That text makes it sound as if Millwall had the better of the first 20 minutes and the entire second-half. It finished 1-1.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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That text makes it sound as if Millwall had the better of the first 20 minutes and the entire second-half. It finished 1-1.
Yes, I had a quick look at it when I got in from the Burton match and it reads like the second half was one way traffic with keeper Scott Coughlin performing heroics for us, but I hope we get to see the goal Isaak Davies (who looks a fine prospect based on what I've seen of him so far) scored to put us 1-0 up in the first half, because it sounded like it was something well worth watching.
Another youngster leaves, this time for Sheffield Wednesday - I thought he was playing really well in the couple of months before Christmas.
http://www.swfc.co.uk/news/article/2...d-3532638.aspx
Odd, not good enough for us but good enough for a team higher in the league.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...layers-9295093
He pops up in this 20/05/2015 article about 20 to watch from our youth team. It's always strange to create an article like this when the route to first team football is such a long one with so many potential distractions and road-blocks, and now it's popped on here I half expect (as is usually the point of creating the original) WalesOnline will follow it up with a "what are they doing now?" article.
Sheffield Wednesday also signed (Welsh) Morgan Fox this January. That's been kept rather quiet and I don't think he's troubled the first team yet.
The Development team were beaten 2-0 up at Sunderland in a Group game in that new fangled cup competition - they were as good as out of the competition beforehand and this result just makes it official I'd say. The only info I could find on the match was on the Sunderland Twitter feed, so I've no idea what sort of team we put out.
Sounded like one-way traffic. The team is at the bottom of this report, Meite got 90 minutes and it looks like Jamie Bird is back.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport...rdiff-12490226
Interesting story in the Daily Star of all places this morning where it names the top ten Championship sides this season when it comes to using players produced by their Academies. Almost entirely down to Joe Ralls, we are rated tenth. which is seven or eight places higher than I thought we'd be, but our figure in terms of number of minutes played by former youth players at the club is about a third of that of the team at the top, Leeds, who have also done very well when it comes to getting the sorts of fees that enabled them to build the type of team they have this season.
That's where we really fall down I feel - say what you like about Peter Ridsdale, but we were able to build very competitive sides in this division through signings made off the proceeds of the sale of one or two players every summer for seven figure sums - since we were relegated, we've almost completely lost the knack of finding players we could make a profit on when they left us.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...sportgalleries
We've cheated that one a bit I feel. To an extent Ralls, Kadeem, Ben Wilson, Kennedy and Rhys Healy are all transfers to our club really and aren't full on academy products as they arrived at a late age. Mark Harris and Declan definately count though.
Huddersfield said they were going to plan around finding good youngsters who they could sell on and have done pretty well this season. It definitely can be done and generally is for all teams not in the top 6 of the premier league.
Encouraging report on Lloyd Humphries here as he extends his loan at Weston till the end of the season.
http://www.footballconference.co.uk/...?news_id=19868
Here's the James Waite goal against Ipswich that TOBW eulogised about at the time. 40 passes from the second half kick off to the goal itself, superb stuff. They don't play music during DVP games by the way, that's been added on.
http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/...l-3540844.aspx
Strange as to why it took them nearly a fortnight to realise what an outstanding goal it was.
Credit to the club though for releasing that video for all fans to see and, it turns out that the goal was even better than I thought it was at the time.
The Under 23s don't always manage to play football like that and I wouldn't expect anything like it on the pitch at Leckwith on Monday afternoon, but their games are usually entertaining.
Anyway, I've done another blog piece about the goal if anyone is interested.
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
Holy cow
Great to use the example of that goal to say something bigger. I was left pretty gutted the way the Paul Trollope/Welsh Way thing fell at the first hurdle. But you've made some great points here as to why this kind of football is so great to watch, even if it is very difficult to adopt this style and turn it into winning football.
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The Development team are at home to Millwall (kick off 2 o clock) at Leckwith this afternoon.
