The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[the other bob wilson]

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Lunchtime football at Cardiff City Stadium today as the Under 23s take on Watford in a Premier Cup game - kick off is at 1 o clock and admission is free.

[the other bob wilson]

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If anyone was planning on going today's match they should note that it has been "put forward" (???) to 1.15 - the previous tweet confirmed the original kick off time of 1 o clock.

[Loramski]

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Lunchtime football at Cardiff City Stadium today as the Under 23s take on Watford in a Premier Cup game - kick off is at 1 o clock and admission is free.

Kick off at 1.15 now. Long queues I guess.

[emjayblue]

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Obi with his first goal for the club. 1 nil 75th min.

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Obi with his first goal for the club. 1 nil 75th min.

Forever known as Obi 1

[emjayblue]

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Forever known as Obi 1

Finished 1-1 they equalised on 90 mins it wasn't knobey who scored either!

[Loramski]

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Finished 1-1 they equalised on 90 mins it wasn't knobey who scored either!

Decent game I thought, no great quality but very competitive. Obi took his goal well, looks quick and skilful. I'm not sure if he can pass yet, maybe we'll find that out another day. Meite missed a couple of chances in the first half but we played better as the game went on and should've finished the game off before Watford equalised with one of their few shots on goal. The ref let them take a quick free kick yards from where the foul took place and they scored from the resulting break.

No stand-out performers for us but everyone did ok. I haven't seen an attendance figure given but my gut feeling was that it was down from Sunday.

[emjayblue]

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Decent game I thought, no great quality but very competitive. Obi took his goal well, looks quick and skilful. I'm not sure if he can pass yet, maybe we'll find that out another day. Meite missed a couple of chances in the first half but we played better as the game went on and should've finished the game off before Watford equalised with one of their few shots on goal. The ref let them take a quick free kick yards from where the foul took place and they scored from the resulting break.

No stand-out performers for us but everyone did ok. I haven't seen an attendance figure given but my gut feeling was that it was down from Sunday.

Lol, thanks for the report, bloody plastics gearing up for the egg chasing on Saturday no doubt!

[Loramski]

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Lol, thanks for the report, bloody plastics gearing up for the egg chasing on Saturday no doubt!

Cheap tickets today too, what more can the club do? Bring back Velikonja, it's the only answer.

For anyone who's interested the team today was;

Burwood, Coxe, Abbruzzese, Brown, McKay, Evans, Rowe, Waite, McLean, Meite and Mark Harris. Obi and a very beefed up Lloyd Humphries came on as subs.

The two new (to me) trialists were Danny Rowe, who's just been released by QPR, and Scott McLean, who was at Kilmarnock. Rowe looked like he had a bit about him and had a decent shot, McLean came more into the game as it went on and should've been put in by both Harris and Obi.

I think I saw Tyrone Duffus on crutches today which is a shame if so. He had a promising start here and a promising start to his loan spell at Hereford in November but two injuries there look to have ended his season.

[the other bob wilson]

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My take on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[the other bob wilson]

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The Development team beat QPR 3-2 at Leckwith this afternoon, but they came very close to continuing their habit of throwing away leads as they decided to down tools after they were 3-0 up at half time thanks to goals by the Harris' - Mark scored two with the second one being a penalty and Kadeem got the other one. QPR's goals were scored by a certain Jay Emmanuel-Thomas who is even less mobile now than he was when he was with us, but, just like then, there were the occasional moments of class from him, including the best goal of the game when curled a shot in from twenty five yards - his other goal was a penalty.

[the other bob wilson]

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My review of yesterday's Development team game;-

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[Loramski]

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My review of yesterday's Development team game;-

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Excellent write-up, thanks. How did Obi do? Do you see a future for him here or is it still too early to say?

I agree with the last paragraph completely. I'm not convinced it's a great idea to recruit released 20-21 year-olds but I think 'a bad plan is better than no plan' applies here. I'd much rather see the club try something different at that level than let things drift aimlessly on as they were.

[the other bob wilson]

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Excellent write-up, thanks. How did Obi do? Do you see a future for him here or is it still too early to say?

I agree with the last paragraph completely. I'm not convinced it's a great idea to recruit released 20-21 year-olds but I think 'a bad plan is better than no plan' applies here. I'd much rather see the club try something different at that level than let things drift aimlessly on as they were.

Putting it brutally, I thought Obi was hopeless when he came on and he didn't improve much in the hour or so he was on the pitch - he was one of the players I had in mind when I talked about forwards being greedy in the second half. This was a disappointment, because I thought he did pretty well against Watford - my understanding is that while Brown and the McKay twins have been given two and a half year contracts, Obi's only goes to the end of this season. I mention Brown and Paul McKay look to be improvements on what we had in my piece and I've not seen enough of Jack McKay (who has been injured for much of his time here) to tell one way or another yet, but, based on what I've seen of Obi, I don't see him as being better than what we had.

[the other bob wilson]

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City are in the Semi Finals of the Welsh Youth Cup along with Airbus, Connahs Quay Nomads and the jacks after beating Aberystwyth 7-0 at Leckwith yesterday. Sam Bowen got two of the goals and Pinchard (a name I've not come across before) also found the net, but it was Sion Spence with four who took the headlines - he's now got twenty goals in all competitions this season.

According to the club website, there's lunchtime matches at Leckwith tomorrow and on Thursday - the Under 18s take on Millwall tomorrow with a midday kick, while it's a one o clock start on Thursday when the Under 23s face Coventry.