The9 Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 (edited) I see Saints legend (put him on the banner) Iago Falque scored for Torino today in their 2-1 defeat to Atalanta, in which Joe Hart made his Torino debut and contrived to make a mistake to gift Atalanta the equaliser. Anyway, after his one game for Saints in 2012 in which we lost 2-0 at home to Leicester in the Championship promotion season, he went on loan to Almeria and Rayo Vallecano, before Spurs sold him to Genoa, who sold him to Roma, who have loaned him to Torino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago_Falque Are there any other Saints rejects who've ended up being alright after all? Whatever happened to Nicholas Bignall, Thomas Pekhart and Romain Gasmi? I can't be bothered to Google, so... Edited 12 September, 2016 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josebaiw Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 I see Saints legend (put him on the banner) Iago Falque scored for Torino today in their 2-1 defeat to Atalanta, in which Joe Hart made his Torino debut and contrived to make a mistake to gift Atalanta the equaliser. Anyway, after his one game for Saints in 2012 in which we lost 2-0 at home to Leicester in the Championship promotion season, he went on loan to Almeria and Rayo Vallecano, before Spurs sold him to Genoa, who sold him to Roma, who have loaned him to Torino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago_Falque Are there any other Saints rejects who've ended up being alright after all? Whatever happened to Nicholas Bignell, Thomas Pekhart and Romain Gasmi? I can't be bothered to Google, so... Pekhart is at AEK Athens after spells at FC Nürnburg and Ingolstadt. Gasmi dropped pretty far down the French pyramid, and has been over in Thailand for the last few years. Sent from my XT1580 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 Scott McDonald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeham_69 Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 I remember flicking over to a Spurs U-21 or reserves game on TV by chance after he left us and was amazed at the way he absolutely controlled the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josebaiw Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 Scott McDonald. He's in his second spell at Motherwell, after time with Celtic, Millwall and Middlesbrough in between Sent from my XT1580 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 11 September, 2016 Share Posted 11 September, 2016 Bradley Wright-Phillips has done pretty well for himself for New York Red Bulls Depends if you would classify him as being a reject or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Kevin Philips, considered too small to play upfront and released by Chris Nichol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Dennis Wise. Possibly scraping the barrel a tad here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Keith Granger is doing very well. He's got a job cleaning hub caps at Southampton Docks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Whatever happened to Nicholas Bignell, Thomas Pekhart and Romain Gasmi? I can't be bothered to Google, so... Last spotted at Gainsborough Trinity If anyone remembers Neil Trotman, he's now at Bristol Rovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 A pretty accurate (but probably not MLG-proof) guide to players who have passed through the doors of St Mary's since relegation from the Prem: 1 A. SVENSSON 2 BERNARD 3 CAMARA 4 CROUCH 5 DAVENPORT 6 DODD 7 FERNANDES 8 JAKOBSEN 9 LE SAUX 10 NILSSON 11 PHILLIPS 12 REDKNAPP 13 TELFER 14 TESSEM 15 YAHIA 16 TEJERA 17 WISE 18 BLAYNEY 19 NIEMI 20 McCANN 21 St.JUSTE 22 WALCOTT 23 HAJTO 24 ORMEROD 25 McNEIL 26 M.MILLS 27 DELAP 28 QUASHIE 29 GRIFFIT 30 CHAPLOW (loan) 31 MADSEN 32 POTTER 33 KOSOWSKI 34 PAHARS 35 ANCALET 36 BRENNAN 37 KENTON 38 VAN DAMME 39 OAKLEY 40 SMITH 41 FOLLY 42 HIGGINBOTHAM 43 BLACKSTOCK 44 FULLER 45 SPARV 46 CRITCHELL 47 SARMIENTO 48 RICHARDS 49 RUDD 50 MILLER 51 PRUTTON 52 BELMADI 53 BALE 54 CONDESSA 55 GUTHRIE 56 BEST 57 CRANIE 58 BAIRD 59 SVENSSON 60 PELE 61 JONES 62 DAILLY 63 IFIL 64 METTOMO 65 BENNETT 66 O'HALLORAN 67 PEARCE (ian) 68 LUNDEKVAM 69 MAKIN 70 R. WRIGHT 71 VIGNAL 72 PERICARD 73 PERRY 74 LUCKETTI 75 HAMMILL 76 DUTTON-BLACK 77 OSTLUND 78 POWELL 79 WRIGHT 80 IDIAKEZ 81 LICKA 82 BASEYA 83 SAFRI 84 VIAFARA 85 A.DAVIES 86 PEKHART 87 ROBERTSON 88 PEARCE (alex) 89 CORK 90 Kyle Davies 91 GASMI 92 SKACEL 93 SMITH 94 Hatch 95 Imudia 96 LIPTAK 97 SAEIJS 98 DYER 99 SVENSSON 