NextGenSeries Groups for 2012/13 have been drawn

[fatpiranha]

Group 1: Barcelona, Tottenham, Anderlecht, Wolfsburg.
Group 2: Man City, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Fenerbahce.
Group 3: Chelsea, Ajax, CSKA Moscow, Molde FK.
Group 4: Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Marseille, Olympiakos.
Group 5: Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, Inter, Rosenborg.
Group 6: Sporting Lisbon, Celtic, Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven.

Looks like we may have drawn the short straw.

 

[dn013]

Will be great to see the youngsters play Barcelona!

 

[CJMurray]

Draw was made a month or so back iirc.

I think its good that we'll play Barcelona. This competitions not about winning, its about experience and developing players. It'll be a great learning experience for them to come up against this Barca side and i'd rather we play them then a second rate team and not learn anything from it.

 

[chrissivad]

how many get through the group stage?

 

[stevenurse]

Short straw? Group 2 looks filth

 

[Chapel Hill Hotspur]

Every one of those groups is full of great clubs.

 

[StartingPrice]

Every one of those groups is full of great clubs.

And Aston Villa

 

[michaelden]

Would love to follow the games lives

 

[nightgoat]

Short straw? Group 2 looks filth

Although last season Man City lost all their games. PSG weren't in it, so would be an unknown quantity - whether or not they currently take the same approach to youth development as other teams throwing money about for fun (i.e, not very much) remains to be seen.

 

[fatpiranha]

Short straw? Group 2 looks filth

Don't confuse youth team strength with the clubs 1st team. Group 2 includes Man City who lost all 6 of their group games last season and also Fenerbahce who finished bottom of the weakest group which was won by Aston Villa. PSG and Juventus are new to the competition.

The clubs to bet on are those that traditionally develop their youth either to play in their 1st team or to sell on so the likes of Barca, Sporting and Ajax are the ones to avoid or rather hope you get for the experience.

 

[Misfit]

We'll piss it. Unless only the first place club in each group goes through. Assuming it's the top 2? Hope we meet Pewel again. Tear them an arsehole this time.

 

[nightgoat]

We'll piss it. Unless only the first place club in each group goes through. Assuming it's the top 2? Hope we meet Pewel again. Tear them an arsehole this time.

By this point Liverpool's youth team will be made up of kids who didn't quite make the WWE.

 

[StartingPrice]

We'll piss it. Unless only the first place club in each group goes through. Assuming it's the top 2? Hope we meet Pewel again. Tear them an arsehole this time.

But their youth are so much stronger than ours - I know because their fans told us so.
They were bigger and stronger than us and dominated us (and it was a travesty that we won)!

H E L L O...the selection of boys who are big for their age and training them to emphasise their physicality, pushing them into competitive games from an early age is precisely the issues that were emphasised over a decade ago now as being the main cause of the awful state of player production in England/Britain, you stoopid Scouse dinosaur fecks. Your youth set-up, the product it has been producing and your facilities are about a decade behind ours (where any time sscale can even be put to it), you dumb numb-nuts winkers. Your only hope is that Brendan Rodgers will identify this straight away and set to rectifying it...but, there again, I would wager that rectifying all this would be a five year job for him and I doubt you will give im more than two before sacking him 'cos he ahsn't won the league

 

[SugarRay]

And Aston Villa

Nah, and Chelsea and City would be more appropriate.

Villa, for al their shitiness of late still have more titles than the two plastic clubs above put together. More trophies in total too, including a European Cup very much against the odds ( Chelskis was unlikely but not that unlikely when you think about how much they spend on transfers and wages )

 

[nightgoat]

But their youth are so much stronger than ours - I know because their fans told us so.
They were bigger and stronger than us and dominated us (and it was a travesty that we won)!

Presumably they missed the bit where we beat the eventual winners 7-1.

 

[StartingPrice]

Nah, and Chelsea and City would be more appropriate.

Villa, for al their shitiness of late still have more titles than the two plastic clubs above put together. More trophies in total too, including a European Cup very much against the odds ( Chelskis was unlikely but not that unlikely when you think about how much they spend on transfers and wages )

Twas a joke* matey...calm down, calm down, errrrrrrrrrrrr...soft lad

*Predicated upon the fact that Villa are Gawddam awful sheeeeeee-ite at the moment...hell, did you see them under McLeish

Presumably they missed the bit where we beat the eventual winners 7-1.

They missed many things...numpties

 

[nightgoat]

*Predicated upon the fact that Villa are Gawddam awful sheeeeeee-ite at the moment...hell, did you see them under McLeish

Let's hope for their sake he didn't try and install an ethos from the youth team upwards...

 

[fatpiranha]

...the selection of boys who are big for their age and training them to emphasise their physicality, pushing them into competitive games from an early age is precisely the issues that were emphasised over a decade ago now as being the main cause of the awful state of player production in England/Britain

Spot on .