Are we playing Blackpool this week in that EFL Cup thing?
Naw , we're playing Norwich U23s on Friday in that Premier League 2 Cup thingy, we play Blackpool a week today at home on 8th Nov. Need to win or draw plus win penalty shoot out to progress.
The PL2 Cup Thingy is the competition where we beat Wolves 1-0 a few weeks ago, Portsmouth are the other team in our group. Home and away against all teams , top2 go through to K.O. Rounds.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
next tuesday. seem to have organised them all for over international breaks so the team that plays is completely different to our usual 11
Apparently turned his ankle over, doesn't seem to bad and they'll assess him Wednesday.
ruletero.toffee
Player Valuation: £100k
Is next week's u23 match against Blackpool at Goodison or Southport ?
...I haven't seen Charley's goal v Chelsea, not sure if the OS has shown it but it's supposed to be a goodun.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
was nice move and finish, maybe slightest of deflections but think it was going in regardless
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
We should be in for some of these Chelsea players...saving them from oblivion.
They either get loaned out for too long or sold off...or both. Surely some could be signed before their impending doom?
Every opposition match report I've ever read always starts off by saying how their line up was an exceptionally young one, up against bigger more experienced opponents.
The Chelsea one I read earlier said something like "Chelsea did well up against experienced opponents" - they had Zouma and Van Ginkel in their starting line up with over 200 top flight appearances between them!
The Chelsea one I read earlier said something like "Chelsea did well up against experienced opponents" - they had Zouma and Van Ginkel in their starting line up with over 200 top flight appearances between them!
Just read that Adam Forshaw, once of Everton, is being considered for an England call up by Southgate.
Good example to young players at PL clubs in that he took a move down the leagues to get first team football and was now worked his way back up to the top.
And a good example to those who write of any player who isn't pulling up trees when they are 20. Forshaw is PL ready at 25, he wasn't at 20, or even 23.
Good example to young players at PL clubs in that he took a move down the leagues to get first team football and was now worked his way back up to the top.
And a good example to those who write of any player who isn't pulling up trees when they are 20. Forshaw is PL ready at 25, he wasn't at 20, or even 23.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
I think we'll be seeing a lot more examples of this over the next few years.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I always liked Forshaw and probably wrote about him on here many years ago. Neat and tidy, easy in possession and looked a natural fit for central midfield. He was in the same team as Baxter who got a lot of hype but was always more impressed with Forshaw.
Alex Fergusan wrote in his book you only really know if a lad is good enough when they are 23. That's when they have completed their physical development and you see the end package to go alongside the technical skill. He also acknowledged that you rarely get a chance to keep players until they are 23 to get to see that, so it is often guesswork.
The other paradox is that players aged 16-23 do require competitive game time to progress. However it is getting harder to achieve that. Anyway good luck to Forshaw.
