Everton Youth Teams Thread

[Eggs]

Absolutely. Of those I mentioned, I expect only one of Pennington/ Galloway/Browning to still be with is by the end of next season. No idea which one at this stage. Most will go in the summer I suspect.

...yep, just watching the Everton Show now and they did a nice piece on Walsh. Sheedy is in the studio and is clearly a big fan of the boy. Sheedy saying a number of his U18s will move to Unsworth next season which means the U23s will have to make room.

 

[Stephenlloyd]

...yep, just watching the Everton Show now and they did a nice piece on Walsh. Sheedy is in the studio and is clearly a big fan of the boy. Sheedy saying a number of his U18s will move to Unsworth next season which means the U23s will have to make room.

I think a lot will move on. Especially in the striker department. Where we seem poor at under 23 level. Some will go on loan. Maybe dowell, charsley, Connolly.
And a few moved up to the 1st team squad. Hopefully Walsh will be one of them

 

[Ring master]

Its the 1st game of the 2nd pharse of the u18s league today,and Everton after failing to get top 4 in the regular season,are in the 2nd tier,THEY BEGIN V MIDDLESBROUGH AT HOME,12.30ko

EVERTON U18S TEAM

PIERCE,BAXTER,LEES,HARRINGTON,MORRIS,DENNY,SCULLY,MOORE,BRAMALL,KIERSEY,ADEDOYIN
SUBS JONES, DUKE-MEKENNA,GORDON,VIRTANEN,MAMPALA

 

[Ring master]

Its the 1st game of the 2nd pharse of the u18s league today,and Everton after failing to get top 4 in the regular season,are in the 2nd tier,THEY BEGIN V MIDDLESBROUGH AT HOME,12.30ko

EVERTON U18S TEAM

PIERCE,BAXTER,LEES,HARRINGTON,MORRIS,DENNY,SCULLY,MOORE,BRAMALL,KIERSEY,ADEDOYIN
SUBS JONES, DUKE-MEKENNA,GORDON,VIRTANEN,MAMPALA

KIERSEY ON 6 MINS MAKES IT 1-0 EVERTON

 

[longers]

are we still leading the u23 league ? how many games left ?

 

[Ring master]

are we still leading the u23 league ? how many games left ?

Yes,we are 3 points above 2nd play man city,plus we have better GD of 7,there are 4 games left each,the 1st of which is monday night away to derby for us-others are spurs april 10th/chelsea 21st april which is live on chelsea tv,then v liverpool 8th may which for now is live on lfc tv,man city are away to 4th placed arsenal at same time monday,

 

[blueloon]

I've always had some reservations over the Ledson situation and wonder whether there was some off-field issue. He did go through a difficult period before he went on loan to I think Cambridge was it? One would hope we had a sell on/buy back clause in place.

Yeah there was an odd period for Ledson around about August 2015. There was an unsubstantiated report on GOt about him being out on the town. Then he disappeared out of the u 23s for a short while and wasn't picked for the England side either, which you would think was based on comments from the club . Then he came back into both teams before his loan out. Water under the bridge now but an odd one in that a pure business decision would be a season long loan and sell him for more money later on. And it wasn't portraid as " great move for Ryan, so we reluctantly let him go "

 

[catcherintherye]

Yeah there was an odd period for Ledson around about August 2015. There was an unsubstantiated report on GOt about him being out on the town. Then he disappeared out of the u 23s for a short while and wasn't picked for the England side either, which you would think was based on comments from the club . Then he came back into both teams before his loan out. Water under the bridge now but an odd one in that a pure business decision would be a season long loan and sell him for more money later on. And it wasn't portraid as " great move for Ryan, so we reluctantly let him go "

I think you are right. I have no idea what happened, but between being on the bench as a 16 year old to not being selected for the under 23's as a lad just turning 18 was odd. I remember he didn't get a single nomination for any awards the summer previous. He was captaining our reserves at age 16/17 (Kenny took over that responsibility). I always found it unusual. When he played against Krosnadar, whole he didn't set the world on fire he didn't disgrace himself and was one of the better performers.

The easy answer is to say it was a football decision. We have good players in that position. Maybe Ledson demanded a move, which in some ways would make sense. You go out on loan, come back and find lads who were behind you like Davies and Dowell have jumped ahead of you. I don't know really, I'm sure at some stage the truth will come out though.

 

[Ring master]

KIERSEY ON 6 MINS MAKES IT 1-0 EVERTON

BRAMALL on 84 makes it 2-0

 

[Nymzee]

@catcherintherye @blueloon

Was there ever any word from management when Ledson was sold about why? Would be interesting to know the reason if it was club not believing in him or him doing a Baxter. Seems to be playing well at Oxford now.

 

[Ring master]

Miiddlesbrough score with last kick in the u18s game,but

EVERTON u18s win there 1st 2nd pharse tier 2 league game 2-1 v middlesbrough and are 2nd from the 3 games played so far this weekend,its away to Derby next sat who lost 5-3 away to norwich,2 of the derby goals were in last 5mins

 

[blueloon]

Miiddlesbrough score with last kick in the u18s game,but

EVERTON u18s win there 1st 2nd pharse tier 2 league game 2-1 v middlesbrough and are 2nd from the 3 games played so far this weekend,its away to Derby next sat who lost 5-3 away to norwich,2 of the derby goals were in last 5mins

Cheers mate, took a second read to see what you meant , at least it's a promising start , though from that lineup it's hard to pick out any who are likely to challenge for an U23s place next season, maybe Denny , Kiersey if they up their game.

 

[Ring master]

Cheers mate, took a second read to see what you meant , at least it's a promising start , though from that lineup it's hard to pick out any who are likely to challenge for an U23s place next season, maybe Denny , Kiersey if they up their game.

yep,read it myself after posting,did read as a touch odd,but knew what i meant lol

 

[mightymoyes]

I think you are right. I have no idea what happened, but between being on the bench as a 16 year old to not being selected for the under 23's as a lad just turning 18 was odd. I remember he didn't get a single nomination for any awards the summer previous. He was captaining our reserves at age 16/17 (Kenny took over that responsibility). I always found it unusual. When he played against Krosnadar, whole he didn't set the world on fire he didn't disgrace himself and was one of the better performers.

The easy answer is to say it was a football decision. We have good players in that position. Maybe Ledson demanded a move, which in some ways would make sense. You go out on loan, come back and find lads who were behind you like Davies and Dowell have jumped ahead of you. I don't know really, I'm sure at some stage the truth will come out though.

i think thats pretty much what happened, he had dropped down the pecking order so could see no way to the first team and enjoyed playing proper football while on loan.

 

[catcherintherye]

@catcherintherye @blueloon

Was there ever any word from management when Ledson was sold about why? Would be interesting to know the reason if it was club not believing in him or him doing a Baxter. Seems to be playing well at Oxford now.

Not much was said, other than we had other players who'd overtaken him.