Jamie Jones - Official - Signs until end of the season

[leesaint88]

52 minutes ago, trousers said:

I remember posing this very question on here a couple of years back, and I think the answer was 'Michael Poke' (who made the grand total of 4 first team appearances, all in the 2007/08 championship season).

As a club with a renowned academy (historically, at least) it's perhaps a tad baffling that we've practically never bred a keeper good enough for the first team. Wonder why?

The only other I can think of is Alan Blayney, who made a similar amount of appearances but did have that impressive game against Newcastle.

Those who have left, Cody Cropper had a reasonable career back in the US & James Shea is at Luton still. But other than that, nobody of note..

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

I remember posing this very question on here a couple of years back, and I think the answer was 'Michael Poke' (who made the grand total of 4 first team appearances, all in the 2007/08 championship season).

As a club with a renowned academy (historically, at least) it's perhaps a tad baffling that we've practically never bred a keeper good enough for the first team. Wonder why?

Darryl Flahavan came through Saints academy. Although he never played for us he made over 400 league apperances mainly at Southend. Cant think of anyone else. 

[Turkish]

9 minutes ago, leesaint88 said:

The only other I can think of is Alan Blayney, who made a similar amount of appearances but did have that impressive game against Newcastle.

Those who have left, Cody Cropper had a reasonable career back in the US & James Shea is at Luton still. But other than that, nobody of note..

Dont think Blayney was an academy product IIRC he came from an Irish team as a late teenager

[Kenilworthy1959]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

I remember posing this very question on here a couple of years back, and I think the answer was 'Michael Poke' (who made the grand total of 4 first team appearances, all in the 2007/08 championship season).

As a club with a renowned academy (historically, at least) it's perhaps a tad baffling that we've practically never bred a keeper good enough for the first team. Wonder why?

It strange that we haven't managed to develop a keeper. Maybe we have just focused on producing top quality full backs?

[steve green]

I applaud the culb's determination to bring excitement back to the season.

[maysie]

It's not rocket science guys, you have three senior keepers for training drills etc. Doesn't make sense to bring someone out from the u21s/18s as not that helpful for development when we want them playing.

if we properly had an injury crisis we would then promote someone from the youth teams - Jones will never play for the first team.

 

[USaintA]

I'm sticking my neck out a bit here, but I'm calling it right here, right now. This geezer's gonna step up at Wembley and score the winning penalty for us in the playoff final against Sheffield Wednesday.

You read it here first.

[St Chalet]

Scott Bevan came through the academy as well. 

[Midfield_General]

5 hours ago, maysie said:

It's not rocket science guys, you have three senior keepers for training drills etc. Doesn't make sense to bring someone out from the u21s/18s as not that helpful for development when we want them playing.

if we properly had an injury crisis we would then promote someone from the youth teams - Jones will never play for the first team.

 

The issue isn't this guy per se. It's that Johannes 'squad planning is an art' Spors has managed to get us into a situation where we basically now have one first team goalkeeper and two third keepers. We don't have a reserve of a reasonable proven Championship standard who can step in if the first choice gets injured, and we don't have any realistic options to create competition for the no. 1 shirt or rotate if the first choice has a dramatic loss of form. 

So it's now basically Peretz or one of two complete no-marks, and we are one injury away from having George Long, last seen as third choice at Norwich, in goal for the rest of the season, and potentially the play-offs with £140m and a Premier League place at stake. This at a level where an established international in Bazunu has repeatedly been found out as not being good enough. 

You might think that's a reasonable gamble. I think it's fucking mental, personally. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Maybe we used the money leftover from the Gareth Bale transfer.

[Badger]

11 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Mind you, I can't ever recall Saints producing a goalkeeper from the academy of any note, am I wrong?

It wasn’t called the academy at the time, but those I remember coming through the ranks and being regular starters for half a season or so are Steve Middleton (1975, then displaced by Ian Turner), and Gerry Gurr in the late 1960’s (whose career I think was buggered by injury before Eric Martin took over)

[Badger]

Wouldn’t we be better off taking a chance, and if needed look to bring in an emergency keeper if needed rather than this bloke ? 
 

Problem of having two on our books is that we could be denied the ‘emergency’ option as we already have two on our books. Arguing “yes, but they’re both shit” isn’t going to cut it. 

[Badger]

2 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Maybe we used the money leftover from the Gareth Bale transfer.

That went on Tommy Forecast’s hotel bar bill.