The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[the other bob wilson]

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Tough match for the Under 18s today at Leeds who are second in the Northern Section - Bowen, Spence and Isaak Davies all missing from the team, so, perhaps, they will start on Monday for the Under 23s.

0-0 after half an hour.

Still 0-0 with an hour played.

Make that 1-0 to City - Keiron Evans after 65 minutes.

[the other bob wilson]

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Still 0-0 with an hour played.

Make that 1-0 to City - Keiron Evans after 65 minutes.

Finished 2-0 with Keiron Evans getting a second goal - excellent win for City.

[Loramski]

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Finished 2-0 with Keiron Evans getting a second goal - excellent win for City.

Excellent win.

Sion Spence has pulled out of the Wales u-19 games with an injury (presumably the one he played through in the last Academy game) which is a shame. Another stop start season for him.

[Loramski]

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Excellent win.

Sion Spence has pulled out of the Wales u-19 games with an injury (presumably the one he played through in the last Academy game) which is a shame. Another stop start season for him.

Ryan Reynolds has pulled out as well, I noticed he got subbed on Saturday. He's been replaced by Keenan Patten. First game this evening against the Netherlands.

[the other bob wilson]

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The Under 23s are at home to Crewe on Monday at Leckwith, kick off 1 o clock;-

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/2019/march/u23-preview-cardiff-city-vs.-crewe-alexandra/

[the other bob wilson]

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Ryan Reynolds has pulled out as well, I noticed he got subbed on Saturday. He's been replaced by Keenan Patten. First game this evening against the Netherlands.

Wales were beaten 2-1 by a goal scored in the second minute of added time at the end of the match. George Ratcliffe played in goal for Wales and Dan Griffiths started as well.

Wales' second game in the group, against Spain, kicks off at midday I believe.

[the other bob wilson]

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A 5-1 hammering for Wales Under 19s against Spain I'm afraid - George Ratcliffe was in goal and Sam Bowen started in midfield.

[Loramski]

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Good to see that James Waite was called up for the Wales under-21 training camp this week even though he subsequently had to pull out with injury.

A DVP game with Crewe at Leckwith today, 2.00 kick off I believe.

[the other bob wilson]

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Good to see that James Waite was called up for the Wales under-21 training camp this week even though he subsequently had to pull out with injury.

A DVP game with Crewe at Leckwith today, 2.00 kick off I believe.

Thanks for that mention of the 2 o clock kick off because I would have turned up at 1 o clock, which was the kick off time advertised by the club website in the days leading up to the game - annoying from a personal point of view because a four o clock finish will add another half an hour or so to my journey home, but, as it's likely to be the last Under 23 match I watch this season, I should make the effort to go.

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

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Thanks for that mention of the 2 o clock kick off because I would have turned up at 1 o clock, which was the kick off time advertised by the club website in the days leading up to the game - annoying from a personal point of view because a four o clock finish will add another half an hour or so to my journey home, but, as it's likely to be the last Under 23 match I watch this season, I should make the effort to go.

Love to be there TOBW but I am slumming it in the Cotswolds for my wife's birthday. Hope the weather is as nice for the game as it is here.

[the other bob wilson]

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Love to be there TOBW but I am slumming it in the Cotswolds for my wife's birthday. Hope the weather is as nice for the game as it is here.

You didn't miss anything Clive. Crewe scored three times in the first ten minutes and a City side that had Lawrence Wootton sent off couldn't respond except for a O'Keefe penalty - there was a definite end of season feeling as both sides struggled through a non event of a second half.

Apart from Connolly (who went off injured in the first half) and O'Keefe it was a very young City side and I'm afraid that none of the Academy players on show really responded to the opportunity they were given to play at a higher level.

[the other bob wilson]

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My blog piece on yesterday's game, along with news of how the other teams besides our first team have been faring during our three week break.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

[Loramski]

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My blog piece on yesterday's game, along with news of how the other teams besides our first team have been faring during our three week break.

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

Thanks for that. Seems a bit harsh though, a combination of loans, injuries and international duty meant the under 23s were missing Brown, Bodenham, Waite, Harris, the McKays, Duffus, Humphries, Martin, Williams, Coxe and Bolger yesterday. That only left Price & Wootton of the outfield players and now, presumably, Wootton will be suspended from Friday's game at Watford.

It was an odd week to arrange two games knowing that senior Academy players would be away with Wales u19s and the Academy will have a game themselves on Saturday but I'd still rather see our youngsters in there, gaining some experience of that level, than a stream of trialists.

[the other bob wilson]

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Thanks for that. Seems a bit harsh though, a combination of loans, injuries and international duty meant the under 23s were missing Brown, Bodenham, Waite, Harris, the McKays, Duffus, Humphries, Martin, Williams, Coxe and Bolger yesterday. That only left Price & Wootton of the outfield players and now, presumably, Wootton will be suspended from Friday's game at Watford.

It was an odd week to arrange two games knowing that senior Academy players would be away with Wales u19s and the Academy will have a game themselves on Saturday but I'd still rather see our youngsters in there, gaining some experience of that level, than a stream of trialists.

Why were those last five players you name missing though? I suppose they could all have been injured, but Cameron Coxe, who I don't think has played a game for about six weeks, was watching and was not giving the impression he was carrying an injury as he wandered about with a few other young players.

I said in my piece that I regard using our younger players as preferable to what we saw for all of last season and most of this one, but there were too many who have not established themselves fully in the Under 18 side yet involved yesterday (e.g. Kieron Evans, Ryan Kavanagh, Rubin Colwill, Siyabonga Ligendza, Owen Pritchard and Eli King) and poor Isaak Davies was wearing a cast on his wrist and spent much of the forty five minutes he played looking like someone who was carrying about three injuries!

By all means, pick some of these lads, but putting them all in together against opponents that, by the look of them, had an average age pretty close to 23 and expecting them to prosper is a bit stupid if you ask me. As I say, I don't think anyone of the fourteen players involved for City could have gained anything worthwhile out of the experience.

[Loramski]

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Why were those last five players you name missing though? I suppose they could all have been injured, but Cameron Coxe, who I don't think has played a game for about six weeks, was watching and was not giving the impression he was carrying an injury as he wandered about with a few other young players.

I said in my piece that I regard using our younger players as preferable to what we saw for all of last season and most of this one, but there were too many who have not established themselves fully in the Under 18 side yet involved yesterday (e.g. Kieron Evans, Ryan Kavanagh, Rubin Colwill, Siyabonga Ligendza, Owen Pritchard and Eli King) and poor Isaak Davies was wearing a cast on his wrist and spent much of the forty five minutes he played looking like someone who was carrying about three injuries!

By all means, pick some of these lads, but putting them all in together against opponents that, by the look of them, had an average age pretty close to 23 and expecting them to prosper is a bit stupid if you ask me. As I say, I don't think anyone of the fourteen players involved for City could have gained anything worthwhile out of the experience.

I get what you're saying but I'm not sure who else you think could've played. Bolger is with the Ireland u19s, Coxe withdrew from the Wales u21 training camp so I assume he's injured, Humphries & Martin were both subbed early in their last appearances and haven't been seen since and I cant think of a reason Williams wouldn't have played yesterday so I assume they're all injured too. Of the regular Academy boys, Spence & Reynolds are injured, Patten, Bowen and Griffiths are on international duty and Connor Davies has only just come back from injury. I was surprised we didn't give some fringe first team teamers some pitch time yesterday but, as we didn't, we weren't exactly spoilt for choice as to who we could pick.