The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[Loramski]

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You can't read too much into three or four minutes highlights, but that was like that Welsh Youth Cup match when Martin seemed to be directly involved in all ten of the goals we scored - he was, apparently, at the heart of all of our best attacking moves on Monday and a clean sheet suggests it wasn't at the cost of his defensive responsibilities.

I thought he was good against Coventry the week before as well.

Yes, he seems in a good run of form at the minute. I enjoyed his performance against Coventry, he was relentless. Even if the ball didn't get to him three or four times in a row he kept making the run and then, when he did get it, there was usually a decent end product.

He seems the kind of full back who'd thrive in both the unusual back three/four system that the Academy play and the more regular back three/five system that the DVP team have recently adopted so it's hardly surprising his performances have been so good of late. In fact, he should thrive in any back three variation- bar one, of course.

[the other bob wilson]

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Just off to watch the Under 18s take on Coventry at Leckwith this morning, kick off is at 11.30.

[Loramski]

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Just off to watch the Under 18s take on Coventry at Leckwith this morning, kick off is at 11.30.

3-3 draw, Kieron Evans equalising with seconds to go after good play from Sam Bowen. Sloppy and complacent from a few today, first time I've seen that this season. William Warnock started, on the left wing. I'm not sure if Warnock himself watched the first half but he settled down in front of me ready for the second only to find that William had been taken off at half time. Not his weekend.

[the other bob wilson]

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3-3 draw, Kieron Evans equalising with seconds to go after good play from Sam Bowen. Sloppy and complacent from a few today, first time I've seen that this season. William Warnock started, on the left wing. I'm not sure if Warnock himself watched the first half but he settled down in front of me ready for the second only to find that William had been taken off at half time. Not his weekend.

Warnock was there for the first half, but I don't think Craig Bellamy was after the meeting last Monday that was supposed to let him know the result of the inquiry into the claims against him.

The under 18s got out of jail today because they fell away badly in the second half after dominating the first forty five minutes without being at their best. It seemed to me that some of our players looked tired and there wasn't much "snap" and pace to our passing - we seemed to think that all of the possession we had would eventually tire Coventry out, but it was all done so ponderously that the visitors looked the fitter team at the end for me.

[the other bob wilson]

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My report on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[the other bob wilson]

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A good 3-0 win for a very young City Development team over QPR at Leckwith this afternoon.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[Loramski]

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A good 3-0 win for a very young City Development team over QPR at Leckwith this afternoon.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Thanks for that, very encouraging.

Are we reading anything into Dan Martin's absence?

[Loramski]

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A good 3-0 win for a very young City Development team over QPR at Leckwith this afternoon.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Any idea where Cameron Coxe is?

[Loramski]

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My report on yesterday's game.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Highlights of the Coventry game here. Our first goal is a beauty, Pinchard is a good player (although slightly weak in the build up to their second). Sam Parsons got the second goal, I'm not sure why Spence got credited with it. You can see the last one properly now, great play by Bowen but it has to be a foul by Evans in the build up. I know it's a slip but he headbutts the guy in the leg, I'm not surprised the Coventry player goes racing after the ref as soon as the ball hits the net.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (U18 Highlights;Coventry City)

[the other bob wilson]

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Thanks for that, very encouraging.

Are we reading anything into Dan Martin's absence?

Warnock has been quick to drop Joe Bennett this season and I would have thought he would have been fuming at him for his, awful, careless free kick which led to Watford's second goal, but Cunningham would be the obvious replacement and I really couldn't see Martin jumping the queue so to speak when it came to left back selection. I'd say it would be possible that he was on stand by because of injuries to one or both of the senior left backs, so there may be a very slight chance of him being on the bench tonight, but no more than that.

[the other bob wilson]

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Any idea where Cameron Coxe is?

He was at yesterday's game and there were no obvious signs of him being injured. He was sent off fairly recently, although I would have thought he would have served any suspension for that by now.

[the other bob wilson]

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Highlights of the Coventry game here. Our first goal is a beauty, Pinchard is a good player (although slightly weak in the build up to their second). Sam Parsons got the second goal, I'm not sure why Spence got credited with it. You can see the last one properly now, great play by Bowen but it has to be a foul by Evans in the build up. I know it's a slip but he headbutts the guy in the leg, I'm not surprised the Coventry player goes racing after the ref as soon as the ball hits the net.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (U18 Highlights;Coventry City)

Believe it or believe it not, that was my feeling at the time, but when you get home, start to write your piece on the game and see that it's being reported as being scored by someone else, you think you must have got it wrong - I'll put a note saying Parsons scored it on the blog now.

Bowen did well for the third goal.

[Loramski]

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A good 3-0 win for a very young City Development team over QPR at Leckwith this afternoon.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

The highlights are up.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (u23 highlights; QPR).

It will be interesting to see how the games get prioritised next week with the Academy boys fighting on three fronts. League games against third placed Ipswich and third place (in the northern section) Notts Forest on successive Saturdays with a Monday night DVP game against Sheffield United and Wednesday's FAW Youth Cup semi with Swansea in between. A DVP game at Hull two days after Forest as well.

[the other bob wilson]

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The highlights are up.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (u23 highlights; QPR).

It will be interesting to see how the games get prioritised next week with the Academy boys fighting on three fronts. League games against third placed Ipswich and third place (in the northern section) Notts Forest on successive Saturdays with a Monday night DVP game against Sheffield United and Wednesday's FAW Youth Cup semi with Swansea in between. A DVP game at Hull two days after Forest as well.

Although I'd like to see us winning a league, I think the Under 18 squad has shown already that they are the strongest side out of the ten who compete in their division and it seems to me that getting them playing against older opponents should be a priority. That said, Sion Spence started the games on Saturday and Monday and Trystan Jones came on so early in the Development team match that he may as well have done - at that age, playing three or four times in a week shouldn't be too much of a hardship as long as it wasn't week in, week out.

Based on previous experience, City usually want to field their strongest possible side for Youth Cup games or the latter stages of the FAW tournament, so I think the match with the jacks will be given some sort of priority with the question for me being, will the likes of Martin and new signings Bolger and Williams start, because I'm pretty sure they are all eligible for the game.

[Loramski]

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Although I'd like to see us winning a league, I think the Under 18 squad has shown already that they are the strongest side out of the ten who compete in their division and it seems to me that getting them playing against older opponents should be a priority. That said, Sion Spence started the games on Saturday and Monday and Trystan Jones came on so early in the Development team match that he may as well have done - at that age, playing three or four times in a week shouldn't be too much of a hardship as long as it wasn't week in, week out.

Based on previous experience, City usually want to field their strongest possible side for Youth Cup games or the latter stages of the FAW tournament, so I think the match with the jacks will be given some sort of priority with the question for me being, will the likes of Martin and new signings Bolger and Williams start, because I'm pretty sure they are all eligible for the game.

The Academy have put out their strongest side today and I assume they will Wednesday too so Monday's DVP line-up will be interesting, not sure why they didn't postpone that one.