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

[Gemmel]

Would love to know how many pro payers we actually have playing in all leagues, but this picture, just acts as a reminder

 

[sammysaint]

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

[Saint Without a Halo]

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

 

 

Premier league you can add Monk and Dyer from Swansea

[Stud mark of doom]

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.

 

Thanks

[The Kraken]

"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?

[Gis]

Simon Gillet, Lloyd James, Olly Lancashire ??.......,Alan the Llama, David McGoldrick (who owed 70% of the goals he scored in the youth team to AL)

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

Would love to know how many pro payers we actually have playing in all leagues, but this picture, just acts as a reminder

 

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

[Gemmel]

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.

Edited 14 June, 2013 by Gemmel

[SaintsCorner]

McGoldrick was top scorer in League One for half of the season this year, until a Championship club came in for him. A far better player than many on the South Coast will give him credit for.

[Stud mark of doom]

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.

[Gemmel]

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.

[Lazlo78]

List hasn't been updated since January but should still be useful:

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?31876-SFC-Youth-Academy-currently-active-professional-players

[SaintsCorner]

Some really obscure ones too. Josh Mulvany now playing for KooTeePee in Finland.

[The9]

If nothing else, that link also gives us a view of david in sweden's use of unnecessary bold and underlining at its absolute worst...

[Super_Saint]

Am I the only one surprised that Simon Gillett is almost 28? Where did that time go!