Youth development is a slow-burning process in which results are rarely fully forthcoming until several years down the line.
There are countless examples of such in a Bristol City context; Tommy Conway being the most obvious having signed for the Robins at the age of seven before making his Championship breakthrough 13 years later after several loans and careful nurturing through the age groups.
Alex Scott is slightly different, at the other end of the scale - albeit having previously experienced an academy at Southampton and being of a more mature age - but it took him just 18 months from joining City’s Under-18 programme to starring for the first-team.
