mikeyp102 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 George Boateng is leaving. Joining the Ghana coaching team for the WC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 7 hours ago, useless said: 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. 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. Apparently three of ours are in the squad, not sure who the third one is though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) Quite a new faces/names on there https://www.avfc.co.uk/teams/u18 no Triston Rowe? Or is he under 16 and they don't put youngsters online? No Ewan Simpson either? Edited August 26, 2022 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 1 minute ago, Xela said: Quite a new faces/names on there https://www.avfc.co.uk/teams/u18 no Triston Rowe? Or is he under 16 and they don't put youngsters online? No Ewan Simpson either? Triston Rowe is an u16 according to Useless, he’s played a few times for our u18s both this and last season I think 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Triston Rowe is an U16 by age, but I've no idea if the plan is to play him an age up, that's how he's started the season, it might be that they move him between the 16s and 18s, but normally a player his age he would be playing for the U16s. He's not on the official site as he doesn't reach scholarship age until next summer, and the club only put academy players' profiles on the official site when they've reached scholarship age and have signed scholarships with us, even if they're already playing for our U18s or U21s, Travis Patterson wasn't put on the site until this summer after he signed his scholarship, despite the fact that he'd been playing for our U21s last season, same for Kadan Young. No idea why Ewan Simpson hasn't been added to the site, I think he should be scholarship age, only turned sixteen at the end of July but I think that's within the date range, unless they've changed it this year, maybe he just hasn't had his photo taken in the kit yet, and people running the site haven't got round to adding placeholder for him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Useless, who do you think realistically from the current crop has a chance of making it at Villa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 To be honest I've no idea, of the older academy players the obvious choices would be the likes of Kesler-Hayden, Iroegbunam, Bogarde, Aaron Ramsey, and so on, but then sometimes a player can come nowhere and do well put themselves into contention as was the case with Archer. From the current scholars I have even less have an idea as have barely seen them play, the question for them is probably more can they emulate what the above did at academy age and if so take it from there, quite a few of them as individuals seems to be on the right track though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 1 hour ago, useless said: To be honest I've no idea, of the older academy players the obvious choices would be the likes of Kesler-Hayden, Iroegbunam, Bogarde, Aaron Ramsey, and so on, but then sometimes a player can come nowhere and do well put themselves into contention as was the case with Archer. From the current scholars I have even less have an idea as have barely seen them play, the question for them is probably more can they emulate what the above did at academy age and if so take it from there, quite a few of them as individuals seems to be on the right track though. Apologies, I meant from the current scholars, sorry I wasn’t clear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 As I say don't have much of a clue, we know some of them are highly rated because of them having played ages up, being internationals, us paying big fees for them and so on, but that's all I have to go on as have barely seen most of them play. Although from what I've seen of Kadan Young he looks like he has the potential to be a very good player, looks extremely promising, you could put him in the Youth Cup winning team and would probably have stood out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Ewan Simpson making his first appearance for us today against Brighton, unfortunately we're already losing 2-0. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Rory Wilson scores his first goal for the club! 2-2 H//T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 5-2!! Wilson at the double. Kobei Moore and Kellyman also scored Great result 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 On 24/05/2021 at 10:36, useless said: Aston Villa have signed a second Bristol Rovers prospect in the space of a week, bringing in 13-year-old Bradley Burrowes to their own academy. Burrowes, a two-footed, tricky and explosive winger who can play on either flank, has been with the Gas since he was eight and follows 15-year-old Fishponds talent Kyrie Pierre in swapping north Bristol for Birmingham. Bristol Post Doing well it seems, Vinnie Hayward, and Markie M the other two Villa players at the camp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Is Markie M his full real name? Is he a rapper? I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 'Markie M' is taken from this page on the 'bigsoccer' forum page for England U15s, they get a lot their information from social media, mainly instagram, he hasn't put his full name on his instagram, but they've worked out the Markie M part from his instagram handle. I think his actual name is Markie Meade. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_eristic Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 6 hours ago, useless said: Doing well it seems, Vinnie Hayward, and Markie M the other two Villa players at the camp. If they make it to the first team, we can call them the Funky Bunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 On 26/08/2022 at 12:43, mikeyp102 said: George Boateng is leaving. Joining the Ghana coaching team for the WC. I'm only after finding out about this now, another big loss for the club as it seemed he was highly regarded. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Play Man United tomorrow! Love to beat them. 12 pm kickoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 3, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 3, 2022 Feeney starting for the U18's today. He's been a fixture in the U23's/U21's and mixed in with the first team group for so long that it's easy to forget he can still play at that level. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Villa 1-0 Kellyman scored I'm watching on MUTV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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