The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Rjk]

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So, I make it that nineteen City players have been named in Wales mens squads from under 17 upwards in the last week and let’s not forget that there were seven Cardiff players in the under sixteen squad that was a joint winner of the Victory Shield last month. It’s not a great time for the first team at the moment, but the law of averages says that we must have some youngsters coming through at the club who will be playing for the seniors in the coming years.

we never used to have so many in the Wales sides did we? is this the result of more investment in the youth system? or just a freak occurrence? or other teams having a dry spell?

[the other bob wilson]

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we never used to have so many in the Wales sides did we? is this the result of more investment in the youth system? or just a freak occurrence? or other teams having a dry spell?

From memory, four in an age group squad is not too unusual, seven is pretty exceptional though and I can’t remember us having a combined total of eight in the under 21 and senior squads in the time since we had an Academy (six of the eight are Academy products).

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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U18s 1-0 against the Jacks at half time. Ruben's brother Joel Colwill with the goal.

[the other bob wilson]

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Caleb Hughes makes it 2-0.

[stan butler]

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Caleb Hughes makes it 2-0.

Sounds like our academy is being run pretty well?

[the other bob wilson]

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Sounds like our academy is being run pretty well?

Finished 2-0, that’s five wins out of six now at first team, under 23 and under 18 levels in games with the jacks, but, of course, the one we lost was the big one.

The irony is that as the first team is setting all sorts of unwanted club records, below that things look as healthy as they’ve been in years - that’s four straight wins now for the under 18s.

[the other bob wilson]

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Highlights of the under 18s win over Swansea are now on the club website, including a superb free kick by Caleb Hughes for the second goal.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Thanks. That was a cracking free kick.

[Sunnysideup]

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u23’s at home to Bournemouth
1 o’clock KO leckwith today 👍

[Rjk]

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u23’s at home to Bournemouth
1 o’clock KO leckwith today ��

Bournemouth aren't in the same league, and there's nothing on the academy Twitter feed about this?

is this a friendly? maybe to give someone minutes on the way back from injury

[the other bob wilson]

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Bournemouth aren't in the same league, and there's nothing on the academy Twitter feed about this?

is this a friendly? maybe to give someone minutes on the way back from injury

Steve Morison mentioned there’d be a couple of friendly matches for the under 23s during the international break, not sure what sort of team we’ll put out mind.

[Sunnysideup]

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Match just finished
Bournemouth won 2-1

Cian Ashford scored for us

Cian is definitely one of the most exciting players I’ve seen for a long long time !!!

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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More encouraging news: https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...n-hale-end-cup

[Rjk]

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More encouraging news: https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...n-hale-end-cup

wow well done those lads!

really impressive what they're achieving in the age group levels against some big clubs.

[the other bob wilson]

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Great news about the under 14s, the good news just keeps on coming from the age group teams!