The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[emjayblue]

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Cheers. Couldn't find any team news or match reports anywhere. The club really needs to get the DVP games on player!

I sent Jamie a reminder to jog his memory over the weekend, really disappointing that he hasn't followed up his 'words' with 'actions' in this respect.

[Blue in the Face]

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I sent Jamie a reminder to jog his memory over the weekend, really disappointing that he hasn't followed up his 'words' with 'actions' in this respect.

Nice one

Hopefully the fella is trying somehow but doesn't have results yet.

[the other bob wilson]

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What are your thoughts on Rabbi Matondo finally being given clearance to play for Manchester City? Do you think he would have been better off staying and playing in the revamped Development structure?

Definitely, but maybe I'm biased! That said, I truly believe that Matondo will have to be a truly outstanding talent if he is to make a first team career for himself at Man City and, although he stood out because of his pace and, to a lesser extent, skill at Cardiff, I didn't see the all round game to believe that he would be that good. For example, Aaron Ramsey played most of his Under eighteen team football for Cardiff before he was seventeen and impressed me far more than Matondo did - I think he'll make a good career for himself somewhere if he can add physical strength and more game awareness while keeping his pace mind.

[Landaff the rising sun]

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Thanks Bob. They played each other in the final of the development League last year and Bangor won 4-3 aet. Excellent game so this could be another classic.

Cambrian & Clydach are through to the final of the FAW youth Cup after a thumping 7-1 win over Llandudno in the semi finals on Sunday. They'll face Swansea in the final, an almost impossible task for a club from the Rhondda valley you'd think, against a team that have won the cup for the last 7 yrs.
But you never know - it also looks likely they'll win the Welsh Prem development league this weekend and have only suffered one defeat all season.
Swansea could be a game too far but the underdog has been doing pretty well lately.......

[the other bob wilson]

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Cambrian & Clydach are through to the final of the FAW youth Cup after a thumping 7-1 win over Llandudno in the semi finals on Sunday. They'll face Swansea in the final, an almost impossible task for a club from the Rhondda valley you'd think, against a team that have won the cup for the last 7 yrs.
But you never know - it also looks likely they'll win the Welsh Prem development league this weekend and have only suffered one defeat all season.
Swansea could be a game too far but the underdog has been doing pretty well lately.......

Did I see something a couple of days ago about the Final being at Cardiff City Stadium?

Congratulations to Cambrian and Clydach for what sounds like an unbelievable season - did they win the league after?

What an embarrassing stat for City that one about the jacks going for their eighth consecutive Welsh Youth Cup win is.

[the other bob wilson]

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The Development team are at home today against Sheffield United at Leckwith, kick off 3 o clock.

[Blue in the Face]

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The Development team are at home today against Sheffield United at Leckwith, kick off 3 o clock.

Been meaning to ask, do you think Jamie Veale might be gunning for a senior appearance before the season is out? The reason I single him out is because he's been given the captaincy which gives the impression that he's highly thought of.

[the other bob wilson]

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Finished 1-1 - Jamie Bird put us ahead, but Sheffield equalised deep into added time, maybe a draw was a fair result, but missed some great opportunities as their opponents pushed men forward in the closing stages and were a bit naive in the way they played the last five minutes or so.

As for Jamie Veale, I don't really see him as a first team possibility this season, he's had almost a year out with injury and my guess is that the plan is more for him to get back to where he was before his injury in the coming weeks.

[Blue in the Face]

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Finished 1-1 - Jamie Bird put us ahead, but Sheffield equalised deep into added time, maybe a draw was a fair result, but missed some great opportunities as their opponents pushed men forward in the closing stages and were a bit naive in the way they played the last five minutes or so.

As for Jamie Veale, I don't really see him as a first team possibility this season, he's had almost a year out with injury and my guess is that the plan is more for him to get back to where he was before his injury in the coming weeks.

Team today....

Byrne, Coxe, John, Veale, Blaise, Young, Harris, Humphries, Meite, Rosenthal, Bird.

Burwood, Abbruzzese, Southam, Weymans, Waite.

