Aiden Marsh

Ambitious young lad. Was gutted when he left Oakwell. Was apparently offered a permanent deal with Raith and turned them down as he thought he could play at a better level. Hope that’s true and he gets the move he wants.

 

I get youre a huge defender of him mate and I too think he's better than what a lot on here think he is. But many many players get called up to international youth camps and never make it

 

And still got released.. just goes to prove how poor our academy as been. It's almost as if no one knows what there doing.

 

Think he had a lot of promise as a youngster but he’s just not developed as a player like everyone hoped.
Nothing against the lad and wish him well but I think he’s going to struggle for a career in the professional game.

 

That's a weird reaction lol, and its a bit unfair calling Aidy Marsh a dullard.
Still funny though.

 

There have been plenty of players who looked a level above their teammates at 16 and not made it. Standing out in youth football is very different from imposing yourself at a high professional level, especially when it comes to the physical demands. Unless he adds more dimensions to his game, I don't see him having much success long-term.

 

Marsh would have contributed more goals/assists in the last couple of years than Watters or Cosgrove, were he ever given the same amount of regular opportunities. I reckon he’d have got at least Humphrys numbers last season had we picked him 40 times.

Only an opinion.

He wasn’t afforded those chances and makes you wonder why they kept giving him a new contract. And now, the club has released him, and binned off Watters, Cosgrove and Humphrys too. So who knows what they’re after.

 

Really

 

Really what?

 

Couldn't agree more Andy..if I tried
I still say it again...in my opinion he will come back and bite BFC on the backside one day.
The lad must have killed 3 Robins. He was no worse than Watters or Cosgrove but like you say wasn't afforded same opportunities or time.

 

Seems like a decent finisher, but strikers in the modern era usually need to be big/strong, or fast, or preferably both, and unfortunately Marsh is neither.

He needs to be playing at a level where he's in the side week in, week out, so he can develop his game. He's hardly had any senior football, just 9 league starts. You can't get better if you're not playing. If he's playing and scoring then he'll catch the eye of other clubs.

 

Yeah theres some truth in that, who knows what Marshy might have done ehh.
If he'd been given the same chances, that both Cosgrove and Watters got.
But he might have flopped as well though, like I say, who knows.
Anyway he's gone now, its not important, and we have to move on.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think he was the answer. But he was on buttons, and guaranteed you graft and in terms of minutes to his output, offered no less than the lads I mentioned earlier who were paid five and six times his salary.

Good luck to him. He’s the most likeable kid and deserves a break.

 

I can recall sitting in the closed area of the West stand Andy with him and young Matty Wolfe another who I don't think was treated fairly and saying to Marshy I could understand him being left out if the others were doing the business which they werent adding it looks like the gaffers got his favourites and your face doesn't fit. He wasnt even making the bench either at the time. He was being frozen out
The lad was far from happy and said he needed to go out on loan anywhere soon. Young Matty another good lad was also in the dark about his future too at the time, the rest is history. I did say to Marshy though, that if I had one criticism about his game, he wasn't greedy enough in front of goal, which he accepted adding his dad had said the same to him
However i continued most of that wasn't his fault, due to the way he was being told to play.
In my opinion All him and Matty needed was that arm around them and someone higher up having some time and believing in them
Something they werent afforded, especially by DC after the promises that they had been given, promises that failed to manifest especially in young Wolfies case
It's a cruel game at times

 

Regarding promised not kept, is that a contract offer for Wolfe that never materialised then?


On Marsh and Wolfe, I was pretty disappointed than neither properly got that run in the team.

Wolfe’s injury came at a horrible time for him. He could have had a chance for us in League 1.

Marsh should’ve got more chances imo, even if they were off the bench. But as someone else said above, it’s hard for a striker who’s not either big/ strong or fast. Not many little fox in the box types now, with teams playing 1 up front.

Also, it was a few different managers who preferred the likes of Watters to Marsh. So surely he didn’t look that convincing in training?

Shame either way, I wanted them both to succeed here!

 

If Marsh was as good as he's made out to be and we'd made such a big mistake releasing him, he would have already got another club and not having to make do with a trial at a non league club.

 

Yeah at last, a bit of common sense ehh.
And not looking at it through blatant rose tinted specs!.

 

I think there’s some very harsh comments about the lad on here.

Young players all develop at different speeds, Marsh was obviously an early developer so stood out at youth levels, but never transferred that into misters football. That’s not his fault, he has talent but for whatever reason it just hasn’t happened for him.

I coached my own son for 10 years, he was physically bigger and stronger than the majority of his teammates and opponents, good football intelligence, great with both feet. He had trials with a few clubs but always got poor feedback regarding his fitness and being a little overweight.
Once he reached u16 the other players caught him up in regards physicality and his lack of pace hindered him. He stopped developing because it was all too easy for him to that point, then found it wasn’t easy at all.
Frustrating for me and the other coaches because you could see he had something, but just didn’t apply himself in the right way for some reason. He’s now 20 and doesn’t play football at all.

I'm sure this will be mirrored all over the world at different age groups.

I’m not saying Marshy has a lack of desire or ability but as said previously, it might be his lack of stature, pace or both that’s causing him to left behind.
He’ll learn and will develop his game to compensate for his shortcomings.

He’s a likeable lad and hopefully he carves a career out for himself.

 

I don't think we've made a big mistake releasing him, certainly no more than with most of our other transfer dealings. I think our big mistake was shunning him so that we could give watters and Cosgrove game after game after game in the hopes that one of them finally worked out what being a footballer was.
i think it massively harmed our campaign when we bizarrely decided that Cosgrove, max xg watters, an unemployed American winger and a french nobody were more deserving of game time than someone who had proven on occasion that he had the ability as well as the effort that others sadly lacked.
More than that though I feel that the way we treat our young players at times is disgusting. They have a poor game and they're sent to Scotland but a mid twenties player who we signed from elsewhere gets chance after chance and then we moan that we are losing 8m a year and that the academy is too expensive. Yeah it's too expensive if you spend money training players only to **** them off at the first mistake but I bet the academy costs nowhere near as much as our recruitment costs in terms of fees paid, wages paid and the detrimental effect it has on our first team when we feel obligated to play people that 10,000 fans can see aren't good enough just because we brought them in as adults instead of kids.

 

Well Wednesday whe

WTF Stop talking sense are you his dad .
But absolutely spot on in your thread.
He played roughly 180 minutes and scored 2 goals for Raith Rovers.
If only he had been given the game time Watters and Cosgrove had been given.
Why have an accademy if your not going to integrate them into the team.
Let's loan players or give game time to non descripts.
I rated Wolfy but another Got discarded.
I rate Lofty but he will get discarded.
I rated Nathan James . ,released too early.