The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Rjk]

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Brown was hurriedly loaned out on deadline day having proven himself ineffective at this level many times

Connolly, along with Zimba, went earlier in the window so it was clearly more planned, is 4 years younger than Brown and was a key part of the all conquering u23s. There's no guarantee he'll get a contract but it would have been simpler to just leave him with the u23s until his contract expired

don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see he's doing well, and hope he can come back next season and be around the first team.
I'm just not assuming he's going to sign a new contract

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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An assist for Tom Sang for St Johnstone this afternoon. Wonder if he's playing wing back again.

[dembethewarrior]

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don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see he's doing well, and hope he can come back next season and be around the first team.
I'm just not assuming he's going to sign a new contract

We know. You mention it often enough :hehe:

[the other bob wilson]

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Quite an inexperienced side for todays under 23 match at home to the wurzels.

https://twitter.com/cf11academy/status/1498629134670438404?s=21

[Rjk]

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Quite an inexperienced side for todays under 23 match at home to the wurzels.

https://twitter.com/cf11academy/stat...670438404?s=21

and yet there are 4 players there who have played for the first team?

notice nahki wells is playing for Bristol u23 again.

[the other bob wilson]

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Missed penalty by Sam Bowen, straight at the keeper I’m afraid.

[the other bob wilson]

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Anyone else watching the game or has their stream packed up as well?

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Anyone else watching the game or has their stream packed up as well?

Mine was buffering from kick-off so I gave up pretty quickly.

[Rjk]

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I didn't even get a minute of it.

think it was 1-3 last time I looked

[jon1959]

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1 - 3 now (85 minutes)

Jack Leahy for us (when it was 0 - 2)

[AfricanBluebird]

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Mine was buffering from kick-off so I gave up pretty quickly.

Stream packed in... hope it's fixed for tonight

Thought we played ok in patches from what I could gather between stream issues.

As for the U23... Losing so many players to the first team and out on loan was always going to result in some loses.

Without Zimbas scoring ability and physical presence we are really struggling in front of goal.

Connelly also is a big lose to the U23s but did well on the weekend for BR.

As we have plundered the U23s for the first team, I wonder if we will also see significant movement of players into the u23 and u18 in the summer.

[the other bob wilson]

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Stream packed in... hope it's fixed for tonight

Thought we played ok in patches from what I could gather between stream issues.

As for the U23... Losing so many players to the first team and out on loan was always going to result in some loses.

Without Zimbas scoring ability and physical presence we are really struggling in front of goal.

Connelly also is a big lose to the U23s but did well on the weekend for BR.

As we have plundered the U23s for the first team, I wonder if we will also see significant movement of players into the u23 and u18 in the summer.

They’re missing Patten and Evans as well. I had to go for a doctor’s appointment at about half one, so would have missed quite a bit of it anyway, but I agree that they played some nice stuff at times - bad blunder by Luthra, who’s been impressive in other games, for the wurzel’s first goal.

[J R Hartley]

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They’re missing Patten and Evans as well. I had to go for a doctor’s appointment at about half one, so would have missed quite a bit of it anyway, but I agree that they played some nice stuff at times - bad blunder by Luthra, who’s been impressive in other games, for the wurzel’s first goal.

How did Bowen do, Bob? Heard Paul Bodin was down there watching.

[City123]

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Stream packed in... hope it's fixed for tonight

Thought we played ok in patches from what I could gather between stream issues.

As for the U23... Losing so many players to the first team and out on loan was always going to result in some loses.

Without Zimbas scoring ability and physical presence we are really struggling in front of goal.

Connelly also is a big lose to the U23s but did well on the weekend for BR.

As we have plundered the U23s for the first team, I wonder if we will also see significant movement of players into the u23 and u18 in the summer.

We've already started to see that to an extent, James Crole seems to have been promoted to u23

[the other bob wilson]

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How did Bowen do, Bob? Heard Paul Bodin was down there watching.

I didn’t see a great deal of it, because of a combination of a doctor’s appointment and the dodgy stream. His penalty was poor, but that happens to the best of players at times and in one of the bits I did manage to see in the second half, the commentator was talking about how he and Ryan Kavanagh were winning the midfield battle. We played some quite nice stuff in the first twenty minutes or so, but Bristol City had some experienced players in their side and seemed physically stronger than us.