As posted on the Southern League thread last week by SamCoughlan - Scott Morris has linked up with Stoke City over in England.
Worthy of his own thread now I feel.
Interesting chain of events to get him there just by looking at the behind the scenes stuff - The obvious link to get him over there in the first place being Johnathan Gould - Stoke City GK coach when he initially went over last year to trial.
Since then, Steven Schumacher has come in to the top job at Stoke from Plymouth Argyle, and Johnathan Gould has now left Stoke. An understandable move when a new gaffer comes in and brings in his own people. Never take anything for granted in football given it's cut-throat and brutal nature.
Anyway, getting on with it. Last week Stoke sent out Tommy Simkin to struggling Forest Green Rovers in League Two (thereby displacing Jamie Searle from his #2 role, but that's another story!) and well, that lead to this morning where Scott Morris appeared on the bench for the first time for Stoke in their PL2 match against bottom placed Manchester City!
No debut this morning unfortunately, but Stoke smashed them, running out 5-1 winners.
Another Kiwi GK plying their trade over in England. Good luck to him. 👏👏👏
Worthy of his own thread now I feel.
Interesting chain of events to get him there just by looking at the behind the scenes stuff - The obvious link to get him over there in the first place being Johnathan Gould - Stoke City GK coach when he initially went over last year to trial.
Since then, Steven Schumacher has come in to the top job at Stoke from Plymouth Argyle, and Johnathan Gould has now left Stoke. An understandable move when a new gaffer comes in and brings in his own people. Never take anything for granted in football given it's cut-throat and brutal nature.
Anyway, getting on with it. Last week Stoke sent out Tommy Simkin to struggling Forest Green Rovers in League Two (thereby displacing Jamie Searle from his #2 role, but that's another story!) and well, that lead to this morning where Scott Morris appeared on the bench for the first time for Stoke in their PL2 match against bottom placed Manchester City!
No debut this morning unfortunately, but Stoke smashed them, running out 5-1 winners.
Another Kiwi GK plying their trade over in England. Good luck to him. 👏👏👏