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Believe it or believe it not, that was my feeling at the time, but when you get home, start to write your piece on the game and see that it's being reported as being scored by someone else, you think you must have got it wrong - I'll put a note saying Parsons scored it on the blog now.Originally Posted by Loramski
Bowen did well for the third goal.
A good 3-0 win for a very young City Development team over QPR at Leckwith this afternoon.
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
Thanks for that, very encouraging.
Are we reading anything into Dan Martin's absence?
Warnock has been quick to drop Joe Bennett this season and I would have thought he would have been fuming at him for his, awful, careless free kick which led to Watford's second goal, but Cunningham would be the obvious replacement and I really couldn't see Martin jumping the queue so to speak when it came to left back selection. I'd say it would be possible that he was on stand by because of injuries to one or both of the senior left backs, so there may be a very slight chance of him being on the bench tonight, but no more than that.
Any idea where Cameron Coxe is?
He was at yesterday's game and there were no obvious signs of him being injured. He was sent off fairly recently, although I would have thought he would have served any suspension for that by now.
The highlights are up.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (u23 highlights; QPR).
It will be interesting to see how the games get prioritised next week with the Academy boys fighting on three fronts. League games against third placed Ipswich and third place (in the northern section) Notts Forest on successive Saturdays with a Monday night DVP game against Sheffield United and Wednesday's FAW Youth Cup semi with Swansea in between. A DVP game at Hull two days after Forest as well.
Although I'd like to see us winning a league, I think the Under 18 squad has shown already that they are the strongest side out of the ten who compete in their division and it seems to me that getting them playing against older opponents should be a priority. That said, Sion Spence started the games on Saturday and Monday and Trystan Jones came on so early in the Development team match that he may as well have done - at that age, playing three or four times in a week shouldn't be too much of a hardship as long as it wasn't week in, week out.
Based on previous experience, City usually want to field their strongest possible side for Youth Cup games or the latter stages of the FAW tournament, so I think the match with the jacks will be given some sort of priority with the question for me being, will the likes of Martin and new signings Bolger and Williams start, because I'm pretty sure they are all eligible for the game.
The Academy have put out their strongest side today and I assume they will Wednesday too so Monday's DVP line-up will be interesting, not sure why they didn't postpone that one.
0-0 so far thanks to the heroics of keeper George Ratcliffe by the look of it - he's saved a penalty.
City 1-0 up at half time thanks to Sam Bowen's goal.
Now 2-1 to Ipswich in what is a very important game at the top of the table.
It finished 2-1 and in the space of a week, City's nine point lead has been cut to four - very disappointing outcome considering that this was almost a strong a team as they could field.
The Development team play Sheffield United at Cardiff City Stadium tonight, kick off 7 o clock.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...ffield-united/
1-1. Very competitive game, probably a fair result but we held the lead for a long time and their equaliser took a deflection so we can count ourselves a bit unlucky. Rhys Healey scored a good goal and Ryan Price hit the bar from distance in an excellent first half performance but it got scrappy in the second half and we struggled to create much. Not that Smithies had much to do all game, the back four did well with O'Keefe and the fearless 16-year-old Ryan Kavanagh doing a good job in front of them.
Four trialists, the two centre halves were the pick, Owen Wallis in particular. Cunningham got a run out, he had a decent game and showed a great attitude throughout (he was still racing back in the 90th minute to help break up a counter attack). O'Keefe and Healey likewise, plenty of spirit there tonight. Danny Williams looks a decent footballer, buzzed around all game without making much impression but it looks like there's more to come from him. No Bolger tonight, or Martin and Wootton, I assume they'll all be playing against Swansea in Wednesday's Youth Cup semi.
Highlights of the under-18s defeat at Ipswich here.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/card...video-archive/ (u18 highlights;Ipswich Town)
Ciaron Brown has played the last couple of games for Livingston on loan and seems to have done well. While centre half isn't an immediate problem for us in terms of numbers, none of our first teamers there are getting any younger and there's a big gap between Morrison at 28 (the rest are in their 30s) and the youngsters like Brown at 21 (discounting Paul McKay, the rest are teenagers). With Brown and Jack Bodenham out on loan we've been playing Academy boys Bagan and Margetson at under-23 level recently and with them being rested yesterday we brought in a couple of young trialists who did well. It seems the club are doing what they can to strengthen in this area, we could do with a couple of lads coming through in the next year or so, especially if Manga leaves at the end of the season.
Re: The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...
Don't suppose we can claim Brown as a locally developed young player and recall him from Livingstone in light of the Sol Bamba injury is there?
Thanks for the info on Monday's game, gave it a miss because of the traveling, the weather and Sheffield United's first team being on the telly - do we know the first names of the four trialists?
I found this for Owen Wallis.
http://ex-canaries.co.uk/players/wallis.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_3LpqnK8MI
Brown could definitely play if we've got a recall option, I'm sure Warnock would use Peltier and Cunningham before him though.
I'm amazed that Wallis is playing at that level, the other trialists were Ryan Hanson (Palace I think), Billy Stedman (Coventry?) and Terrique Anderson (Charlton?).
Big game tonight.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...ew-swansea-cit
The link doesn't work Bob
This one worked when I tried it before posting this message.
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...-swansea-city/
Thanks Bob, that one works
Wootton, Martin and Bolger all in the starting eleven;-
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...rdiff-15932084
The wind must be behind Swansea this half, we'll have them in the second.
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