Lewes star's trial at Palace

[Don Tmatter]

Lewes winger Peter Adeniyi starts a 2 week trial at Palace on monday.
This boy is only 21, has been getting rave reviews all season, now our arch rivals jump in and give him a trial.
If they take him on,questions have got to be asked about our scouting network.

 

[JJ McClure]

If they take him on,questions have got to be asked about our scouting network.

Network! Dean White is hardly a network!

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

I wouldn't worry too much. With all due respect to the lad, if he joins Palace he's clearly useless.

 

[Simster]

I wouldn't worry too much. With all due respect to the lad, if he joins Palace he's clearly useless.

...like that useless Ian Wright bloke who we had previously turned down.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Yep - exactly. If they're in a Palace shirt they're useless, end of.

 

[Storer68]

...like that useless Ian Wright bloke who we had previously turned down.

the decision was between Steve Penney and Ian wright. And at the time I'd have taken Penney every time - terrific player until he got crocked.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Re Ian Wright: I think we told some guy called Roy Keane not to bother after Paul McCarthy had set him up with a trial too.

But you can't always tell with players at a young age. Ian Wright might have appeared crap then, maybe he needed physical maturity. On the other hand you've got thousands of brilliant 10 year olds, one crops up on TV every few years or so, with a pushy dad claiming he's choosing between 10 different clubs. They're usually f***ed by 15 and you never hear from them again. Anyone remember a kid called Sonny Parker who had massive hair and went to Ajax under much hype?

Where the hell is he now? Probably on the dole and very bitter at his old man.

 

[Don Tmatter]

When Dean White took over from Culverhouse,as well as Reserve team coach, he was supposed to be looking at the sussex scene for any useful players in the county.There's 3 or 4 players down at Lewes,who are worth a look, Crabb at Eastbourne Borough, 2 or 3 down at Burgess Hill.
If you don't want to look,you shouldn't be doing the job,White.

 

[mona]

Wasn't Adeniyi on Dulwich's books? So Palarse have been watching him for a while I reckon. Not every non league player who gets a trial is good. We missed out by not looking at Justin Harris of Lewes before he got crocked though.

 

[rool]

Im not sure the club take notice of any scouting. I informed them of a young player near me who was in the ireland under 17 team and heard nothing. Next thing I hear is that he's been picked up by nottingham forest.

 

[brighton rock]

you cannot blame the lad for wanting to play for a big club

 

[Icy Gull]

Re. Ian Wright might have appeared crap then, maybe he needed physical maturity. .

I may be wrong but I believe he was in his twenties and broke into the Palace side soon afterwards.

I believe we have always had a shit scouting system, which is why Sussex youngsters have ended up at London Clubs. It appears that if you don't come through the youth set up don't bother to apply.

I hope someone out there can tell me I'm talking bollocks and name a player that we've found locally through the scouting network.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Wright is one of those could have beens, part of the reason he ended up doing well is because all the rejections he had received previously and that is what kept him going for so long. Some players go through the youth systems, think they've got it and become lazy.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Lewes played a Palace XI at the beginning of the season. If Adeniyi played in that match as I've seen him play, I'm sure they would have been impressed by him.

 

[beorhthelm]

i remember when at school, about 92, some lad in my year was supposed to be going for a trial at West Ham. If he was good enough for West Ham, why not Brighton?

It makes you wonder about the 'network' aspect of Brighton's scouting.

 

[Kenhead]

Accually saying that there was someone in my year at school that had a trail at bournemouth, don't know how he got on as the trail was schelduled for just after are exams.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

tbobby was kicked out of 3 or 4 different clubs, all though we should take a look at steve harper from burgess hill he is ment to be good millwall are after him

 

[Zebedee]

Knowing our luck Adeniyi will turn out to be a roaring successs for Palace. If we can't spot a good player who is only based 8 miles away from Withdean it doesn't say very much about our scouting system or the club's ambition. I can't believe that Lewis would want very much for him.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Knowing our luck Adeniyi will turn out to be a roaring successs for Palace. If we can't spot a good player who is only based 8 miles away from Withdean it doesn't say very much about our scouting system or the club's ambition. I can't believe that Lewis would want very much for him.

a bag of kit?

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

Adeniyi is a star at Lewes and runs past players down the right wing like there not there. Weather he will make the step up is not known but Iin the Rymans League he is class. Anyone who went to the Lewes Horsham match will known after his goal where he picked the ball up on the half way line passed about five defenders then the goalie to tap in from one yard. Certainly my goal of this season.