How are we doing with home grown players?

toonsy

Home grown,but how many others are there?
I received an e-mail earlier from a chap who will only ever be know as Eric asking about our home grown players quota and whether, with our current policy of recruiting from Europe, it is something that we should be concerned about.

The rules state that within our registered squad of 25 players, eight of them must be “home grown” players. Home-grown players do not have to be English; home-grown players are defined as those who “irrespective of nationality or age, have been affiliated to the FA or Welsh FA for a period of three seasons or 36 months prior to 21st birthday.”

But with our transfer eyes firmly locked onto the French and Dutch leagues in search of value for money, is it possible to keep within the rules this season? Or the next? Or the one after that? We’ve already lost a couple of home grown players such as Alan Smith and Danny Guthrie, and with rumours over the future of Leon Best, Fraser Forster and Danny Simpson we could still lose a few more over the summer.

The good news is that we are fine next season. We have Tim Krul, Steve Harper, Rob Elliot, Steven Taylor, Mike Williamson, Ryan Taylor, James Perch, Dan Gosling and Shola Ameobi which makes nine, even if all the players mentioned previously leave the club in this transfer window.

Realistically though, I would suggest that a lot of those players won’t exactly be first choice long term aside from Tim Krul and Steven Taylor, and even Taylor’s place in the team, whilst assured right now, may be under threat if we manage to bring in a good central defender in the summer. With that in mind, how are we looking longer term?

Well next season Shane Ferguson will have to be named as part of the 25 man squad if he is to feature for us. The same will apply for Sammy Ameobi and James Tavernier as all three turn 21 before before next January which means they can sneak in unregistered this term but will have to be named next time around.

All in all we have little to worry about on that front, so rest easy Eric. It’s all in hand and I’m sure that it is something that all clubs have in their thoughts whilst they are assembling their squads.

Well, hopefully anyway!

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318 thoughts on “How are we doing with home grown players?”

  1. Ice 🙂 🙂 I think the glass of water sitting on my bedside table would also start to ripple as he approached, ala juasic park 🙂 🙂

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  4. Aussie @136 Thanks . Not been ignoring you ,internet froze again 👿 then had to see mum. She was brilliant ,really brave about it all bless her. Getting the internet fixed tommorow hopefully ,apologise to anyone I don’t reply to in advance as it keeps freezing and not letting me reconnect.

    Still no signings I see ,really don’t see us signing anyone we have bid for now as gone on to long.Reckon it’s gonna be someone out of the blue who we ain’t even thought of meself. 😉

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  7. No stress Kim, everyone pops on and off this site at odd times, so sometimes it can be hours/days before replies come back 🙂 .. In regards to Richie.. well its not Monday so he is fair game 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  8. Aussie, I didn’t realise he got the day off on mondays 😉

    Army@40 Hi ,loong time no hear 😉

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  9. KIM glad things went ok,dont worry about richie he doesnt understand he gets mondays off to catch up on his reading as long as there isnt more than six letters in a word hes fine 😉

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  11. Aussie@129, a mate of mine actually emailed me that link. He reads those sort of sites and stumbled across it. He knows about my nickname on here.

    Kim@134, sorry to hear about your Mam, hope it all works out OK. Regarding broadband, daft question and I’m sure you’ve checked, but have you got microfilters in EVERY phone port connected to your main box? If so, have you tried plugging your router directly into the main box? (the one that comes in from outside) That worked for me as a temporary fix when I was having intermittent connection problems.

    I had all sorts of issues with BT a few years ago. Countless phone calls to their ‘support’ were fruitless (as well as infuriating). In the end I found out the name and correspondence address of the Chief Executive of BT and wrote him a massive letter. I’d suggest if you keep getting ****** around by them you do similar I.E. bypass the monkeys and go straight to the top. Log all the phone calls and pissing about you make (and add a few more for good measure).

    I ended up getting everything fixed through a free engineer visit, my own personal claim helpline adviser, and 6 months free for the trouble (at the time that equated to about £100).

    I left BT after the free 6 months and have been with Sky ever since. Not had any problems with them. Touch wood.

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  12. From David Crossan on twitter –
    (he’s a Journo based in France and an NUFC fan)

    David Crossan ‏@davidmcrossan
    #debuchy. L’equipe says #lille haven’t confirmed 9 mill euro #inter bid reported by gazzetta dello sport

    David Crossan ‏@davidmcrossan
    #debuchy: l’equipe adds rb wants to join his mate #cabaye at #nufc. #lille felt 5 mill euro #nufc offer ‘indecent’, want 10

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  13. Rod@161. Wow ,that’s the way to do it. We got Virgin ,no probs normally but been playing up a few weeks now . I thought it was the computer but called virgin today and the tech guy says ,it’s coming on line then going off again ,which is a problem with the connection so a guys coming tommorow afternoon to fix hopefully .It’s o.k at the mo ,but liable to go anytime again .We have the wireless router for the girls laptop upstairs ,I always use the main dinosaur downstairs as I don’t know how to use the laptop being a technophobe 😳 😆 Thanks for the help though I will mention the microfilters to Hazel when she gets home later .God I’m such a let down to women kind arn’t I 😆 I’m brilliant at DIY though, 😉

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  14. M@162 That pretty much comfirms what we all knew then .Trouble is Lille may well want 10 but they may have to be happy with 8 or 9 or I suspect Toon will walk away ,if they ain’t already. Thanks for the update. 😀

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  15. From Danish Press:

    Newcastle Hunt Sebastian Boesnich.
    The left back is free from his contract with Werder Bremen and we are trying to get him onboard atm.

