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You were a motley crew ;-) Poor old 'Yank' must of wondered what he had let himself in for !!!!!!

The apprentice? sitting on the far right glen ? as you call him seems to be the out of age kilter as I am sure he was not you other apprentices age. I seem to recall that he had a link with West Bromwich Albion and was brought to the club by Ken Gutheridge ??? Frank Mcalear had some problems...

Again I can name many of the obscure players in this picture, however I am struggling with the guy to the right of George Aitkin, the Ginger lad and who is the lad on the left shoulder of Mike Ring ( Wayne Orton ?? ) surely not !!!

Gary Standen, is either from an earlier or later era, around this time there was not an apprentice of that name !!!

Mark Vanston was a Worthing / Steyning lad, who was a prolific goalscorer for the youth team at the time, a team by the way that was full of British players rather than the local Sussex lads now. He ended up being released before being offered a professional deal and ended up in USA and was a...

Yep, generally referred to as 'Yank' .......... I think he was financed by his parents at the time. Does anyone know who the others might be ???

The apprentice sitting down in the middle is the American Peter Scouras.

No its not ........ ;-)

oooops the player in the picture with Ring is Stille of course !!!

Geard came back very briefly under Melia without any contract, more a trial period, Ramsey became a close colleague of Giles Stille at the time of Bailey and worked his way into the first team squad under Melia, but was always contracted by the club. I would conclude that Ramsey was a young...

Great picture, bizarrely I can name most of the most obscure ones including the apprentices. But a few I cannot place, the player next to George Aitken and the red haired lad and the lad on the shoulder of Mike Rings left shoulder.

I would suspect that both Ramsey and Geard were also part of those fringe players ?

Do the stats include cup games ? I am not 100% sure but I know he was included in a number of first team squads that year, hence the picture in the first team squad I guess ;-)

Yeah, he was from Fulham I think, I am sure he played in a couple of first team games, but more likely a cup game or two, rather than league.

Signed by Bailey and his assistant John Collins.

He might not be the Tommy Mason you allude to, however it is Tommy Mason signed 1983'sh.

The other Israeli was Jacob Cohen .........

It is Tommy Mason, I think he came from Fulham, but definitely Tommy Mason, left back, think he played a couple of first team games.