Watch the Youth Cup game against Liverpool tomorrow night.

It will be on LFCTV and you can get a month subscription for free, watch the game, then cancel the subscription on the link below:

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/watch

Tonight.

Sam Waller back with u18s tonight and Michael Mellon also plays.

2 down, 34 mins gone.

We were 2-0 down very early but got to half time with no further damage

Looks like we'd a bad start?
Conceded 2 in the first 10 minutes.

Any improvement?

3-0 now 10 mins into second half

And now 3-1, Sean Etaluku

4-1

I noticed Brighton beat Man City in this Cup earlier!

We've still got a lot of work to catch up in our youth development.

Ended 4-1

A bit of a mis match in teams I'm afraid.

I suppose it's not unexpected.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:51 pm

We've still got a lot of work to catch up in our youth development.

That may be so, but you also have to realise the Liverpool are going to be one of the 4 or 5 strongest outfits in the country even at U18 level. It was always going to be an extremely tough game.

Oh! well at least we scored a goal. And our youth system won't reap rewards overnight, even the fact that we're now at Cat 1 status doesn't mean we're remotely on an even footing with these big city clubs,

But compared to only a couple of years ago we are making progress, and eventually we'll reap dividends, we just need to remain patient.

Cheers for updates.

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:56 pm

That may be so, but you also have to realise the Liverpool are going to be one of the 4 or 5 strongest outfits in the country even at U18 level. It was always going to be an extremely tough game.

I fear we may always be "feeding on scraps" once the big clubs have scooped up the best young players.
Not a lot we can do about it, being so close to Manchester, Liverpool.... oh, and Leeds.

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:57 am

I fear we may always be "feeding on scraps" once the big clubs have scooped up the best young players.
Not a lot we can do about it, being so close to Manchester, Liverpool.... oh, and Leeds.

And, sad to say, Ba**ards - who have a high class Academy

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:40 pm

And, sad to say, Ba**ards - who have a high class Academy

They haven't produced many premier league players for 30yrs worth of being a top academy.

We could probably get a few players in the team if we played in league one and then the championship.

Will take another 2-3 yrs staying in the prem to attract enough younger early mid teen talent to start to get closer to the level of other cat 1 academies down the line . Being top dog in Lancs and north and much of West Yorkshire has certainly put us above the academies like Preston /Blackburn/Bolton and of course above the Rochdales/Oldhams/Stanley/Blackpool/Fleetwoods et al