Saints Academy Thread

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Robinson misses out because he will be involved in what will essentially be a friendly on Sunday.

It seems pretty obvious to me that he would gain more from playing tonight than for the poor excuse for the first team. We have so clearly given up that I just don't see how it would help a young player to play in that environment.


As usual the Club short changes the Under 21's by not allowing their best player to do what he is good at because he might feature in a meaningless fixture at the week-end.. Just par for the course.
 
As usual the Club short changes the Under 21's by not allowing their best player to do what he is good at because he might feature in a meaningless fixture at the week-end.. Just par for the course.

It's meaningless to the fans, but not to an 18 year old trying to push himself into the first team squad. Much bigger than the u21s in front of an empty stadium.
 
What do the u21s get for winning this game? Says PL2 playoff so I assumed the winner gets promoted PL1, but why are City in the PL2 when they have such a strong academy?

If it’s just a trophy then nobody cares about u21 trophies, pretty sure every player would take a chance in the first team over playing tonight.

Can understand if there was a promotion involved to play a strong team otherwise who cares, results don’t matter at all at u21 level
 
What do the u21s get for winning this game? Says PL2 playoff so I assumed the winner gets promoted PL1, but why are City in the PL2 when they have such a strong academy?

If it’s just a trophy then nobody cares about u21 trophies, pretty sure every player would take a chance in the first team over playing tonight.

Can understand if there was a promotion involved to play a strong team otherwise who cares, results don’t matter at all at u21 level
PL2 is the highest league for B teams in England. The winner of this is Champions of PL2.
 
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What do the u21s get for winning this game? Says PL2 playoff so I assumed the winner gets promoted PL1, but why are City in the PL2 when they have such a strong academy?

If it’s just a trophy then nobody cares about u21 trophies, pretty sure every player would take a chance in the first team over playing tonight.

Can understand if there was a promotion involved to play a strong team otherwise who cares, results don’t matter at all at u21 level

I care, it was chance to get something out of this crappy season and just like everything else, they blew it.
 
Man City were far superior. Their players were stronger, fitter, faster, more skillful. It would annoy me, but seeing as they are all English (bar one), I'm actually pleased to watch them.

Left back (Mfuni?) Only 17, going to be a top, top player. And Mukasa, also 17, also that good. Could say the same of half a dozen others.

For us, some decent players (Bragg, the CBs), but some shockers too. Abu is atrocious. Terrible player.
 
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Does seem odd Cleverly was there, appreciate it’s a reasonably big game so maybe just attending because. Maybe he’s in the frame for some role at City. He might be interested in taking some kind of coaching role with their B team to try and learn under Pep. He’s not going to be taking the Saints B team manager job
 
Academy Saints youngsters retained
Professionals

Romeo Akachukwu. Will Armitage. Zach Awe. Dom Ballard. Nat Boot. Cam Bragg. Brandon Charles. Sonnie Davis
Baylee Dipepa. Tommy Dobson-Ventura. Max Fry. Josh Jeffries. Nico Lawrence. Will Merry. Adli Mohamed.
Jayden Moore. Brook Myers. Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh. Khiani Shombe. Nick Oyekunle. Moses Sesay.
Sam Tabares. Daouda Traore. Victor Udoh. Barnaby Williams. Ollie Wright.
Scholars
Hansel Adjei-Afriyie. Cameron Frederick. Harry Gathercole. Tino Goremusandu. Korban McMullan.
Dylan Moody. Oli Newman. Thierry Rohart-Brown. Leo Umeh.
Offered contracts
Princewill Ehibatiomhan. Ben Reeves (player-coach). Aston Daley. Abdulhalim Okunola. Sufianu Silah Dibaga.
Saints youngsters released
Professionals

Derrick Abu. Josh Lett. Josh McNamara. Lewis Payne.
Scholars
James Martin. Tevin Myers. Alfie Prescott. Ben Sheaf. Harry Upstell.
 
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