The Spurs Youth Thread - 2017/2018
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Blake Griffin
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unfortunately we now face bloody chelsea again in the final.
LexingtonSpurs
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Any time we are in a final - should not say "unfortunately".
Blake Griffin
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Spurzinho
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Former youth Simon Dawkins has apparently been released by San Jose Earthquakes http://the72.co.uk/98501/former-derby-villa-spurs-international-released-mls-side/
Wonder what his next move will be.
Wonder what his next move will be.
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harrison is playing lw for southend ... vs walkes at rb for pompey.
amos starts for stevenage, ogilvie starts for gills, loft starts for exeter, onomah bench.
amos starts for stevenage, ogilvie starts for gills, loft starts for exeter, onomah bench.
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Lilywhite Rose@lilywhite_rose 51m51 minutes ago
Got to say as always, Oliver Skipp was absolutely superb today. Levels above anyone else on the pitch. Without a doubt future 1st team player. Has everything leadership, power, skill & willingness to win.
Got to say as always, Oliver Skipp was absolutely superb today. Levels above anyone else on the pitch. Without a doubt future 1st team player. Has everything leadership, power, skill & willingness to win.
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Would that be 6 first years in the team. If so bodes we’ll for next year
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yeah, plus bennett who is an u16.
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We played excellently today after a difficult start. I think we deserved to win and we weathered a couple of storms, which is to be expected from a quality side chasing a game. They lost hit the bar near the end.
Markandays role fit the goal was excellent, held their captain off to win a ball going over his head, got clipped edge of the box, rode it, when most would go down. Never expected him to knowing what he's like, got to the byline in the box ran in rode another challenge and rolled a lovely ball across the box. You can tell he's a player everyone appreciates.
There were 2 moments that brough gasps from the crowd. When Shashoua came on DeBie kicked a ball down the field on the counter Shashoua was running back with a couple of Arsenal players around him and plucked the ball out of the sky. Don't see that a lot.
The other was a nutmeg from Bowden who had a great game, to get himself out of trouble. I was very impressed with Bowden today who did not hide. He showed quicker feet than I've seen before and an ability to change his mind in a split second as play develop around him. I hope that makes sense but he did o t a couple of times, again to relieve pressure and it was very impressive. I think he even pulled off a Maradona at one point.
Maghoma also had a brilliant game, they couldn't cope with his slaloming runs and silky feet as he changed direction on the ball. He is finding his form now. I was worried facing this Arsenal team due to their talent and when we went down early thought, oh no. But Maghoma and Bowde stepped up.
BLF and Skipp unsurprisingly looked assured at the back. Hinds again had a good game Reynolds was out of sorts though, as their winger that replaced the talented Coyle caused him trouble
Bennet was spoken a lot about by spectators I think he had a good reputation. Richards also had a really good game and showed great hold up play bringing the ball down on his chest from goalkicks under pressure something I'd seen him do at u16s.
I saw Pedder and Asante walking around so assume they're here next year. Thorpe, Tainio, Clarke, Poch were all playing u16s. Good for Thorpe to get minutes.
Also a bit of ITK I guess about our relationship with Ajax. Apparently their u16s were at my local youth club going coaching in the community. My club hosted the Spurs academy while the new training ground was being built. So I can only assume Spurs got Ajax in touch with our club or vice versa to do some work. Apparently our u16s then faced each other midweek. Got no confirmation on whether that went ahead. But Ajax were definitely at my club. Can't be a coincidence so shows we're working together.
Markandays role fit the goal was excellent, held their captain off to win a ball going over his head, got clipped edge of the box, rode it, when most would go down. Never expected him to knowing what he's like, got to the byline in the box ran in rode another challenge and rolled a lovely ball across the box. You can tell he's a player everyone appreciates.
There were 2 moments that brough gasps from the crowd. When Shashoua came on DeBie kicked a ball down the field on the counter Shashoua was running back with a couple of Arsenal players around him and plucked the ball out of the sky. Don't see that a lot.
The other was a nutmeg from Bowden who had a great game, to get himself out of trouble. I was very impressed with Bowden today who did not hide. He showed quicker feet than I've seen before and an ability to change his mind in a split second as play develop around him. I hope that makes sense but he did o t a couple of times, again to relieve pressure and it was very impressive. I think he even pulled off a Maradona at one point.
Maghoma also had a brilliant game, they couldn't cope with his slaloming runs and silky feet as he changed direction on the ball. He is finding his form now. I was worried facing this Arsenal team due to their talent and when we went down early thought, oh no. But Maghoma and Bowde stepped up.
BLF and Skipp unsurprisingly looked assured at the back. Hinds again had a good game Reynolds was out of sorts though, as their winger that replaced the talented Coyle caused him trouble
Bennet was spoken a lot about by spectators I think he had a good reputation. Richards also had a really good game and showed great hold up play bringing the ball down on his chest from goalkicks under pressure something I'd seen him do at u16s.
I saw Pedder and Asante walking around so assume they're here next year. Thorpe, Tainio, Clarke, Poch were all playing u16s. Good for Thorpe to get minutes.
Also a bit of ITK I guess about our relationship with Ajax. Apparently their u16s were at my local youth club going coaching in the community. My club hosted the Spurs academy while the new training ground was being built. So I can only assume Spurs got Ajax in touch with our club or vice versa to do some work. Apparently our u16s then faced each other midweek. Got no confirmation on whether that went ahead. But Ajax were definitely at my club. Can't be a coincidence so shows we're working together.
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Haven't come across that one before.
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Tbf Onomah and AMN aren't really comparable. AMN is a winger turned DM/CM who can now play both of those positions comfortably. Sticking AMN at FB isn't completely alien to him as he can adapt. Not only that he was also given a lot of minutes to get himself invovled.
Onomah has only ever played CM. He has only ever been played completely out of position. I would much prefer Oduwa or even Georgiou on our wings over Onomah as Onomah won't help our team on the wing. Not only that Onomah was also given 5 minutes here and there, hardly conducive to building up any sort of rhythm especially if you are learning a new position. If N'Koudou a winger with a season's eperience in Ligue 1 can look poor here, with 90mins opporuntities, what hope for an academy player with no league expereince completely out of position?
I don't know what the harm is in applauding what Wenger has doesn't trying to give his academy players chances. They get so few chances with first team football, it's always good to see managers trying them out.
