The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Loramski]

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Good to see Waite back - I suppose he may have been the young midfield player Warnock talked about a month ago. To repeat the mantra you hear from many youth coaches, it's about development of players not results at the levels below the first team. The Development team is not getting results, so no problem there apparently, but I believe that, at City anyway, it is not an environment in which you see players improving - more the opposite actually.

Another lopsided line-up yesterday, looked like Coxe and Martin out wide, but to be fair the spine of that team looks ok. Brown & Bodenham at the back, Duffus, Veale and Waite with Meite up front. There's some potential there, whether it gets realised or not is another matter, I accept that.

[jon1959]

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https://www.watfordfc.com/teams/under-18s/u18-report-cardiff-city-3-2-watford

[jamieccfc]

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Do the U18's play over treforest?

[thehumblegringo]

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Do the U18's play over treforest?

Leckwith usually mate. The academy have a Twitter page

[jamieccfc]

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Leckwith usually mate. The academy have a Twitter page

Cheers Gringo, is it just the kids playing over treforest then?

[thehumblegringo]

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Cheers Gringo, is it just the kids playing over treforest then?

The 16s and 18s occasionally play there but it's usually the 9s to 14s on Sunday mornings.

[Loramski]

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A report on the under-23s game at QPR here with some reaction from Jarred Harvey and James Waite.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/2018/october/u23-report-qpr-3-2-cardiff-city/

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/2018/october/u23--waite-good-learning-curve-for-the-players/

[Loramski]

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A 3-2 defeat at Coventry today for the under-18s, Reynolds and Bowen with the goals. Four regulars missing, including Sion Spence, but they went ahead twice and Bowen had a late penalty saved, a point would've taken them top.

Rhys Healey scored for MK Dons today in their 3-0 win over Cheltenham, his third goal for them. The MK Citizen said he was excellent, who am I to argue?

[Loramski]

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Rhys Healey scored for MK Dons today in their 3-0 win over Cheltenham, his third goal for them. The MK Citizen said he was excellent, who am I to argue?

I'm not sure where Rhys imagined he'd be now when he made a Premier League appearance for us against Chelsea as a teenager in 2014 but I doubt turning out for MK Dons against Cheltenham featured too heavily in his dreams. As I've said before on here though, he commits fully to every loan move he makes and seems to earn everyone's respect. More positive comments about him here, even though he missed a couple of one-on-ones yesterday.

https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport/football/mk-dons/healey-will-grow-in-confidence-after-cheltenham-goal-1-8659861

[jamieccfc]

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I'm not sure where Rhys imagined he'd be now when he made a Premier League appearance for us against Chelsea as a teenager in 2014 but I doubt turning out for MK Dons against Cheltenham featured too heavily in his dreams. As I've said before on here though, he commits fully to every loan move he makes and seems to earn everyone's respect. More positive comments about him here, even though he missed a couple of one-on-ones yesterday.

https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport...goal-1-8659861

Before he got his injury I thought he was playing well and was looking like he would finally break through and become our leading striker but for some reason never got a chance after coming back

[Loramski]

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Before he got his injury I thought he was playing well and was looking like he would finally break through and become our leading striker but for some reason never got a chance after coming back

The injuries he sustained at Dundee then here have made it a really stop-start career so far for Rhys. He's played in the top five divisions but I still wouldn't like to say what his level is, even though he's 23 now. I was surprised he dropped to League 2 but we'll see how he does there and where it takes him next. He's got over a year left on his contract, I'd love to see him make it here but it's looking unlikely.

[the other bob wilson]

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Until recently, the club website was showing today's Development team game with Charlton as a 7pm kick off at Cardiff City Stadium, but that was changed to 2 o clock at Leckwith some time last week - judging by a tweet from the club this morning, the match has not fallen victim to the weather.

https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=cf11%20academy&lang=en

[Loramski]

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3-1 win for the under-23s today. I thought we must have re-signed Velikonja when I saw the score but apparently not. Hopefully TOBW will do a report in the morning (entitled 'Dawning of a New Era', I trust) but here's the club report for now.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/2018/october/u23-match-report-cardiff-city-vs.-charlton-athletic/

[the other bob wilson]

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No mention of Ibrahim Meite's red card I see in that report - here are my thoughts on only our second win of the season at this level.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[Loramski]

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No mention of Ibrahim Meite's red card I see in that report - here are my thoughts on only our second win of the season at this level.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Good stuff, thanks for that. Sounds a lot better, good football and under-23s don't often come in the same sentence these days. As I've said before, the squad isn't that well balanced (did we play with 5 in centre-mid yesterday?) and I won't bother going over the right back situation again but it feels like it's finally moving in the right direction.

Interesting to see who they play up front with Meite suspended. I assume Pilkington (or even Madine) might get a game but I wonder if Bellamy might be ok with letting Griffiths or Isaak Davies have a run out there? I know it's not been recent policy but it sounds like the under-23s might be moving towards the kind of football that would suit them. That 'wall' has to come down at some point, the sooner the better for me now.

Talking about Isaak Davies, him and Ryan Reynolds played in a 2-0 win for Wales under-19s against Poland yesterday, Sam Bowen was on the bench. Rubin Colwill is starting for the under-17s in Portugal this afternoon with Eli King on the bench.