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Terrible XI aside on this post (who the fuck is Bockham?)......who is out best 'one of our own' XI? Who can even go in it?

Rideout is the first obvious one that springs to mind. Digby was mainly United but was 19 when he signed here, a baby for a keeper, might be a stretch that one.

More recently Twine? Jutkiewicz? Mildenhall? Thompsons?

It's not particularly strong, unless you count people who joined late or started early. I'm going genuine academy so not Morrison or anyone like that, and made at least a few apps for us before being snapped up so no Matt Mills or whoever.

Mildenhall

N Thompson
Sol Davis
Adi Viveash
Minturn

Pook
L Thompson

Bodin B
Twine
Rideout
Jutkiewicz

Sure someone can improve on that, especially with some older players!

I mean I dunno if academy’s were even a thing back then…

…but the birthday boy himself. Born in Swindon, started his career at Swindon, finished his career at Swindon.

Yeah I was kinda assuming we can't go back that far or it's basically most players before then 70s I suppose. Harold Fleming was handy...

So were John Trollope Don Rogers

Trollope should have been obvious to me but I didn't know Rogers was from the youths as well.

Matt Mills would count for sure, he was our academy at one point.

Oh and I suppose that means Theo Walcott too.

Born in Paulton, Somerset, Rogers signed a youth contract with Swindon in January 1961 at the age of fifteen; having turned professional in October 1962, he made his first-team debut on 17 November in a Third Division match against Southend United

A list of players who were on our books as a youth, with 30 apps or more for the first team:

Name	Apps	Goals
John Trollope	889	28
Ken Stroud	746	38
Don Rogers	490	180
Jimmy Allan	436	0
Roger Smart	411	59
Nathan Thompson	374	8
Keith Morgan	365	9
Charlie Henry	269	30
Sol Davis	260	0
Fitzroy Simpson	260	20
Mike Summerbee	244	40
Ernie Hunt	237	88
Paul Rideout	228	84
Wayne O'Sullivan	218	8
Louis Thompson	214	14
Bobby Woodruff	205	20
Dave Syrett	135	37
Nicky Summerbee	135	10
Rhys Evans	128	0
Michael Pook	126	4
Paul Batty	126	12
Colin Bailie	121	3
Scott Twine	118	18
Steve Cowe	108	12
Cliff Jackson	108	35
Harrison Minturn	102	0
Jordan Turnbull	98	1
Terry Hubbard	96	2
Terry Wollen	96	0
Lukas Jutkiewicz	84	10
Adi Viveash	81	3
Brian Hughes	80	4
Dave Corbett	75	3
Ray Sampson	65	11
Tony Hicks	64	0
Joel McGregor	60	6
Sean Morrison	60	7
Harry Parsons	50	0
Tom Smith	48	3
David Dangerfield	44	0
Callum Kennedy	43	1
James Williams	42	1
Wilf Shergold	41	0
Bruce Walker	39	7
Miles Storey	39	6
Steve Mildenhall	38	0
Alan Young	35	3
Johnny Skull	34	11
Mark Gardiner	30	2
Andy Thomson	30	1
Jayden Mitchell-Lawson	30	1

Steve Cowe?

He started at Villa so shouldnt be on that list.

Might be me, but some of those appearances seem out. Surely Minturn hasn't played more than 100 games??

Minturn is on something like 50 total appearances not over 100.


https://townenders.com/profile.php?person_code=MINTURNH

Townenders to the rescue.

Thought so. Jutkiewicz, McGregor, Parsons & Tom Smith all seem a lot higher than I initially remember.

It depends what you include league only or + other

Townenders are literally the person who posted the list.

The list seemingly includes recorded youth & reserve games too.
Minturn pretty much 51 youth & reserve apps & 51 first team apps hence 102