100 McGOLDRICK 101 SURMAN 102 WRIGHT-PHILLIPS 103 EUELL 104 JOHN 105 RASIAK 106 TROTMAN 107 MELLIS 108 PATERSON 109 SAGANOWSKI 110 OTSEMOBOR 111 Boyle 112 Dunford 113 GILLETT 114 JAMES 115 LANCASHIRE 116 McCLAGGON 117 MURTY 118 PERRY 119 POKE 120 THOMAS 121 THOMSON 122 WHITE 123 ANTONIO 124 WAIGO 125 Preen 126 MOLYNEUX 127 BIGNALL 128 WOTTON 129 SHEA 130 Jordace Holder-Spooner 131 lloyd foot 132 PULIS 133 Sam Argent 134 Ryan Tafazolli 135 McNish 136 Tony Garrod 137 N'GUESSAN 138 GOBERN 139 D.STEPHENS 140 CHAMBERLAIN 141 MILLS 142 Jack Saville 143 FALQUE 144 BIALKOWSKI 145 JAIDI 146 HOLMES 147 DOBLE 148 CONNOLLY 149 Harlee Dean 150 Aarran Racine 151 Dovey 152 HARDING 153 FORECAST 154 DICKSON 155 SEABORNE 156 Sam Hoskins 157 REEVES 158 RICHARDSON 159 BUTTERFIELD 160 Alberto Seidi 161 CHAPLOW 162 FORREN 163 DE RIDDER 164 HAMMOND 165 LEE 166 MARTIN 167 FOX 168 PUNCHEON 169 Corby Moore 170 BARNARD 171 FORTE 172 Do PRADO 173 Andy Robinson 174 Matt Young 175 Joe Curtis 176 LAMBERT 177 SHAW 178 LALLANA 179 LOVREN 180 CHAMBERS 181 SHARP 182 **TAIDER** 183 CORK 184 BORUC 185 HOOIVELD 186 CROPPER 187 Chris Johns 188 Omar Rowe 189 Jake Sinclair 190 Niall Mason 191 **ELIA** 192 **DJURICIC** 193 CLYNE 194 OSVALDO 195 **ALDERWEIRELD** 196 SCHNEIDERLIN 197 MAYUKA 198 **CAULKER** 199 Harry Isted 200 K.DAVIS 201 **STEKELENBURG** 202 RAMIREZ 203 Will Britt 204 JUANMI 205 WANYAMA 206 MANE 207 PELLE 208 Bevis Mugabe 209 TURNBALL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Jelle Van Damme is doing OK with LA Galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Ricardo Fuller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncanRG Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Antonio's in the England squad! Though he's not a 'reject' in the Falque mold... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint in winchester Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Thought this thread was going to be about an ex-Saints player called Tangent. We have a current Targett, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint 76er Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Fish Mills now with Perth Glory in the A League. Thought he could have been something but he dropped away quickly. Still only 26 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 (edited) Lloyd James Found his way back into red and white stripes at Exeter. Only 28 still. Edited 12 September, 2016 by Colinjb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 12 September, 2016 Author Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Jelle Van Damme is doing OK with LA Galaxy. Having seen him for us I was amazed at how long Anderlecht picked him for, especially with them in the Champions League so much. When we bought him I spoke to some Dutch (Ajax) fans at Euro 2004 and the nicest thing they said was that he was "clumsy" and that Ajax sold him because Maxwell was better than him. Which he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic Saint Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 I see Saints legend (put him on the banner) Iago Falque scored for Torino today in their 2-1 defeat to Atalanta, in which Joe Hart made his Torino debut and contrived to make a mistake to gift Atalanta the equaliser. Anyway, after his one game for Saints in 2012 in which we lost 2-0 at home to Leicester in the Championship promotion season, he went on loan to Almeria and Rayo Vallecano, before Spurs sold him to Genoa, who sold him to Roma, who have loaned him to Torino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago_Falque Are there any other Saints rejects who've ended up being alright after all? Whatever happened to Nicholas Bignall, Thomas Pekhart and Romain Gasmi? I can't be bothered to Google, so... Dennis Wise, who went on to play 322 games for Chelsea and 21 for England. I don't know if we could call Mikhail Antonio a reject as he was only here on loan but how we could do with him now. Boruc hasn't done badly at Bournemouth either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Had a chat with my Strasbourg aquaintance today. Apparently Gasmi is playing in Thailand. Has been so for about 4 years now. I suppose a pro footballer who really wants to play can find a game anywhere nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Had a chat with my Strasbourg aquaintance today. Apparently Gasmi is playing in Thailand. Has been so for about 4 years now. I suppose a pro footballer who really wants to play can find a game anywhere nowadays. Unless your name is Anthony