Finished 1-0.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rontomuk
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Finished 1-0.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rontomuk
The under-21s play Colchester at the CCS tomorrow, 2.00 kick off. Then Swansea on Friday evening at Leckwith.
No Luke Pearce though. He's joined IFK Mariehahm, in Finland, on loan. That'll be a first for the loan thread.
https://www.ifkfotboll.ax/ifk-marieh...n-cardiff-city
Hope he gets more game time than some of our loanees are getting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
Should do, I dread to think what level their reserves play at if he doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
I guess that's game over for him here. His loan spell runs to the end of June (their league season hasn't started yet) so I assume it's just running his contract down.
He's been an odd one. He came on at half time at Sheffield United in the cup but never really threatened to break through here. Once he got fit this season he looked very committed with some energetic performances for the u-21s. He turned the game against Arsenal in the Vertu Trophy, and BBM said as much, but energy only gets you so far. Alex Revell ran around a lot too.
I did say recently on here that I couldn't work out if there was much talent beneath the hard work and it doesn't look like there was. Maybe he's unlucky to be here when having a skill set is important, managers like Slade, Warnock and Mad Mick might have valued his industry more.
Goals from Jake Davies, Kaba, Papirnyk and Barton have City 4-1 up in the dying minutes against Colchester.
Nice to see Josh Beecher, who is something of a forgotten man at City this season, lay on the last two goals with lovely crosses.
Finished 4-1.
Paul, Any idea where the striker Harry James signed from Spurs is ?. My brother in law works for Spurs and he is none the wiser!Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
No, not heard anything about him since the day we signed him - can only assume he’s injured.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomeroy
A bit of an end of season type feel to things. No first team spots to fight for now and some quality players have moved on, it all felt a bit flat. Some sloppy play today, passes going astray and nothing really flowed. We got counter attacked time after time and were lucky they weren't clinical in the last third.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Still positives though. I only got down for the second half so didn't see much of Isaac Davies but I got the comparison with Robertson that the commentators were making in the first half. Long way to go yet though, of course.
Barton and Beecher were effective subs, nice to see Papirnyk come on and score too. He didn't look fazed at all. Jake Davies put in a shift as always on top of a goal and a good ball across for the second after some nice play from Trey George.
Swansea on Friday now.
U16s in tournament in Spain
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...nament-calella
Jacks go 1-0 up in awful conditions with puddles forming on the pitch.
All pretty comfortable for the jacks at half time. It’s still 1-0, but Swansea have taken charge in thr minutes leading up to half time. We’ve looked lightweight in attack, but to be fair to our forwards, the service into them has been poor and so the Swansea defence has barely been tested.
Yes, the conditions have been difficult, but this is perhaps the most boring game I’ve seen a City side play this season. Swansea should be more than one up, but they’ve been pretty ordinary, yet that’s all they’ve needed to be against a City side completely lacking in creativity and presence Im attacking areas.
Think Debono’s had a good game, but no one else in blue has taken my eye.
Finished 1-0 to Swansea.
Yes, very poor. No spark there at all. A couple of worrying things for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Dan Ola is really struggling to find any form at all, even though he's been back from injury for a few months now. Of course, if the side aren't playing well then the striker won't be being getting much service but it feels like more than that to me. We tried pushing Tankiewicz and even Apter up alongside him at times to give him some support but it didn't make any difference. I'm sure he'll come good but it's taking time.
Also, that's not the first time this season I've seen Mannie Barton completely disappear from a game. It feels like all or nothing with him. It's not going to be his game on the ball every time, just like any winger, but he needs to find other ways to contribute. Jake Davies is a good example for him, always battling away and trying to make things happen.
Talking of Davies, what did you make of the incident when he was claiming a penalty in the second half? It looked to me like he'd got ahead of the defenders, if it wasn't a foul that brought him down then I couldn't see what else it could've been.
Not that we deserved anything. Poor game in terrible conditions (incredible that it lasted the 90 minutes, it was biblical down there) and we were very much second best.
Regarding Ola, I cut him a bit of slack because he’s returned after a long time out injured into a level that he’s barely played at before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
I agree with you about Barton, he’s gone backwards at under 21 level from last season and contributed barely anything last night - I still hear and read people calling for him to be included in the first team squad occasionally, but he’s miles away from that on this season’s evidence despite having done pretty well in the matches I’ve seen him play for Wales at age group level in 25/26.
Regarding the penalty claim, I’m with the commentators (another thank you to John Donovan for mentioning the blog again - I think he realises I was joking when I mentioned him getting the TOBW name wrong the first time around!), who talked about it for some time and, essentially, concluded that it could have gone either way - maybe the referee, who I thought gave just about the best performance on the pitch last night, was influenced by the conditions, but it was in the “I’ve seen them given” category although it’s harder for me to get worked up about it when my team has played so badly that it would have been a travesty if they’d scored from it to secure a draw.
No news of the score yet in the under 18s’ match at Brentford this lunchtime, but an interesting name on the bench for them today
https://x.com/cf11academy/status/202...280603230?s=61
From sub against Chelsea to sub against Brentford youth - he must have been injured these last few weeks.
