Finished up 3-0 to Wealdstone - I think Ciaron Brown may have scored an own goal against his former club.
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Finished up 3-0 to Wealdstone - I think Ciaron Brown may have scored an own goal against his former club.
First Development team game of the season tonight - away at Burnley, hope it's not a case of spot the Cardiff contracted player again this season.
Very good performance by the Under 18s to beat Colchester 5-0 on Saturday. They are at home again on Saturday to Birmingham - the club website is saying it's an 11 o clock kick off at Leckwith, so there's a chance to watch the first half before going over the road to the Newcastle match.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...-on-11-aug-18/
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...r-development/
A City squad which includes four trialists are 2-0 down at Burnley at half time - the goals came early on and it reads like one way traffic on the Twitter feed. Matej Vydra, who scored the second goal, Ben Gibson and Tom Heaton all started for the home team.
3-1 now, Brayden Shaw with our goal.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
An encouraging start (and a standing ovation) for Mark Harris at Newport. A good interview with him here.
https://www.newport-county.co.uk/new...form=hootsuite
Finished up 4-1, too early to draw firm conclusions yet, but I've got a bad feeling about Under 23 matches this season - Mark Harris is, almost certainly, best out of it. Thanks for posting that link, I think it's a good move for him.
It's not promising is it? With Harris gone we don't seem to have a striker now, until someone can find Meite. No left back or left sided midfielder either but plenty of centre halves and central midfielders (Duffus, Humphries and Waite were all missing last night to add to what we've got there).
To be fair, the two lads we had on trial last night, Burrows and Sumner, seem to be teenagers on the way up rather than 20-year-olds who've already been rejected elsewhere but it looks like it could be more of the same at that level this season. Why doesn't Warnock give the fringe players or new signings games like Burnley did last night? Seems odd to me.
A brief look back at Monday's game from Andy Legg and Jack Bodenham here. Seems like we picked up a couple of injuries, maybe it'll give us the chance to have a look at a couple of trialists next week?
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...-a-great-test/
Don't know those two names, but I found a tweet which names them (along with Elvis) as subs so it's presumably from the game at Taffs Well (someone replied saying that "Burrows" should read Borrows)?
Someone posted something on my blog over the weekend saying
"I have heard that Cardiff City are trialing two out of contract Senegalese players this week, with the view to possibly signing both.
The two players are Lacina Traore (striker) and Jules Iloki (right-winger)."
Maybe they were involved as well?
2-0 win today. Someone found Meite & some fringe players got a game, good to see that the club reads this board. Not wanting to pre-empt Slumdog's match report but here's the club's version of events.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...-2-0-barnsley/
I'm sure the club website were saying that tomorrow's Development team match against Barnsley was a 7 o clock kick off at Cardiff City Stadium, but now it's down as a 1 o clock kick off at Leckwith, with the Barnsley website agreeing about the venue, but saying kick off is an hour later - see what they're saying tomorrow I suppose.
Blog report on yesterday's Development team match.
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
Thanks for that, much appreciated.
Looks like neither of us can help Tomcat, it's Samuel Ayite but the internet hasn't heard of him.
It has heard of Joaquin Rivera though (assuming it's the same guy who played yesterday). He's 28 and has trodden the familiar path that so many Spaniards have been down before, he was at Barry last season having signed from Cardiff Bay FC. My eldest saw him in Barry's game against Cardiff Met in May and said he was 'f**king bollocks'.
Jacob Evans is an odd one. I haven't seen him listed as a trialist this season and his Wiki page says he's a Cardiff City player but also says he was only signed on a deal to the end of the 2017-18 season (which I don't remember happening). I'm sure I saw his face in the under-23 squad on the club site during the close season but it's not there now yet when the club announced their retained list he was named among the scholars retained, even though he's 20. Hope that clears things up.
