I'll be honest and I'd take another Hibbert and Osman. Much maligned as they were, I suspect they'd still add to the current squad / be good squad players.
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I'll be honest and I'd take another Hibbert and Osman. Much maligned as they were, I suspect they'd still add to the current squad / be good squad players.
...i remember watching him play for England U21s against Christian Ronaldo. Fine career and still playing very recently. Sean O’Hanlon is another centre-back who had a similarly long and successful career in the lower leagues.
There are loads, just a few more quick ones from me:
Paul Tait played for the likes of Bristol and is back as a coach.
Keith Southern a decent career at Blackpool and also back here coaching.
Jamie Milligan Fleetwood.
Sean Doherty moved to Fulham.
Nathan Holland currently on loan at Oxford from West Ham.
I think Carl Reagan went to Barnsley after being part of our FA Youth Cup winning team, Mick O’Brien went to Torquay.
i wouldn’t include the like of Jagielka, Baines and Barton in any list.
Davies, Holgate and DCL probably fit that category, as they will all clearly have decent careers, but you do wonder whether any of the teams above us would readily buy them from us.
Ross hasn't kicked on, and you could argue Stones either, yet both of them are the kind of player we need to be producing (and keeping). History tells us we don't produce those players though.
It always used to be the sell that your path to the first team is more clear cut at Everton. In Sancho land, we're more Dortmund than City, but that doesn't appear to have been enough to help us attract, and then develop, the international-standard talent we need to progress.
...going back to the original post, I‘m not sure if the point being made is ‘a concern’ we haven’t produced many PL standard players in the last 25 years, or a concern we have produced many who haven’t played much for us.
Without looking at statistics, I think we’ve done as well as most regular top flight clubs, I think only Arsenal have more teenage top flight goalscorers than us. Very few that we let go come back like Duffy and Lundstrum have.
Ultimately the aim is to find ourselves a gem, but for the well being of the whole game, it’s important the bigger clubs support those in the lower leagues. It’s also important we give talented young footballers a chance to earn a living in the game. To those ends I think Everton most definitely plays it’s part and long may it continue.
Few defenders from some years back:
John Irving
Lee Molyneux
Patrick Boyle
Steven Schumacher (midfield)
Daniel Fox
Anthony Gerrard
John Irving
Lee Molyneux
Patrick Boyle
Steven Schumacher (midfield)
Daniel Fox
Anthony Gerrard
Saw today that our ex U23s striker Courtney Duffus is the boyfriend of tennis player Heather Watson. He’s currently playing and scoring goals for Yeovil in the National League after they were relegated. He had a younger brother Tyrone who went off to Cardiff last I heard of him.
Steven Schumacher is now assistant manager at Plymouth Argyle
twoblue
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Or showing that joining us leads to first team opportunities
...another product of Cardinal Heenan school around the corner from me in West Derby. Indeed, in his U15 year he was one of 3 England schoolboys (John Walsh who played for the Reds and Alan Moogan) from that same school which is an amazing achievement.
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KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
Aye he did. Radzinski was on for a hat trick, took it round the keeper and slid it to Chadwick to slot instead. Can’t remember who against like but I was there.
Edit: I think it was against Bolton and Big Dunc got sent off early on for elbowing someone for basically no reason. We won 3-1.
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MarkK1988
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Id love another Ossie, think full backs of Hibberts type have gone for now.
MarkK1988
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Molyneux had a good career in league 2 for a while with accy stanley and a few others.
think hes playing in the welsh prem at the moment
the_leftback
Player Valuation: £500k
Jamie Jones is a keeper that come through the academy, he’s now at Wigan.
the_leftback
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My old school that, unfortunately I’m crap at footy though.
You could probably make a team of lads who have come through Cardinal Heenan, unreal the amount of footballers who have come through there.
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