Mike Dodds has admitted that the KLD/Speakman model will always be a bone of contention amongst supporters, particularly during poor runs of form…
OPINION
"The model is always going to divide opinion and it will continue to divide opinion. With recruitment, and it is the same at every single football club in the country, sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. Sometimes a player moves and it doesn't quite work, and then he moves to another club and he flies and you go, 'what happened there?' Sometimes players just have good fits and sometimes it doesn't quite work.
CLARK
“I keep going back to Jack Clarke, he was playing Under-21 football at Spurs, he'd had some loans that didn't go very well but he wasn't a bad player, it just didn't work out. He came to us in League One and he helped us get out of the league, but he wasn't the player we know now. People will talk about the model but for everyone that hasn't quite worked, we could sit here and name the ones that have.
BALLARD
"You can talk about Jack, Dan Ballard, and then there's developing your own as well. Dan Neil - every time we go and see the opposition after the game, the opposition manager nine times out of 10 is talking about Dan Neil. 'What a player he is, one of your own', lots of clubs would love to have one of those. Anthony Patterson, Jobe Belllingham..if he decided he wanted to leave the club tomorrow how much would he be worth at 18? That's the positive of it, but of course there are always going to be the ones that don't quite work out. It'll continue to be a discussion point, when it works and when it doesn't."
