Manager Ian McParland is hoping the return of Notts County's Centre of Excellence will help establish strong foundations at the club.The Magpies boss revealed the club are planning to relaunch the scheme in the coming months and although he concedes he may not be at the club to reap the rewards, he believes it will benefit the club in the long run.

"Plans are in place for re-launching the Centre of Excellence over the next few months, and I am very excited about it," he told the club's official website. "The year after that the under-18 youth team will be back, and 12 months down the line I would like to think we will be able to field a reserve team - whether it is in a reserves league of just playing friendly matches.

"A year after that I would hope we will be starting to get one or two lads from the Centre of Excellence who are in and around the first team, and then definitely the year after that you would hope to have a few recruits from the Centre playing in the first-team.

"That is the infrastructure of a proper football club. It's the way it used to be at Meadow Lane and I'm very keen to see us get back to that situation. Whether I see that out, time will tell because in all honesty, a manager's lifespan is not too long.

"We know we're not a Peterborough or an MK Dons with a lot of money flying about, but with what we've got we will do our best to move Notts County forward from the first-team to the Centre of Excellence."

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