Homegrown Strikers (1 Viewer)

JulianDarbyFTW · Nov 20, 2020

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!

Deleted member 5849 · Nov 20, 2020

Go back a fair whilr, Bannister, Hateley, Gareth Evans...

Magwitch · Nov 20, 2020

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 · Nov 20, 2020

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 · Nov 20, 2020

Could maybe include Mcsheffrey

fernandopartridge · Nov 20, 2020

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?

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 · Nov 20, 2020

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

Blind-Faith · Nov 20, 2020

McSheffrey is the only one I can think of in my life time along with Wilson

AFCCOVENTRY · Nov 20, 2020

Andrew Ducros

Esoterica · Nov 20, 2020

Sometimes I still look through the U23 squad to see if Iyseden Christie is any closer to making his break through.

PVA · Nov 20, 2020

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

87 n all that · Nov 20, 2020

Roy O’Donovan. We let him go the first time but realised our mistake and bought him back.

Mcbean · Nov 20, 2020

Bapaga to come ?

Nick · Nov 20, 2020

Daniel Sturridge

87 n all that · Nov 20, 2020

Ponti

Irish Sky Blue · Nov 20, 2020

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.

87 n all that · Nov 20, 2020

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 !

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.

Skybluefaz · Nov 20, 2020

Esoterica said:
Sometimes I still look through the U23 squad to see if Iyseden Christie is any closer to making his break through.

He's still playing for a local side! Fair play to him, he must love it

Skybluefaz · Nov 20, 2020

JCH

Obviously didn't bang in the goals for us, but done well elsewhere

covboy1987 · Nov 20, 2020

Sir Bobby Gould Caludon Castle school- 82 appearences for Cov 40 goals - played for a number of top teams including Arsenal and of course was once our manager

Deleted member 5849 · Nov 20, 2020

covboy1987 said:
Sir Bobby Gould Caludon Castle school- 82 appearences for Cov 40 goals - played for a number of top teams including Arsenal and of course was once our manager

Twice!

baldy · Nov 20, 2020

fernandopartridge said:
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

A hat-trick + 1 more like

Johhny Blue · Nov 20, 2020

Mick Ferguson

The Philosopher · Nov 20, 2020

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.

DionDublinsJockstrap · Nov 20, 2020

Nobody mentioned Alan Green

wantageskyblue · Nov 20, 2020

John Hendrix - always thought we let him go to early. Went on to have a good career.

wantageskyblue · Nov 20, 2020

Hendrie

Fergusons_Beard · Nov 24, 2020

This thread brings back memories of Paul Culpin....

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Magwitch · Nov 24, 2020

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 · Nov 24, 2020

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

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???

Joy Division · Nov 24, 2020

George Thomas, Bas Sambou

MusicDating · Nov 24, 2020

baldy said:
A hat-trick + 1 more like

TBF to him, I did miss Livingstone's first goal -

DazzleTommyDazzle · Nov 24, 2020

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 !

Don't forget Mick Ferguson!

Woodingdean_Sky_Blue · Nov 24, 2020

Magwitch said:
...then there was Garry Thompson, Mark Hateley, Tommy English... not sure about English but we got sizeable transfer fees for them.

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.

Woodingdean_Sky_Blue · Nov 24, 2020

DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Don't forget Mick Ferguson!

He rejected a new contract to play in Dave Sexton's team. Sold for £280,000 to Everton.

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