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The club should look at The lad Stead at Barnet.
Callum Lee Stead, formally of Brackley is scoring plenty of goals. Would be worth a look see, definitely a different option to Will G.
 
tonyw said:
Hmmmm.....a 25 year old, who isn't in the top 10 scorers in the National League this season.

It's certainly outside of the box, I'll give you that!
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I sincerely hope we will never be that desperate!
 
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Cornish Yellow said:
The club should look at The lad Stead at Barnet.
Callum Lee Stead, formally of Brackley is scoring plenty of goals. Would be worth a look see, definitely a different option to Will G.
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Sadly Will always seems to be on the injury table… so yes, I guess he would be a different option.

But you realise we are in the Championship right?
 
Cornish Yellow said:
The club should look at The lad Stead at Barnet.
Callum Lee Stead, formally of Brackley is scoring plenty of goals. Would be worth a look see, definitely a different option to Will G.
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A different option to a player that is currently out on loan and not impacting the squad?
If we want to look at young untried strikers at this level then there is a lad at Bristol Rovers that might be worth a look at next season, a big strong centre forward, I think his name is O’Donkor?
 
He has only scored 3 more goals as a centre forward for a team who are fairly comfortably top than James Henry has for a team two points outside of the relegation places as an attacking midfielder, that’s in 6 more games so at a worse goals per minute ratio of about 200 to 155. 6 assists a piece as well.

Can’t just go by stats, his overall game might be brilliant, but that’s a hell of a step up at 25 years old, especially when you look at how Mullins and Langstaff who blitzed the national league and league two have struggled with league one and the championship respectively.
 
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It is a good point though. We used to uncover so many rough diamonds, McNally, Dickie, Sykes etc. That production line seems to have stopped and we are going down that route of punts.

At this level you need a balance but I’m not sure we have uncovered a genuine Championship level performer.

Currie probably the closest and we made the nuts decision to leave him at Orient.

In the bargain bucket we need to do more.,
 
greatunclekip said:
It is a good point though. We used to uncover so many rough diamonds, McNally, Dickie, Sykes etc. That production line seems to have stopped and we are going down that route of punts.

At this level you need a balance but I’m not sure we have uncovered a genuine Championship level performer.

Currie probably the closest and we made the nuts decision to leave him at Orient.

In the bargain bucket we need to do more.,
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Good point tbf, that recruitment model seems to have fizzled out, let’s hope we are still looking in these waters…….
 
Wasn’t Dickie on loan from Reading at Lincoln only a league below us when we signed him?

I don’t actually have a problem with a gamble signing, Stead would definitely be that as he has never played league football at 25, but you would definitely need to watch him as you are not signing him on those stats alone.
 
It's a big step up from L1 to the Championship, let alone from NL. Rodriguez has just about been ok, but I bet he drops down to L1 in the summer. I was really pleased we didn't pursue any interest in Longstaff. I saw him a couple of times in L2, and thought Millwall had lost the plot when they signed him. He could finish but was slow and really lazy off the ball. And also quite tubby!The only player in his mid 20's who's really made it from NL to Championship (and beyond) in the last 20+ years is Vardy. And there were loads of clubs who wouldn't touch him because of his off-field issues. He couldn't play evening games for quite a while as a condition of his parole. This thread reminds me a bit of the chap who used to come on a few years ago and go on and on about a boy who was playing local semi pro. Can't remember the player's name tbh.
 
Northernyellow said:
It's a big step up from L1 to the Championship, let alone from NL. Rodriguez has just about been ok, but I bet he drops down to L1 in the summer. I was really pleased we didn't pursue any interest in Longstaff. I saw him a couple of times in L2, and thought Millwall had lost the plot when they signed him. He could finish but was slow and really lazy off the ball. And also quite tubby!The only player in his mid 20's who's really made it from NL to Championship (and beyond) in the last 20+ years is Vardy. And there were loads of clubs who wouldn't touch him because of his off-field issues. He couldn't play evening games for quite a while as a condition of his parole. This thread reminds me a bit of the chap who used to come on a few years ago and go on and on about a boy who was playing local semi pro. Can't remember the player's name tbh.
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Steve Morrison went up the levels after playing against us for Stevenage, can’t think of any others though.
 
