Jacob Blyth - Leamington FC

[AKCJ]

Gary Madine is a 6"3 striker with 20 odd goals an better legue..

[dannythefox]

Would be very surprised if we went for someone with not a lot of experience the jump up to the championship will surly be to big for him.

[lcfcsnow]

Nigel 'Jobs for the Boys' Pearson. Undoubtedly Aman Verma part II.

[THEBIGJOHNSTEADER;]

I would rather we named the stadium the Jacobs Cream Cracker Stadium than sign this probable crappo

[bluesbrothers]

Gary Madine is a 6"3 striker with 20 odd goals an better legue..

As Gary Madine's personal FoxesTalk stalker for the past 2 months, i second this post.

[Razor Brakes]

Hi all leamington fan here just wanted to give you some info on jacob as i have watched him all season.his move is definitely based on who you know in the game a favour for a favour as he really is just a big lump.his touch is awful,he looks like he is treading water when he runs and most his goals are pens and 2 yard tap ins.i dont think he was good enough for leamington never mind a championship club.but with all what i said it would be great for him to do well and make a good living from football but its never going to happen sorry!

I too have watched Blyth all season at the brakes aswell and what a load of cobblers you are talking. The lad is the youngest player in the team (probably highest paid) lead the line all season and hit 20 goals from a lot of hoofball. I'm tellin you foxes give the lad fulltime training and he will turn into some player. Replacement for Howard? Not just yet, give him a few a months and in my eyes you really have got a player.

[Razzle dazzle]

Not getting in to tit for tat about the lad footballs all about opinions!my assessment is bang on of jacob blythe and all will see where his career takes him.one thing is he has not signed for anyone yet so leamington fans arguing over what to spend his transfer fee on is a bit jumping the gun.there will be no transfer fee

[ramadaone]

Done deal - will be playing U21 football with an eye on breaking into the first team squad

[Happy Fox]

Done deal - will be playing U21 football with an eye on breaking into the first team squad

Good news hopefully this Under 21 will help the fringe players get game time and impress the management staff I am looking at Moore, Bolger, Parkes Hopper and the youth prospects to hopefully make the transition to the first team, probably Schlupp will go out on loan?

[ramadaone]

Good news hopefully this Under 21 will help the fringe players get game time and impress the management staff I am looking at Moore, Bolger, Parkes Hopper and the youth prospects to hopefully make the transition to the first team, probably Schlupp will go out on loan?

They think this U21 League is going to be a big deal so maybe Schlupp will stay as he will either get regular football in that league or with the first team - Beaglehole will be manager so suspect he will be as good as most League managers if the young lads went out on loan so they may as well stay put.

Hopefully the U21's will play on a Monday night down the KP

[Tielemans63]

my assessment is bang on of jacob blythe

Got to admire that confidence.

[BrakesPress]

Got to admire that confidence.

Perhaps, but his assessment is a little unfair and to me smacks of jealousy. To say most of Jacob's goals were penalties and tap ins is, for want of a better word, crap. He made 64 appearances for Leamington, scoring 24 goals. 3 of them were penalties. He is not blessed with natural pace, so that part may be true, but he is a typical old school type forward, very good with the ball at his feet, holds it up well, and is superb in the air. He has scored some decent goals with both feet too, so to claim he is not good enough to even play for us is pretty bizarre. He was only with us for about 18 months, prior to that he began the 2010/2011 season at Bedworth United, who were then at Step 4 of the Non League Pyramid. I think he scored 10 goals in roughly 22 games for them. The season before that he was at Nuneaton Griff, two Steps further down the pyramid, and in his first season in adult football he scored 18 goals, including hat tricks in the FA Youth Cup and the FA Cup. He has played 2 or 3 games for Birmingham City's academy side during this season as well, scoring in one of them. It amazes me that somebody can feed Leicester fans with a load of rubbish about a 19 year old lad who clearly has a huge desire to succeed in the professional game, before he's even got started! If he does sign for you I hope he goes on to do well. He has clearly improved a great deal in the short time he has been in the senior game, and surely with full time training and coaching he is going to get even better. We will certainly miss him at Leamington.

