Your Team's Academy XI

[Matt]

So I was thinking about the players that have come through our academy in recent years and was wondering how it compares to others. So here's what I reckon ours would be:

GK: Scott Carson

LB: Luke Garbutt

CB: Matt Kilgallon

CB: Jonathan Woodgate

RB: Sam Byram

LM: Danny Rose

CM: Fabian Delph

CM: Lewis Cook

CM: Jonny Howson

RM: Aaron Lennon

ST: James Milner

Subs: Paul Robinson, Charlie Taylor, Tom Lees, Frazer Richardson, Alex Mowatt, Chris Dawson, Andy Keogh.

There's obviously a lack of strikers there and the centre half pairing and goalkeeping options looked better 5 years ago but there's a fair bit of premier league experience in there plus the likes of Cook, Byram and Mowatt who will end up playing in the top flight at some point, you'd think.

So what about other teams?

[Thrilla]

GK: Jake Kean

LB: Martin Olsson
CB: Grant Hanley
CB: Jay McEveley
RB: Adam Henley

LW: Damien Duff
DCM: Phil Jones
CM: David Dunn
RW: Jason Wilcox

ST: James Beattie
ST: Junior Hoilett

SUB: Frank Fielding (GK)
SUB: Jason Lowe
SUB: Josh Morris
SUB: Alan Judge
SUB: Keith Treacy
SUB: Paul Gallagher
SUB: Matt Derbyshire

Not an awful team. Opposite of Leeds though, more forward options than defence. The midfield would be pretty tasty.

[Blue Rosler]

GK - Can't think of anyone

LB - Paul Konchesky

RB - Glen Johnson

CB - Rio Ferdinand

CB - Bobby Moore

DMC - Michael Carrick

MC - Frank Lampard

MC - Martin Peters

MC - Joe Cole

ST - Tony Cottee

ST - Sir Geoff Hurst

[Matt]

I'm not sure how good of a job Bobby Moore would do these days

[Gazz]

Newcastle

GK - No one

DR - No one

DC - No one

DC - No one

DL - No one

MR - No one

MC - Nicky Papavasilou

MC - No one

ML - No one

ST - No one

ST - No one

[Thrilla]

Oh, if we're doing it for teams that would play today. Then switch Wilcox out for Hoilett and stick Derbyshire up front.

[Matt]

Yeah I mean if it was all time I'm sure I could have found a spot for Lorimer, Brenner, Charles, etc

[stokeriño]

How strict are we being about this? E.G. Ryan Bertrand joined Chelsea from Gillingham at the age of 16. Does he qualify? Does it have to be their very first club?

As something of an opposing example, Andy King was at Chelsea from age 10 and moved to Leicester at age 15...

[Matt]

I'd say as long as they played a few games for you at youth level, they count. Edit: and by that I mean u16s and 18s really

[Gorka]

GK: David Cornell

RB: Jazz Richards

CB: Daniel Alfei

CB: Scott Tancock

LB: Ben Davies

RM: Shaun MacDonald

CM: Joe Allen

CM: Kristian O'Leary

LM: Gwion Edwards

ST: Casey Thomas
ST: Kerry Morgan

Look out, Welsh Premier League.

[Thrilla]

Jazz Richards is a solid name.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

What's the Vitesse first team these days? That.

[The Lusophone]

GK: John O'Shea

LB: John O'Shea

CB: John O'Shea

CB: John O'Shea

RB: John O'Shea

LM: John O'Shea

CM: John O'Shea

CM: John O'Shea

RM: John O'Shea

ST: John O'Shea

ST: John O'Shea

Kinda want to do an all-time one, just for ego reasons.

[Rafael]

GK: Tim Krul Fraser Forster

RB: Aaron Hughes

LB: ....Paul Dummett?

CB: Steven Taylor

CB: Gary Caldwell

DM: Matthew Pattison

AM: Rolando Aarons

AM: Sammy Ameobi

AM: Kazenga LuaLua

ST: Shola Ameobi

ST: Andy Carroll

[stokeriño]

GK Oh fuck knows. Jamal Blackman? Rhys Evans? Srsly.

DR Sam Hutchinson or Todd Kane. One of those.

DC Michael Mancienne

DC John Terry Jeffrey Bruma, ugh.

DL Ryan Bertrand.

MR Gokhan Tore

MC Jack Cork

MC Nathaniel Chalobah

ML Scott Sinclair

ST Fabio Borini

ST Carlton Cole - so lacking in strikers that I have to venture back into the 1990s, obviously.

Erm...other names lurking around include Patrick van Aanholt, Liam Bridcutt, Miroslav Stoch, Josh McEachran, and so on.

[Twist]

Newcastle

GK - No one

DR - No one

DC - No one

DC - No one

DL - No one

MR - No one

MC - Nicky Papavasilou

MC - No one

ML - No one

ST - No one

ST - No one

Who?!

[Cymbols]

GK Boaz Myhill

LB Liam Ridgewell

CB Ciaran Clark

CB Gary Cahill

RB Eric Lichaj

CM Gareth Barry

CM Steven Davis

CM Lee Hendrie

ST Gabby Agbonlahor

ST Darius Vassell

ST Daniel Sturridge

Narrow midfield trio, with two of the three strikers playing wider interchangeably.

[DavidMarrio]

GK: David Martin
DR: Jon Ostembor
DC: Jack Hobbs
DC: Mikel San Jose
DL: Stephen Warnock
MR: Jordan Ibe
MC: Steven Gerrard
MC: Jay Spearing
ML: Raheem Sterling
CF: Suso
ST: Nathan Ecclestone

Some positions we've done well through the Rafa (pinch all the spanish kids) and Dalglish years when we started to revamp the academy but certain positions have been really lacking such as striker and goalkeepers. Other notables would be the likes of Tom Ince, Gary Mackay-Steven, Kasami, Guthrie etc.

[9 to 5]

Newcastle

GK - No one

DR - No one

DC - No one

DC - No one

DL - No one

MR - No one

MC - Nicky Papavasilou

MC - No one

ML - No one

ST - No one

ST - No one

Who?!

Jim Neidhart.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

"Notable players to come through the Tottenham Hotspur Academy include Ledley King, Glenn Hoddle, Peter Crouch, Stephen Carr, Nick Barmby, Ian Walker , David Beckham and Sol Campbell all of whom have gone on to represent their country at international level."

I'll work out a current team in a second.