There’s a guy called Vardy who went from non-league to the very top.
 
holdsteady said:
Steve Morrison went up the levels after playing against us for Stevenage, can’t think of any others though.
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True. Aaron McLean was another. And Dwight Gale who ended up at Newcastle But players stepping up from the NL tend to get picked up in their early 20's. Happy to be corrected, but I can only think of Vardy who really made after getting out the NL aged 24/25+
 
Northernyellow said:
It's a big step up from L1 to the Championship, let alone from NL. Rodriguez has just about been ok, but I bet he drops down to L1 in the summer. I was really pleased we didn't pursue any interest in Longstaff. I saw him a couple of times in L2, and thought Millwall had lost the plot when they signed him. He could finish but was slow and really lazy off the ball. And also quite tubby!The only player in his mid 20's who's really made it from NL to Championship (and beyond) in the last 20+ years is Vardy. And there were loads of clubs who wouldn't touch him because of his off-field issues. He couldn't play evening games for quite a while as a condition of his parole. This thread reminds me a bit of the chap who used to come on a few years ago and go on and on about a boy who was playing local semi pro. Can't remember the player's name tbh.
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Harry Landers
Banbury?
 
Northernyellow said:
Yes! That's the one. Was It Henry (or Harry?) Landers. It must have been a friend/relation. Kept going on and on about him every week for months.
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Yeah he's made it big now, playing for Leamington in National League North. He did score a good goal against Oxford City a couple of weeks ago.
The step up is now immense if only because of the fitness levels required to play in The Championship. It happened many years ago more often, Cyrille Regis was a prime example. Keshi Anderson played for Barton Rovers and was signed by Palace when he scored a 6 minute hatrick in a trial playing for Brentford against Palace.
He has had a good career and would have most likely got to an even higher level but for injury. Obviously moving to that team in Wiltshire, hindered his career but moved on to Blackpool and currently at Birmingham.
He was due to make a big money move prior to his injury at Palace that cost Barton Rovers half a million in a sell on fee.
 
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Yeah he's made it big now, playing for Leamington in National League North. He did score a good goal against Oxford City a couple of weeks ago.
The step up is now immense if only because of the fitness levels required to play in The Championship. It happened many years ago more often, Cyrille Regis was a prime example. Keshi Anderson played for Barton Rovers and was signed by Palace when he scored a 6 minute hatrick in a trial playing for Brentford against Palace.
He has had a good career and would have most likely got to an even higher level but for injury. Obviously moving to that team in Wiltshire, hindered his career but moved on to Blackpool and currently at Birmingham.
He was due to make a big money move prior to his injury at Palace that cost Barton Rovers half a million in a sell on fee.
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That Kabongo Tshimanga chap was highly touted and went to Peterborough but didn’t make it and I think is back in non league now.
 
Northernyellow said:
True. Aaron McLean was another. And Dwight Gale who ended up at Newcastle But players stepping up from the NL tend to get picked up in their early 20's. Happy to be corrected, but I can only think of Vardy who really made after getting out the NL aged 24/25+
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Going back so far it’s an irrelevant point but Ian Wright
 
Be interesting to see if any league club takes a gamble on Ollie Pearce of York City if they don't go up.

22 goals in 34 so far this season in the Conference National.

23/24 - 46 goals in all comps
155 goals in 245 in total for Worthing across 6 years.

The issue might be that he's 30 in August.
 
CaptainOx said:
Be interesting to see if any league club takes a gamble on Ollie Pearce of York City if they don't go up.

22 goals in 34 so far this season in the Conference National.

23/24 - 46 goals in all comps
155 goals in 245 in total for Worthing across 6 years.

The issue might be that he's 30 in August.
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Ha! ...in the mid 80's, an old team mate of mine (from Saturday football in London) went semi pro after years of playing high level amateur. He was a forward and did really well. Scored lots of goals in his first couple of seasons. Orient scouted him and offered him a one year contract. He agreed terms, resigned from his day job (he worked as a jeweller in Hatton Gardens), and went to sign at Brisbane Road. But when the Chairman asked him how old he was (this was all pre internet), he stupidly told him his real age and the Chairman ripped up the contract in front of him! Orient thought he was 28. He was 36.
 
Steve Gilbert said:
A different option to a player that is currently out on loan and not impacting the squad?
If we want to look at young untried strikers at this level then there is a lad at Bristol Rovers that might be worth a look at next season, a big strong centre forward, I think his name is O’Donkor?
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No thanks, he isn’t good enough for the championship.
 
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