Lloyd Isgrove joined Southampton as a nine year-old, having been recommended by his Sunday League coach. Ten years later, in the third year of his scholarship, he made his first-team bow, replacing Steve De Ridder for the final third of a Capital One Cup-tie at Leeds. Described on the club’s website as

“an attack-minded player who boasts trickery and a quick turn of pace,”

Lloyd previously had three games for the U-21s, scoring once. Reviewing the abject 3-0 defeat by Leeds, an angry Nigel Adkins exempted Lloyd from blame: he “had a very positive impact and was a real bright spark and produced more in that half-hour than some of the other players.” That endorsement could have provided the launch pad to a decent career, but as managers came and went at St Mary’s, Lloyd went out on loan on three occasions, interspersed with an odd sighting here and there more often in the League Cup.

His last loan spell, at Barnsley, was the most productive as he scored for them at Wembley as they beat Millwall in the play-off final ,to take them into the Championship, and so it was no surprise when eventually released from his Southampton contract, it was the Tykes that secured his permanent transfer. By then he had won what turned out to be his one full cap for Wales, in March 2016 coming on as a substitute v Northern Ireland.

His second stint at Oakwell was less auspicious, so before the end of his three-year contract he joined Portsmouth, on loan, but did not make a single appearance. After a two week trial in the summer he was then given a one-year contract at Swindon. When that year was up he joined Bolton, initially on a one-year deal that was later extended to three. In 2023, and now without a club, Lloyd briefly signed on for Sholing FC who were in the Southern League South Division 1. Later that autumn he moved to the Melbourne area in Australia, where he signed on for semi-professional side Hume City.