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Madassa
We got him from the Shrews if I recall - looked a decent footballing centre-half for the brief time him played before getting injured which I think ended his playing career.
Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.
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the other bob wilson
Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.
He played a few games for the Aston Villa 1st Team as a teenager. he was a bit of a wonder boy. A left footed Centre Half. Then had chronic injury problems and hardly played for two years. Was released and rebuilt his career with Shrewsbury and we stepped in. Then the injury problems arose again. The big question was how he passed his medical.
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8 Academy graduates have made league appearances this season, the first time since the 96-97 season when 9 appeared. The eight this year are Ralls, Bagan, Colwill, Harris, Bowen, K.Evans, King and I.Davies. The 9 in 96-97 were; Scott Young, Lee-Lee-Lee Baddeley, Lee Jarman, Jason Perry, Hayden Fleming, Pat Mountain, Lee Phillips and Jamie Michael. That season we finished 7th in the old Division 4.
The season before was a disaster and we finished 22nd and had to apply for re-election. That season we used 14 academy graduates, a record unlikely ever to be beaten. They were Damon Searle, Young, Baddeley, Jarman, Fleming, Perry, Nathan Wigg, Tony Bird, Simon Haworth, Chris Ingram, Terry Evans, Andy Evans, Ian Jones ( Father of current young pro Taylor Jones) and Leigh Vick
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the other bob wilson
Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted £45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.
450k was crazy money for that league 20 years ago
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8 Academy graduates have made league appearances this season, the first time since the 96-97 season when 9 appeared. The eight this year are Ralls, Bagan, Colwill, Harris, Bowen, K.Evans, King and I.Davies. The 9 in 96-97 were; Scott Young, Lee-Lee-Lee Baddeley, Lee Jarman, Jason Perry, Hayden Fleming, Pat Mountain, Lee Phillips and Jamie Michael. That season we finished 7th in the old Division 4.
The season before was a disaster and we finished 22nd and had to apply for re-election. That season we used 14 academy graduates, a record unlikely ever to be beaten. They were Damon Searle, Young, Baddeley, Jarman, Fleming, Perry, Nathan Wigg, Tony Bird, Simon Haworth, Chris Ingram, Terry Evans, Andy Evans, Ian Jones ( Father of current young pro Taylor Jones) and Leigh Vick
Interesting stuff, I wonder if any of the fourteen from 97/98 would have got a game in the Championship? I reckon Searle, Young and Perry would have played some games at this level, not too many I’d guess though. Haworth was the one who got a fairly big move from City, but never really established himself at Coventry, although he wasn’t helped by injuries. Yet the one who had the most potential was probably Jarman who the club had great hopes for.
As someone who has been very critical of City’s record when it comes to youth development in the last decade, it should be acknowledged that a youngster needs to be so much more talented than those who became first team regulars twenty years and more ago.
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the other bob wilson
Interesting stuff, I wonder if any of the fourteen from 97/98 would have got a game in the Championship? I reckon Searle, Young and Perry would have played some games at this level, not too many I’d guess though. Haworth was the one who got a fairly big move from City, but never really established himself at Coventry, although he wasn’t helped by injuries. Yet the one who had the most potential was probably Jarman who the club had great hopes for.
As someone who has been very critical of City’s record when it comes to youth development in the last decade, it should be acknowledged that a youngster needs to be so much more talented than those who became first team regulars twenty years and more ago.
Perry would have struggled in the Championship, Jarman may have been more suited to that standard. It always amazed me that no club from a higher level came in for Scott Young. He was, in my opinion, the best of that bunch.
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Four City players in a Wales under 17 squad of twenty for a mini tournament qualifying the Euros against hosts Portugal, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
https://www.faw.cymru/en/news/rich-w...s/news/&rank=2
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A few members of Saturday’s first team squad in the starting eleven tonight.
https://twitter.com/cf11academy/stat...372560900?s=21
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the other bob wilson
interesting to see Bagan in there
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Semenyo puts us ahead in three minutes.
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the other bob wilson
Semenyo puts us ahead in three minutes.
he's been really impressive this season, presumably at RWB today
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Swansea equalise after eleven minutes, but Chanka Zimba and Isaak Davies have us 3-1 up just past the half hour mark.
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come on city lets beat the jacks looking good half time 3-1 up doing well bloooooobirds
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Full time, 3-1 win
That's what 8 wins in a row?
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8 out of 8 with the loss of those now involved with the 1st team.
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Definitely some bright sparks then despite all the gloom surrounding the club.
