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Is the grass any Greener??


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Seeing where David Prutton now finds himself, has led me to think about players who thought they were better off moving from Saints.

 

Steve Williams came to mind straight away, a great great player, but dissappeared from the scene within a couple of years, having moved to the mighty Arse nal......

 

So who do you recall???

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Some do Bridge Shearer Jones Davies Best

 

 

Some dont Beattie Baird

 

 

Some may do Surman McGoldrick Bale Walcott Dyer Crainie Mills Blackstock

 

 

Not many SFC have signed have been that good either SKacel Euell BWP Saga for instance

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I don't think there are many players at all we have 'discarded' and then they've gone on to be successful.

 

Kevin Davies is the most recent. To a much lesser extent Leon Best (though didn't we try and keep him)

 

The likes of Walcott and Flowers were prised away from our grasp!

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The amount of players who seems to have gone backwards after leaving us is endless, although there are, of course, two kinds: Those who thought that they were a big fish in a tiny provincial club, and then found that their appraisal of themselves was grossly exaggerated, and those who needed to find their own level, and then played for several years happily for Swansea, for example.

 

It's much harder to think of those who left and made a great success of it.

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The amount of players who seems to have gone backwards after leaving us is endless, although there are, of course, two kinds: Those who thought that they were a big fish in a tiny provincial club, and then found that their appraisal of themselves was grossly exaggerated, and those who needed to find their own level, and then played for several years happily for Swansea, for example.

 

It's much harder to think of those who left and made a great success of it.

what is a provincial club..?

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what is a provincial club..?

 

Good question. I was merely trying to capture what they might have been thinking. Something which extists in the provinces, meaning anything outside London, really, or maybe we should include Manchester and Liverpool...Do I give a...Not really. Small club I suppose it means, but outside the top five how small are we?

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Good question. I was merely trying to capture what they might have been thinking. Something which extists in the provinces, meaning anything outside London, really, or maybe we should include Manchester and Liverpool...Do I give a...Not really. Small club I suppose it means, but outside the top five how small are we?

I have often wondered what people mean by a small provincial club..

 

or just provincial...? sort of adds to the insignificance of something..?

 

does that mean leyton orient or brentford are bigger than us..?

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