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....or how about FOUR goal keepers who signed for Saints - after having been on Tottenham books in their earlier days...?

 

Keller, Forecast, then I struggle. Thorstvedt? Didn't he sign for us? I know Beasant played for both, but Spurs came later.

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Shayne Bradley, Duncan Spedding, Patrice Tano

 

Duncan Spedding. Funnily enough his name came up the other day, I work with a bloke who was a first year pro at Saints in the mid 90's and went through a "remember him" session with the team from that year. Other names that popped up were Paul Sheerin, Alan Nielsen, Frankie Bennett, Matt Robinson, Phil Warner (was meant to be our Gary Neville) & Crister Warren

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For sh!ts and giggles I altered the editor of one of the earlier Championship Managers, think it was the '98 version, to make one Saints player awesome. It was Duncan Spedding, who went on to be the best defender the world had ever seen.

 

Tomas Pekhart

Nic Bignall

Still trying to rack my brains for youngsters that may not have got much of a look in. Jake Thomson par example.

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Keller, Forecast, then I struggle. Thorstvedt? Didn't he sign for us? I know Beasant played for both, but Spurs came later.

 

I left it a while before responding but you got the most recent SNSUN, but to find the others you'd need a longer memory.....or have a copy of In That Number to help.

 

Tommy Forecast will go down as the only player to have signed a 5 year contract with the club. and never played a League game :blush:

Kasey Keller was a loan keeper - during Nov 2004 - when we had a goalie injury crisis.

 

but before him we go back to the 1960's......and

John Hollowbread (3k bargain in 1964) who played 40-odd games before being badly injured. A good keeper with a sense of humour that he shared with fans behind goal.

In his turn, Hollowbread had been understudy tio the man who came before him was....

 

Ron Reynolds (bought for 10K in 1960 from Spurs) where he had the unenviable task of understudying the legendary Ted Ditchburn for many years. RR clocked up over 100 Saints' games in the early 1960's despite serious shoulder and ankle injuries incurred in matches. His last game was a derby match at Fratton when he injured his shoulder so badly at the start of the game and had to go off - and was never able to play again. Ron caused some concern (amongst fans) when it was revealed that he played with contact lenses, but to be fair, it seldom seemed to have impaired his judgement and he was considered a good, brave keeper at that time.

 

Both Reynolds and Hollowbread have quite interesting personal histories published on Wikipedia - for those who enjoy history .

 

I might have added a fifth name that of George Ephgrave. A great favourite of my (late)father. Ephgrave was signed by Spurs as an 17 y.o. amateur in the late 1930's. With little chance of first team duty, he had spells with Villa and Swindon before WW2 began. GE was captured in Crete and spent the rest of the War in a POW camp. He signed for Saints in 1946, where he shared goalie apps. with the locally-born Len Stansbridge for a couple of seasons. Ephgrave, who stood at 6'4", was distinctive not only because of his huge height...but his amazing ability to pick up the football - one handed.

 

Both Ephgrave and Stansbridge later lost favour when Saints signed (the recently deceased) Scottish international keeper - Ian Black).

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Bruce Grobbelaar

Steve Guppy

Dani Rodrigues

Kasey Keller

Lucien Mettomo

Dan Petrescu

Sir Alf Ramsey

Uwe Rösler

Craig Maskell

 

Should'nt forget Justin Fashanu, Colin Boulton, (Derby County), Jim Montgomery, (from Sunderland), Chris Woods, Tsu-la Ling, from a Dutch club, on trial, only made one appearance, I think !, and of course there was Ali Dia,

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Who were the two Russians we signed in the early 90's under Nicholl?

 

full back Alex Cherednik (23 games +4 subs.) struggled to get a place in front of the (then) emerging Jason Dodd

..and winger Sergei Gotsmanov (8 games +6 subs.) was never going to get selected ahead of MLT.

 

They may have has good in their days in the old " well-drilled " Soviet side, but never really came to terms with the demands of higher level English football.

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full back Alex Cherednik (23 games +4 subs.) struggled to get a place in front of the (then) emerging Jason Dodd

..and winger Sergei Gotsmanov (8 games +6 subs.) was never going to get selected ahead of MLT.

 

They may have has good in their days in the old " well-drilled " Soviet side, but never really came to terms with the demands of higher level English football.

 

That's them, nice one cheers.

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