Youth Cup

They are playing Wolves away and you can follow the action on the OS live blog. 0-0 so far and Diego Poyet is captain.

 

Wolves 0-1 Charlton (Holmes-Dennis)
Hope we get a home tie now.

 

Great result! Well done lads!

I wasn't expecting too much this season when so many of last year's team had to move up to the u21s but we seem to have come up with another good crop. Arguably our two most promising young players are still u18s, Poyet and Sho-Silva. Let's hope we can hang on to them long enough to enjoy watching them play for a couple of seasons before getting enormous fees for them.

 

I know they're at a different stage of their development, but who is the greater prospect - Azeez or Sho-Silva?

 

We did. Home to Chelsea. Although they are below Wolves, whom we beat, in their u21 league, I suspect they don't always play their strongest XI there, but will do in the Cup. A really tough draw but what a feather in the cap if our lads can do it.

 

Can't wait. I hope they get a big support. I expect Chelsea will get a good support from fans who can't afford to follow the first team. One real highlight from last season was beating the Spurs under-18's with a late goal and silencing Spurs noisy supporters. COYR!

 

Chelsea are the current Cup holders, by the way. Will this match be played at the Valley?

 

Recently I've seen people saying they don't rate poyet. I trust the guys on here more- has he not developed as hoped? It was 18 months ago he was strongly linked with arsenal.

 

He seems to have had a few problems with illness and injury. If some people don't rate him that's fine by me.

 

Do you still think he will make it billy? Is he too unassuming in his play to perhaps draw praise from the 'masses'?

 

I've always said I think he's the real deal, but I have been wrong on occasion.

 

And on Wednesday you can judge for yourself. I always look forward to the Youth Cup more than the FA Cup, probably because we consistently do better.

 

The under 18's won 2-6 away at Ipswich on Saturday

Toby got a hat-track

 

Ipswich have traditionally had a very good youth set-up, so a great result, 1-0 would do on wednesday.

 

That would be the under-18 equivalent of Celtic beating Barcelona.

 

The Barca manager reckoned it was the crowd wot won it, so we know what we've got to do, get behind the boys and make some noise. let's hear every one of you COYR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

1-0

Derry

 

Get in! This would be a serious win.

 

2-0

Muldoon

I've been crediting both these goals to Sho-Silva. Hope he gets one or three

 

HT

2-0 up

Sounds like it's been fairly comfortable so far

Got to say - these commentators are good, better than the usual BBC one. I think they're just fans, probably connected to Charl'on Live