You get nowhere signing players from lower leagues......

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    Just to prove that old chestnut wrong:-
    Todays starting eleven were signed from

    Sheffield Wed Reserves
    Academy Torquay Halifax Barnet
    Liverpool Academy Wigan Plymouth Wycombe
    S****horpe Walsall
     
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    Is it really an "old chestnut" though?

    Ian Wright, Charlie Austin, Troy Deeney, Les Ferdinand and Kevin Phillips did alright for themselves coming from non league, to name a few off the top of my head.
     
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    The cream of lower/non league young hungry players wanting to go far love it.
     
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    I'm talking NINE in one team.
     
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    It's not 9 though, is it? One came through our academy(which is great to see), and Wigan, Sheff Wed and Liverpool aren't lower league.
     
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    Oops sorry i forgot to mention the 3 from Barcelona that were on the bench.
     
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    Davies was released from Wednesday wasn't he it's not like we paid money for him they didn't think he was good enough we did.
     
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    I don't think Wednesday reserves are a top team. Many on here have said in the past if you buy from lower leagues that's where you end up
     
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    They also say you win nothing with kids!
     
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    You get nowhere signing bad players from lower leagues.

    Wiseman
    Kennedy
    Dawson

    Signing good players from lowers leagues is probably part scouting, part luck and depends on the player in question being able to improve further. The recent ones we've bought all have seemed capable of this, same as maybe David Currie was back in the day
     
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