Home grown goalkeepers

[Father Dougal]

Been watching barry town this season and George ratcliffe is on loan from the city academy. I think he is 18 and is in wales under 21 squad.

As I walking away from the game on Friday some of the barry stalwarts were overheard saying things such as “different class that lad” and “can’t believe we’ve got him here”.

He certainly looks very competent to me, can kick a good 70 yards effortlessly so Warnock probably likes him!

Anyway he’s a young kid and we know keepers develop later generally. It got me thinking are we the worst at producing young keepers? Who have we had? Andy dibble over 30 years ago must have been the last professional standard this area produced?

[cardiff55]

Mel Rees in the 80s too.

[the other bob wilson]

Been watching barry town this season and George ratcliffe is on loan from the city academy. I think he is 18 and is in wales under 21 squad.

As I walking away from the game on Friday some of the barry stalwarts were overheard saying things such as “different class that lad” and “can’t believe we’ve got him here”.

He certainly looks very competent to me, can kick a good 70 yards effortlessly so Warnock probably likes him!

Anyway he’s a young kid and we know keepers develop later generally. It got me thinking are we the worst at producing young keepers? Who have we had? Andy dibble over 30 years ago must have been the last professional standard this area produced?

Let's face it, there can't be many worse than us at producing home anythings!

[Ianto13]

Let's face it, there can't be many worse than us at producing home anythings!

We use to in the good old days, Graham Veacombe, Dilwyn John,Mel Rees and Andy Dibble! Less face it we had no home grown players in the last 10 years whereas the Jacks blooded 7 last season! The Academy has got to be completely revamped by our new DOF!

[cyril evans awaydays]

We use to in the good old days, Graham Veacombe, Dilwyn John,Mel Rees and Andy Dibble! Less face it we had no home grown players in the last 10 years whereas the Jacks blooded 7 last season! The Academy has got to be completely revamped by our new DOF!

Agree generally but specifically on goalkeepers I can't remember the last time before Freddie Woodman where Swansea appeared with a goalkeeper with a British sounding name, let alone someone homegrown.

[Maxim]

Agree generally but specifically on goalkeepers I can't remember the last time before Freddie Woodman where Swansea appeared with a goalkeeper with a British sounding name, let alone someone homegrown.

Roger Freestone

[cyril evans awaydays]

Roger Freestone

I said British, not Newport!

[surge]

We use to in the good old days, Graham Veacombe, Dilwyn John,Mel Rees and Andy Dibble! Less face it we had no home grown players in the last 10 years whereas the Jacks blooded 7 last season! The Academy has got to be completely revamped by our new DOF!

Didn't we revamp the academy when/just after Warnock joined? Didn't part of the academy just come top of their league? The answer isn't necessarily that the academy players aren't useful just that, for whatever reason, they haven't made the next step. It's likely that a DoF, although the Jacks are doing just fine without one, is more important than yet another revamp.

Interesting discussion regarding the WRU trying to get rugby going in the north and how this may impact on welsh football - specifically that large, muscular and agile describes a youth goalie as much as it does a rugby player - on BBC Wales radio within the last year so maybe the south needs to start producing some goalies also.

[NottinghamBlue]

Let's face it, there can't be many worse than us at producing home anythings!

+ 1, I couldn't agree more.

Something needs to be done about the way that a class 1 academy can take players from a class 2 academy, seemingly at will.

[Enoch Mort]

We use to in the good old days, Graham Veacombe, Dilwyn John,Mel Rees and Andy Dibble! Less face it we had no home grown players in the last 10 years whereas the Jacks blooded 7 last season! The Academy has got to be completely revamped by our new DOF!

Don’t forget the unfortunate Lyn Davies who picked the ball out of the net 32 times in 6 games for Cardiff City and Wales U23s

[celticknight]

Remember when James Wood was supposed to leave City to go on to big and better things?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...tsteps-2096134

Yeah.... his career went well.