This weeks County Youth trial.

[David Bray]

This Thursday's County Youth Under 18 trial will take place at St.Blazey FC.

Commencing at 6.30 pm.

Mr.Chairman, many thanks for making your facilities available. :c:

[chairman]

Sorry Dave, didn't know we had.

[Dave Deacon]

How many trialists are you expecting on show Dave? And how many do you have to reduce that number down to?

[Tommy Matthews]

Dave, we're having around 30 or so players there on Thursday and will look to prune that number down to around 20 so that we can have some training prior to our first game in Jersey Saturday October 6th. From there we will take a final squad of 16 which will include 2 goalkeepers.

[St Darren]

Tommy, is it still only senior players that you really look at?

[Tommy Matthews]

Yes St. Darren, part of the aspect of trials is the process of weeding out the players you can and can't use.

Therefore, the first stage is to work only with players who are playing at a senior level in the county.

This ensures that all players are playing at an appropriate level to maintain the required standard to play county football.

I have been critisised by many for this stance, but I know from 4 years experience that the standard is high and you only have to ask players who have been there who will tell you that they would really struggle coping if they were playing any less.

If I saw someone playing at a junior level who could step up, it would not be up to me to tell him to leave his particular club, I don't get involved with that side, it's not my business.

By the way, it's horrible having to tell players that at the moment I can't include them, but the door is never shut and many players who didn't start the season with us have forced their way in in the past.