BensGrandad
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Dopn Bates wing half in the late 50s Roy Jennings although born in Swindon only played for us and Crawley.
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[Albion] Team of Brighton home grown players
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Deano's Invisible Pants
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Paul Ifil?
AZ Gull
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I believe he was at one point, but he had left before his scholar years.
MrSnuggles
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Was Gary Stevens a product of our youth team?
woody12a
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Marcus Tudgay was from Shoreham as was Simon Rodger.
MrSnuggles
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Thought l read somewhere that he was 15 when he came to Brighton.
If 'still playing' isn't a criteria, I'd go for Adrian Thorne on the left.
SeagullRic
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Thanks, appreciate the reply
BensGrandad
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Good scoring record for us 1 in every 2 games.
AZ Gull
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Gary Stevens was released by Ipswich during his U-16 schoolboy season. He came to Albion at the start of the following campaign and played a few matches on trial for the youth team before being taken on as an apprentice professional (what these days is known as a scholar). This is taken from the programme against Oldham on 9 September 1978:-
People generally regard Solly March as being a product of our youth system; he joined the Albion in December of his 1st scholar year. So, if you accept Solly as being a youth team product, Gary Stevens has even more of a claim, seeing as he joined the club a few months earlier in comparative terms.
Sirnormangall
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Think you mean Mark Ormerod - good keeper but not home grown, we signed him from Dorchester.
Virgo needs to be in the squad imho
kevtherev
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You would have thought in all the years, the area would have produced just one decent striker.
LowKarate
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The area did produce one. See post #40.
He is still Tranmere's all time top goalscorer (ahead of John Aldridge amongst others) with 180 goals in all competitions and 146 league goals in only 330 games. This includes plenty scored at Championship level, so he was easily good enough to have played for us and we held him long enough to have spotted his potential, but never gave him a try.
AZ Gull
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It really didn't. Muir was born in Coventry and by the time he joined Albion he was almost 21 and we were his fourth club. He isn't a "home-grown" player by any stretch of the imagination. Kevin Russell would be a much better shout on that score.
Kevin Russell has a similar paper trail as Gary Stevens in terms of timing, both came to the club before the apprentice/scholar decisions so their progress after that might be attributed to the subsequent youth set ups, although Russell was released by Brighton like a million other failed scholars and rebounded after that, so I am not sure Russell can be anything else other than 'was here once', whereas Stevens flourished and would attribute the Brighton coaches, whom at youth level were local themselves in John Shepherd and Mick Fogden as fundamental on his progress, but neither are local by any stretch of the imagination.,
I think Muir came to Brighton from QPR, good player but still didnt do much here, so I agree Muir isnt ours either.
AZ Gull
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He started off at QPR, but came to Albion from Birmingham.
Hendon was at the Centre of Excellence for a few years but wasn't offered a scholarship, his dad Mark is still involved with the Academy recruitment department.