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It's Not Just The Bales, Walcotts and Chambos That The Academy Produce


Gemmel
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This season from my head in the top two leagues.

 

Premier League EX Saints YTS players Lallana JWP Shaw Baird K.Jones Bale Walcott and AOC

 

Championship Leon Best David Mcgoldrick Dexter Blackstock Wayne Bridge Brian Howard Matthew Mills Joseph Mills

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Can someone help me out? I can only name one of these. I lost track of all the names in the wilderness years.

 

From left to right: that pretty good midfielder who went to Doncaster; the full back who thought he was too good for us and jumped ship just before we turned the corner; no idea; Adam Lallana; no idea.

 

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"The Bales, the Walcotts, the Chambos..."

 

Am I the only one who can't stand this ridiculous pluralisation that seems to be a prevalent within the world of football these days? "The Bales.....", just how many Bales did we produce? Have we got any more on the books?

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Why does this picture serve as a reminder? None of these players are actually that good?

 

Because you have five players who are playing professional football, that started off at Saints and are plying their trade across different divisions. Very few clubs could lay claim to that......Which was kind of the point of the thread. They might not all be top flight footballers in the bale, Walcott, Oxo model, but there are plenty out there that have come through the ranks that are playing professional football.

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Because you have five players who are playing professional football, that started off at Saints and are plying their trade across different divisions. Very few clubs could lay claim to that......Which was kind of the point of the thread. They might not all be top flight footballers in the bale, Walcott, Oxo model, but there are plenty out there that have come through the ranks that are playing professional football.

 

Um, if very few clubs produced five players, we would struggle to have a five-a-side league.

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Um, if very few clubs produced five players, we would struggle to have a five-a-side league.

 

Fill your boots....another team that has (And this is a guess) 5 academy players playing professional football across all leagues - outside of man u. I think our total is somewhere near 15. The point is we are pretty good at that side of things.

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