The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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6-0 with 10 minutes left. That's 15 goals in 3 games.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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6-1 FT

[the other bob wilson]

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Another two goals for James Crole, second half goals for Joel Colwill and Isaac Jefferies, next up is a visit to the jacks I believe following the Under 23s game there on Monday evening.

[Sunnysideup]

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Yesterday’s result was even more impressive when you realise that Ipswich were top of the league !!
The whole team played brilliantly but a shining star at left back for me was Joe Keeping - his link up play and willingness to go forward was superb.

[Madassa]

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Didn't realise he was the same David Hughes we signed for too much money back in the basement tier, and then he immediately got injured.

We got him from the Shrews if I recall - looked a decent footballing centre-half for the brief time him played before getting injured which I think ended his playing career.

[the other bob wilson]

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We got him from the Shrews if I recall - looked a decent footballing centre-half for the brief time him played before getting injured which I think ended his playing career.

Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.

[AdrianAlston]

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Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.

He played a few games for the Aston Villa 1st Team as a teenager. he was a bit of a wonder boy. A left footed Centre Half. Then had chronic injury problems and hardly played for two years. Was released and rebuilt his career with Shrewsbury and we stepped in. Then the injury problems arose again. The big question was how he passed his medical.

[AdrianAlston]

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8 Academy graduates have made league appearances this season, the first time since the 96-97 season when 9 appeared. The eight this year are Ralls, Bagan, Colwill, Harris, Bowen, K.Evans, King and I.Davies. The 9 in 96-97 were; Scott Young, Lee-Lee-Lee Baddeley, Lee Jarman, Jason Perry, Hayden Fleming, Pat Mountain, Lee Phillips and Jamie Michael. That season we finished 7th in the old Division 4.

The season before was a disaster and we finished 22nd and had to apply for re-election. That season we used 14 academy graduates, a record unlikely ever to be beaten. They were Damon Searle, Young, Baddeley, Jarman, Fleming, Perry, Nathan Wigg, Tony Bird, Simon Haworth, Chris Ingram, Terry Evans, Andy Evans, Ian Jones ( Father of current young pro Taylor Jones) and Leigh Vick

[Rjk]

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Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.

450k was crazy money for that league 20 years ago

[the other bob wilson]

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8 Academy graduates have made league appearances this season, the first time since the 96-97 season when 9 appeared. The eight this year are Ralls, Bagan, Colwill, Harris, Bowen, K.Evans, King and I.Davies. The 9 in 96-97 were; Scott Young, Lee-Lee-Lee Baddeley, Lee Jarman, Jason Perry, Hayden Fleming, Pat Mountain, Lee Phillips and Jamie Michael. That season we finished 7th in the old Division 4.

The season before was a disaster and we finished 22nd and had to apply for re-election. That season we used 14 academy graduates, a record unlikely ever to be beaten. They were Damon Searle, Young, Baddeley, Jarman, Fleming, Perry, Nathan Wigg, Tony Bird, Simon Haworth, Chris Ingram, Terry Evans, Andy Evans, Ian Jones ( Father of current young pro Taylor Jones) and Leigh Vick

Interesting stuff, I wonder if any of the fourteen from 97/98 would have got a game in the Championship? I reckon Searle, Young and Perry would have played some games at this level, not too many I’d guess though. Haworth was the one who got a fairly big move from City, but never really established himself at Coventry, although he wasn’t helped by injuries. Yet the one who had the most potential was probably Jarman who the club had great hopes for.

As someone who has been very critical of City’s record when it comes to youth development in the last decade, it should be acknowledged that a youngster needs to be so much more talented than those who became first team regulars twenty years and more ago.

[AdrianAlston]

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Interesting stuff, I wonder if any of the fourteen from 97/98 would have got a game in the Championship? I reckon Searle, Young and Perry would have played some games at this level, not too many I’d guess though. Haworth was the one who got a fairly big move from City, but never really established himself at Coventry, although he wasn’t helped by injuries. Yet the one who had the most potential was probably Jarman who the club had great hopes for.

As someone who has been very critical of City’s record when it comes to youth development in the last decade, it should be acknowledged that a youngster needs to be so much more talented than those who became first team regulars twenty years and more ago.

Perry would have struggled in the Championship, Jarman may have been more suited to that standard. It always amazed me that no club from a higher level came in for Scott Young. He was, in my opinion, the best of that bunch.

[the other bob wilson]

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Four City players in a Wales under 17 squad of twenty for a mini tournament qualifying the Euros against hosts Portugal, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

https://www.faw.cymru/en/news/rich-williams-names-squad-u17euro-qualifying-round/?back=/en/wales/news/&rank=2

[the other bob wilson]

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A few members of Saturday’s first team squad in the starting eleven tonight.

https://twitter.com/cf11academy/status/1455233174372560900?s=21

[Rjk]

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A few members of Saturday’s first team squad in the starting eleven tonight.


https://twitter.com/cf11academy/stat...372560900?s=21

interesting to see Bagan in there

[the other bob wilson]

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Semenyo puts us ahead in three minutes.