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  16. Kim@163 😆 …DIY skills are well worthy of praise mate. Anyone can learn to use a computer, even Australians. 😯 😉

    The microfilter thing is definitely worth checking. You can lose your connection for hours on end if you’re missing one plugged into any phone port in your house. Sure the engineer will sort it for you tomorrow anyway.

    Reet, I’m off now. Not planning on coming back on here later, but I’m on the lash tonight, so I’ll apologise in advance just in case my username gets hacked again. 😎

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  17. …cheers for the info., M.
    …and Danish. Another one to throw into the pot then! 😯

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  18. I’ve got feelings you know! 🙁 🙁

    Aussie@151 and 152 try jurassic 😉
    …and a pint of fosters goes well with a wombat and eucalyptus pie, as well you know 😆

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  24. Ice…funnily enough I handle it better than wor lass, ya think she’d be used to it….now she just thinks that Geordies can handle temperatures at either extreme :mrgreen:

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  26. Has Faussie gone to his bibawhack? 😛
    Just read his big big bite from this morning.

    Aussie Magpie Fan
    10 hrs ago
    I had no reason to believe it wasn’t you Troy so why was I hung out to dry .. I can borrow any user name on here and do the same thing.. it is not clever, more underhanded… It was your user name taken so if you don’t have a problem then neither do I. 😡

    Woo hoo hoo hooo 😆

    Alright alright Aussie. It’s only a joke. 😛
    Now get your seal costume on and go and swim with the sharks. 😛

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  27. me throw abuse! never been known 🙂 unless the football manager comes on,think hes better known as chuck 🙂

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  28. hallow icedog matey , bairn has just turned one , hes massive now haha! are you on twitter?

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  31. Wehey, the toon versus Monaco at Landsberg am Lech, 30 minutes from wor hoose. Ya beauty !!!!

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  34. Been oot travelling for a few days mukka, good to see you’ve covered me back mate… 😉 He’s a rascal Richietoon, it all started when Aussie Mag kept getting mucked into him…

    Landsberg am Lech thats where Adolf was imprisoned, and wrote Mein Kampf…

    Howay the lads….am off to bed, cream crackered….

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  37. Dave 😆 …. sounds like your gaff here now wi fireworks going off all the time 😉 ….funnily enough I was in the town today walked down a street called “Carrer Belfast” 😯

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  39. Richie I bet there is some amount of fireworks, and I think it will end up being our 2 teams in the final, I just wished I had of put a bet on 😆 but probably wouldn’t have got much.

    Ice yeah he is decent, I still cant get over Ronaldo being 5th in line 😕

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  41. Dave,,aye hindsight is a wonderful thing, if I’d put the bet on it wouldn’t have happened 😕

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  42. Kim I think the strikers should be 1st up, I can sort of see why they would maybe keep a top guy for the 5th and final pen but if you don’t get to that stage ala Portugal will then it was a waste of time.

    Well Richie at least we’ll know we were right 😉

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  43. I’ve been filled with useless information
    Spewed out by papers and radio stations
    I’ve been hounded by fairweather friends
    Sowing the seeds for my discontent
    Life is like a sewer
    And i’m trying to wade thru her
    I threw in my money and made my wish
    But sleeping boys catch no fish

    All desires have been denied to put me in this state of mind
    Another year older and what have i done
    My aspirations have shriveled in the sun
    I’m crippled by guilt
    Blinded by science
    I’ve been waiting for tomorrow all of my life

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  46. …Here comes another Winter of long shadows and high hopes.
    Here comes another Winter, waiting for Utopia; waiting for errr, eh, hell to freeze over; and stuff – innit 😎

    I sponsor the government to subsidise my local bread shop. I know it makes sense 😯

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  52. …and as far as the government goes.

    Well **** them too.

    Absolutely no fucking idea.

    (the cunts)

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  58. so, just to keep them occupied, at this point I would’ve said summik like “HAHA, Fosters, you ****!” Poot enatha shreemp on thi fakin borbi mite. 😐

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  65. Rich @ 168 – doent go critisizing me spellun mayte… I is triing as harrd as I cen 😥

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  66. Troy 😆 , the lonely fisherman with his empty bucket. I am disappointed because I have come to expect better responses from you… you will need to lift your game mate 😎
    You used to be sharp and quite witty, now you seem to have run out of ideas.. 😕
    Oh well I hope you can turn it around :mrgreen: 😆

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  67. Rodz, are you still around or are you **** in handing it in bed 😉

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  69. listening to a bit of early corrosion of conformity at the moment.. cracking band back in the day… 🙂

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  70. glad to hear of hearing it my fiend 😯 …I’m too busy thinking ’bout fish fingas.
    …an ah ain’t gat taaarm furnatting els 😎

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  71. no worries Rodz, fish fingers can be a tricky meal to prepare 😯 😆

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