[Happy Fox]

Perhaps, but his assessment is a little unfair and to me smacks of jealousy. To say most of Jacob's goals were penalties and tap ins is, for want of a better word, crap. He made 64 appearances for Leamington, scoring 24 goals. 3 of them were penalties. He is not blessed with natural pace, so that part may be true, but he is a typical old school type forward, very good with the ball at his feet, holds it up well, and is superb in the air. He has scored some decent goals with both feet too, so to claim he is not good enough to even play for us is pretty bizarre. He was only with us for about 18 months, prior to that he began the 2010/2011 season at Bedworth United, who were then at Step 4 of the Non League Pyramid. I think he scored 10 goals in roughly 22 games for them. The season before that he was at Nuneaton Griff, two Steps further down the pyramid, and in his first season in adult football he scored 18 goals, including hat tricks in the FA Youth Cup and the FA Cup. He has played 2 or 3 games for Birmingham City's academy side during this season as well, scoring in one of them. It amazes me that somebody can feed Leicester fans with a load of rubbish about a 19 year old lad who clearly has a huge desire to succeed in the professional game, before he's even got started! If he does sign for you I hope he goes on to do well. He has clearly improved a great deal in the short time he has been in the senior game, and surely with full time training and coaching he is going to get even better. We will certainly miss him at Leamington.

Fantastic post, Is he that archetypal target man, with strength i.e can score headers and provide assists for the other players?, we might be potentially signing Heskey so his experience could be invaluable to Jacob.

[RumbleFox]

This club is one of the richest, if not the richest, in the division. They'd have to be stupid or mad not to invest in a scouting set up to match that. I'd be surprised if our scouting network isn't, or won't soon be, one of the best in the division since our new found wealth. These sort of signings could be evidence of the scouts ability to spot gems.

With the new FFP rules coming in, and our planned u-21 squad, the sensible thing to do would be to go out and find lots of the best cheap, young players that the scouts can find to fill these youth sides with as much potential as possible. We can't have too many players who the club thinks can one day be great. If we can find any decent youngsters, which we certainly can, lower league sides will borrow them, leaving another place available in our youth sides.

We can't go on throwing money around at expensive Championship players and PL rejects, and after seeing how well this season turned out, why would any of us want to see the club do that again?

All great players were worth a lot less money earlier in their career. Surely it's far better to buy them when they're cheap, at the beginning of their career, for every reason imaginable? Obviously, they cost less, and when they're sold on, it's usually because they've become too good for the club, so they're worth more and the club makes a profit. Also, their wages are much lower.

Of course, it is possible that these sorts of players never reach the level of ability that the scouts thought they would, but they didn't cost the club much money in the first place, so there's no real loss.

Maybe some of you think we're going backwards because we're looking down the leagues for talent, rather than spunking silly money up the wall on players like Mills and Beckford. Have you not considered that the club is investing that money into scouting and developing youth players, instead? I think there's a good chance that the owners have now abandoned their gambling on instant success, and are now looking at the long term plan. I couldn't be happier if this is the case. Investing in scouting and developing young players is by far the best way to go about taking a football club forward. Sure, it can take longer to get where you want to go. It is a slower process in terms of seeing results than buying the finished article can be, but it costs a lot less, and there is massively more potential for profit. It's also far more sustainable for a club to have a policy of buying cheap players than expensive ones. I want to see the club follow Norwich's or Swansea's model for success. What you're after is QPR's.

This is a great post. I can't see why anyone would moan at this? You all go on about young, hungry players? Well this is exactly that!!! Jesus if we can't get behind this signing we might as well just all go home. Someone else said something like "it will mean less chances for OUR youngsters" well that's riduclous! What makes them ours any more than him? He will just be joining at a later date? Unless some of you think that a person moving to a place later in life has less of a right to be there than someone who has been there longer? There is a word for that you know!!!

Anyway, I like the sound of this signing and we HAVE to invest in youth if we wabt to move forwards and be sustainable.

In Nigel we trust.

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[BrakesPress]

Fantastic post, Is he that archetypal target man, with strength i.e can score headers and provide assists for the other players?, we might be potentially signing Heskey so his experience could be invaluable to Jacob.

I wish there were more videos you could look at, but unfortunately our games don't get filmed anymore so most of Jacob's goals are consigned to memory only. My memory is better than most though, as I do report on our games! His aerial power is definitely a strength, one game that sticks in my mind is when we played Chesham last year; we'd gone from 1-0 to 2-1 down, lost a man, managed to get level, and Jacob scored the winner with about 6 minutes left, powering a header from the right side of goal back across the keeper into the other corner. His last goal for us was a good one, taking the ball down on the edge of the area and crashing in a volley first time. I missed a lot of the pre season games but by all accounts he was on fire before unfortunately getting injured. I don't understand why the other poster feels he is not good enough. Sure, we've had better goalscorers at Leamington in the past, but Jacob is young enough to get a lot better.

[BrakesPress]

Here's one I did find, the goal is about 9min 50 in, to save you watching it all!

[Razzle dazzle]

Good luck jacob well done on the move ...........see you back at leamington in 12 months

[Jaspa]

Hes a Cov fan