Some kid called Rosenthal in the team tonight. Never heard of him....

There's a guy called Dean Rosenthal mentioned in this article...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-swansea-city-agents-11228386

Or maybe it's Tom Rosenthal, recently on trial at Brum, as metioned here...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/birmingham-city-run-rule-over-12739291

"....However, neither Tom Rosenthal nor Jevani Brown were involved in the match and neither will stay with Blues.

Former Watford youngster Rosenthal, son of ex-Liverpool striker Ronnie, played a couple of matches during his trial over the last fortnight."

EDIT: Think it it the latter....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rosenthal_(footballer)

[the other bob wilson]

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Team today....

Byrne, Coxe, John, Veale, Blaise, Young, Harris, Humphries, Meite, Rosenthal, Bird.

Burwood, Abbruzzese, Southam, Weymans, Waite.

Some kid called Rosenthal in the team tonight. Never heard of him....

There's a guy called Dean Rosenthal mentioned in this article...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-swansea-city-agents-11228386

Or maybe it's Tom Rosenthal, recently on trial at Brum, as metioned here...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/birmingham-city-run-rule-over-12739291

"....However, neither Tom Rosenthal nor Jevani Brown were involved in the match and neither will stay with Blues.

Former Watford youngster Rosenthal, son of ex-Liverpool striker Ronnie, played a couple of matches during his trial over the last fortnight."

EDIT: Think it it the latter....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ro...l_(footballer)

Yes, it was Tom Rosenthal - here's my piece on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[Nemo]

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Thanks for the report Bob. A good read as always. What have you made of Meite so far? He doesn't seem to have had much of an impact.

[the other bob wilson]

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Thanks for the report Bob. A good read as always. What have you made of Meite so far? He doesn't seem to have had much of an impact.

Thanks, I thought there were signs that he had benefited from full time training during yesterday's match, but he is still very raw. We played a kind of 4-5-1/4-2-3-1 with Meite, Harris, Bird and Rosenthal our attacking foursome and I thought Harris and Bird were the ones who looked most like potential first team players.

I'm not saying Meite is going to become another Zohore, but, like him, you can see that some of the raw ingredients are there for him to be an effective player at a decent level, but, even when Zohore was not doing much and was generally being written off, the signs that he could amount to something were easier to spot than they are with Meite - he's got another year left on his deal and maybe the best time to judge him is after he's had a pre season as a pro and some work has been done on strengthening him up a bit.

[jon1959]

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Yes, it was Tom Rosenthal - here's my piece on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Warnock in this morning's press conference said of Rosenthal

.... nice lad... we said we'd give him a game... he's not better than what we've got.... I'm sure he'll find a club somewhere...

So that's a 'no'.

[Loramski]

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Yes, it was Tom Rosenthal - here's my piece on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Great write-up, thanks. That last paragraph is very heartwarming, kind of sums up the relaxed, positive feel around the club at present. Warnock will be soon be rethinking that sitting among the fans idea when he ends up next to Dai Hunt.

[Blue in the Face]

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Yes, it was Tom Rosenthal - here's my piece on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Finally caught up with your write up. Thanks! As Loramski says, great NW is showing up and showing interest. And not being patronising in the process. I guess you were behaving yourself at the game this time.

Another positive here is perhaps Ollie Byrne. In an ideal situation our DVP no.1 would be good enough to at least be no.3 for the first team. We've wasted a fair bit speculating on sub standard goal keepers this season.

I was going to suggest that I hope Cardiff take a look at Billy O'Brien who's leaving Man City at the end of the season. I've seen him play quite a few times and he reminds me a lot of Tom Heaton. O'Brien is ahead of the talented Michael Crowe for the Welsh under 21's despite Crowe making the bench for Ipswich a fair few times.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/st-mirren-keeper-billy-obrien-10112327

But hopefully Mr Byrne comes good for us instead.

DVP playing Huddersfield at the CCS tonight @ 7. Little write up here from a Huddersfield perspective...

http://www.htafc.com/news/article/2016-17/huddersfield-town-u23s-cardiff-city-pdl-3654271.aspx