villanwesty88 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 What would be your academy XI? I'm annoyed at the lack of opportunities our players get and how easily we let them go - be it for free or massively undervalued. I think it would be a solid Premier League side all home grown. I'm creating my XI from living memory so about mid 90s onwards Here is my choice; --------------------- Myhill ----------------- Ridgewell---- Cahill ---- Clark --- Scimeca Albrighton ---- Barry --- Davis ---- Hitzlesperger ---- -------------Vassell -----Agbonlahor (pre 2012)----- Rest of the squad; Grealish Weimann Johnson Graham Lichaj Hendrie Craig Gardner Whittingham Bannan Olejnik Ward Hogg Herd Carruthers Luke Moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Jlloyd Samuel count? his 2003/04 season be good enough to include him ahead of Scimeca and Hendrie ahead of Davis and that would be quality midfield 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Are those players all meet to be home grown ? Because I count at least three that are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villanwesty88 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Just now, dounavilla said: Are those players all meet to be home grown ? Because I count at least three that are not. Yeah I know home grown is a grey area - like Crowley is technically home grown for Arsenal but we all know they nabbed him from us for their academy. I included the area ones mainly because I wanted Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarroki Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Myhill Lichaj - Cahill - Baker - Clark Davis - Barry - Bannan Albrighton - Moore - Whittingham Subs: Olejnik, Grealish, Johnson, Gardner, Weimann, Herd, G.Gardner They are all still playing but I'm not sure we could stay up with a team like that. Probably have Cahill, Barry and Davis plucked off us in a summer transfer and we'd be where we are now. Still gutted we let Johnson go, looks really good at PNE. Apart from him, Davis and Albrighton, when all the others left I wasn't too bothered. They went to continue their careers, and probably wouldn't be the players they are without that experience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaywasawesome Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 I said in another thread I thought the arrival of MON and Lerner's open chequebook actually screwed all the potential we had in our academy. Letting Davis and Gardner go while getting in Sidwell and Reo-Coker who I would argue were only marginally better players than both and of course Zat Knight and Davies over Cahill was just stupid. We had a decent crop of players from our academy that we frankly wasted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 slightly off topic but on MOTD heard some boos when Davis was on the ball, dont think he deserved it at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 3 hours ago, Zatman said: slightly off topic but on MOTD heard some boos when Davis was on the ball, dont think he deserved it at all He was a good player for us, I always rated him, I still remember his debut at villa park against Manchester United, he was the best player on the pitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 3 hours ago, Zatman said: slightly off topic but on MOTD heard some boos when Davis was on the ball, dont think he deserved it at all I didn't hear any from the Holte, I n fact when he took his first corner he was applauded by quite a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 My Wolves supporting mate is raving about Jordan Graham, he was gutted when he was out for the season with injury. Seems another good one we let go on a free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 We stole Ridgewell and Samuel tbf. I think Whitts was released by Coventry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 3 hours ago, Junxs said: My Wolves supporting mate is raving about Jordan Graham, he was gutted when he was out for the season with injury. Seems another good one we let go on a free. The problem was he had had a bad injury and never really got fit with us. Is a shame though, my wolves mate said he was a class act. Hopefully Grealish will outperform him next season like he did at youth level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Thomas Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 working again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Field Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 ´Tbh, looking at the possible XI we could put out, not very good teams are they Cahill Barry, Albrighton and maybe Davies are the only ones that were really successful (unless Hitzelperger is "one of our own" ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw95 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 On 4/24/2016 at 15:07, Zatman said: slightly off topic but on MOTD heard some boos when Davis was on the ball, dont think he deserved it at all I didn't notice this at the game. I'm pretty sure he got a good reception when taking a corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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