The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[City123]

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Drew 2-2 having trailed at half time

Remember Exeter are a fellow League 1 side despite it being the nonsense trophy! Maybe more opportunities for the young lads when we enter the FA Cup 1st round

[City123]

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I thought Tankiewicz and Keita may have been on the bench tonight.

Just to say that Noah Williams and Hayden Allmark started for Wales under 18s in their final game in the four team tournament in Japan they’ve been competing in. Tiger Tobin and Jack Sykes came on as second half subs as Wales beat Niigata 2-1, but their opponents, who I think must have been a senior club side , won the tournament on goal difference over us - we beat Japan 1-0 and lost 2-1 to Australia in our other matches.

Higgs, Perrett & Giles with the first team tonight perhaps? Perrett was a late call up the Wales u21s alongside Mafico

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Academy round up https://tv.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/video...a-e9c8a284173a

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Report from yesterday"s draw with Huddersfield. Davies and Spiers with the goals.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/u21-match-centre-huddersfield-town-vs-cardiff-city

[Loramski]

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Report from yesterday"s draw with Huddersfield. Davies and Spiers with the goals.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...s-cardiff-city

Huddersfield's first point of the season (they'd lost 6-0 at Swansea) but it looks like they gave us a good game from the highlights.

https://tv.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/videos/9e21f11a-0060-489c-8ff5-39913b9ec75c

Jake Davies has started well at that level. I saw him as a good, if slightly lightweight, winger at Academy level but he seems to have reinvented himself as a singing and dancing front man now (where's Pearce gone again, by the way?). Spiers looked busy, as always. He didn't have to work too hard for his goal but it was a nice cross for the first. Great bit of skill by Mannie Barton near the end.

[City123]

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u21s beat Watford 2-0

Perrett & Davies

[the other bob wilson]

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u21s beat Watford 2-0

Perrett & Davies

Forgot they were playing today. It was at Vicarage Road, so I wondered if it was going to be streamed.

[Loramski]

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No Cody Twose today. Hard to imagine a scenario where he might be needed tomorrow but BBM ploughs his own furrow which makes it tricky to rule anything out.

Interesting to see how many starts Tankiewicz is getting for the u-21s, they're not nursing him along at all.

[Loramski]

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4-2 win for the u-18s at Coventry today with a couple of goals for Mannie Barton.

[the other bob wilson]

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Great pass to Perrett for his goal on Friday by our number 8 which was Trey George if you go by the team line up on Twitter, but I think it might have been Tankiewicz.

[Loramski]

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Great pass to Perrett for his goal on Friday by our number 8 which was Trey George if you go by the team line up on Twitter, but I think it might have been Tankiewicz.

The Watford site said it was Tankiewicz and I'm pretty sure that's right. George was 11.

I said the other day that Jake Davies seems to have become a number 9 but Purse said he's only filling in there because of two injuries (Pearce and Ola presumably) so all the more credit to him for how he's done so far. He'd have had another goal on Friday if the defender hadn't beaten him to it.

[AdrianAlston]

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No Cody Twose today. Hard to imagine a scenario where he might be needed tomorrow but BBM ploughs his own furrow which makes it tricky to rule anything out.

Interesting to see how many starts Tankiewicz is getting for the u-21s, they're not nursing him along at all.

Cody Twose is a very good player. Perrett made his debut last Tuesday and Tankiewicz is the the new name, but both Twose (a Rolls Royce midfielder, albeit still a little slight) and Will Spiers are both potential 1st Team players. Spiers is very raw, abrassive and a little rash. But is a very good athlete, makes things happen and scores goals.

[Loramski]

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Cody Twose is a very good player. Perrett made his debut last Tuesday and Tankiewicz is the the new name, but both Twose (a Rolls Royce midfielder, albeit still a little slight) and Will Spiers are both potential 1st Team players. Spiers is very raw, abrassive and a little rash. But is a very good athlete, makes things happen and scores goals.

Where's Spiers playing this season? Judging from the team listings he seems to be moving from full back (or wing back?) to winger, which was happening last season.

I saw him get the runaround at full back a couple of years ago in a Youth Cup tie and, while he can't be far off the first team squad, I assume he's seen as not quite good enough defensively to play full back yet but not an improvement on the wing options we've got either.

BBM got him involved pre-season so he must be on the radar though. Very energetic whenever I've seen him. If we switch to a back three he'd be ideal for bombing up and down the touchline all game.

[AdrianAlston]

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Where's Spiers playing this season? Judging from the team listings he seems to be moving from full back (or wing back?) to winger, which was happening last season.

I saw him get the runaround at full back a couple of years ago in a Youth Cup tie and, while he can't be far off the first team squad, I assume he's seen as not quite good enough defensively to play full back yet but not an improvement on the wing options we've got either.

BBM got him involved pre-season so he must be on the radar though. Very energetic whenever I've seen him. If we switch to a back three he'd be ideal for bombing up and down the touchline all game.

Yes, mainly at right wing and sometimes at right back. He's having to more forward to accommodate the strange signing of Charlie O'Brien.

Made more odd in that next to Mannie Barton our best U18 prospect is Noah Williams who is an outstanding right back and I think Wales U18 captain.

I really dont get some of these U21 signings of players released elsewhere, all they do is block the progress of younger more talented players. They must be agent pleasers or favours for mates.

O'Brien is OK, but he's exactly the same age as Spiers, 2 years older than Kpakio, 3 years older than Noah Williams and 4th best of that group. Who authorises these signings?

Apter is another, we have Mafico, Perrett and Twose developing nicely and now Tankiewicz coming through. Where does he fit in?

[Loramski]

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Yes, mainly at right wing and sometimes at right back. He's having to more forward to accommodate the strange signing of Charlie O'Brien.

Made more odd in that next to Mannie Barton our best U18 prospect is Noah Williams who is an outstanding right back and I think Wales U18 captain.

I really dont get some of these U21 signings of players released elsewhere, all they do is block the progress of younger more talented players. They must be agent pleasers or favours for mates.

O'Brien is OK, but he's exactly the same age as Spiers, 2 years older than Kpakio, 3 years older than Noah Williams and 4th best of that group. Who authorises these signings?

Apter is another, we have Mafico, Perrett and Twose developing nicely and now Tankiewicz coming through. Where does he fit in?

I get what you mean but if O'Brien and Apter go on to be first teamers here then that will justify their signings surely? QPR fans were probably surprised to find them signing a lad called Eze a while back when he'd just been released by Millwall, having previously been released by Fulham and rejected by Reading. Hard to know how these things will turn out.

Spiers is still getting plenty of game time and he can't be far off a call up, especially with cup games coming up. Maybe tomorrow, to quote UB40.