OutByEaster? Posted November 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 17, 2021 1 minute ago, fightoffyour said: It's just a very thin crust of academy teams left In fairness you could only get there by topping your group. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted November 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted November 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: In fairness you could only get there by topping your group. Isn't there also a slice of knockout round action for 2nd placed teams to dip into? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSteveUK Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) Yes - all the runnersup are into the nextb round - so 32 teams. all group winners will play a runnerup - from the same North or South section but not from the same group. Draw : https://www.efl.com/papa-johns-trophy/the-competition/fixtures/ all academy teams are away from home. Villa could have drawn any of the 8 runnersup from the South section - except MK Dons from their own group and any Acad who finished 2nd - Chelsea & Arsenal Edited November 17, 2021 by SirSteveUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSteveUK Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: In fairness you could only get there by topping your group. Not true - Chelsea & Arsenal both came second. Edited November 17, 2021 by SirSteveUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted November 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2021 11 hours ago, SirSteveUK said: Not true - Chelsea & Arsenal both came second. I'm afraid you've just missed the main takeaway of our little joke, we really knead to do better in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSteveUK Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) ‘Crust’ ’topping’ mmm not bad - i should have remembered this is VT- home to thematic wit. BTW Were you aware the real Papa John was fired from his own company ? Racism. Edited November 18, 2021 by SirSteveUK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Is Ben Chrisene OK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Tomaszk said: Is Ben Chrisene OK? Been wondering the same. He was my favourite out of the whole youth team as he reminds me so much of Gareth Barry. I hope that if he is injured it isnt career threatening because i think he is the best one out the lot , and there are so so many good ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 We seem to have a disproportionate amount of long-term injuries to our academy players, Shakpoke, Ted Rowe, Afoka, Dominic Revan, Mungo Bridge, Patrick Zito, Campton-Sturride,and Ben Chrisene have all had long term injuries. This season Barnes, Aaron O'Reilly, and Burchall have all had lengthy spells out, Reddin also been out for the last three or four games. After the international break would be good to see some of them return this weekend, our first game in the FA Youth Cup has to be played by December 11th, so that's within the next three weeks, Shakpoke, Burchall, and Chrisene are three of the best players we've got that we still qualify to play in the tournament, so could really do with them back in time for then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Tomaszk said: Is Ben Chrisene OK? 2 hours ago, MWARLEY2 said: Been wondering the same. He was my favourite out of the whole youth team as he reminds me so much of Gareth Barry. I hope that if he is injured it isnt career threatening because i think he is the best one out the lot , and there are so so many good ones from what i can see, he last played on the 24th May 21, so just over 6 months out now. (last game was the FA youth cup final?) He was subbed off in that game in the 60th minute, so maybe thats where he picked up the injury?? I dont seem to be able to find anything on this "injury?", i hope he is on the mend and back soon, he looked a real talent. Does anyone out there have any idea whats gone on!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Think he was homesick. Did I read that on here? Hope he's OK anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 He's definitely been injured as he's indicated as such on his instagram on several occasions, I don't think there's any reason to think that there's anything else going on other than that. As stated above our academy players being out for lengthy periods of time isn't unsual, and it never gets reported, so again nothing unusual in the fact that Chrisene's injury whatever it is hasn't been reported, only way we know the academy players are injured in the first place is usually from their social media. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Has Shakpoke ever played for us? Signed last summer and been injured ever since? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Shakpoke has played a few times, he did return from injury at the end of last season and he scored two goals including against his former club Norwich, but he was also injured in that same game which was on the last day of the season, and has been out since. He has only played one full 90 minutes for us and that was over a year ago, worryingly he said at the time that it was his first full 90 minutes in a year, so going by that seems he's been having injury problems for two plus years now. We must rate him a lot considering we gave him a professional contract as soon as he turned seventeen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2021 Author Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2021 We're home to Burnley live on AVTV this evening at 7. We're still 3rd. Meanwhile, Fulham have already won again and are gone off into the distance 10 clear of 2nd placed West Brom. Results so far this week Friday sha 1-2 Wolves Fulham 3-0 Stoke Sunday Sunderland 3-2 Southampton Middlesbrough 3-2 Norwich 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted November 22, 2021 Author Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2021 Soccerway have updated their Papa John's fixtures and it looks like we're next Tuesday at the Valley (19:00) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted November 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2021 Good time to be a Fulham fan. Im sure they'll both be delighted. Interesting tonight to see if the new manager wants to use it as an opportunity to have a look at a couple of players - not that we have very many fringe players that he'll need to see, but it could be an interesting line up I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyClarke Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Carney and Keinan will play I imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted November 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2021 40 minutes ago, AndyClarke said: Carney and Keinan will play I imagine. Yep, I'd have thought so - is JPB fit? I did wonder whether he might want to have a look at Sanson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 1 hour ago, AndyClarke said: Carney and Keinan will play I imagine. Might play some part as we got Man City the following day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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