephen Taylor is free to join whoever he wishes when he completes his secondary education - he is not yet contracted to NUFC.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

Yes he IS B&W through and through but so is Carick and his youngr brother, If we aint got the facilities they wont sign..

Build it and they will come .. . . . .

KB

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

He's not the only one disenchanted at the loss of Alan Irvine.

How could we lose someone who has created such a good youth structure and brought us from having nothing after Keegan to training players who are now wanted by other teams. It's a disgraceful situation we have at present with the youngsters but the board cannot see what they are losing here. The club is laughed at for having no Academy and no training facilities of our own. We couldn't even build a new ground. The club's decision making is a farce and this is probably the reason we lost Alan Irvine and may well be the death of our crop of class youngsters.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

I must admit I hadn't heard of the fella until now, but if this is true then someone needs a good kicking. Surely if a club like Moan Utd. want to sign him, then he must be doing alright. That alone should be a sign to keep the kid. I was hoping that we were starting to do what Moan Utd did in the early 90's. Have a good crop of young players coming along, who would be future superstars. I should have known better :-(

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

Taylor's my brother's mate, he's canny good too. I haven't heard of him in a while as he goes to Monkseaton High now.

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2002

On a slightly related topic, my nine year old cousin is now absolutely chuffed after being offered a place at NUFC academy as a goalkeeper. Thankfully he realises it's only the first step and it's likely that he won't become a footballer.

From Wideopen fields to Liverpool next week. Everyone who's seen him play has been impressed but he's a modest lad and doesn't let it go to his head.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002