It’s a tournament for L1 and L2 teams to give them a chance of a day out at Wembley. Most people don’t even want U-21s in at the first place.
Us sending out the likes of Baleba, Gruda, Hinshelwood, Minteh & Ferguson to duff up Bromley and Colchester so we can try and claim a trophy which...
Playing first team players in the EFL trophy would be the most embarrassing, tinpot thing imaginable.
It would be like when Homer won the “design a future power plant” competition in The Simpsons.
I know it’s really helped us and I really enjoy watching USG but let’s not kid ourselves, the multi club ownership model is pretty shit for football in general.
I think a good 45 minutes have raised people’s expectations to an unrealistic level.
He’s a teenage winger with a season in Holland a handful of games in noddy leagues. He’s not going to be Messi.
Gruda replaces him when he’s fit.
Beating the previous L1 record of £3.5m set on the 24th July 2024 by Birmingham City.
That record had beaten the previous record of £3m which had been set on the 19th July by… Birmingham City
I think there’s two similar phenomena’s at play here which have a similar outcome but effect drastically different generations.
Firstly you’ve got the more mature gentleman who still pines for the days where every team played 4-4-2 and every player played 1 position and 1 position only. Apart...
And Gruda mentioned playing as an 8 when he signed for the club.
Unfortunately whilst these young footballers believe they can play these positions, people on NSC have looked at their Wikipedia and can categorically confirm that this will NEVER happen.
You’d think fans of a team that used...
I know Gomes was really good for Carsley when he managed the U-21s. So him stepping up makes sense.
Dropping the bestest English midfielder ever seems strange though. I was lead to believe we should be building the team around Wharton
I’d love to agree but I’ve genuinely never had an interaction with a Crawley fan to gauge them on.
Never met one, never bumped in to one in a boozer, f*ck it - I don’t think I’ve ever seen one pop up on social media. I went to watch Swindon play at Crawley with a Swindon supporting mate a few...