West Ham United’s U21s will join Town, Gillingham and Colchester in Papa John’s Trophy Southern Group A.

Having played Gillingham at home in the competition last season, Town will face the Gills away this time around meaning the Colchester match and the game against the Hammers' youngsters will be at Portman Road.

Town’s opening group match in has been pencilled in for Wednesday 1st September.

Town, the U's and Gills were previously in the same EFL Trophy group in 2019/20.

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midastouch added 19:48 - Jun 24 Everybody is so excited about the Papa Joke Trophy, so excited that nobody else has even bothered to comment on this story! What is there to say other than the competition is a big enough joke already, and by allowing U21 teams to enter it's made the whole thing an even bigger joke! If we reached the semi I'd start to show a bit of interest, but until then I'm not really interested in it.

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slade1 added 20:34 - Jun 24 For me the only good thing about these matches is giving the youngsters a chance to have a 'bigger' match day experience. Apart from that its a waste of time and money.
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Unhinged_dynamo added 09:40 - Jun 25 Might be a nice chance to compare our new squad with the players who have moved to Colchester, abitv of motivation for chambo etc to put in a performance against us
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Paddy39 added 10:14 - Jun 25 we should always play our strongest team. No excuses for "oh he hasn't had much game time etc." This season we play to WIN, you get in the first team if one of PC's first eleven is injured or you have shown up better in training. NO MORE EXCUSES. PC will be our saviour. COYB's.
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