Wilkins got sacked because he was a poor manager! Done nothing to prove otherwise since he left! Chapman still loves the Albion and would love one of his finds to thrive in the blue and white stripes!
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Why are Hull City signing a striker from Burgess Hill?
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Wilkins got sacked because he was a poor manager! Done nothing to prove otherwise since he left! Chapman still loves the Albion and would love one of his finds to thrive in the blue and white stripes!
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
I've just been through his Twitter feed and there's no mention of Brighton or the Amex.
Ulloa's Soul Patch
The Cyclone!
Can I use the fact I've played for the same school football side as this lad as a claim to fame?
Duff info then.....dodgy sauce
dejavuatbtn
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It's always frustrating when local lads make it elsewhere. We used to have good local scouts but you get the impression that we are now a bit billy big bollocks and look too far afield when the gems are under our noses. I really hope that when the acadamy really gets established there will be good mechanisms whereby local talent will get its chance and give us some more local players in the team.
Crispy Ambulance
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Who finished 7th in his one and only season in charge playing a large number of local/youth team players. You may be right in that Chapman would be happy to have one of his (Ashley Carr's) youngsters breaking through. But I guarantee he's still extremely pissed off with Bloom about how Wilkins was treated.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It has already been established that we tried to get him, but he's signed for a Premier League club. Where is the disgrace in that? We were always going to lose out.
We should have taken him ages ago (possibly years), not ending up competing with a pl team
Solly March
this totally
Geriatric Seagull
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Couldn't we have offered a straight swap? At least one of them appears to have some future potential.
Grombleton
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How do we know that he would be good enough 'years ago'?
I'm pleased that the kid gets a chance to develop with a PL team - but that doesn't mean he'll succeed. I'm sure if we took him on and he didn't make it people would still complain.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
How do we know he showed enough talent then, or that we didn't try?
Albion Robster
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Tweets can easily be deleted at a later time.
BensGrandad
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Due to different peoples opinions it is obvious and no disgrace that a player slips through, there have been many examples of Sussex born youngsters making it at other clubs. The most well known being Peter Bonnetti some years ago, Brian Yeo at Gillingham and more recently Marcus Tudgay and a player from Norwich ? Martin and Simon Rodgers at CPFC.
We should have spotted him before Hull, end of.
If we tried before he would have chose full time development squad with top coaching and facilities over county league.
Grombleton
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Why should we? Perhaps he didn't want to join? Perhaps we didn't think he's good enough (and playing well in the County league isn't any indication) or perhaps Hull are more willing to take the risk than we are. As I said earlier, if we had taken him on then released him as he didn't develop as we hoped, then people would be complaining about us wasting time and money on shit kids.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
According to another poster, we did. Our facilities have only been open since June of this year. How long have Hull been keeping tabs on him?