Rabbi Matondo's brother was on the bench too but didn't get on.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Interesting start for the Academy boys today, that must've been a long journey home. The under-23s play Wigan at home on Monday, 1.00 kick off.
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Rabbi Matondo's brother was on the bench too but didn't get on.
Interesting start for the Academy boys today, that must've been a long journey home. The under-23s play Wigan at home on Monday, 1.00 kick off.
Why on earth is the academy travelling so far?
Surely it would make sense to regionalise these fixtures ?
There is a north league and south league of ten teams each. As I understand it, City’s league programme consists of home and away matches against the other sides in the southern section and one game againsteach of the sides in the northern group, making a total of twenty seven matches before the end of season Play Offs. The nine matches against the northern teams are played in the first and last months of the season, with the shorter away journeys being played in the autumn and winter.
As TOBW says, they are regionalised to a degree but the North/South split makes for some anomalies. Hull are in the North division so we only have to play them once a season but they're the only team in that section that are further away from us than both Ipswich and Colchester who we have to play twice because they're in the South division. Similarly, they both have to play Swansea twice a season but only get to play Peterborough once because they're in the North division. It probably could be organised a bit better but I guess there's no easy answer.
Could that limit exposure to different tactics? Probably only a very small scale if at all.
Wouldn't that make first away trip at senior level a novel experience? Think this is more likely and has downsides.
When's the next meeting to ask how step up to Tier 1 Academy going?
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