(06-09-2018, 20:19)spireitematt Wrote:(06-09-2018, 17:52)Devongone Wrote: And there are far more folk queer than would ever admit it.
And several of them are professional footballers.
I would have expected Sinnott to be good enough in the National League. He was good enough at Halifax. Clearly Jack Lester didn't think much of him and Martin Allen didn't want him from Day One. I wonder what happened. It's not as if he didn't have someone in football to advise him - his dad knows the game and its ups and downs.
What chance is there if you don't come from a non-football background and something goes awry? Where next, if anywhere for Jordan. It'd be a laugh if Halifax step in ...... in view of their current position. (That'd be egg on our face.)
A lot of players who come from a non-football background either drop down to semi-professional or amateur or they fall out the game altogether.
I know several people who played for Football League clubs at youth level but never made it. One person I know played for Bury at youth level then went to Sheffield Wednesday but then got released as they said he was too small to be a striker.
Yes Matt so do I. We used to have a team full of them when I ran a team ..... including Bob Newton and Richard Dawson who played at Chesterfield ....... and in the reserve team because he really didn't want to play competitively again a man who played a full season in a promotion-winning season for Crystal Palace and then went to Everton BUT none of them had a dad who'd played top level and only Tony, the Crystal Palace one seemed almost deliberately to let his talent wane. Jordan Sinnott was out of the Development Stage, true he had to jump from National League to EFL but he should have been a made player and now he seems to have un-made himself.