The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Rjk]

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Posted on other thread
https://twitter.com/CF11Academy/stat...257830931?s=19

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[jon1959]

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Posted on other thread
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Cardiff City U23: Ratcliffe, D'Almeida, T. Davies, Patten, Denham, Connolly, Evans, Trialist, Vassell, Colwill, Murphy.

Subs: Hughes, Luthra, Zimba, and five Trialists.

[Former Labour leader]

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Original tweet deleted by City. Named Marly Watkins in the side not trialist, as in second tweet.

[the other bob wilson]

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https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/pre-season-match-report-west-bromwich-albion-u23-2-4-cardiff-city

[cardiff55]

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https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...4-cardiff-city

Did Vassell last the full 90 minutes?

[the other bob wilson]

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Did Vassell last the full 90 minutes?

Dunno, he played for at least sixty five minutes - I would have thought Zimba came on for either him or Murphy.

[surge]

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Cardiff City U23: Ratcliffe, D'Almeida, T. Davies, Patten, Denham, Connolly, Evans, Trialist, Vassell, Colwill, Murphy.

Subs: Hughes, Luthra, Zimba, and five Trialists.

Five Trialists
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree.

[the other bob wilson]

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Lots of unfamiliar names in the City Academy team which has just started their season with a visit to Hull - Rubin Colwill’s brother is a sub for them.

[the other bob wilson]

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City 1-0 up thanks to a goal by one of those unfamiliar names, Morgan Wigley.

[the other bob wilson]

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Caleb Hughes made it 2-0 early in the second half and that's how it stayed until the 84th minute and yet we ended up losing 3-2!

[Loramski]

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Lots of unfamiliar names in the City Academy team which has just started their season with a visit to Hull - Rubin Colwill’s brother is a sub for them.

Rabbi Matondo's brother was on the bench too but didn't get on.

Interesting start for the Academy boys today, that must've been a long journey home. The under-23s play Wigan at home on Monday, 1.00 kick off.

[Lawnmower]

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Why on earth is the academy travelling so far?
Surely it would make sense to regionalise these fixtures ?

[the other bob wilson]

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Why on earth is the academy travelling so far?
Surely it would make sense to regionalise these fixtures ?

There is a north league and south league of ten teams each. As I understand it, City’s league programme consists of home and away matches against the other sides in the southern section and one game againsteach of the sides in the northern group, making a total of twenty seven matches before the end of season Play Offs. The nine matches against the northern teams are played in the first and last months of the season, with the shorter away journeys being played in the autumn and winter.

[Loramski]

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Why on earth is the academy travelling so far?
Surely it would make sense to regionalise these fixtures ?

As TOBW says, they are regionalised to a degree but the North/South split makes for some anomalies. Hull are in the North division so we only have to play them once a season but they're the only team in that section that are further away from us than both Ipswich and Colchester who we have to play twice because they're in the South division. Similarly, they both have to play Swansea twice a season but only get to play Peterborough once because they're in the North division. It probably could be organised a bit better but I guess there's no easy answer.

[surge]

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Why on earth is the academy travelling so far?
Surely it would make sense to regionalise these fixtures ?

Could that limit exposure to different tactics? Probably only a very small scale if at all.
Wouldn't that make first away trip at senior level a novel experience? Think this is more likely and has downsides.

When's the next meeting to ask how step up to Tier 1 Academy going?