Sorry, couldn't resist - this sub-editing lark is even easier than reporting!

It's actually a bit of good news:

The EFL Futures scheme has now given a £750,000 boost to those Football League clubs who introduced young English players into their starting line up in the season of 2016/17.

The incentive scheme came into force for the beginning of this year and was designed to commit a total of £2.25million to the three tiers for those clubs who actively gave game time to the next generation of players - aged under 21 and were eligible to play for England or Wales for Cardiff City and Newport County.

With all appearance data now collected and collated, those numbers have been assessed and the EFL have distributed the first batch of that incentive money out to qualifying teams.

Interestingly but probably not surprisingly, clubs in League One and League Two benefited more than Championship clubs with a total pay out of:

League Two = £304,000
League One = £294,000
Championship = £152,000

Read more: http://www.stevenage.vitalfootball.co.u ... z4jQIVWZZ5

Pools will have had a decent bite out of the £304,000 as a fair few of our u-21 players got some game time from January onwards.

Pity we won't qualify for a handout next season as we're no longer in the EFL!

That may explain some of those bizarre team selections then, when youngsters came in, had a decent game, then were not seen again