Forecast Kenton Lancashire Bennet Molenyeux Gasmi Pulis Idiakez Smith Euell Paterson Subs: Miller Pekhart Hajto Thomson Wotton Never heard of Sarimiento!!
Sarmiento was on loan from some South American club I think. Not sure if he ever actually played. I thought Idiakez was quite good. He played a major role in the team that got into the playoffs.
I remember having high expectations of Idiakez when he came having been a stand out player in the Championship for a while before he joined, but I don't think he lived up to expectations. Not bad enough to get into the worst XI but not a player to stick in the memory for the right reasons either. The one time I met him he was a miserable sod as well, so maybe that clouds my memory of him.
I still cannot forget Folly and Jakobsson although I cannot remember if they left once we exited the Premiership. Obviously they are not in the same League as Bennett although I feel people criticising McGoldrick are being a bit harsh.
Goalkeepers (7) ----- Bartosz Białkowski Kelvin Davis Kevin Miller Antti Niemi Michael Poke Paul Smith Richard Wright Defenders (42) ------ Chris Baird Gareth Bale Alan Bennett Jim Brennan* Danny Butterfield Martin Cranie Christian Dailly Andrew Davies Ryan Dickson Jose Fonte Danny Fox Tomasz Hajto Dan Harding Danny Higginbotham Jos Hooiveld Phil Ifil* Rahdi Jaidi Darren Kenton Zoltan Liptak Chris Lucketti Claus Lundekvam Chris Makin Aaron Martin Joseph Mills Oliver Lancashire Lee Molyneux Graeme Murty Stephen O’Halloran Jon Ostembor Alexander Ostlund Alex Pearce* Ian Pearce* Pele Chris Perry Darren Powell Frazer Richardson Ben Reeves Jon-Paul Saeijs Dan Seaborne Michael Svensson Wayne Thomas Gregory Vignal Midfielders (47) ------ Michail Antonio Djamel Belmadi Nicholas Bignall* Richard Chaplow Jack Cork Rory Delap Nathan Dyer Jason Euell Iago Falque Yoann Folly Romain Gasmi Simon Gillett Oscar Gobern Guly do Prado Danny Guthrie Adam Hammill Dean Hammond Lee Holmes Inigo Idiakez Lloyd James Kamil Kosowski Adam Lallana Mario Licka Neil McCann Callum McNish Jacob Mellis Dany N’Guessan Matt Oakley Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain David Prutton Jason Puncheon Nigel Quashie Steve de Ridder Youssef Safri Morgan Schneiderlin Rudi Skacel Ryan Smith Dale Stephens Andrew Surman Marcelo Tejera Jake Thomson Jhon Viafara Papa Waigo Theo Walcott Dennis Wise Paul Wotton Jermaine Wright Forwards (24) ------ Lee Barnard Cedric Baseya Leon Best Dexter Blackstock David Connolly Jonathan Forte Ricordo Fuller Stern John Kenwyne Jones Rickie Lambert Tadanari Lee Peter Madsen* David McGoldrick Kayne McLaggon* Marian Pahars Matt Paterson Tomas Pekhart* Vincent Pericard Grzegorz Rasiak Jordan Robertson Marek Saganowski Billy Sharp Jamie White* Bradley Wright-Phillips Complete list, my god what a load of ****e in there (This only includes those who have played, so no Pulis's or Fourpasts's)
110 players in seven years, what a turnover. And as you say, many of them were ****e. Almost all the stand out players were ones we had on relegation or have right now, with the occasional 'diamond' amongst dross!
Can anyone imagine by some quirk Forecast having to play for us first Premier League game, and turning out to be brilliant?
Wouldn't have a clue, I copied it from SaintsWeb, I'll go take a lookie EDIT: Just ones that the SaintsWeb poster had forgotten about, so nothing big!
Having seen that list i would take Idiakez out and Jermaine Wright in, dunno how i forgot him, he was useless!
I have seen Forecast play. Under 21's against Eastleigh. He was truly bad, completely lacking in confidence. They took him off and brought on Jack Dovey for the second half. What a contrast, he is an exceptional young goalkeeper. So good that Eastleigh took him on loan for the season and on a fans' forum he is considered to be the best goalkeeper they have ever had. I hope we keep him as I think he would be perfect to take over from Kelv in a couple of years time.
The Echo reported it, Ian Baird was on about bringing him to Eastleigh permanently following his release
This is always going to be a problem. Assuming that a young player will eventually be good enough, how do we give them the experience to enable them to break through into the 1st team? Unless they are a Chamberlain or a Bale then it is tricky especially in the Premier League.
