The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Blue in the Face]

TOBW I hope you don't mind me dropping your u18 report in here?...

u18s: Cardiff 1 Burnley 2
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/two-go...-up-this-time/

After reading a yellow and mauve army report, this is like reading a fag packet...
https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...-on-21-aug-17/

Sounds like Ratcliffe was busy and had a good game. Bob can you tell me roughly what his physical stats are? I hope he's lanky. I feel like the GK prospects Cardiff and Wales tend to produce recently are just too short to make it to the top of the game.

Do you think we can expect to Bodenham, Isaak Davies or any of the other prospects stepping up to DVP football any time soon? Hopefully we can actually loan some of the DVP players out for experience and make room for younger players to come through. I have a feeling there will be no need for "Loanwatch" this season. I don't think we have a single player loaned out yet.

[the other bob wilson]

TOBW I hope you don't mind me dropping your u18 report in here?...

u18s: Cardiff 1 Burnley 2
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/two-go...-up-this-time/

After reading a yellow and mauve army report, this is like reading a fag packet...
https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...-on-21-aug-17/

Sounds like Ratcliffe was busy and had a good game. Bob can you tell me roughly what his physical stats are? I hope he's lanky. I feel like the GK prospects Cardiff and Wales tend to produce recently are just too short to make it to the top of the game.

Do you think we can expect to Bodenham, Isaak Davies or any of the other prospects stepping up to DVP football any time soon? Hopefully we can actually loan some of the DVP players out for experience and make room for younger players to come through. I have a feeling there will be no need for "Loanwatch" this season. I don't think we have a single player loaned out yet.

It's always hard to tell with youngsters that age because they could still add an extra few inches or they could almost have stopped growing. Id' say Ratcliffe is currently something like six foot tall and pretty solidly built - if I had to guess, I don't see him being another Pantilimon.

Bodenham played a few times for the Development team last season and I'd say the results were mixed as he struggled once or twice, but the encouraging thing was that when he was good, he was very good - I'm thinking here in particular of a game against Burnley that we were losing 1-0 when he came on, but the improvement which eventually earned us a 2-1 win coincided almost exactly with when he came on and he didn't put a foot wrong that day.

I was told on Saturday that Isaak Davies is only fifteen - I certainly like what I've seen of him so far.

Of the others in Saturday's team, Sion Spence played quite a few matches for the Development team and Laurence Wooton got a few minutes as sub for them last Monday, but I don't believe the others have done so yet.

I reckon that we'll see a few players go out on loan in the next ten days - of the youngsters, I'd say somebody might take a punt on Cameron Coxe or Rhys Abbruzzese, wouldn't be surprised if Mark Harris is loaned out as well.

Speaking of those three players, I see Coxe and Harris aren't in the Development side today at Forest - there's a couple of names there that I don't recognise - Makinson (who may have played for us last season? - just checked, yes he did, he must have done enough to earn a contract) and Osawe and I see Diego Poyet is playing again.

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