Probably Jake Davies I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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Probably Jake Davies I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Yes, probably - his first game at this level I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Wigley and Jeffries involved maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Yes, Wigley was involved in the pre season games wasn’t he.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Half time in the under 21s game and quite a bit to admire so far. 1-0 to City as their press worked to present Troy Perrett that the took very well. Sheffield United started the better, but City were on top in the closing stages of the half when Jac Thomas came very close to making it 2-0 - there’s also been a goal for City probably correctly disallowed for offside.
Finished 1-1, City had to do a lot of defending in the second half and a draw was the least the visitors deserved by the end.
Team for the under 18s game at Hull that kicks off in about ten minutes time.
https://x.com/cf11academy/status/195...362967032?s=61
Nothing official from us or from Hull, but someone on Twitter saying we won 3-2.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
U21s drawn against Stockport, Burnley and defending champions QPR in the Premier League Cup.
Wonder if Giles is injured, seemingly not considered yesterday & didn't feature for the u21s this weekQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Off on loan soon I suspect, but it’s a surprise to see us so short of left back options and Giles being virtually ignored.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Papirnyk (2) and Walsh with the goalsQuote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
A fair few new names to me in the u18 side
6 City players in Wales u16s squad for fixtures this month: https://dragonsoccer.co.uk/newsite/index.php?id=1107
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Originally Posted by City123
Interesting that 13 of the 22 are at clubs outside of Wales. Wonder whether they've joined them having been scouted or are at their local club but are Wales-qualified.
Here’s under 21 side that’s playing today at Crewe. It’s currently half time and someone’s Tweeted that we’re 1-0 up.
https://x.com/diffdevelopment/status...459397594?s=61
Same guy just said its 2-0 and is raving about Tankiewicz. Him and Perrett with the goalsQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Amazingly still feels like a reasonably young u21 side, Pearce the only one who is 21? Certainly seems more worthwhile than when we'd have a large group of players seemingly brought in to play for the u21s/23s at the top end of that age range
Not to make this in any way about me, because it isn't, but because you mentioned Crewe, it took me back to a three game pre season thing we did at Keel university many years ago. We played Aston Villa, Boro and Crewe. Crewe were by far the best side out of the three (u18s) We lost, but they battered us in terms of how they played the game. We beat Villa though. I always wonder who was playing in that Crewe side as they were producing some good players fron the late eighties up until the mid to late 90s.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Think one or two of the players brought in from other clubs this summer may be 20/21.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
The goalkeeper Higgs is very young as well apparently.
BBM said something interesting last week when he said that quite often at clubs where you get a kind of golden generation come through like we had with the group that formed such a big part of the successful Wales under 17 squad, you then get a few quiet years when nothing much comes through, but it’s not like that here. It’s very encouraging that that the Welsh under 16 squad named last week had six City players in it.
What happened to Matthew Apter, Is he involved with the first team or injured?
Finished 3-0 - Tankiewicz got a second.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
He got what sounded like quite a serious injury - think it might have been in the game at Merthyr.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterwick Blue
Thanks Bob
Who was in that squad and what success did they achieve? Not a rhetorical question, I haven’t got a clue about the Welsh youth teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
First Welsh age group squad to qualify for a major finals tournament since the early 80s and they did it again in the next tournament. From memory, City supplied eight of the squad first time around and six or seven second time - there were also players like Biancheri, Crew and Benjamin who’d left us at 16 to sign for Premier League clubs in the first squad (not sure Biancheri was in the second squad).Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Have any of them gone on to do anything significant?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
They're all still teenagersQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Got it. So, in truth, we’ve no idea if they are a golden generation or not. That phrase is daft in my opinion, and it gets used far too freely.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Pretty much, though you could argue they were a golden generation for Wales youth by qualifying back to back, something Wales hadn't done at any age grade before. They then got close to the u19s Euros but got a very tough "Elite round" of England, Portugal & Turkey. As far as seniors goes who knows, the jump from youth to senior football is big at Cardiff & District level nevermind professional football!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
They'll probably make up the bulk of the Wales u21 side for the next cycle at the least so we'll see if they can have an impact there and improve our dismal record at that level. That is if they're not involved in the seniors, Crew's been capped already, Lawlor, Kpakio & Kai Andrews all been in a squad
So we'll see. If we could get 4 or 5 regular internationals out of that bunch that would be very good going
That’s why I said a kind of golden generation - it’s the best group the club has had since the Academy was opened in 04/05 in terms of first team appearances already I suspect.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
The last time that dreaded phrase was being bandied about was when Morison was here. That didn’t end well for half of the players who were so labelled.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
This all started because I used the term “a kind of golden generation” as a simple way to summarise what BBM was talking about - i didn’t label it a golden generation. I won’t say he used the term himself because I’m not sure that he did. Whether he did or not though, it was incidental to the point he was making - when a club has a strong group of youth players in one year it can often follow that the groups which come through in subsequent years can be disappointing, but this isn’t the case at City.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Highlights of the under 21's win at Crewe on Monday.
https://tv.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/video...5-69cc480f3e9e
Does anyone know what's happened to Giles, I'm assuming he's injured?
Anyone know why this has been moved to the Alt Forum? Can someone move it back?
I presume that there is some cleansing to improve Board performance that requires this and other large threads like Glammy to be temporarily movedQuote:
Originally Posted by Sts'ikel
This is an important football thread - it has no place in Cranks Corner - move it back
Temporary measure. Deleting some old threads. Didn't want to remove by mistakeQuote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
The club put up a very short training vid today. One of the coaches (I think it was Kevin Gibbins) was shouting instructions to ‘Luey’. I didn’t make out Giles in the clip (just watched it once) but I assume it was him - training with the First Team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparticus_Mills
Games for the seniors, under 21s and under 18s today. The last named are playing a “derby” game at Wrexham, no news of any score yet.
https://x.com/cf11academy/status/196...654305043?s=61
Under 21s kick off at 1, here’s the team - Giles and Pearce involved tonight?
https://x.com/cf11academy/status/196...765739307?s=61
No George, Nyakuhwa or Mafico eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Nyakuhwa Is on the bench for the U18’s, unless theres two of them.
there areQuote:
Originally Posted by Butterwick Blue