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55 minutes ago, useless said:

Finished 3-3, not a bad result away to a team that were champions last season.

Kobei Moore, and Kyrie Piere twice with our goals

 

Thats a good result! 

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On 12/08/2022 at 19:36, useless said:

Hasn't been any further news on this as far as I'm aware, but seems to be a rumour that two West Brom coaches are leaving them, with at least one of them coming to us, Peter Gilbert is a name  being mentioned, he was their U18 manger when we played them in the FA Youth Cup semi-final, I think he's since worked with their U23s.

On the Professional Development Phase Coach, rumours in Exeter that Assistant Manager Dan Green is joining Villa. Green has been amazing, involved in the Exeter academy for 12 years developing the likes of Watkins and Chrisene (plus two other Premiership players). Tellingly Exeter's League One starting line up on Tuesday contained seven, yes seven, academy graduates. Not bad for a Grade 3 academy.

It has been announced that Green is joining  a Premiership club next month.

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Lost 4-0, game probably lost when they conceded three goals in the last nine minutes of the first half, was expecting a tough game as Palace always field a strong team in the U18 league and are usually there or thereabouts at the top of the table.

Main take away is Broggio, Triston Rowe, and Luka Lynch featuring already, it's normal for U16s to come into the U18s towards the end of the season, but not so much the start of the season, a sign that they're highly rated. Broggio not available today as is away with England.

No sign of Shakpoke, Burchall, Bogarde, Kadan Young, Ewan Simpson or Travis Patterson so far this season, we always seem to have a bunch of players missing at the same time.

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They play 433 or a variation on it, I think sometimes it's more 4213.

Them losing a lot of games is nothing to do with Gerrard, it's just that the better U18 players get promoted to the U23s early, and also they've had a lot of players out injured.

And some years are better than others when it comes to new scholars, so how the U18s do can change from season to season.

FA Youth Cup will give us a better idea of how good our U18 team actually is as that's when we will try and field a strong a team as possible, hopefully we get a kinder draw this time.

 

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On 08/08/2022 at 18:41, useless said:

Broggio has been called up to the England U16 squad for their games against Italy later this month.

First game kick-off at 5pm today, no idea if Broggio is starting but it's being broadcast on Italy's youtube channel.

 

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Two of our players from last season's U14s that did well, have had their first international call-ups, Markie M and Vinnie Hayward both at the England U15 camp at the moment. I've seen brief highlights of them, both look very skilful and technical players, both attackers of some sort, Hayward scored the winner in the Albert Phelan South final against Albion.

Markie M is an interesting one as I think he's a year younger than Cole Ramsey, so has had this call-up earlier than normally would be expected, I think there are few things pointing to him being quite a promising one, so not surprised.

No idea if we have any others in there, apparently it's a small squad of eighteen with six on standby, so not many spaces.

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