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« Reply #30 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:27:06 » |
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Was Matthew Mills ever on our books?
I know he was at Southampton and then Man City.
Doncaster paid £300k for him in the summer.
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« Reply #31 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:29:55 » |
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dean ashton. born here but slipped under our nose
Young David...for every source that has Ashton down as born in Swindon, you can find another that says he wasn't....if he was, he certainly never went to school in Swindon, or spent any significant time here, so you can't say he slipped under our nose. |
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« Reply #32 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:30:27 » |
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dean ashton. born here but slipped under our nose
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!  Comedy gold  What about Stan Collymore? His dad used to live in a doss house in Swindon or something...how did we let him under the rader?  WTF is going on!!!!!!! |
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« Reply #33 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:30:49 » |
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wahay i caught me a reg!
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« Reply #34 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:32:29 » |
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STFC Dave has been fishing for a bite for a week or so now, and finally got one. Well done.
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« Reply #35 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:34:19 » |
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wahay i caught me a reg!
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« Reply #36 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:35:53 » |
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Was Matthew Mills ever on our books?
I know he was at Southampton and then Man City.
Doncaster paid £300k for him in the summer.
Mills, Matty Collins, and Pook were all at Braden Forest at the same time. Mills may have signed as say a 12 year old but he soon went to Soton academy, who are quite aggressive in our area, and operate a higher standard to our Cof E. Collins and Pook obviously signed with us, Collins we flogged on to Fulham where he's done little. |
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« Reply #37 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:36:31 » |
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Ashtons dad was in the forces....so probably based in Wilthire and born in Swindon.
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« Reply #38 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:37:11 » |
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Mills, Matty Collins, and Pook were all at Braden Forest at the same time. Mills may have signed as say a 12 year old but he soon went to Soton academy, who are quite aggressive in our area, and operate a higher standard to our Cof E.
Collins and Pook obviously signed with us, Collins we flogged on to Fulham where he's done little.
Southampton scouts went loco throughout Wiltshire during the 90's. |
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« Reply #39 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:38:20 » |
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I think Southampton have a satellite academy in Bath, which helps them with the 60 minute rule. They picked up Walcott and Mills from us, and Blackstock from Oxford, and that's just off the top of my head. I imagine the Bristol clubs have lost a few to them as well.
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« Reply #40 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:40:47 » |
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Southampton scouts went loco throughout Wiltshire during the 90's.
Still are....it's not necessarily a bad thing, because we can pick up their scraps like Lukas, flog them onn after a couple of years and make a tidy profit. |
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« Reply #41 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:45:13 » |
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On the point of ex players Ince is making a good job of management....why didnt the club offer hm a role,i mean surely we are better than Macclesfield.
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« Reply #42 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:46:21 » |
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Still are....it's not necessarily a bad thing, because we can pick up their scraps like Lukas, flog them onn after a couple of years and make a tidy profit.
Darn tootin' - I don't live in Wiltshire therefore didn't know they were still prolific. Bristol Rovers were similar back then. |
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« Reply #43 on: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:48:20 » |
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Darn tootin' - I don't live in Wiltshire therefore didn't know they were still prolific. Bristol Rovers were similar back then.
Its kind of inevitable...you're allowed to operate a certain distance from your base, most of Soton's is water... |
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« Reply #44 on: Friday, August 29, 2008, 00:19:28 » |
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Paul Trollope went on to have a decent playing career after being released by us, though he looked a long way off being able to challange for a place in the first team when he left in the early nineties.
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