Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

[PCozzie]

That pass has KDB all over it. The barest of glimpses and bends it in behind.

 

[Now it's Spursonal]

This guy looks lively, hadn’t been on my radar at all.

 

[mark87]

 

[mark87]

FT 2-0 win. We finish top of the table with a game to spare. We therefore face the team who finish 16th in the playoffs if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Marty]

 

[easley91]

So we don't get a trophy unless we win the play-offs? Still immensely proud of the boys but annoying we smash a league and it still might not be good enough.

 

[mark87]

 

[mark87]

FT 2-0 win. We finish top of the table with a game to spare. We therefore face the team who finish 16th in the playoffs if I'm not mistaken.

 

[GioW]

Is this something we've entered before?

 

[Now it's Spursonal]

So we don't get a trophy unless we win the play-offs? Still immensely proud of the boys but annoying we smash a league and it still might not be good enough.

All about developing players at this level rather than just winning trophies is the thought process. Good for the players to experience a more intense knockout format.

 

[PCozzie]

All about developing players at this level rather than just winning trophies is the thought process. Good for the players to experience a more intense knockout format.

Better surely for that to be a separate competition? I'm not sure that there is much development value in asking young lads to play in a season long league format, win that format, and then base success or failure on how they then do in a much more random knockout cup.

By all means have the knockouts, but it should be an end of season cup competition entirely separate from the league.

 

[mark87]

 

[EQP]

Is this something we've entered before?

I don't think so but happy to be corrected. Essentially, looks like a knock-off version of the UEFA Youth League - even to the degree that UEFA tried to block the creation of the tournament and refused to sanction its creation.

Premier League International Cup - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I say bring on more competitive fixtures for the development squads.

 

[rabbikeane]

We last participated in 2018/19 (third time).
Topped the group with Wolfsburg, Bilbao and Norwich.
Went out to finalists Dinamo Zagreb in knocklout stage.
Seems Jack Roles was a key player scoring many goals.

 

[taidgh]

27 passes in that move before the goal

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Is #6 Abbott?

 

[George94]

This guy looks lively, hadn’t been on my radar at all.

Is this the U16s?

Shame he isn’t a bit older as looks like the exact type of profile we need on the wing at the moment in the first team