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Breaking News Isaac Layne

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Waspie said:
Alloa fan here. I think this is the rough idea. Alloa have just employed a new scout in England with the plan of bringing up decent non league players and giving them a platform to try and win a move to full-time football. There was a pile of boys up on trial last week and Layne was signed shortly after so I'm assuming this scout was behind it. Quite a departure for Alloa but it seems that the club believe it's worth trying.

Alloa's normal standing would be well below League 2 I think but our team over the past 2 or 3 seasons has been brilliant by our own standards. We drew with Oxford and Northampton the last couple of summers and on both occasions they said we played a passing game that they weren't used to. This season we have had some great results - beating Hibs and Rangers - but we have problems with scoring goals, too often trying to walk the ball into the net. It seems that Layne is fairly quick and direct, the kind of striker we don't really have, so the manager must feel he is worth taking a shot on. Hopefully he can do better than the other ex Southend player in the league, the quite magnificently awful Moshni at Rangers:smile:.

Good luck to Southend for the rest of the season, I hope you are celebrating promotion come May.
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Southend's first manager Bob Jack was from Alloa.
 
C'mon you Shrimpers said:
Southend's first manager Bob Jack was from Alloa.
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I didn't realise there was a Southend link with Bob Jack. A famous footballing family, his three sons played English League football. I see now that the most famous of those sons, David, who is well known for scoring the first goal at Wembley, also managed Southend.

I might try and drum up some interest in a Southend - Alloa friendly to celebrate these ancient links, a wee summer jaunt to the south of England would fit the bill nicely:smile:
 
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