A brief follow up to yesterday's game here.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...ofessionalism/
I did have a quick look at someone else's teamsheet on Monday and the trialist right back's first name wasn't Joaquin - I can't remember what it was now, but it was an Italian sounding name.
Jacob Evans may have been given some sort of contract by the club last season because he did play a lot of games for the Development team - maybe it was something similar to Lloyd Humphries' loan deal with Weston whereby he often played two games a week, one for Weston and then one for our Under 23s?
I just checked the club website and I think it's safe to say that a relative of our manager is now in our Academy squad!
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/teams/u18/
That's his son, small world isn't it?
That's odd about Rivera, the Youth Hawk site says it was him. Maybe it's not as reliable as we hoped it would be.
http://youthhawk.co.uk/w/index.php/C...ment_League_2)
Don't ask me about Jacob Evans, it's like the Masons at that level. Maybe we're not meant to know.
The Under 18s maintained their 100 per cent winning run by beating Barnsley 2-0 away yesterday - the goals were scored by Dan Griffiths and Jac Davies.
That Youth Hawk site also covers the Academy games with full squads and details from each game. That mix-up with Joaquin Rivera makes me think its not 100% reliable but I'm glad its there. Here's the league table for the Academy boys, good reading.
http://youthhawk.co.uk/w/index.php/2...er-18_League_2
Sion Spence scored the goal for Wales under-19s in a 1-0 friendly win over the Republic of Ireland today. Three other Academy boys in the starting line-up; Ryan Reynolds, who was captain, Sam Bowen and Dan Griffiths. Issak Davies was on the bench.
A 2-0 loss for our under-23s at Forest tonight. No senior players, unless we're counting Meite, and the line-up looked a bit unbalanced with a lot of defenders in there but Tyrone Duffus made his comeback after injury, as did Lloyd Humphries, and the lack of trialists seems to indicate that we've settled on a squad at that level, for now at least. A few absentees tonight gave a chance for three under-18s to step up, fringe players rather than regulars (as with last season) but a number of international call-ups at Academy level make it hard to say whether this was a one-off or the policy for the season.
1-1 draw for the Development team today at Sheffield Wednesday with Ciaron Brown getting the goal - new signing Ryan Price played at right back.
I wonder what the plan is for Coxe now Price has signed? Looks like he may have played up front today.
Greg Adinna is an interesting trialist, especially as we have a shortage of strikers at that level. He scored over twenty goals for Barnet's Academy last season.
It was Leonardo but I doubt we'll see him again!
Thanks Loramski. It will be interesting to see how Duffus develops now he's hopefully regaining fitness.
I thought he looked useful before his injury mishaps last season.
I agree, it'll be interesting to see where we play him too. We played him at centre half last season but Hereford put him in centre mid and he picked up a couple of goals in his brief time there. Ciaron Brown got injured tonight, that might open the door for Duffus at centre half again, we'll see.
I've already mentioned to TOBW that the end of this season could see some interesting developments at youth level as Bellamy's Academy lads 'graduate' from the under-18s. There's obviously a policy of keeping that group together but something will have to give when a number of them are ready to move up next year. Jack Bodenham's arrival at under-23 level seems to have caused some confusion on its own as Paul McKay, a centre half who we signed on a two and a half year deal earlier in the year, has had to play elsewhere to make room for him. I assume there's already some kind of a plan for next season, it'll be interesting to see what it is.
Looking forward to a mini cup-run just to see a few of these players get a chance at senior level.
To be fair to Warnock, it was hard to criticise the line-up for the Norwich game. He needed to give fringe members of his squad a game and while it was encouraging to see a couple of under-21s on the bench, they'd both played 60 minutes in Sheffield the night before so I wasn't expecting either of them to play a big part, if any. Unless he feels there are any youngsters really close to making a Premier League match day squad, I can't see the FA Cup line-up being much different.
It will be interesting to see how Bellamy's Academy boys do in the FA Youth Cup this season, they've started with four wins in the league and it would be good to see them have a run in the cup.
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