A week ago last Thursday I had a meeting scheduled with our Sporting Director Georg Heitz. We were planning to talk about a development that had been bubbling along nicely throughout the week — a clutch of Fire Academy players were being announced daily as newly signed homegrown professionals, and we were going to talk about what this represented for the future of the Club.
I was just closing my laptop to head over to meet Georg, when my email pinged to indicate a staff-wide announcement…
In the days since, it’s been hard to see positives in the challenge all of us are facing right now, and from the feedback from the academy staff it’s been particularly tough for Chris Brady and Allan Rodriguez, who had the biggest announcements of their lives so far delayed by the extraordinary circumstances.