I have replied to a post on the Saints forum regarding other fans perception that are players are past their best before date.

So I did a search on the club website for 12 of our 17 players that played today at Wakey.

Please see below..........

Chris Riley Date of Birth: 22.02.1988 = 23
Ryan Atkins Date of Birth: 07.10.1985 = 26
Matty Blythe Date of Birth: 20.11.1988 = 23
Rhys Williams Date of Birth: 08.12.1989 = 22
Stefan Ratchford Date of Birth: 19.07.1988 = 23
Gareth O'Brien Date of Birth: 31.10.1991 = 20
Chris Hill Date of Birth: 03.11.1987 = 24
Tyrone McCarthy Date of Birth: 21.04.1988 24
Ben Harrison Date of Birth 24.02.1988 = 24
Mike Cooper Date of Birth: 15.09.1988 = 23
Simon Grix Date of Birth: 28.09.1985 = 26
Ben Currie Date of Birth: 15.07.1994 = 17

These 12 players who are all in are 1st team squad and played today.
They have a combined age a little under 23.

I thought Grix was older than 26....

Laudable.... Do the same next week...

Thought Atkins was younger. Grixy does seem to have been around for ages.

Add Dwyer, Evans and Myler to that lot and a 27 year old Chris Bridge, and that's one hell of a good young squad.

Only 1 overseas player in the team today as well in Hodgson.

A question for SEB & Roy Chicken.
How many of the above have been supported by Squadbuilder ?

I reckon WE WILL!

and of course your history will show that YOU will also

Paul Wood - not sure squadbuilder was around when Woody started!!!
Ben Harrison
Chris Riley
Matty Blythe
Mike Cooper
Tyrone McCarthy
Rhys Williams
Gareth O'Brien
Ben Currie

All come through our 'non existant'





youth policy!!!

YOUTH POLICY

Didn't take long, did it?

Don't know much about the under 20's so a little bit of guessing. A bit lightweight/inexperienced on the bench but I reckon these guys (with an average age of 22) would beat most teams in SL and give the better ones a run for their money. Dads Army



1. Ratchford (23)
2. Williams (22)
3. Atkins (26)
4. Rhys Evans (19)
5. Riley (23)
6. O’Brien (20)
7. Myler (22)
8. Hill (24)
9. Dwyer (19)
10. Cooper (23)
11. Currie (17)
12. Grix (26)
13. McCarthy (24)
14. Harrison (24)
15. Blythe (23)
16. Ben Evans (19)
17. Danny Bridge (19)

In the later 1990s we truly did not have a youth policy. I can't recall the details but the CEO at the time, John Smith, had to cut finances drastically to keep the club afloat, and one of the things that went was any attempt at an 'A team' or other platform to develop youth. It has taken ten years since the milennium to turn this around, but now it is clearly bearing fruit.

Average age about 30 as Hodgeson must be about 325...