Reply With QuoteHow did the Trialist get on?Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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4-1 to Burnley, once they got their bearings around the half an hour mark, there’s only been one team in it. We’ve been hopeless in the second half with the ultimate embarrassment being a Burnley player doing the swim away after he scored.
How did the Trialist get on?
It looked quite a tired performance from my intermittent viewing. The last two goals particularly poorly defended. Maybe they were fed up with this whole season too. The swimmer can carry the embarrassment on his own shoulders. A former Penybont boy, apparently.
Think they’d want a second look at him, maybe he’ll come back for pre season? He did okay, but it became more and more of a struggle for the whole team.
I'd say the embarrassment is doing that in an empty ground for the u21s.
Some really poor goals to give away. Playing out from the back, I just can't see how statistically it benefits most teams.
I'm only going from what I see and it seems very few times are teams able to actually shift the ball about and get an overload, mostly you end up clearing it or as happened this afternoon just giving goals away.
If you're the far better team it has it's advantages anything less and it just seems like possession and passing stat buffering at best, at worst it disadvantages you by drawing unnecessary pressure.
I'm not advocating teams to just launch it but the obsession with every time you have to play out just seems disadvantageous for most. In my opinion
saw the 2'nd half so can only reflect on that I wouldn't say a tired performance Burnley were a yard quicker with moving the ball and quicker in thought when switching play
As you say the 2 goals were poor the young left back made a bit of a howler for the first one ,that's all he had to do was let the ball roll under his feet out for a corner rather than play the ball across the goal . The 2'nd goal when a strike is hit across any keeper keepers are told to palm it away to the side if they can get to it but our keeper just palmed it in front making it easy for the Burnley striker
What i,ve seen both in the under 18 and 21 level this season they play the right way but i do wonder what's going to happen to the academy structure next season if the club go down whatever route they are going to take whether it being a DOF being involved , change in coaching styles etc or another type of structure time will tell
WOL saying the trialist was Sammy Henia-Kamau, a 19 year old striker currently at Swansea. I only watched bits, but he didn't play up front though did he?
They also say "It is understood the club are likely to make five or six additions to bolster their squad this summer, with a couple of incomings already, not Henia-Kamau, close to being agreed."
I see Birmingham have been upgraded to a status one Academy in the past week. Time was that seemed to be very important for us, but now as a 3rd tier club, the question is more likely to be whether one is viable? I see sides like Peterborough, Crewe, Fleetwood and Colchester on the Development and Academy teams' fixture list and wonder why they bother. I'd say only one of those teams has a reputation for producing youth players which are able to be sold for big profits and Crewe's heyday in that department was probably before the modern day Academy existed. If this latest stay on the lower divisions becomes an extended one, then it seems to me that the Academy's viability will become more of a topic for debate.
As it is, although the Under 21 teams results and performances in the second half of the season have seen my enthusiasm for the current group coming through drop somewhat, I still think we currently have more young players in reealistic contention for a first team place than we've had for about fifteen years and I don't believe all of that can be put down to this being our worst first team squad for alsmost a quarter of a century.
The drop in division may actually help give some of them a platform to begin their pro career at this club. There have been a few who have moved on and had to drop a division or two before coming back stronger.
That's the only positive as such I can take at the moment is if we were able to in a year or two get back to the champ with a good core of academy players with some decent minutes under their belts.
I know you're probably speaking more about some of the U21 prospects, but there are definitely established younger players in our squad who I think would really benefit from a year in League 1, like Ollie Tanner, Cian Ashford, Will Fish, and possibly Isaak Davies. Players who've shown flashes in the Championship but don't yet have that consistency.
This is another reason why Buckingham would be the preferred appointment for me, as he has a a great track record of working with and developing youngsters.
Every u21 goal from last season
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/video/player/0_mhrdtbt0
that Reindorf looks a handful, maybe we should try to get him out on loan somewhere
Luey Giles, Dylan Lawlor, Joel Colwill, Troy Perrett, Cian Ashford & Tan Nyakuhwa in Wales u21s squad to face Norway
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