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URCHINS HAND STUART A CHANCE 29/06/2004
Ambitious Nationwide Conference South club Hornchurch have announced the signings of Paul McCarthy and Jamie Stuart.
New boss Garry Hill made an initial burst into the transfer market after the end of last season, but despite being linked with just about every available player, has been quiet in the transfer market whilst also taking a short holiday.
However, to add to early recruits in experienced defenders Mark Venus and Tarkan Mustafa, goalkeeper Ashley Bayes, midfielders Damon Searle, Lee Elam, Simon Wormull and Shaun Carey and striker Kirk Jackson, the former Dagenham & Redbridge boss has now snapped up defender Paul McCarthy from Oxford United and wing back Jamie Stuart from Southend United.
McCarthy, 31, has been linked with a number of Conference National clubs since being released by Oxford, including newly-promoted Crawley Town.
The Irishman spent seven years at Brighton & Hove Albion before joining Wycombe Wanderers and then left for Oxford United at the end of the 2002/03 season.
He enjoyed a successful two years as first-team captain at the Kassam Stadium and is an uncompromising central defender.
Former England Youth and under-21 international Stuart has endured a somewhat controversial career as a professional but has undoubted talent which he perhaps has not always used to its fullest.
Stuart (pictured) joined Southend in the summer of 2003 from Bury after spells with Charlton Athletic and Millwall and recovered from injury to make regular first-team appearances but was then struck with a slight fracture in his pelvis.
As a youth team graduate at Charlton great things were expected of Stuart and he made numerous appearances for the England under-21s during his time there and was even the subject of a £500,000 bid from Crystal Palace. However, it all went pear-shaped for him after he was banned for failing a drugs test, and Charlton immediately released him from his contract.
A year later after his ban he joined Millwall and it was expected that his career would continue as it had been going before the ban, but the arrival of Robbie Ryan at the New Den saw Stuart lose his first-team place which he never regained and he moved onto Bury in October 2001.
After making 61 appearances for Bury he returned south to join Southend in the summer of 2003 and played around half of the Shrimpers’ games in 2003/04.
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