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Yesterday evening I was thumbing through my Facebook and Saints official FB page posted about a programme filmed at the Academy, starting last night. 

Having gotten bored of the Government circus report on the news I thought I would seek the programme out on iPlayer. If you can get your head past it being a programme aimed at a young audience and live with Alan Carrs narration, it is a very interesting watch. The most striking thing is the ridiculous ability some of the kids have and the level of commitment required to be at Saints Academy.

Well worth looking out, especially if you have kids who fancy being a professional footballer.

Forgot to add there's 5 programmes in the series and they are all ready to binge watch in iPlayer 

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dhcl

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39 minutes ago, John Boy Saint said:

Yesterday evening I was thumbing through my Facebook and Saints official FB page posted about a programme filmed at the Academy, starting last night. 

Having gotten bored of the Government circus report on the news I thought I would seek the programme out on iPlayer. If you can get your head past it being a programme aimed at a young audience and live with Alan Carrs narration, it is a very interesting watch. The most striking thing is the ridiculous ability some of the kids have and the level of commitment required to be at Saints Academy.

Well worth looking out, especially if you have kids who fancy being a professional footballer.

Forgot to add there's 5 programmes in the series and they are all ready to binge watch in iPlayer 

What’s the program called ?

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23 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Watched a few of these. It's good although the presenter is quite annoying, is it Alan Carr? It's great seeing kids playing football.

It is Alan Carr.  The best episode I’ve seen is the Harrison Miles (& family) one.  He’s got a great head on his young shoulders.

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16 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

It is Alan Carr.  The best episode I’ve seen is the Harrison Miles (& family) one.  He’s got a great head on his young shoulders.

Is that the kid that's small. He looked a good player if so. I really liked those twin girls, brilliant attitude on them.

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The one with the kid that had Lukemia is a nice story, must be awful to go through that at such a young age and seemed a really nice kid. 

One thing that struck me was how all the kids i've seen so far come from relatively wealthy families, compared to the Crystal Palace one where most of the kids on it were from rough parts of London and a lot of single parent families. 

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24 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

I’ve seen the first two, one with the lad who’s Dad played for the skates but I didn’t recognise him? Anyone know who he is?

I may be wrong but I thought it was Lee Bradbury. 
 

wait until to see see the Pompey fan whose daughter is at saints. How many times can he slip in he’s a Pompey fan 🙄

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

One thing that struck me was how all the kids i've seen so far come from relatively wealthy families, compared to the Crystal Palace one where most of the kids on it were from rough parts of London and a lot of single parent families. 

That's interesting, I imagine it's a lot easier to get to football training as a youngster in London with free/heavily subsidised public transport, compared with Hampshire where it could be tricky without a very supportive parent to fit in the time to allow for driving to and fro in addition to everything else.

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16 minutes ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

That's interesting, I imagine it's a lot easier to get to football training as a youngster in London with free/heavily subsidised public transport, compared with Hampshire where it could be tricky without a very supportive parent to fit in the time to allow for driving to and fro in addition to everything else.

Most of the parents on the Palace documentary drove their kids to training too as the Palace training ground is actually close to Beckenham. Knowing south London, it can take a long time to get anywhere. One of the dads would drive his son from east London to training most evenings, which takes bloody ages.

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1 hour ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

That's interesting, I imagine it's a lot easier to get to football training as a youngster in London with free/heavily subsidised public transport, compared with Hampshire where it could be tricky without a very supportive parent to fit in the time to allow for driving to and fro in addition to everything else.

Actually you make a good point there. Maybe the poorer kids from  Southampton can’t get to staplewood and it’s easier to get to somewhere in London. I know as a kid my parents wouldn’t have been in a position to get me there from townhill park. Surely the club wouldn’t miss out on potential talent these days due to logistical issues. It was just noticeable how generally the kids so far in the series have all been from relatively wealthy homes.

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On 10/11/2022 at 17:26, Turkish said:

The one with the kid that had Lukemia is a nice story, must be awful to go through that at such a young age and seemed a really nice kid. 

One thing that struck me was how all the kids i've seen so far come from relatively wealthy families, compared to the Crystal Palace one where most of the kids on it were from rough parts of London and a lot of single parent families. 

As a kid I always wondered saints weren't involved with the council estates more, they were full of footballing talents growing up. They do the saints kicks thing  but I'm not sure that's enough as we aren't seeing many real local youngsters from poor families come through. https://www.southamptonfc.com/saints-foundation/projects/involvement/saints-kicks

Transport shouldnt be hard to solve if it is an issue, send a different minibus to each estate to pick them up.
  

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1 hour ago, Spark said:

As a kid I always wondered saints weren't involved with the council estates more, they were full of footballing talents growing up. They do the saints kicks thing  but I'm not sure that's enough as we aren't seeing many real local youngsters from poor families come through. https://www.southamptonfc.com/saints-foundation/projects/involvement/saints-kicks

Transport shouldnt be hard to solve if it is an issue, send a different minibus to each estate to pick them up.
  

True that, watching the Crystal Palace one about cage football, nothing new there. We used to play in a car park or a piece of wasteland when we were juniors, when the older kids from Bitterne Park and St George’s came past on their way home theyd sometimes join in, we were 9,10,11 playing against 13,14 year olds, you’d get battered but it toughed you up. As a result of that I sometimes turned out for my brothers team at 14, 15 playing against adults then regularly at 16 playing hants league level. I do remember when I got older despite our junior school football team being pretty dominant and having some good players no one got picked up, it was kids from the more affluent areas that I guess could afford to ferry their kids round to football schools and send them to camps. Something none of us could do. Maybe it’s changed now but I remember seeing other kids  with some paid for summer football camps and getting trials at saints and Pompey and I’d never even heard of any of them despite being a good player in my younger days 

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