| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... 13:47 - May 17 with 15212 views | Kropotkin123 |
Personally I remember Nabil Abidallah was a Dutch international at multiple youth levels and at the time I expected him to break into the team, but he didn't go on to have a decent career.
Who did you think was going to be the next big thing for us? |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:20 - May 17 with 2255 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Big thing for us? That's really one for the history books because home grown players are snapped upas teenagers now if any good.
Irving Gernon was supposedly good enough to replace Mick Mills that didnt go too well
Kevin O'Callaghan was th first of many 'ones for the future' for Bobby Robson.
In recent years the only one I can think of who looked really good and never really made anything of his career was Conor Wickham |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:21 - May 17 with 2256 views | Coco |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:09 - May 17 by positivity |
kundai benyu |
Ms Josh Carson |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:30 - May 17 with 2213 views | TrumptonBlue |
Lee Honeywood. Always seemed to be on the verge of breaking through. Never did. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:31 - May 17 with 2202 views | Coco |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:30 - May 17 by TrumptonBlue |
Lee Honeywood. Always seemed to be on the verge of breaking through. Never did. |
Adam Tanner, Neil Gregory. | |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:37 - May 17 with 2185 views | MattinLondon |
Gerald Nash - would have made it but had bad injuries.
Michael Synnott - as above.
Pretty sure that there was a youngester in Kieron Dyers age group who was considered amazing but just didn’t have the right attitude- ended up working in a factory in the north-east. Cant remember his name. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:37 - May 17 with 2185 views | Ftnfwest |
thanks for this, i guess if you're at city you have to be foden level to get a chance in the first place. Wonder if he'll end up elsewhere in the prem ultimately? |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:38 - May 17 with 2184 views | PrideOfTheEast |
There was a youth player called Robert Dickinson in the early 2000s who didn't play for our first team but was considered by Ambrose, Bent and others to be the best player of their age group. I don't think he made it anywhere after he left us. | | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:38 - May 17 with 2180 views | Ftnfwest |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 14:22 - May 17 by PhilTWTD |
Someone was telling me the other day his progress has stalled a bit lately. |
article further down by vilanova is interesting but yes a rumour of that was all i'd heard | | | |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:42 - May 17 with 2161 views | vilanovablue |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:37 - May 17 by Ftnfwest |
thanks for this, i guess if you're at city you have to be foden level to get a chance in the first place. Wonder if he'll end up elsewhere in the prem ultimately? |
No worries with Man City literally over run with talent it takes a little longer. I could see him ending up at Leicester a decent but not brilliant prem side. However playing regularly in their development squad isn't a bad place to be. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:10 - May 17 with 2119 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:18 - May 17 by yorkshireblue |
He, like many of the academy players went to my sixth form. Obviously one of his subjects was A-Level PE.
A couple of days after this, in an assessed football match that I'm led to believe counted towards their grade (I didn't do PE, so I am unclear of this), one of the lads I had a season ticket with had to mark him - apparently he was a bit of a handful. My mate swapped at half-time with Aiden Collins who was also in the academy at the time.
A few have mentioned Dean McDonald - haven't heard that name in years so looked him up to see what became of him. Including us and Arsenal - 21 clubs! |
I was going to put Aiden Collins forward as my answer. He looked majestic for the FA Youth Cup winning team, but injuries took him out of full-time football.
In a sense the whole of the 2005 FA Youth Cup winning team is the answer, especially when you consider what the Southampton players who they defeated went on to achieve between them! | | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:12 - May 17 with 2111 views | OsborneOneNil |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:31 - May 17 by Coco |
Adam Tanner, Neil Gregory. |
Was going to say my mate Tanner. Kinda made it by scoring the winner at Anfield, but we often chat as to what might have been if he’d avoided trouble. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:19 - May 17 with 2097 views | PhilTWTD |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:38 - May 17 by PrideOfTheEast |
There was a youth player called Robert Dickinson in the early 2000s who didn't play for our first team but was considered by Ambrose, Bent and others to be the best player of their age group. I don't think he made it anywhere after he left us. |
He didn't, was playing at a local non-league level around Leeds last I remember. Was clearly very talented but think he may have carried a bit of weight and not sure he had the dedication required. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:21 - May 17 with 2079 views | oneoffposter |
Lee Durrant
Chris Keeble
Stuart Niven | | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:25 - May 17 with 2058 views | TrumptonBlue |
Lee Norfolk. Looked decent in his couple of games in the Prem, I thought. | | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:38 - May 17 with 2015 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:21 - May 17 by oneoffposter |
Lee Durrant
Chris Keeble
Stuart Niven |
I saw Stuart Niven play at Bramall Lane, think it mayve been his only appearance.
Looked a tidy player. [Post edited 17 May 2021 16:39]
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:40 - May 17 with 2009 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Billy Clarke... I thought he was going to be the next Michael Owen! | |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:40 - May 17 with 2011 views | ParisBlue |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 15:42 - May 17 by vilanovablue |
No worries with Man City literally over run with talent it takes a little longer. I could see him ending up at Leicester a decent but not brilliant prem side. However playing regularly in their development squad isn't a bad place to be. |
He's 19 next month so I guess he'll be available for a loan next season at some level (not sure he'll fit Cook's profile) |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:41 - May 17 with 2011 views | JohnWarksTash |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:21 - May 17 by oneoffposter |
Lee Durrant
Chris Keeble
Stuart Niven |
Lee Durrant was in the year above me at school and i beat him in a penatly shoot out competition as school...so I guess that means I was better than him? :)
Him and his brother Gary were well known around Lowestoft as being football superstars...big fish in a small pond I guess. |  | | |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:52 - May 17 with 1996 views | TieDyedIn95 |
It's amazing that with the hype around say a Nabil, Chris Hogg, Justin Miller, Matt Bloomfield and a few others from around that time the player to have a sustained Ipswich first team run was Arran Lee Barratt. |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:55 - May 17 with 1981 views | Keno |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:19 - May 17 by PhilTWTD |
He didn't, was playing at a local non-league level around Leeds last I remember. Was clearly very talented but think he may have carried a bit of weight and not sure he had the dedication required. |
If you take out the bit about being clearly talented your last sentence could be applied to me |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:56 - May 17 with 1975 views | hype313 |
| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 16:52 - May 17 by TieDyedIn95 |
It's amazing that with the hype around say a Nabil, Chris Hogg, Justin Miller, Matt Bloomfield and a few others from around that time the player to have a sustained Ipswich first team run was Arran Lee Barratt. |
I think what this shows is that you can be amazing at 16 and then average once you hit 18, so many 16yr olds I knew back in the day thought they would make it but struggled to push on when entering mens football.
If we actually look at it in the past 20 years only Bramble, Dyer, Ambrose, Bent, Wickham, Rhodes have all gone onto better things, and then think how many hundreds if not thousands of young lads in that period that didn't push on.
Just goes to show how hard it is to make it, that's my solace anyway... |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 17:02 - May 17 with 1957 views | Mullet |
Jordan Rhodes |  |
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| Jason Dozzell, Flynn Downes, Armando Dobra, Luke Wolfenden..... on 17:03 - May 17 with 1955 views | unstableblue |
.... Teddy Bishop, Nydam, El Mizuoni.... etc etc |  |
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| Most promising Town player who didn't make it... on 17:18 - May 17 with 1939 views | PhilTWTD |
In the Newcastle game he had Chris Waddle on his feet applauding a particular moment of skill. | | | |
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