How many local lads in the last decade have made the grade in professional football , I know one or two have been at pro clubs and not quite made it but other than Clifton I can’t really think of any. I perhaps should include max wright seeing as though he’s been on pro terms for a while now.

How many "local lads" have made it t any given footballing Town in England in the last 10 yrs?

Not just ourselves, its a national thing.

Ryan Bennett

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How many "local lads" have made it t any given footballing Town in England in the last 10 yrs?

Not just ourselves, its a national thing.

Obviously Jonny foreigner as limited opportunity at the big clubs ...but down the pyramid again have north east Lincolnshire got anybody playing pro footy ?

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Ryan Bennett

Ryan is not from our area

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Ryan Bennett

Came through our youth setup but not local.

Stevie Croudson  :)

Alex Flett at Clee Town was a pro at Bradford as a youngster.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Came through our youth setup but not local.

Not sure we can even claim that to be fair. He spent 10 years at Ipswich before joining Town in 2006, making his first team debut the following year.

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Alex Flett at Clee Town was a pro at Bradford as a youngster.

Didn’t really make it though did he, shame really good player but not athletic enough

Think there was a lad who was in Man City’s youth team about 10 years ago from Grimsby. Unfortunately can’t remember his name, but think we were linked with him at some point.

Adam drury^ and he now plays for GY boro

John Oster?

Quoted from blundellpork

Think there was a lad who was in Man City’s youth team about 10 years ago from Grimsby. Unfortunately can’t remember his name, but think we were linked with him at some point.

Drury (Man City)
Barlow (hull)
Both signed pro terms young but both released without fl debut

I'anson?
Wasn't he playing second tier in Spain not long ago?

Reece York is at Sheffield United after being at Fulham (where he left GTFC at 15/16 for) but hasn't broken into first team.

Lewis Collins, although looks to have dropped out of the pro game after signing at Clee Town, was at Reading and then Mansfield.

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Reece York is at Sheffield United after being at Fulham (where he left GTFC at 15/16 for) but hasn't broken into first team.

Cheers tommy wasn’t aware of Reece York

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Lewis Collins, although looks to have dropped out of the pro game after signing at Clee Town, was at Reading and then Mansfield.

Heard Cowley was keeping tabs on him with a view to making him a professional again..... ;)

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Not sure we can even claim that to be fair. He spent 10 years at Ipswich before joining Town in 2006, making his first team debut the following year.

Yeah quite; I always think it's scraping the barrel claiming some youth system credit when he played for them for about 6 months!

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I'anson?
Wasn't he playing second tier in Spain not long ago?

And made a few appearances in the top division (Primera?). Don't think he was a Town youth product though - maybe only latter stages of the Youth. Came from down south having lived in Spain.

Apparently he wasn't good enough for us in the Conference.

While I think about that period, what happened to the Albanian lad? Andi Thanoj.

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How many local lads in the last decade have made the grade in professional football , I know one or two have been at pro clubs and not quite made it but other than Clifton I can’t really think of any. I perhaps should include max wright seeing as though he’s been on pro terms for a while now.

Now we know why. We're all so unhealthy

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While I think about that period, what happened to the Albanian lad? Andi Thanoj.

Last i heard he was at boston

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And made a few appearances in the top division (Primera?). Don't think he was a Town youth product though - maybe only latter stages of the Youth. Came from down south having lived in Spain.

Apparently he wasn't good enough for us in the Conference.

Yeah I think he signed from Forest at 16

Quoted from Abdul19

Yeah I think he signed from Forest at 16

Oh, I had it in my head he came from Luton for some reason.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Oh, I had it in my head he came from Luton for some reason.

He was born there, guessing that's why you're thinking of it. Looking at his wiki he never actually signed for Forest, he turned them down to sign for us!

So other than the lads mentioned in the gtfc team/ squad nobody now or in recent years has made a living out of pro football anywhere in the pyramid . Considering our area 160+k population what’s going wrong ?

Charlie Vernam

Bradley Wood

Think he was from Lestah.

Yeah, I'd put money on it that he was.

Dean Henderson??

Was gonna say Hegarty but I think he was from Wakefield and picked up from Forest's academy.

Also, his debut was over 10 years ago.

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Bradley Wood

Brad was from Leicester

Peter Winn ?

Danny North ? You could argue started to flourish 10 or so years ago ?