There were many youth players in the 70's, like most of them I didn't make it any further, perhaps due to my enjoyment of the opposite sex, home sickness and sad to say, smoking. Do you think footballers come from a different planet or aren't actually human beings? They are football fans like most of us and guess what they started at school and then went to youth teams....
That's exactly what Blackpool fans are saying about Billy Paynter. Players don't magically become far better than they've been over their entire careers when they move to a different club.
Simon, I seem to remember you almost jizzing in your pants this time last year when it looked like we were in for Sammy Clingan, a very below average player if ever I've seen one, and someone who would have added precisely zilch to our midfield. You suddenly seem to have raised your standards as to who you'd like us to be signing now. Good for you mate
1) Hardly jizzing my pants, thought he would be a good signing, and he is still at least better than Norris and Green, but then he tries to pass the ball, and Warnoc clearly isn't too keen on that. 2) That was when it seemed he would have been coming into a central midfield with Clayton and Howson, where he would have been a good addition, not making up our entire midfield like the ****e we currently have.