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Whatever happened to St. Andrews Boys Club?
By: EalingGreen Date: April 11, 2024, 4:26 pm
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Came across this article from 2007, about a club with an
extraordinary record for producing young footballers:
HTML https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/sport/football-saint-joe-of-the-shankill/28401247.html
I must confess, I'd never heard of them, or Joe Kincaid, but
then I'm a long way out of touch. Is this the same man:
HTML https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/distinguished-local-goalkeeper-leaves-behind-a-great-legacy-2593168
Glen Man? Anyone?
P.S. Sorry to cite The Paper Which Shall Not Be Named, but I'm
hoping that a Statute of Limitations applies. [emoji6]
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Re: Whatever happened to St. Andrews Boys Club?
By: hughes18 Date: April 12, 2024, 2:25 am
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Your links are about two different people EG (hence the
different spellings).
St Andrews, Lisburn Youth and latterly Greenisland were
definitely considered the top boys clubs when I was playing
youth football (99-07). You'd find that many decent players had
a spell at each. I think the growth of Irish League 'academy'
sides has maybe put an end to that. My old boys club Holywood
Boys certainly no longer exists.
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Re: Whatever happened to St. Andrews Boys Club?
By: EalingGreen Date: April 12, 2024, 5:24 am
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[quote author=hughes18 link=topic=948.msg19118#msg19118
date=1712906719]
Your links are about two different people EG (hence the
different spellings).
St Andrews, Lisburn Youth and latterly Greenisland were
definitely considered the top boys clubs when I was playing
youth football (99-07). You'd find that many decent players had
a spell at each. I think the growth of Irish League 'academy'
sides has maybe put an end to that. My old boys club Holywood
Boys certainly no longer exists.
[/quote]Re your point about IL Academies, Glenavon look to be
the latest to upgrade their own set-up, in conjunction with
Lurgan Town FC:
HTML https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/glenavon-youngsters-follow-trai-hume-28976559
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Re: Whatever happened to St. Andrews Boys Club?
By: exhausted Date: April 12, 2024, 6:07 am
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When I was secondary school age (1994-1999) Joe Kincaid was
usually the man who took players to rangers and anyone I knew
who was a good player ended up at st Andrews and moving across
the water although none of them made the grade there. When I
played in the Lisburn league as a teenager , st Andrews, Lisburn
youth and shankill youth (boys ?can't remember the name) were
the best sides
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Re: Whatever happened to St. Andrews Boys Club?
By: Woodvale Loyal Date: April 12, 2024, 2:47 pm
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Joe is my neighbour!
He helped to develop a number of international players including
Steven Davis, Chris Brunt and one of his earliest would have
been Danny Griffin. A certain number of the team which beat
England came through St Andrews.
He was the Northern Ireland scout for Rangers for many years.
The likes of John Douglas, Paul McKnight and Darren Fitzgerald
went there through Joe.
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