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September 12, 2014, 7:42pm
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Quoted from grimsby pete
I watched his time at Grimsby, mainly as a youth and a reserve always as a striker,

Buckley kept giving him a  game or two then dropping him ,

I think he was with the club as a pro for 5 years but never really had a long run in the 1st team,

When he was released he turned into a good midfield player,

Buckley never thought of that.


He was the next generation on from Wilkinson & Lund and never really looked the part, although to be fair the youth teams he played in were not as brilliant as the earlier ones either. His attitude as a youngster was a bit suspect. Perhaps he felt GTFC was too much of a step down from Everton. I seem to remember he was tried in midfield but it was attitude that let him down because the coaches thought he just wasn't working hard enough.

Maybe the penny dropped after his loan at Scarborough.


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September 12, 2014, 7:52pm

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Jack Lester, Gary Croft, Ryan Bennett and John Oster where the best younsters to emerge from the youths the rest were average I.e. Daryl Clare, Mansaram and Hargreaves.


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September 12, 2014, 9:06pm
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I played as a teenager with Chris Hargreaves, and the idea that he could ever have been a million pound player makes me chuckle. I think he was very lucky to be a pro Chris, and to play so many league games is even more astonishing.


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He was a year above me at school and I remember playing against him in an our year versus their year match. Would have been not too long before he became an apprentice, I expect. Never got past me in that game and I wasn't exactly Bobby Moore! Nobby Stiles, perhaps...

Just goes to show that a bit of ability and plenty of application can work out well for some players.
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I was in the same year as him at school, although  we were in different schools. I played against him for our schools a lot, and I played with him a lot at Clee Borough, District etc. Set up a lot of goals for him. He was good. But not that good.


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