Does anyone know how good Jamie Searle is? He up there with Woud? Or Nah?
Take it with a pinch of salt, but he wasn’t playing first team football for Melville before he left, so wasn’t deemed better than Max Tommy who isn’t bad but isn’t great either.
Could be entirely wrong, but I heard that he got signed by Aston Villa because Sam Wilkinson knew someone there from when he worked at Birmingham and said “we’ve got this keeper who’s not that good but he’s 6’6” and organised a trial for him. Giant keepers like that are always a chance at youth football, idk if he’s better than guys like Cam Brown, but he might be the beneficiary of being out of sight so Gould and Parker couldn’t see him first hand.