The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[ZacNaloen]

Corner, come on!

[akranes]

A game worth watching, shame about the result but what encouragement that is for our future first team! Exciting prospects.

[SLAMMED]

Booooo

[TFF]

Shame. Good showing from the lads tonight.

tbf they should have been out of sight by half time in the first leg

[ZacNaloen]

Oh well, that's the game then

Good stuff. Great game.

Fulham are a top side.


If Roberts has a weakness its definitely shooting.

[Royal Ginger]

How very disappointing. Well done to them though.

Adkins out.

[Kitsondinho]

Brilliant performance with 10 men. More exciting than the first team!

[wally bassoon]

Gutted, very unlucky with the sending off and the winning goal.

Absolutely gutted for them.

[winchester_royal]

Kuhl and Stacey were absolutely brilliant second half.

[Ian Royal]

So, so frustrating. Poor Hyam, poor Kelly, poor Dickie.

But they've done themselves proud, Fulham really showed up tonight and it was going to be hard to win even with 11. Gave them a tough old game.

[Sutekh]

Nice to see that the crap luck that effects the 1st team in big games like po finals is already there with the youngsters

[Pepe the Horseman]

Fcuking lucky bastards. Not that I'm bitter or anything, but that pcunt shouldn't even be allowed to play.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Well played though boys, should be proud of themselves.

[windermere_royal]

That guy sure has the indian sign over us, incredibly lucky winner though

[Unbelievable Jeff]

Fantastic effort by the boys.

Fulham are up there with the top few youth clubs in the country so it was no disgrace to go out to them.

Roll on tomorrow night...

[JordCot]

So cruel, tackled into the net. Team should be proud of their season

[sandman]

One of the worst hat tricks you'll ever see but they won't care.

Real shame but the lads should be proud and if they carry on like that we have a very good crop of players.

[handbags_harris]

Well that's just downright unlucky more than anything. With 10 men, to make a game of it in the manner they did and get done by an unlucky deflection onto the bar, unlucky rebound straight into the path of Dembele (was the first chap offside?) and then do a Rougier/Hunter in the final minute, the Gods conspired against us this evening. That experience can only be good for those players though. A few players in that side, if their ability develops in the manner it should do then by Christ we've got some players. I know he's easy to spot but Aaron Kuhl looks one hell of prospect, both him and Stacey put one hell of a shift in that central midfield. Seriously, seriously good when under so much pressure.

That said, Fulham's number 10 (I think, the chap who won their penalty), if his skill level develops at a rate that means he is as quick footed against full pro's as he was against his own age group then he looks a multi-million pound player in the making. I'm not being blinded by a bit of Adel Taraabt-type skill here, he had directness to his game that, with a bit of end product, means he's a real talent in the making. His feet were just consistently so, so much quicker than any defending player. Good to see that...

[Jackson Corner]

Gutted a great display. They blew it in the first leg..........

[ZacNaloen]

The home nations are doing very well out of the academy system aren't they.

Just thinking about the "nationalities" on display.