Monsieur Leclerc
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- Apr 24, 2006
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Including Dean Wilkins' son and Leon Wright! Wright! Wright! :yahoo:
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bright1064
New member
We all knew that one was coming didn't we?
Oh well, he better hope his Daddy bucks his ideas up next season or he will no longer be given preferential treatment :thud:
Fred Oliver - Legend
Well-known member
theres only one Conner Wilkins!!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
<< Martin Hinshelwood, the club's director of football, said: "Connor has been given a scholarship not because of who he is but what he can do". >>
I can't quite put my finger on why I find this quote amusing. It might be something to do with the name 'Hinshelwood'.
Good luck to the lad, anyway.
I can't quite put my finger on why I find this quote amusing. It might be something to do with the name 'Hinshelwood'.
Good luck to the lad, anyway.
Scotty Mac
New member
- Jul 13, 2003
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he is not very good apparently - obviously a bit early to be writing anyone off yet, but it will be interesting to see how he gets on
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Dean White, the club's first team coach, said: "He has played at schoolboy level for Japan and we are very excited. Twentyinch Sanyo gained a place on merit and not for who he is".
Withdean Wanderer
Banned
Isn't one more than enough?
Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
I note there are no strikers among the new in-take. I cannot remember us ever producing a home grown striker who's gone on and been really successful. Why can't we??
- Jul 7, 2003
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I can't ever recall a decent striker coming out of our youth teams, that is to say one who's gone on to consistently score goals at Football League level.
Robinson has potential but is too inconsistent, Gatting seems to have stalled completely. Then there was Chris McPhee- worked hard but never in a million years up to it at League Two level, let alone League One. Scott Ramsay has scored a bundle in non league but is unlikely to go much higher. I can barely even remember any others- was Simon Fox a striker?
Come to think of it, there are few youth team graduates who've graced our midfield either- Dean Cox when he's in the mood perhaps; and certainly the only goalkeeper who played with any regularity was Mark Ormerod, who was then released and never had any success elsewhere, dropping into non league.
The only youth team products who ever seem to make it at professional level (either with us or elsewhere) are defenders. Lynch, Elphick, Paul McCarthy, Mayo, Dan Harding, Ian Chapman, Stuart Tuck (for a while) and so on.
So why are we turning out defenders with apparent ease, but can't seem to produce much else? Is defending that much easier than other disciplines?
Robinson has potential but is too inconsistent, Gatting seems to have stalled completely. Then there was Chris McPhee- worked hard but never in a million years up to it at League Two level, let alone League One. Scott Ramsay has scored a bundle in non league but is unlikely to go much higher. I can barely even remember any others- was Simon Fox a striker?
Come to think of it, there are few youth team graduates who've graced our midfield either- Dean Cox when he's in the mood perhaps; and certainly the only goalkeeper who played with any regularity was Mark Ormerod, who was then released and never had any success elsewhere, dropping into non league.
The only youth team products who ever seem to make it at professional level (either with us or elsewhere) are defenders. Lynch, Elphick, Paul McCarthy, Mayo, Dan Harding, Ian Chapman, Stuart Tuck (for a while) and so on.
So why are we turning out defenders with apparent ease, but can't seem to produce much else? Is defending that much easier than other disciplines?
scooter1
How soon is now?
And we got Leon Wright from Charlton.....Leon **ight, hopefully this one will have less of an attitude problem..
Ian Muir was one of our youngsters in the 80s. Think he was released and signed for Tranmere where he scored a hatful of goals.
Hammond, Fraser, Robinson, Cox, Loft
I don't think Tuck would be playing CM tonight either, he said to me hes never had the engine for midfield, only just enough for full back too.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Loft came via Chelsea, Gillingham and Hastings.
- Jul 7, 2003
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I already mentioned Robinson and Cox, forgot about Hammond who admittedly would be considered a success as another club have seen fit to pay money for him.
As for Fraser, he's not yet a regular with us, and I was thinking of players who'd gone on to have reasonably long careers. I hope he does, but he's not an automatic pick by any means yet. You could hardly put Loft in that category, even if he was a youth team graduate, which he's not.
Going back to the new scholars, you could guess which of the lads in the Argus photo was Wilkins' lad, couldn't you? He has that lovely Wilkins hair (obviously from Dean's side of the family and not Ray's)
Came through the QPR Youth ranks, came to us as a free aged about 20 yrs old.