U17s Beaten By Shrews in PDL Cup
Wednesday, 22nd Jan 2025 16:21

A Town U17s side was beaten 3-2 at home by Shrewsbury in the U17 PDL Cup at Playford Road yesterday.

George Iorpenda and Jackson Nsofor (pictured) were on target for the young Blues, who previously finished third in their group to progress to the play-off stage of the competition.

Elsewhere, U18s forward Jamie Mauge netted his first goal for loan club Bury Town as Cole Skuse’s side drew 1-1 at home to Maldon & Tiptree last night.

The 17-year-old joined the West Suffolk club, who are second in the Isthmian League North Division, a point behind Felixstowe & Walton, for an initial month last week.

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Linkboy13 added 17:15 - Jan 22 There seems to be a losing mentality throughout the club at the moment. This has got to be our poorest youth academy for years.
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armchaircritic59 added 17:51 - Jan 22

I've seen many of your posts Linkboy13, and often I have a different opinion, in this case I believe you're spot on. There is no way on earth an under anything team from a Premier League club should be losing to their counterparts from a team bottom but one in League one.

I can only believe (and hope!) that we are treading water until we get Category One fully established.

trncbluearmy added 18:03 - Jan 22 Very poor
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warfarinman69 added 18:28 - Jan 22 A lot of our players who would qualify to play in these age group games are being loaned out to play "mens" football. This seems to be a pattern and maybe short term whilst upgrading the academy. 2 games in the Southern League is like 20 games at U-17 level.
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steve_holmes27 added 20:27 - Jan 22 Bumped into a youth team coach at a satellite training centre recently. He was very clear; there is no talent coming through at any age group. Simply not a priority for the club or McKenna.
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armchaircritic59 added 00:28 - Jan 23

And further to my post above, it appears the lethargy towards our academy set up, includes the great majority of supporters, if this was an article on the first team, I expect there'd be rather more than 5 of us sufficiently bothered to post.

The academy should be our life blood, what we could save on bringing young talent all the way through to the first team, would run into many millions, thus freeing up what transfer funds we have to buy quality over quantity.

warfarinman69 added 10:25 - Jan 23

@armchaircritic, interesting point about the Financial side. A lot of Premier League clubs are using their academies to develop players to sell to comply with PSR rules. I think until Academy is upgraded, we will struggle to attract the talent. And by talent I also mean coaches. We have some good coaches, but suffered s few years ago with the ambitions of the coaches not being consistent with the clubs needs. Give it time.

churchmans added 14:08 - Jan 23 Unimportant! Will change once we get cat1 confirmation! We will be playing against other cat1 sides 90% of which are prem clubs and will be abke to attract players from all over the world which currently we cannot because of the rules,regs and the fact we are not got cat1 thus the qaulity
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