[Albion] Warren O'Hora

[AZ Gull]

I like that we sign all these Irish prospects. There's something romantic about it.

Seems we've a couple of really good ones in the system too, in Molumby and Connolly (plus Hutchinson, Mandriou, etc) and now this latest lad.

When was the last one we signed (direct from Ireland) that actually made a first team impact?

Paul McCarthy?

Paul Armstrong?

 

[AZ Gull]

What about a progress report.

Yeah - there must be someone on here, with too much time on his or her hands, who could write up a review of the season for the U-18s and U-23s each year.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I assume these are speculative buys where we work on a "1 in n" might eventually become a world beater. Southampton did this very well for a few years - does anyone know what approach they took? In the day people spoke about "home grown" down there in Hants, but I assume in reality they were shipping in lads of this sort of age and not all from Fareham?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Paul Armstrong?

Good shout. That was TWENTY years ago, mind.

Fingers crossed the success rate is on a (steep) upward curve!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I assume these are speculative buys where we work on a "1 in n" might eventually become a world beater. Southampton did this very well for a few years - does anyone know what approach they took? In the day people spoke about "home grown" down there in Hants, but I assume in reality they were shipping in lads of this sort of age and not all from Fareham?

Mostly fairly local - Walcott from Newbury, Ward-Prowse from Portsmouth, Reed from Worthing, etc.

Their academy is not just based IN Southampton though - they have a sister facility at the University of Bath, so the FA's proximity rule' could be exploited to a wider area. Gareth Bale.

 

[Bladders]

Straight into the U-23’s

AKA The Bermuda Triangle


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[Mr Bridger]

Looks nothing like his mum

 

[AmexRuislip]

curtains?

I think [MENTION=28934]AmexRuislip[/MENTION] would prefer that you draw that line of questioning to a close.

For you people with warped minds, I was talking of the wig variety, not the merkin

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

curtains?

Beef.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Yeah - there must be someone on here, with too much time on his or her hands, who could write up a review of the season for the U-18s and U-23s each year.

But who could that be I wonder?

Is it? Hang on his name escapes we now.

 

[luppers]

I was old in 1999

I was ancient,born 1947

 

[Bladders]

I was ancient,born 1947

Wow! Almost talking Ancient Greece there !


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[tiberious]

I was ancient,born 1947

YES !!!!!!V I've found someone older than me .... Im a just a boy from 1963 the year kennedy was assassinated ... I younger than Luppers .. yeah....