We are away to Coventry on the 10th Jan. I would guess we will be playing Kayal, Rosenoir , Towell etc. The final is at Wembley. If we win at Coventry and get a home draw we really should get behind our team. The final is on a Sunday in April. Lots of football to be played though.
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Checkatrade Trophy. We are only 3 games away from Wembley.
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Just not a play-off final though.
T soprano
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Spurs away next season??
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Mansfield Town v Oldham Athletic
Luton Town v Chesterfield
Oxford United v Scunthorpe United
Blackpool v Wycombe Wanderers
Cheltenham Town OR
Leicester City Academy v Bradford City
Yeovil Town v Reading Academy
Coventry City v Brighton & Hove Albion Academy
Swansea City Academy v Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy
Luton Town v Chesterfield
Oxford United v Scunthorpe United
Blackpool v Wycombe Wanderers
Cheltenham Town OR
Leicester City Academy v Bradford City
Yeovil Town v Reading Academy
Coventry City v Brighton & Hove Albion Academy
Swansea City Academy v Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy
That is not set in stone yet....from a Spurs point of view not a Brighton!
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I have no doubt the real hard core will be be fully supportive of the lads like the day at Withdean against Chelsea Youth where they had to open up extra stands on the day as they massively under estimated the interest of the match.
Not sure of the attendance but it was a good turnout.
Not sure whether our new crop of fans really care enough yet about the squad development, but it would be interesting to see.
Thunder Bolt
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We got within 90 minutes of Wembley in 2009, and failed, at Luton. We brought in first team players like Virgo & Kuipers, who messed it up.
Thunder Bolt
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That was a completely different competition called the FA Youth cup for under 18s.
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Yes, that was my point, a youth match with a great attendance in a athletic track, against a league trophy match in a proper football stadium.
We should be backing these lads even more, if the newbies have any interest in football in general.
chimneys
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This! Also a fair few local Chelsea there that night.
Can't stand this old school v JCL snipes some of our fellow vets spout.
Sussex Nomad
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Agreed, in the couple of Academy games I have been to this season there's been plenty of interest from kids/teens, I wonder if they're 'old school' or 'JCLs'?
Thunder Bolt
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You have an agenda about Checkatrade. As an oldie, I never did like the LDV vans, Paint Pot trophy or whatever it's called now.
Nathan Jones played his under 23s and got fined £5K for each of the three matches they played. That's a disgrace by the Football League. Youth is youth no matter what division they are in.
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This is flat out rot.
I can and have supported the youth squads, I cannot and will not support our participation in this ridiculous experiment.
The whole point of this thing was to improve and aid English youth development yet clubs are fined for playing their youth players? How is English youth being helped when teams play over-age foreigners? They billed it as a chance for lower league teams to play against Premier League quality opposition yet most of the big clubs turned down the invitation. Omnishambles doesn't even begin to describe it and if the FL have got any respect for the clubs in the lower leagues they'll abandon this next season.
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MattBackHome
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Agreeed. And "flat out rot" is a term which should be used a lot more, especially on NSC.
Thunder Bolt
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Great post but it's a FL competition not FA. Otherwise I agree with every word.
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Thunder Bolt
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In a great way. I love the word buffoons.