Do Gillingham use the loan system to there benefit ???

[fan_of_mulligan]

I don't think we use the loan system to our benefit, a example of this is sending Tom Hadler out on a one month loan deal to Tonbridge Angels and Devante McKain signing for Maidenhead United on a three month loan deal and I don't think Gillingham have a strategy to loaning out our own young players.

I am sure that there are several clubs in The Kent Non League Scene that would love to affiliate with Gillingham Football Club and why cannot we use the following system which I am going to mention below......

Age 16 - A Season Long Loan at a Ryman Division One South / Kent County League Side (Sittingbourne, Faversham Town or Whistable Town for example).

Age 17 - A Season Long Loan at a Ryman Premier Division Club. (Margate / Maidstone United)

Age 18 - A Season Long Loan at a Conference South / Conference National Side. (Dartford, Welling United, Dover Athletic)

Then maybe, at the age of 19 these players would be better prepared to play for Gillingham because they have had three season long loan spells at different levels of the game and played potentially over 100 games in three season's - there would be a few exceptions to the rule - like if a Matty Jarvis or Jack Payne broke into the first team at the age of 16 - 17, but we would at least have a system in place where the loan system would benefit Gillingham Football Club, benefit the clubs who are only too happy to take our young players on loan, and also benefit the players we are loaning out, because they are playing competitive first team football at a younger age and there is a potential pathway into Gillingham's First Team.

QPR Do this with there young players, Michael Harriman was on loan at Wycombe Wanderers and then on loan with Gillingham last season and obviously he is on loan at Luton Town now, but they push there players higher up the footballing ladder once they have proven themselves in a lower division, so why cannot Gillingham do that with there young players.

This idea has only just come to me, but what does everyone else on here think about my suggestion ???

[Garawa]

There is only one issue with what you say. Most of these clubs only pay expenses as the players work during the week in their paid jobs. Perhaps for a month it might be possible but I doubt they could afford even the a youth players wages. Then there might be the reluctance to play a young player regularly in rougher competitive matches instead of pitting them against players of a similar size and age. Also if they are no longer at school would they train at the Gills during the day and train in the evening with their loan club or just in the evening meaning they may get LESS training time?

Our loanees tend to either have half their wages paid by us or come on a pay as you play type of deal, the ones where the parent club funds the entire wage on the proviso they play in every match appears to be quite rare these days. This means we need clubs to pay the young players wages we loan out in order to fund our own replacements so that means a semi-pro Conference level club. I wouldn't mind betting that even if we are paying half of Doughty's wages it is still more than many of our player's monthly salary. Even a tie-in with a smaller club probably won't work like it would if we were tied to a club like West Ham for example as we are both full-time professional clubs as I don't see the player getting the right amount of of the pitch work.

[Elgrande]

It seems that the loan system you are talking about would be of no benefit to most of our young players as they would in essence playing with players with a lower skill set and as for QPR, how is playing at a League 1 one season and then the following season a league 2 team; if that is progression I must not understand the meaning of the word.

[gillsfan1066]

Think we don't use the On Loan System properly in the fact we don't seem to be able to grab 3 or 4 players from a local team like Chelsea, West Ham, Spurs on loan even if it is for a month or two at a time. I would give Lidbits left*** for a couple of 18 year old goal scorers today from the Chelsea Academy.

[lidbid46]

N ot sure my left ..... would be of much use to anyone but I'm happy to help if we could get Stirling or Chambers maybe?!

[gillsfan1066]

Listen here you,you , YOU YANKEE, Mrs L here, you leave my Honey Bunny's left or for that matter right *** alone. He has his moments, My Birthday, His Birthday, The Queens Birthday, Secretary's Day,(I wondered about that one ) and at Christmas he's a real handful once he gets the smell of that turkey cooking,real frisky he is ,and when Gillingham win he's all, he's all,.................. well he's something but it's been so long I have forgotten what he is.
Anyway leave him alone I need him in one piece,someones got to clean the gutters before winter,there full of leaves.

[lidbid46]

Not her birthday - I don't have to do anything then as well do I?! And apparently wins in the Paint Pot thingy don't count either; I've still got the headache for getting that wrong Tuesday night!