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JulianDarbyFTW

JulianDarbyFTW

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Was just thinking about Paul Furlong for some reason, and it made me wonder. How many homegrown, out-and-out strikers have we had who actually cemented a place in the first team and banged in the goals? I can think of Wilson, but that's about it in recent years, and he was pretty much a one-season player. Midfielders aplenty, but strikers not so much. Or is my memory just bad?

Edit: Thanks to the posters who pointed out Paul Furlong wasn't homegrown. Turns out my memory is even worse than I thought!
 
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Magwitch

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We sold Bannister as a left winger but bought him back as a striker so perhaps he counts a little bit. As for home grown players we have had a few go right back to Bobby Gould and Brian Alderson then there was Garry Thompson, Mark Hateley, Tommy English, Garry McSheffrey, Callum Wilson not sure about English but we got sizeable transfer fees for them. The mentioned Paul Furlong didn’t come through our youth system we snapped him up from non league Enfield but let him go cheaply to Watford who within two years sold him to Chelsea for a then record Chelsea fee of £2.3million ! 😱
 
Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Maybe with strikers it's more important for them to make an instant impact and get goals. Midfielders can settle in, just picking easy passes without massively affecting the game for quite some time before they're open to criticism.

Defenders also have a bit more leeway in making a few errors (Ben Turner gave me palpitations for a good while).

But strikers and keepers have an easy metric to judge them very quickly - are they scoring/conceding goals.
 
Briles

Briles

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Could maybe include Mcsheffrey
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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JulianDarbyFTW said:
Was just thinking about Paul Furlong for some reason, and it made me wonder. How many homegrown, out-and-out strikers have we had who actually cemented a place in the first team and banged in the goals? I can think of Wilson, but that's about it in recent years, and he was pretty much a one-season player. Midfielders aplenty, but strikers not so much. Or is my memory just bad?
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Steve Livingston, maybe didn't cement a place in the team but did play and got a hattrick in the league cup quarter final 1990
 
stevefloyd

stevefloyd

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Paul Furlong was not home grown, we got him from Enfield, I have said before as soon as we got him Butcher in his infinite wisdom got rid of Regis, who would have helped Furlong massively but sadly that wasn't to be. Furlong never really pulled up any trees in the top division but always seem to do well in the lower league 2 /championship
 
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PVA

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Remember when Billy Daniels came through as a striker and got converted to a defensive midfielder. Good times.
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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A player I liked and one who we wrongly let go of was John Tudor. He was vying for a starting spot with Bobby Gould in the promotion season and didn’t really get much of a chance to show what he could do in the top division. Maybe Noel Cantwell didn’t rate him? In any case he went on to have a really good career at Sheffield Utd and particularly alongside Super Mac (Malcolm McDonald) at Newcastle. He was a real hero on Tyneside.
 
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Magwitch said:
We sold Bannister as a left winger but bought him back as a striker so perhaps he counts a little bit. As for home grown players we have had a few go right back to Bobby Gould and Brian Alderson then there was Garry Thompson, Mark Hateley, Tommy English, Garry McSheffrey, Callum Wilson not sure about English but we got sizeable transfer fees for them. The mentioned Paul Furlong didn’t come through our youth system we snapped him up from non league Enfield but let him go cheaply to Watford who within two years sold him to Chelsea for a then record Chelsea fee of £2.3million ! 😱
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Think Hateley, Thompson and English were all in the same squad for a season or two and all scored their fair share. Wish we had that now.
 
The Philosopher

The Philosopher

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I always thought Keith Thompson (Garry’s brother) should have had a better opportunity / career.

Started off with us, went to Spain (2nd tier I think - did ok) and then came back to us at about age 23.

Was a left winger / striker who banged in loads of goals in the reserves (when the reserve matches were a better standard / format) but was unlucky that a certain David Smith had his incredible 1.5 seasons (the only good ones of his career).

Maybe irrelevant to this thread but anyway.
 
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Magwitch

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Fergusons_Beard said:
This thread brings back memories of Paul Culpin....


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It was said Paul Culpin was one of best finishers we ever had but away from the goal area he couldn’t play as in passing and team play etc if memory serves me correct I think he scored in the first couple of minutes on his debut
 
ExmouthNeil

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Magwitch said:
It was said Paul Culpin was one of best finishers we ever had but away from the goal area he couldn’t play as in passing and team play etc if memory serves me correct I think he scored in the first couple of minutes on his debut
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I used to go and watch the Reserves back in the 80's and they were great games especially when Culpin was in the team, he'd always get a couple of goals but normally more... Really good finisher... Do I remember correctly that he scored against the Villa???
 
DazzleTommyDazzle

DazzleTommyDazzle

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Magwitch said:
We sold Bannister as a left winger but bought him back as a striker so perhaps he counts a little bit. As for home grown players we have had a few go right back to Bobby Gould and Brian Alderson then there was Garry Thompson, Mark Hateley, Tommy English, Garry McSheffrey, Callum Wilson not sure about English but we got sizeable transfer fees for them. The mentioned Paul Furlong didn’t come through our youth system we snapped him up from non league Enfield but let him go cheaply to Watford who within two years sold him to Chelsea for a then record Chelsea fee of £2.3million ! 😱
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Don't forget Mick Ferguson!
 
Woodingdean_Sky_Blue

Woodingdean_Sky_Blue

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Magwitch said:
...then there was Garry Thompson, Mark Hateley, Tommy English... not sure about English but we got sizeable transfer fees for them.
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We swapped Tommy English with Leicester for Jim Melrose during the 82-83 season. Melrose was sold to Celtic in the summer of 83 for £100,000. Tommy English was already drifting downwards when he left us, so he was probably worth less than the money we got for Melrose.

Garry Thompson was sold during the 82-83 season for a fee that was widely reported at the time as £225,000 (different figures have been quoted since).

We got £190,000 from Portsmouth from Hateley in the summer of 83. This went to tribunal and the general consensus at the time was we had been ripped off. Portsmouth got £915,000 for him from Inter Milan less than 12 months later.

When we sold Ian Wallace in 1980 we got £1,250,000.
 
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