Just about still relevant to this thread rather than start a new one as Ajayi is a DVP regular. But great news for him and hopefully for us as he'll be playing at Championship level and should have plenty of defending to do when he plays...
Cardiff City defender Semi Ajayi is set to join Championship rivals Rotherham United on loan, HITC Sport understands from sources close to the club.
http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/01/30...ajayi-on-loan/
Ajayi joined Cardiff from Arsenal in the summer of 2015 after initially impressing during a loan spell at the Welsh club.
The 23-year-old has yet to feature for Cardiff this season and Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock is happy to loan him out so that he can get regular first-team football under his belt.
The centre-back has enjoyed two loan spells away at AFC Wimbledon and Crewe Alexandra since joining Cardiff, with Ajayi unable to break into the first-team at the Cardiff City Stadium thus far.
Ajayi came up through the youth ranks at Charlton Athletic before joining Arsenal in 2013.
The Nigerian under-21 international never made a first-team appearance during his time at Arsenal, but he was an unused substitute for Arsene Wenger's side in Premier League games against Newcastle United, Stoke City and Hull City.
Rotherham are desperate to bolster their squad before the close of the transfer window and they have moved to take Ajayi on loan until the end of the season to help in their survival fight in the Championship.
Young team selected today - Jamie Bird is in the starting line up after his return from his loan spell at Weston.
Byrne, Coxe, Abbruzzese, Veale, Blaise, Young, Southam, Waite, Harris, Bird, Meite
Subs Bodenham, Ratcliffe, Wootton, Humphries.
Not sure if that's Lloyd Humphries among the subs, I thought he was at Weston until the end of the season?
Finished 1-1 - decent game and a fair result with Jamie Veale putting us ahead from the penalty spot, before Millwall equalised in the second half
My blog piece on yesterday's game.
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
I cannot believe that the PM couldn't be bothered to show up for the game.She's lost my vote. (She never had my vote)
How did Jack Bodenham do by the way? I've seen his name on Wales youth team lists for what seems like ages. Think this may have been his DVP debut yesterday perhaps. Also Wootton is a name I know nothing about.
Regarding Wootton, I'm much the same as you - I must have seen him play before, but not knowlngly so.I cannot believe that the PM couldn't be bothered to show up for the game.
How did Jack Bodenham do by the way? I've seen his name on Wales youth team lists for what seems like ages. Think this may have been his DVP debut yesterday perhaps. Also Wootton is a name I know nothing about.
I think you are right about Bodenham, I'm not aware of him having played for the Development team before - he's only broken into the Under 18s this season. He came on for Jordan Blaise early on and he and Connor Young were a very inexperienced centreback pairing for this level, but they both did well - one of them may have let their man go for the equaliser because the scorer was in a lot of space, but overall, they coped well.
Great that Bodenham and Young are being given a chance above their age grade at least and let's hope can step up ahead of time. And hopefully the later can emulate his old man.
Found this on Wootton on the acdemy website...
Laurence Wootton
Midfielder
Laurence is another new face for the young Bluebirds, having joined from Stoke City this summer. The young midfielder, known for his creativity, will be looking to cement his place in the U18 starting eleven ahead of the coming campaign.
Thanks, Wooton features a fair bit in the video of Saturday's 1-0 win at Colchester last weekend on Cardiff City World - one of the home team's players was shown a straight red card in the early stages of the game for a two footed lunge at our number seven.
News of another young City player who has found a new club - always thought he did a good job for us at Under 18 and Development team level.
http://www.atfc.org.uk/home/three-mo...dow-activities
Another heavy defeat for the Under 18s yesterday I'm afraid - 4-0 at Ipswich.
There's a game for the Under 23s in that new cup competition when they face Burnley at Cardiff City Stadium, but anyone planning to go along should note that the club website is showing the kick off time as 2 o clock, not the normal 7 o clock.
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