RedUn Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 He came through Chelsea's academy if I remember rightly. LL was only ever a Schoolboy on Chelsea's books before being released. He played for our Academy in a trial at Cwmbran, came on at half-time to score all our goals in a 5-1 win and was taken on as an Academy Scholar. As others have pointed out Liam Rosenior is obviously the most successful of City Academy graduates to date. Who might be "the best" is a more subjective question but let's all hope the answer for now proves to be Joe Bryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtonboy Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Got to agree with the Gerry Gow shout, but, Tom Ritchie had a great career and was only very young (like Gow) when he arrived from Scotland with his brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelRobartes Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Sorry Monkeh, doesn't really matter I know, but according to this he played for us against Blackpool in August 2002. Aged 17.http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=32646&season_id=132 By the way here is a list of players to come from academy -http://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/article/academy-history-406809.aspx?pageView=full Some forgotten names there! I thought Clist was quite a good player, was a bit disappointed when we let him go. Ditto several of the others on that list, few of whom have really gone on to better things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishponds_Red Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Tristan is at Weston super Mare and Jennison is at Tranmere. Tristan is at Aldershot Town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex#40 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Tristan is at Aldershot Town Not according to Weston's website http://westonsmareafc.co.uk/first-team/players/ I'm sure I saw a story in the Mercury last week saying he'd signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron-Bcfc Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 It's so poor that we haven't had one player come through who has turned into a top half Premiership player. I know a lot of our youngsters do get pinched though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderbeans Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Rolando Aaron's in the last 5 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Homer Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Tristan is at Aldershot Town Tristan was at the Shots but has since moved to Weston - he scored from the penalty spot last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 How much would he be paid playing for Weston? Would he have to have a proper job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Orns Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 How much would he be paid playing for Weston? Would he have to have a proper job? Good God, yeah! They won't get much at that level I know all the Gloucester City players have regular jobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero Uno Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 How much would he be paid playing for Weston? Would he have to have a proper job? Weston are the lowest payers in the Conference South. Threw a load of money at it in recent years and the Chairman said enough is enough. Which is why I'm surprised Mickey Bell took the job. They have a very young squad too which also keeps the wages down. Their players will have full time jobs - and yet only a league below the Horse Punchers!! Funnily enough they have picked up since Bell got sacked and should avoid relegation which is an achievement given the budget (or lack of). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Good God, yeah! They won't get much at that level I know all the Gloucester City players have regular jobs christ half the teams the gas lose/draw against all have full time jobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Have you seen a Scottish Div3 game? We hear so many opinions of it...I'll bet 99% of posters have not. These are part-timers or amateurs, pretty much playing for village sides. Not having a dig, by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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samo II Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Have you seen a Scottish Div3 game? We hear so many opinions of it...I'll bet 99% of posters have not. These are part-timers or amateurs, pretty much playing for village sides. Not having a dig, by the way! I've played sevens with lads on the books of Scottish Division Three (as was) before, and being I'm far from being great, I can't say they were much better (albeit they had noticeably much better general fitness/stamina than your average player). And having played armature football in England, I'd not say the standard was significantly higher, to be honest. In fact, I carry a scar from an 'accidental' head butt by a then-current Greenock Motron player, who was playing as a ringer in his pal's fives team one evening (was a cup night), and they were a Scottish Championship team at the time. He was pretty decent though, to be fair; just didn't like getting tackled by an English bloke who was a close to a foot taller than him... EDIT - Also watched Queen's Park a fair bit when a friend's nephew was playing for them, and as that standard was Scottish Division Two and awful, I'd wager the full games in Div Three were worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Liam Rosenior, realistically has had the best career so far I'd say. Quite depressing really isn't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TRL Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Jim Brennan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolcitysweden Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 How much would he be paid playing for Weston? Would he have to have a proper job? Half Bananarama Conference is semi professional Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
where's the joy Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 chris garland surely england u23 big money sale to chelsea brave, hard, skill full, good in the air, born next door sadly parkinsons struck him too young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Not then termed The Academy but one Trevor Francis left the youth set up when it disbanded shortly be we were struggling for cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alexukhc Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I'm more concerned of the ones we missed out on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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City1970 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 kevin mabbut Not many City players have scored a hat trick at Old Trafford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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