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Seems like the game was shown live somewhere - the manner of our loss to them last month was embarrassing of course, but we’ve now won four out of the last five games between the clubs at senior, under 23 and 18 levels and the Academy side visit Swansea on Saturday.
https://twitter.com/_jackleahy_/stat...022301702?s=21
Yan Dhanda, Whittaker (scorer of a hat trick for Swansea’s first team this season) and Wales senior squad member Brandon Cooper were all in the Jacks’ starting line up last night.
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...ff-city-u23s-3
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the other bob wilson
Seems like the game was shown live somewhere - the manner of our loss to them last month was embarrassing of course, but we’ve now won four out of the last five games between the clubs at senior, under 23 and 18 levels and the Academy side visit Swansea on Saturday.
https://twitter.com/_jackleahy_/stat...022301702?s=21
Yan Dhanda, Whittaker (scorer of a hat trick for Swansea’s first team this season) and Wales senior squad member Brandon Cooper were all in the Jacks’ starting line up last night.
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...ff-city-u23s-3
Logic indicates that a brief perusal of the Jacks squad shows that Tyrelle Whittaker has never played at senior level for the Jacks; Morgan Whittaker scored a hat trick for the Jacks senior team in the EFL cup against mighty Plymouth.
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logic
Logic indicates that a brief perusal of the Jacks squad shows that Tyrelle Whittaker has never played at senior level for the Jacks; Morgan Whittaker scored a hat trick for the Jacks senior team in the EFL cup against mighty Plymouth.
Apologies for the mistake, didn't realise they had two Whittaker's - "mighty" Plymouth are top of League One by the way.
Highlights of the game from the jacks' website;-
https://www.swanseacity.com/news/hig...diff-city-u23s
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the other bob wilson
Nice to see Morison and Ramasut were there watching
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the other bob wilson
Sounded like quite a few there supporting the Bluebirds
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George Ratcliffe, Kieron Evans, Eli King & Isaak Davies all in Wales U21 squad
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George Ratcliffe, Kieron Evans, Eli King & Isaak Davies all in Wales U21 squad
So, I make it that nineteen City players have been named in Wales mens squads from under 17 upwards in the last week and let’s not forget that there were seven Cardiff players in the under sixteen squad that was a joint winner of the Victory Shield last month. It’s not a great time for the first team at the moment, but the law of averages says that we must have some youngsters coming through at the club who will be playing for the seniors in the coming years.
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the other bob wilson
So, I make it that nineteen City players have been named in Wales mens squads from under 17 upwards in the last week and let’s not forget that there were seven Cardiff players in the under sixteen squad that was a joint winner of the Victory Shield last month. It’s not a great time for the first team at the moment, but the law of averages says that we must have some youngsters coming through at the club who will be playing for the seniors in the coming years.
we never used to have so many in the Wales sides did we? is this the result of more investment in the youth system? or just a freak occurrence? or other teams having a dry spell?
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we never used to have so many in the Wales sides did we? is this the result of more investment in the youth system? or just a freak occurrence? or other teams having a dry spell?
From memory, four in an age group squad is not too unusual, seven is pretty exceptional though and I can’t remember us having a combined total of eight in the under 21 and senior squads in the time since we had an Academy (six of the eight are Academy products).
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U18s 1-0 against the Jacks at half time. Ruben's brother Joel Colwill with the goal.
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Caleb Hughes makes it 2-0.
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the other bob wilson
Caleb Hughes makes it 2-0.
Sounds like our academy is being run pretty well?
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stan butler
Sounds like our academy is being run pretty well?
Finished 2-0, that’s five wins out of six now at first team, under 23 and under 18 levels in games with the jacks, but, of course, the one we lost was the big one.
The irony is that as the first team is setting all sorts of unwanted club records, below that things look as healthy as they’ve been in years - that’s four straight wins now for the under 18s.
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Highlights of the under 18s win over Swansea are now on the club website, including a superb free kick by Caleb Hughes for the second goal.
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Thanks. That was a cracking free kick.
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u23’s at home to Bournemouth
1 o’clock KO leckwith today 👍
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u23’s at home to Bournemouth
1 o’clock KO leckwith today
Bournemouth aren't in the same league, and there's nothing on the academy Twitter feed about this?
is this a friendly? maybe to give someone minutes on the way back from injury
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Rjk
Bournemouth aren't in the same league, and there's nothing on the academy Twitter feed about this?
is this a friendly? maybe to give someone minutes on the way back from injury
Steve Morison mentioned there’d be a couple of friendly matches for the under 23s during the international break, not sure what sort of team we’ll put out mind.
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Match just finished
Bournemouth won 2-1
Cian Ashford scored for us
Cian is definitely one of the most exciting players I’ve seen for a long long time !!!
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wow well done those lads!
really impressive what they're achieving in the age group levels against some big clubs.
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Great news about the under 14s, the good news just keeps on coming from the age group teams!