Youth Development Special (Part Two)with Connor Rowden

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Sports

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Many of you will know that @RowdenJRSG - aka Connor Rowden - is the go-to guy when it comes to youth football in England. Here's part two of a two-part interview with him & Ali discussing specific clubs with academies to be proud of, as well as some wider issues surrounding the topic. You can find a running order below: Ipswich and Norwich spur each-other on to produce high quality footballers. Bristol City - a Championship version of Monaco - Tyreeq Bakinson. Derby County - a new wave of talent Brentford - shutting down the academy. Leeds United, West Brom, Reading & Wigan Athletic. Luton & James Justin. Coventry & Tom Bayliss. Sunderland & Josh Maja. Crewe Alexandra - the blueprint. Colchester - prioritising promotion from within EPPP, its benefits and its problems. The proposed changes to the loan system. Europe as a loan destination for PL players instead of the EFL. Checkatrade Trophy - has it benefited the academy teams involved? B Teams in the EFL - is it likely, and is it feasible? Problems with the current youth league structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Part 2 of the Not the Top 20 episode on Youth Development with Connor Rowden.
0:28.6	If you're listening to this, I hope you've listened to Part 1.
0:31.5	In part one, Connor and I went through the EFL's link with the England setup
0:36.8	and went through all the current England youth teams and touched on the EFL's link with the England setup and went through all the current England youth
0:39.3	teams and touched on the EFL talent among them, touched on some of the pathways that these
0:45.5	players will have, have had or are struggling to find, as well as touching on much, much more.
0:52.6	Hopefully you've already listened to that, but if you haven't, I suggest you go there first.
0:57.4	In this episode, we're going to be carrying on our discussion
1:00.2	and talking about things a little more generally,
1:03.5	focusing on some of the clubs in the championship,
1:05.8	League 1 and League 2,
1:07.4	that do youth development well
1:09.3	or that do things a little bit differently.
1:11.6	Some of them coming from catchment areas where they're able to attract excellent local talent
1:17.6	and many of them who don't but who get around that in different ways with clever youth recruitment or otherwise.
1:25.6	We hope that you'll enjoy this part of the episode as much as I did.
1:30.0	Towards the end of this podcast, I talked to Connor about some big topics, the checker trade
1:35.6	trophy, B teams in the EFL, the proposed loan rules and much, much more. Connor, as you can
1:43.3	tell from part one one really does know everything
1:45.6	there is to know about the individual players about clubs and has some excellent thoughts on
1:51.5	some of the wider topics surrounding youth development in the game so if youth development's
1:56.4	your thing and if you enjoyed part one make sure you enjoy this part two. This is our conversation with Connor Rowden.
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