Pulis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 12 September, 2016 Share Posted 12 September, 2016 Unless your name is Anthony Pulis? I did say footballer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocco boxo Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 I cannot help but feel sorry for Jamie White now at Blackfield and Langley, when he must think about Lallana and Bale and what they have done? Not saying he would have reached their heights but could have made a decent living from the Pro game if it was not for injury! The match the OP is on about was ruined by that ex skate Nugent scoring and playing up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 I did say footballer.... My god.... didn't realise it was that bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pulis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 My god.... didn't realise it was that bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pulis When you see some of the nippers who have looked capable yet never making it at Saints, you wonder if his career would have actually made it to 32 had it not been for a sprinkling of Nepotism to nudge him along. I know he was a free transfer, and we only had buttons in our pockets, but how ,or why,did we manage to sign such an inert player. ............... then I suppose if we got sold the Emporers new clothes with Tommy Forecast, I might have answered my own question!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 (edited) ............... then I suppose if we got sold the Emporers new clothes with Tommy Forecast, I might have answered my own question!!! Always found it bizarre with Tommy Forecast, that he was offered a contract with Gillingham after his loan spell there and he rejected it! Edited 13 September, 2016 by Colinjb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 September, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 September, 2016 My god.... didn't realise it was that bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pulis Employed by two clubs where his dad was the manager, offloaded to Saints in the heated corpse recruitment drive of 2008, loaned by us to three clubs which lost their football league status and then signed by another one, signed for Orlando City before they became an MLS franchise and rapidly shunted out to manage the B team when still in his early 30s when they did. I am SO glad I went to the trouble of watching the reserves in 2008. I actually saw him play, once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 September, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 September, 2016 Always found it bizarre with Tommy Forecast, that he was offered a contract with Gillingham after his loan spell there. He rejected it! In an unrelated note which absolutely has nothing to do with any of the messages above, testing positive for banned substances is probably something you don't want to be worrying about when you're already loaded from stealing a living for 6 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 September, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 September, 2016 Always found it bizarre with Tommy Forecast, that he was offered a contract with Gillingham after his loan spell there and he rejected it! On 11 August 2013, Forecast signed for Chelmsford City who play in Conference South. He joined Dartford on loan for one month from 24 October. Too sh01te for Conference South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 Dennis Wise. Possibly scraping the barrel a tad here. .....the ultimate name in " Saints youth products " ....it took him over 20 years to make his League debut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 Unless your name is Anthony Pulis? at a time when " Manager of the Month" had a special meaning to Saints' fans. I think Tony Pulis was tipped to take over at SMS, but then we plumped for "someone else " perhaps ....signing young Anthony was a pre-amble to a deal that never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 13 September, 2016 Share Posted 13 September, 2016 Are there any other Saints rejects who've ended up being alright after all? He's not setting the world on fire, but ex-Saint academy player Gboly Ariyibi is doing a nice job getting some attention, which is good to see. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11746/10547841/spireites-boss-danny-wilson-confirm-barnsley-bid-for-gboly-ariyibi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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