Quote Originally Posted by Grand Wazoo View Post
All the ex-Albion guy is doing is poaching the kids he already knows from his time with us. Tosser.
It’s also partly our fault, we don’t give enough of them a try at first team level, even when we’re really cr ap.

There has been times when Cleary could’ve been given a run of games to try him out for example.

We’ve p I s s e d off so many of our talented youngsters over many years now, look at the way players like Adam Oliver, Sam Mantom, George Thorne, Sam Field, Jonathan Leko were treated by idiot managers.

A friend of mine is very good friends with Sam Field’s dad and has known Sam since he was a kid, he told me years ago that Pulis was constantly raving to Dam’s dad about how good the lad was and he barely played him.

I don’t blame any kid for taking an opportunity offered by us and then jumping ship to a Premier League club.

We didn’t do enough of the reverse when we were top dogs and the other local sides were struggling.

We are our own worst enemies with the kids we produce, you can name the success stories from our youth on two hands going back 50 years.

Statham

Robson

Martyn Bennett

Trewick

Burrows

Carlton Palmer

Gary Robson

Fellows

No doubt I’ve missed a couple from the past 30 years but not many, we’ve been f kn abject with our own kids, and then you look at the lines of Southampton and others who’ve produced boatloads and profited from them.