He was in our academy but went to Wigan, for a transfer fee shortly after Noble, IIRC?

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Mark was as well

aghhh, ok my bad.

More like the Club's bad...

Was just thinking about him as an option, still might be if it doesn't work at saints

It will be interesting to see how he gets on at Saints, and whilst it is slightly annoying that yet another of our academy players is at another SL club, at least it's in a position where we are not lacking right now.

Not sure about him to be honest. He's fallen off the radar a bit and not exactly someone to get into a bidding war for. I'll wait until he's made the Saints first team before ruing his loss too much.

watched at wigan an thought average - nobby took him wo wigan cos hes good mates with his dad. nothing special. worrincy has had a year in oz we think he will come back a lot better? ( i know he is not home grown point is flanagan is nothing special just cos he is coming back from oz)
IN elliot, donno,olbison,addy and bateman we have talent that is better, with potentially more coming through!

Interesting that. I watched both of the Flanagans in the academy and thought they were Ok but nothing special and then, when Nobby made a point of taking Mark to Wigan, I wondered if I'd missed something, but that clears it up I guess.

Obviously you just never know with academy players, some will become stars and many don't even turn pro, and some progress at a different rate to become late developers, but in the early days, the one thing you can never really be certain of is which are which.

so he's average, saying that he'll probably score a hat-trick against us now

bryn hargreaves once scored a hat trick against us - sometimes it happens but a one off yes long term he wont cause us that many problems touch wood!

Mark Flannagan is a good forward imo.

hes was talked about as an england back rower and i would have been very happy with his signing

Hang on, i thought Noble didn't give British talent a chance?