Best local players to never make it?

[Mr David]

Who’s the best local player or players you played with / saw that didn’t make it?

 

[Useful_Idiot]

Me

 

[jackynutmeg]

Depends where you live

 

[Mr David]

Sunderland

 

[Richie K]

What do you class as making it?

I played against Alan Pouton and Sam Aiston....both made it in the lower leagues but not really in the top flight.

 

[woodlebert]

What do you class as making it?

A much needed clarification

 

[Lagger]

Who’s the best local player or players you played with / saw that didn’t make it?

Patrick Wilson - goalkeeper.

 

[Secret Visage]

What do you class as making it?

I played against Alan Pouton and Sam Aisten....both made it in the lower leagues but not really in the top flight.

Indeed.

Martin Smith never got to where it looked like he was going.

 

[Why sack Durban]

Indeed.

Martin Smith never got to where it looked like he was going.

Martin Smith has to count as made it

 

[The Butcher]

Gary breeds probably one.

 

[SR7]

Indeed.

Martin Smith never got to where it looked like he was going.

You cannot be serious lol

 

[Thurston]

Who’s the best local player or players you played with / saw that didn’t make it?

Jordan Henderson. Last I heard he was plying his trade in Saudi Arabia iirc.

 

[Wansbeck Viking]

Gary breeds probably one.

Wasn’t he supposed to be absolute class but a bit of bad lad?

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Michael Bridges?

 

[halfpast3]

This thread was going a while back, was a good read.

 

[woodlebert]

Never played regular professional football would be my definition

 

[Kenna]

He did make it like but my brother played against Jordan Henderson when he was in Farringdons team and said he was absolutely shit.

 

[F.Frederick Skitty]

When I was at school early 70s, there was a lad called Peter Stronach who was tipped for big things. Iirc he was at St Aidans, about the same time as Wilf Rostron.

 

[Parkside]

Peter Stronach undoubtedly.Allowed/made to play too much football as a schoolboy resulting in chronic injuries.

 

[Coeus]

I was good friends with a lad who went through the Crewe system, was far better than the others I played with or against like Andy Wilkinson, Anthony Gardner and Chris Burchill.