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Why can't we ever PRODUCE a DECENT striker ?



Ernest

Ernest

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Nov 8, 2003
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Why is our youth team and academies unable to produce a decent quality striker ? One that has a lasting career at Championship level at least and a 20+ goals a season man. We've had over hopes over the likes of Jake Robinson and Joe Gatting recently but they failed and going back through the years even Peter Ward was brought in.

Even lately, Barker, Dickinson and others have come into the development squad and soon been sent packing. It's about time we found someone but I shan't hold my breath waiting.
 






tomfitz12

tomfitz12

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Nov 25, 2012
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is this serious or not? I cant tell if you don't put the capitals in the main text.

I would presume its serious but the capitals in the thread title are making me question it... m just gonna answer both

real answer: the players that have come through recently just haven't been good enough quality, we're only just progressing as an academy so things will take time.

ernest answer: why don't you ask your SAUCE for who we are linked with?
 


Ernest

Ernest

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tomfitz12 said:
is this serious or not? I cant tell if you don't put the capitals in the main text.

I would presume its serious but the capitals in the thread title are making me question it... m just gonna answer both

real answer: the players that have come through recently just haven't been good enough quality, we're only just progressing as an academy so things will take time.

ernest answer: why don't you ask your SAUCE for who we are linked with?
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When was the last time we produced a striker from the local area from the youth team through to a first team regular and turned into a quality striker ? NEVER
 


Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

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Aug 18, 2009
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How many teams do produce good strikers from their youth squads? Southampton? Everton? I can't think of many more.
 












skipper734

skipper734

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Aug 9, 2008
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Bournemouth turn them out like..............regularly.
 


tomfitz12

tomfitz12

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Ernest said:
When was the last time we produced a striker from the local area from the youth team through to a first team regular and turned into a quality striker ? NEVER
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that's exactly what im saying, maybe with our previously poor academy system we missed out on young talent who, in the right hands, may have flourished. we have a very large catchment area for a club of our size and so there must be potential in the area. potential that I fell will hopefully flourish with the new training ground and academy system
 














Ernest

Ernest

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tomfitz12 said:
that's exactly what im saying, maybe with our previously poor academy system we missed out on young talent who, in the right hands, may have flourished. we have a very large catchment area for a club of our size and so there must be potential in the area. potential that I fell will hopefully flourish with the new training ground and academy system
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But how many Sussex born players in the Premier over the years ? Gareth Barry & Hammond now are ones I can think of but Sussex has hardly been a fruitful hunting ground for anyone in the past. We may need to cast the net far and wide for the right youngsters like Southampton do
 


tomfitz12

tomfitz12

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Ernest said:
But how many Sussex born players in the Premier over the years ? Gareth Barry & Hammond now are ones I can think of but Sussex has hardly been a fruitful hunting ground for anyone in the past. We may need to cast the net far and wide for the right youngsters like Southampton do
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completely agree. although it should be noted that other than brighton and , we have no big landmarks of population (even eastbournes pushing it as saying its got a large population)... Hampshire on the other hand has many medium/big towns scattered around whilst sharing its borders to other big local counties or towns like Swindon, reading, Bournemouth etc...
 


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Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Ernest said:
But how many Sussex born players in the Premier over the years ? Gareth Barry & Hammond
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Steve Brown and Russell Martin

tomfitz12 said:
it should be noted that other than brighton and , we have no big landmarks of population (even eastbournes pushing it as saying its got a large population)... Hampshire on the other hand has many medium/big towns scattered around
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The population of Sussex is 1.6m, population of Hampshire is 1.7m - not that much in it
 


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mona

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Jul 9, 2003
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John Robinson had many PL games for Charlton. Lynch and Harding are in the Championship. Harrison Reed of Southampton comes from Worthing I think.

Not brilliant but there are other places like Hull that don't produce many players.
 




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Gwylan

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mona said:
John Robinson had many PL games for Charlton. Lynch and Harding are in the Championship.
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Robinson was born in Zimbabwe, Dan Harding in Gloucester

Wasn't the original question about strikers - aren't all these rather proving Ernest's point?
 


edna krabappel

edna krabappel

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Jul 7, 2003
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mona said:
John Robinson had many PL games for Charlton. Lynch and Harding are in the Championship. Harrison Reed of Southampton comes from Worthing I think.

Not brilliant but there are other places like Hull that don't produce many players.
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This post referred specifically to strikers though. And our historic record, as Ernest is correct in saying, is abysmal. I can't think of a single home-produced striker, ever, that other clubs have genuinely envied or wanted to pay money for. All the strikers we turn out end up sinking down the leagues and wind up non-league by their mid to late twenties. George Barker may well be in League One now but my money says he won't make it with them.

Joe Gatting. Chris McPhee. Scott Ramsay. Jake Robinson. It's like a Who's Who of south eastern non league football. Going back to the 1980s was even worse. Franco Massimo, anyone? Simon Funnell?
 


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