3-0 win - Sykes hat trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The under-16s reached the final of the PDL Cup today with a 2-1 win at Stockport. Hopefully the final will be down here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Yes, I have been too, but how much slack are we cutting him? It dawned on me last night that he started the Arsenal game on November 11th and I'd seen him coming on the week before that. That's nearly four months now. It can't be a fitness issue, there was no cover on the bench last night so it must've been the plan from the start to play him the 90 minutes. And that's after he played 77 minutes on Tuesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
It feels like he's causing a bit of a log jam. If the plan was to get him up to speed then send him out on loan to the Welsh League or somewhere to give Jack Sykes some exposure at u-21 level then it's not happening any time soon from what I've seen. And I've have thought Sykes' presence for the u-18s is denying Papirnyk pitch time at that level, although I see they both started today.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spo...erges-33514812
Interest in Darren Purse
1-1 draw for the u-21s at Millwall today, Dan Ola with the goal. To think some people have been questioning his form, shows what they know.
Pursey should stay here. We'll finish above Birmingham next season provided we keep the majority of our team over the summer and add to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueToujours
Great news. I'm always a little paranoid at this time of the season when our best U16's go missing from the lineups
Looks like we've poached a Canadian U17 international from Bristol Rovers:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/raff...pieler/1406985
https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news...f-championship
https://canadasoccer.com/news/canada...up-qualifiers/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAQgRoXNz0M/?hl=en
The u-18s won 6-4 at Watford today. Paul Moreno and Harry Watts got two each, Jack Sykes and Axel Donczew with the others. Rob Tankiewicz played too.
City put up a 90 in 90 highlight package of the age group games on twitter, where the highlights are condensed into 90 seconds. That game will be an interesting watch, they'll have to play it at Benny Hill speed to get all the goals in.
The u-21s play Charlton at the CCS at 2.00 today. Stream available as usual.
Well, that was a tough watch - 0-0 at half time with not a lot happening, I’d say Charlton just edging it, we’ve only had one chance worthy of the name when a nice pass by Noah Williams put Rob Tankiewicz into space, but he didn’t hit his shot well and it dribbled through to the keeper.
Why do commentators always say a “foot race” these days? What other type of race would you have in a football match?
City started the second half better and a clever flick by Jake Davies set up Mannie Barton whose shot was deflected past the keeper. Charlton responding strongly though and it’s a much more watchable game.
While I’m on a roll, when was the verb head changed to header? No one ever used that word in that context for the first sixty years of my life, but I hear it quite often these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
A very competitive match finished 1-0 to City. Charlton will feel, with some justification, that they didn’t deserve to lose, but City did defend their lead very well.
I’ve asked this before but where is Harry James, the striker signed from Spurs?. I’m aware the trumpeter died years ago. By the way if he’s as any good at playing football as Harry James was at playing the trumpet I prepared to wait!
What's happened? Did the commentator call you old again?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Excellent second half there. I turned up at half time, which doubled the crowd, and the players seemed to respond. Really committed performance from everyone, including Darren Purse. His booming voice was echoing around the stadium for the whole 45 minutes.
With Rob Tankiewicz and Harry Watts in central midfield it's always going to be a good watch, enterprising for us but a bit easier for the opponents to get through when we lose possession. End to end, 1-0 didn't do it justice.
Saying that, we just about deserved the clean sheet for all the blocks and tackles we put in. Some tired legs out there by the end, poor Jake Davies tried to join one more counter-attack near the end but suddenly turned into Ricky Lambert.
Another good performance from Alyas Debono. He's already relegated Gabriel Keita to the bench for most of the season, now he's doing the same to Caden Voice. He seems to be making good progress.
Herbie James. No sign of him yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomeroy
No, it wasn’t my mate John Donovan, maybe he’s commentating on the first team game (John always says header mind).Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
I thought Jake Davies and Debono were our best players, the latter has been very impressive since he’s become a regular starter.
Apart from the 1st team regulars, Debono is one of the few U21's to have enhanced his reputation this season. Certainly from the group that were promoted from last year's U18's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loramski
As usual the U21; signings (free transfers from other clubs) appeared to be mainly pointless. Agent pleasers that only serve to block the development of our own.
Despite the development of those 1st team regulars and the very young Cup teams, that BBM chose, I'm not sure I could forecast one U21 who is likely to make the 1st squad next season. I'm particularly surprised by Cody Twose. There could be quite a 'cull' at the end of the season. It would suggest that once BBM settled on his squad at the end of August is was going to be difficult to work your way into it from the U21's.
From the U18's I would suggest Mannie Barton, Noah Williams and maybe Parfitt because of his left foot and size/athleticism.
Rob Tankiewicz feels like the obvious one who has enhanced his reputation & is rated by BBM?Quote:
Originally Posted by AdrianAlston
I'm biased, because my dad met Debono when he was working as a careers adviser in school, and he's by all accounts a lovely kid. But I'd love to see him get chances in the first team once promotion is guaranteed.
Yes, agreed and of course Donczew. But they ae U18's and U16's respectively, I was talking specifically the U21'sQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
He's been really good this season. But maybe too tall for a BBM centre half ;-). Our team is like the Time Bandits, I never feel anticipation/excitement when we win corner. Don't get me on Trott.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coyote