By Mark Heys
March 9 2008

Bolton Wanderers have this week parted company with their long serving Youth Academy director Chris Sulley as they look to make a number of changes to the structure of their youth and scouting systems.

Sulley was told a matter of days ago that his services where no longer required at the Reebok Stadium and Bolton will now look for a new man to head youth development.

The 48-year old former Blackburn Rovers full back first came to Bolton's Academy as Martin Dobson's assistant in 1998 and later took on the job himself in the 1999-2000 season upon Sam Allardyce's appointment as manager.

Current club captain Kevin Nolan was the first player to graduate from the Bolton Academy in January 2000 and a number of others have since gone on to play first team football for the Wanderers or other clubs.

It is not quite clear who will replace Sulley but whoever ends up taking the reigns will have a good infrastructure in place with the club set to move to a multi-purpose development facility in Lostock on the site of the old British Aerospace building.

YOUTH GRADUATES

Here is a list of all the players who have come through the ranks whilst Sulley has been in charge of youth development, other clubs they have played first team football for are in brackets.

1998-1999 Lee Potter (Halifax Town) 

1998-1999 Lee Buggie (Bury)

1998-2000 Peter Morrison (Scunthorpe United)

1998-2001 Dean Holden (Oldham Athletic, Peterborough United, Falkirk)

1999-2000 Gordon Smith (Livingston)

2000-present Kevin Nolan

2000-2002 Alan O'Hare (Chesterfield)

2000-2003 Wayne Buchanan (Chesterfield)

2001-present Nicky Hunt

2001-2003 Chris Downey

2002-2004 Cleveland Taylor (Scunthorpe United, Carlisle United)

2002-2004 Danny Livesey (Notts County, Blackpool, Carlisle United)

2002-2003 Michael Bird (Aberdeen)

2002-2003 Michael Byrne (Stockport County)

2003-present Ricardo Vaz-Te (Hull City)

2003-2005 Charlie Comyn-Platt (Wycombe Wanderers, Swindon Town, Rochdale)

2004-2005 Ricky Shakes (Swindon Town, Bury, Brentford)

2004-2005 Jason Talbot (Derby County, Mansfield Town, Port Vale)

2004-present Joey O'Brien (Sheffield Wednesday)

2004-2007 Chris Howarth (Oldham Athletic, Carlisle United)

2005-present Jaroslaw Fojut (Luton Town)

2005-present Robert Sissons

2005-2006 Sam Ashton

2005-2006 Bedi Buval (Red Star Paris, Randers FC)

2006-2008 Przemyslaw Kazimierczak (Accrington Stanley, Wycombe Wanderers, Darlington)

2006-present Johann Smith (Carlisle United, Darlington)

2006-2007 Michael Roddy (Lincoln City)

2006-2007 Blazej Augustyn (Legia Warsaw)

2007-present James Sinclair

2007-present Leslie Thompson (Stockport County)

2008-present Chris Basham (Rochdale)

WALKING DOWN THE MANNY ROAD WOULD LIKE TO WISH CHRIS WELL FOR THE FUTURE.