Faces not fitting

[Pies4u]

Since the end of the 2009 / 10 Munto season I make it 12 players that have gone on to play at a higher level than the club were when they left. It’s distorted somewhat because 4 players were from the title winning squad. So that’s 8 players since. So we are lucky if it’s one a season on average.

1.) Kasper Schmicheal - Leeds United (Championship)
2.) Ben Davies - Derby County (Championship)
3.) Neal Bishop - Blackpool (Championship)
4.) Jonnie Jackson - Charlton Athletic (Championship)
5.) Alan Judge - Blackburn Rovers (Championship)
6.) Jamal Campbell Rice - Sheffield United (League One)
7.) Mark Fotheringham - Fulham (Championship)
8.) Gary Liddell - Bradford City (League One)
9.) Alan Sheehan - Bradford City (League One)
10.) Bartosz Bialkowski - Ipswich (Championship)
11.) Alex Rodman - Shrewsbury Town (League One)
12.) Graham Burke - Preston North End (Championship)

For these twelve players I can’t imagine for one minute how many players have come through the door on their way down or sideways to other clubs in our league. It must be a few hundred.

This is where the clubs problems lie in my opinion. Until we change path and get players that are on their way up whether that’s with us or by us being a stepping stone for them we will never be successful.

Exactly. Not sure what MM was trying to prove. It is far easier to name half a dozen who moved on rather than the dozens of no hopers and never will be’s who disappeared down the drain. Dredging up Schmeichel & Davies is also going back a bit far by whoever mentioned them.

The list is endless from the past 6 seasons alone. Here is a random selection;

Wholey, Dixon, Sharpe, Hollis, Murray, Stirling, Haynes, Tempest, McLeod - not to mention the assorted rubbish Moniz signed, like Swerts, Sprockel, Snijders & that fancy Dan midfielder whose name escapes me but he was absolute tripe. Who will ever forget Adams, Bennett & the circus act that was Aborah - just trawl back through old programmes to see the amount of dross we have released. It is a never ending list of dross.