- Sep 15, 2007
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Just realised a thread was never started for what has turned out to be a very successful loan spell for 18 year old goalkeeper Jordan Archer at Conference side Bishops Stortford. Signed in August he has now made 23 appearances (up to 22 Feb)
http://www.bsfc.co.uk/team/first-team/1st-team-stats/ seemingly playing every match since signed, with 5 clean sheets.
Archer is pretty young in goalkeeping terms, and with this season under his belt, it may give him the opportunity to get League 2, League 1 and even Championship goalkeeping experience by about age 21, similar to David Button.
As an aside, Archer being away on loan allowed Jonathan Miles (who had been given a 3rd Year Academy slot rather than a pro contract after struggling to compete with Archer for game time) a run of games in the NextGen Series - and he took it with some style making Spurs joint lowest goal conceders of the 16 competing teams.
I guess one loan has given two players a boost !
http://www.bsfc.co.uk/team/first-team/1st-team-stats/ seemingly playing every match since signed, with 5 clean sheets.
Archer is pretty young in goalkeeping terms, and with this season under his belt, it may give him the opportunity to get League 2, League 1 and even Championship goalkeeping experience by about age 21, similar to David Button.
As an aside, Archer being away on loan allowed Jonathan Miles (who had been given a 3rd Year Academy slot rather than a pro contract after struggling to compete with Archer for game time) a run of games in the NextGen Series - and he took it with some style making Spurs joint lowest goal conceders of the 16 competing teams.
I guess one loan has given two players a boost !