Remie Streete has won the Wor Jackie Award for 2010.
Remie Streete – top young defender – turned 17 last November
The 17 year-old defender, who is the son of former Wolves player Floyd Streete, is one of the brightest young prospects at Newcastle United.
The Wor Jackie Award is given to the best Newcastle U18 player each year, and is named after the great number 9 – Ashington-born Jackie Milburn – who scored 200 goals for Newcastle United in his career.
It seems that Streete has been so impressive playing for both the Newcastle U18s and Reserves team this season, that he has been training with the Newcastle first team.
The youngster was born in South Shields, and will be presented with the award, at Sport Newcastle’s annual dinner next month.
In 2010, Streete won the inaugural Jack Hixon Award, named after the scout who discovered the great Alan Shearer, and two years ago he received his trophy from the legend himself.
Streete will lead the Newcastle U18 side out tomorrow night in the fifth-round of the FA Youth Cup, against QPR at St. James’ Park, with the kick off time being 7:00 pm - if you can go along and support the youngsters that would be terrific.
Newcastle beat Watford and Darlington in the previous two rounds of the famous competition, and if they can beat QPR they will then meet Blackburn Rovers at home in the 6th round – so there’s a big incentive for our youngsters tomorrow night.
Newcastle have won the FA Youth Cup twice – back in 1962 when Bobby Moncur was playing and also in 1985, when Paul Gascoigne was in the side – its’ about time we won it for a third time.
Here are the previous 9 winners of the Wor Jackie award:
2011: Jak Alnwick
2010: Bradden Inman
2009: Nile Ranger
2008: Kazenga LuaLua
2007: Andy Carroll
2006: Matty Pattison
2005: Paul Huntington
2004: Martin Brittain
2003: Peter Ramage
It’s a little surprising that more of the winners have not been successful at Newcastle or even at other clubs, the most successful being Andy Carroll, the Gateshead-born lad who went for £35M to Liverpool FC a year ago.
The last three winners of the award, goalkeeper Jak Alnwick, Australian midfielder Brad Inman and London-born striker Nile Ranger are still at the club.
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10 responses so far ↓
1 bob // Feb 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Sounds like the Wor jackie award is the kiss of death to the winner!
2 Wor Shearer // Feb 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Not great list of talent there.
3 Jonny // Feb 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM
2010 or 2012?
4 ToonMax94 // Feb 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM
I’ve played against this lad a couple of times and I struggle to see how he has this award.
That’s me sounding sour but I think he will go the same way as the previous winners.
5 toon18 // Feb 8, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Wow, he’s in fairly poor company there
6 martoon // Feb 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Maybe it should be renamed ‘You’re Knacked’ award.
7 geoff777 // Feb 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Congratulations to Remie for winning this.
Good luck v QPR.
HWTL
8 toon-hendy // Feb 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM
I’ve played with Matty Pattison at redheugh before he was at newcastle/ norwich etc and still keep in touch. He’s getting a trial down Leeds soon and expects a contract down there.
9 Brutooon // Feb 9, 2012 at 3:26 AM
2011: Jak Alnwick
2010: Bradden Inman
2009: Nile Ranger – lots of subs appearance but no goal
2008: Kazenga LuaLua – championship or league 1 quality
2007: Andy Carroll – 35 million easy money
2006: Matty Pattison
2005: Paul Huntington
2004: Martin Brittain
2003: Peter Ramage – did ok as a backup
10 geordiesteve520 // Feb 9, 2012 at 8:26 AM
On the topic of promising youngsters, I see Ravel Morrison wasted no time pissing off the West Ham board and getting himself hauled up infront of the FA – apparently for homophobic comments on Twitter. Looks like we may have dodged a bullet there.
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