jamesmilner Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 (edited) Danny Simpson in the U23's tonight ? its true Edited 8 February 2021 by jamesmilner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate Teapot Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 On 06/02/2021 at 09:31, Kevin Russell said: READ THE STANDING ORDERS!!!!! READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 9 minutes ago, jamesmilner said: Danny Simpson in the U23's tonight ? its true He was speaking to Adrian Childs on 5-Live on Friday, I think, and said how good the club have been to him. He's 34, fit and ready to go if a club wants a good solid right back. It's a showcase for him so hopefully a Championship club will give him a contract. Always speaks in glowing terms about the City. Immortal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmilner Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 1 minute ago, Spudulike said: He was speaking to Adrian Childs on 5-Live on Friday, I think, and said how good the club have been to him. He's 34, fit and ready to go if a club wants a good solid right back. It's a showcase for him so hopefully a Championship club will give him a contract. Always speaks in glowing terms about the City. Immortal. Its an opportunity for him , i suppose, but the plain and simple reason he is playing is 8 players were taken out the squad for the 1st team and they're short of players !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 15 minutes ago, jamesmilner said: Danny Simpson in the U23's tonight ? its true Good, we don't have any decent U18 or U23 right backs at the minute. Looking forward to tonight's game. Although the style of football was an abomination last week, it was really good to see Fitzhugh, Tavares, Pennant and Arlott-John in there. I really like watching Wakeling play too, seems destined to be good enough for at least a decent League One side come next season, possibly higher. Was also good to see Regbha back looking dangerous. Any news on Ben Nelson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 2 minutes ago, jamesmilner said: Its an opportunity for him , i suppose, but the plain and simple reason he is playing is 8 players were taken out the squad for the 1st team and they're short of players !!!! Does that mean the ones who trained last week with the first team aren't going to be in the U23's for the foreseeable then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmilner Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Just now, Ric Flair said: Good, we don't have any decent U18 or U23 right backs at the minute. Looking forward to tonight's game. Although the style of football was an abomination last week, it was really good to see Fitzhugh, Tavares, Pennant and Arlott-John in there. I really like watching Wakeling play too, seems destined to be good enough for at least a decent League One side come next season, possibly higher. Was also good to see Regbha back looking dangerous. Any news on Ben Nelson? Ben is injured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmilner Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Just now, Ric Flair said: Does that mean the ones who trained last week with the first team aren't going to be in the U23's for the foreseeable then? Dunno ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Just now, jamesmilner said: Ben is injured Figured as much, he'd be on the bench for the first team currently if not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennyFox55 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Wakeling nominated for PL2 January POTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxy-Lady Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 1 hour ago, jamesmilner said: So only top clubs then , i will take that !! Law of averages tells you that every major city with a population >300k is likely to have 1 or 2 kids capable of progressing to international football....its just a case of which academy signs them first or whether they develop later via non-league football. Bit like fishing with dynamite really....the bigger your catchment area, the greater your choice....and the more chance you have of ending up with one that 'sticks'. Real question is how many more might we have produced with better coaches as the only 2 we have produced in recent times largely by-passed our U23s set-up.....where as Ndukwu was considered to be one of the most technically gifted players of his generation and played through England age groups until 17.....and now he is nowhere to be seen having disappeared off the radar under Beagleholes hoofball. Is that all just co-incidence...? Luton and Exeter (& many others no doubt if i researched it thoroughly) have both produced academy graduates that are playing international football now and Chilwell and Dele Ali were both with MK Dons in their formative years before the top clubs came calling....so its not only top clubs that produce them....its just that they eventually end up at top clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacreblueits442 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 37 minutes ago, Foxy-Lady said: Law of averages tells you that every major city with a population >300k is likely to have 1 or 2 kids capable of progressing to international football....its just a case of which academy signs them first or whether they develop later via non-league football. Bit like fishing with dynamite really....the bigger your catchment area, the greater your choice....and the more chance you have of ending up with one that 'sticks'. Real question is how many more might we have produced with better coaches as the only 2 we have produced in recent times largely by-passed our U23s set-up.....where as Ndukwu was considered to be one of the most technically gifted players of his generation and played through England age groups until 17.....and now he is nowhere to be seen having disappeared off the radar under Beagleholes hoofball. Is that all just co-incidence...? Luton and Exeter (& many others no doubt if i researched it thoroughly) have both produced academy graduates that are playing international football now and Chilwell and Dele Ali were both with MK Dons in their formative years before the top clubs came calling....so its not only top clubs that produce them....its just that they eventually end up at top clubs. .. as regards Ndukwu, I have never seen a player that looked so much that he does not want to be on the pitch!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmilner Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Foxy-Lady said: Law of averages tells you that every major city with a population >300k is likely to have 1 or 2 kids capable of progressing to international football....its just a case of which academy signs them first or whether they develop later via non-league football. Bit like fishing with dynamite really....the bigger your catchment area, the greater your choice....and the more chance you have of ending up with one that 'sticks'. Real question is how many more might we have produced with better coaches as the only 2 we have produced in recent times largely by-passed our U23s set-up.....where as Ndukwu was considered to be one of the most technically gifted players of his generation and played through England age groups until 17.....and now he is nowhere to be seen having disappeared off the radar under Beagleholes hoofball. Is that all just co-incidence...? Luton and Exeter (& many others no doubt if i researched it thoroughly) have both produced academy graduates that are playing international football now and Chilwell and Dele Ali were both with MK Dons in their formative years before the top clubs came calling....so its not only top clubs that produce them....its just that they eventually end up at top clubs. When the pubs open I’ll buy you a pint of BITTER . 👍 ! If you was an electric cable you’d be ‘negative’ . Unfortunately over 98% of academy players fail .Leicester have had success and failures ,that’s football . But overall they’ve done better than most . If you think Leighton has failed because of ‘ hoofball ‘ , you know nothing . If players (not just Leighton ) are that good , quite obviously they’ll be signed by another club ? Why doesn’t/hasn’t that happened ? We’ve got quite a few ‘hoofball’ trained players out on loan doing fine 👍. Like I say , the academy is doing ok for what it’s supposed to do ! Edited 8 February 2021 by jamesmilner Another view 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxInTheBoxes Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Odunze was interviewed on a podcast today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ryy Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 1 minute ago, moore_94 said: Interesting to see Abdulai who arrived from Celtic. Also Thawat, Leshabella and VDC not involved also good to see Simo back in blue 😍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 2 minutes ago, moore_94 said: Guessing braybrooke, Abdulai and yfeko are from the under 18s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachhere Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 2 minutes ago, moore_94 said: Quite a few new names there..! And some notable absentees... Anyone found the list of subs? Looks like the Brighton squad is going to include a few new faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Interesting team. Have some been withdrawn with an eye to Wednesday or are they trying out U18s to build for next season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Webbo Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 1 minute ago, Nannypig7 said: Johnson Gyamfi? Any relation to the other Gyamfi? (was it Dennis, I can't remember?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore_94 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 6 minutes ago, Webbo said: Johnson Gyamfi? Any relation to the other Gyamfi? (was it Dennis, I can't remember?) Brothers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 2 minutes ago, moore_94 said: Brothers Pretty sure his name was Dennis, not Brothers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFC1996 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 Couple really young players in that squad, Braybrooke & Yfeko have barely graduated to U18 level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore_94 Posted 8 February 2021 Share Posted 8 February 2021 2 minutes ago, StanSP said: Pretty sure his name was Dennis, not Brothers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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