Noble Savage
Player Valuation: £20m
Dobbin playing well for the Rams apparently. Those poor buggers are gushing over him. Against Mansfield mind.
Was talking about the reply. Someone saying all our coaches keep going to City and the U14's turned up to train and there was no coach?
Yes I know, I was talking about the first part , “ Everton have appointed Kieran Driscoll as U18 assistant coach.”
Ishe Samuels-Smith started for England u17 who beat Finland 2-1 in their final game of the tournament today.
Made up with that.
You are right, it was Eko Solomon and Kieran Driscoll has started here now.
He’s another excellent coach, probably brought in by the Kenny Williams, our new head of academy recruitment who recently joined us from Wigan.
I think he’s been captaining them although there’s a lot of new faces in this squad.
I know he was at times captain of the u16 last season, and somebody posted here that he was Captain in the first game last Saturday that they lost 3-0. As far as I can tell, Finley McAllister of Man Utd has been Captain in the final two games , 3-0 and 2-1 wins.
Kieran Driscoll‘s CV looks pretty good at this level. I can’t say I know much about him but his Wigan u18s tore us apart in the first 20 mins or so in the Youth Cup last year. They looked very sharp , well coached and had some decent players , Sean McGurk who went to Leeds stands out in my memory.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
Does that mean Waldron is out/moved about then or is it a different role do you know?
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
England U16 Squad is announced. Any Everton players here? This is meant to be the best England youth group since Bellingham's group (i.e. the 2003s, who won the U19 Euros last month)
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
Martin Waldron went some time ago and we’ve never recovered from it. He was excellent at his job however so is Kenny Williams. I think he’s an excellent appointment.
They won the U18 category 2 league that year (which is a very high standard), coached by Kieran Driscoll and IMO if they hadn’t had players missing, they have comfortably beaten us in the youth cup however they had some key injuries.
They should have won the whole youth cup a year before that. They got beat by United in the semi final 2-1( (I think) when McGurk scored but there had a few big injuries that day as well. If Joe Geldhart had been playing, I reckon they’d have beat them comfortably.
Not only have they had McGurk and Geldhart, they do produce a lot of really good players.
Alfie Devine was bought from them during COVID by Spurs. Jensen Weir who’se a highly rated England international was bought by Brighton to name a couple more.
There’s a few really good players there now as well.
