AZ Gull
@SeagullsAcademy Threads: @bhafcacademy
The interminable 2022-23 season refuses to acknowledge its own mortality with a couple of Albion players STILL on international duty (Carl Rushworth, a man destined never to win an international cap and Tom McGill, a Canadian with more England caps than Carl Rushworth).
Just before we rush headlong into the sunlit uplands of the 2023-24 season it is worth recognising what Albion achieved in this campaign in terms of international recognition.
Albion had a total of 44 players* called up for international duty across the duration of the season.
*From age group U-16 upwards, men/boys only (I don't track the womens' team) and excluding loanee Levi Colwill.
For comparison, in our Championship promotion season of 2016-17 we had 23 players (excluding loanees) called up.
Will this number ever be exceeded? Only time will tell.
Incidentally: Luca Barrington. In this article on the club website reviewing the academy season it is stated that Luca Barrington was one of the players called up. I have no knowledge of this. Was it for an England age-group side? Does he have a parent/grandparent from another country meaning it was for a differnet nation? If anybody can shed any light on Barrington's call-up (which country, age-group and when) I would be grateful.
Just before we rush headlong into the sunlit uplands of the 2023-24 season it is worth recognising what Albion achieved in this campaign in terms of international recognition.
Albion had a total of 44 players* called up for international duty across the duration of the season.
*From age group U-16 upwards, men/boys only (I don't track the womens' team) and excluding loanee Levi Colwill.
For comparison, in our Championship promotion season of 2016-17 we had 23 players (excluding loanees) called up.
Will this number ever be exceeded? Only time will tell.
Incidentally: Luca Barrington. In this article on the club website reviewing the academy season it is stated that Luca Barrington was one of the players called up. I have no knowledge of this. Was it for an England age-group side? Does he have a parent/grandparent from another country meaning it was for a differnet nation? If anybody can shed any light on Barrington's call-up (which country, age-group and when) I would be grateful.
