4 of 16 in match day squad now has to be "Homegrown"

loyal blue · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:53 pm **Posts:** 1912

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7789808.stm

I think it is definately a step in the right direction.

I love MIke Newell. Always one for stirring the shat!

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Only joel and budtz are not homegrown though, so it wont really effect teams that much at our level i think, we not really packed with foreigners.

Hugh's Left Foot · **Joined:** Wed May 07, 2008 5:45 pm **Posts:** 130

Sky said this morning that in last weeks fixtures (non-premiership), all 72 league clubs met the 4 in 16 rule anyway...

Splod · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:21 pm

Does the rule mean that Pools will have to have 4 players in the 16 that have been at Pools for three year prior to 21 or that they have been developed at any UK club for three years prior to 21? I can't see it as having any impact at the FL level. At most it will result in clubs having weaker benches with four kids on them. To have any teeth the rule would have to have six home grown players out of the 16.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

It's the second part splod.

Though i do feel the first part you mentioned will come into effect in the near future.

The thing is there putting this rule in place at our level, when we are the clubs who are giving youth a chance, it's at the top level where this rule needs to be put in place.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6473

Don't they have a rule similar to this up in Jockland, i think that there has to be a certain number of players who are Scottish and under the age of 23, but it looks like they have got round this rule by having 7 players on the bench instead of the usual 5

ChunkyMonkey · **Joined:** Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:59 pm **Posts:** 569

Yubep wrote:

Only joel and budtz are not homegrown though, so it wont really effect teams that much at our level i think, we not really packed with foreigners.

Boland and McCunnie as well

loyal blue · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:53 pm **Posts:** 1912

power & kyle

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:04 pm

They don't have to be English, just have had to have gone through an English or Welsh clubs youth set up. Kyle went through Sunderland, Power Nottingham Forest, Boland Coventry City. McCunnie would be our only other (apart from Porter and Budtz) who didn't fall into the homegrown bracket as he came through Dundee United's ranks.

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2474

I suppose it is a start. Although it will currently have no affect whatsoever, hopefully it will be expanded. If it wasn't for football league clubs like Pools young Britsh players would have no chance. refred

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Arsenal get round this rule by snapping up 15 and 16 year old foreigners, putting them through there youth system, then by the time they hit 20, there classed as homegrown, clever but sneaky.

4 of 16 in match day squad now has to be "Homegrown"

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