[Albion] EFL Trophy Quarter Final - Amex, Tuesday 9th January ko 7pm

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Squad rules haven't got more strict actually, can have 5 overage including 2 with more than 40 first team appearances. However our academy has got to a stage where we don't need to do that thankfully

In the first few seasons the only rule was that Acadmey sides had to have 6 players under 21 in their starting XI. There was no rule stating there was a maximum of 2 overage players with more than 40 appearances. Under current rules we’d have never been able to play the starting XI we did against Stevenage as all 5 of those overage players had made more than 40 senior appearances each. So rules have been made stricter over time actually.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

In the first few seasons the only rule was that Acadmey sides had to have 6 players under 21 in their starting XI. There was no rule stating there was a maximum of 2 overage players with more than 40 appearances. Under current rules we’d have never been able to play the starting XI we did against Stevenage as all 5 of those overage players had made more than 40 senior appearances each. So rules have been made stricter over time actually.

Fair enough on that point

 

[Is it PotG?]

Ball #2, 6.30pm SSN.

 

[Official Old Man]

Very soon on SSN. Home draw please.

 

[Dirty Dave]

Draw being made imminently on Sky Sports News...

 

[Dirty Dave]

Home to Wycombe

Edit - although drawn at home, apparently we'll play away due to a special arrangement or something.

We really are specialists at being given away cup ties

 

[Official Old Man]

Why has it been moved to away?
Special dispensation? Reckon we'd have got a few thousand at the Amex.

 

[Krafty]

Wycombe have beaten three academy sides so far: 1-0 v Crystal Palace, 3-2 v Fulham & 2-1 v West Ham.

 

[AZ Gull]

Reckon we'd have got a few thousand at the Amex.

 

[AZ Gull]

A few Albion connections in the Wycombe squad -

* Former loanee Sam Vokes
* David Wheeler, who was in the Albion youth system (when, unfortunately, that DIDN'T mean you were a wonderkid)
* Former Albion youngster Jasper Pattenden who spent 8 years coming through the ranks but was released without being given a scholarship (and who is the younger brother of Lucas, currently playing at Bognor Regis Town)
* Former trialist Kieran Sadlier (who played for the U-21s almost 10 years ago)

 

[Simster]

I don't think 5-7k was out of the question if loyalty points were on offer and tickets were cheap.

It doesn't matter now. I don't think we have a chance away from home against a strong league one side.

 

[Mustafa II]

It's slightly ironic that we seem to be more interested in this cup now, as a Premier League team, than when were in the lower divisions.

Still, I enjoyed the last round - and I'm looking forward to the next. It's nice being underdogs against lower league teams again, in a weird way.

 

[GT49er]

In the first few seasons the only rule was that Acadmey sides had to have 6 players under 21 in their starting XI. There was no rule stating there was a maximum of 2 overage players with more than 40 appearances. Under current rules we’d have never been able to play the starting XI we did against Stevenage as all 5 of those overage players had made more than 40 senior appearances each. So rules have been made stricter over time actually.

Rules have been made stricter, sure enough - and rightly so, IMHO. No reason why we shouldn't use the rules to the limit though. In spite of the 'After you Claude, let's be fwaffly fwaffly sporting' brigade, I see no reason why we should continue to play a team of some of our junior U21s and a few U18s. If it doesn't impinge on the first team needs - let's bloody go for it!

 

[AZ Gull]

Rules have been made stricter, sure enough - and rightly so, IMHO. No reason why we shouldn't use the rules to the limit though. In spite of the 'After you Claude, let's be fwaffly fwaffly sporting' brigade, I see no reason why we should continue to play a team of some of our junior U21s and a few U18s. If it doesn't impinge on the first team needs - let's bloody go for it!

Given that we were drawn at home in the quarter-final, but asked to play it away, has your head exploded?

 

[GT49er]

Given that we were drawn at home in the quarter-final, but asked to play it away, has your head exploded?

No.


You OK?

 

[patchamalbion]

The closest of the three for me and haven’t been to Adam’s park since….2002 maybe.

 

[London Irish]

I was surprised the Reading game was at the Amex, I thought it was just what happened that the U21s always played away. Maybe there was something going on at the Madjet or whatever it’s called these days

 

[ozzygull]

Oh easy to get to for me. Last time I went to one of these games it was away to Bristol City. Blimey that was 2007

BBC SPORT | Football | Bristol City 2-0 Brighton

 

[AZ Gull]

I was surprised the Reading game was at the Amex, I thought it was just what happened that the U21s always played away. Maybe there was something going on at the Madjet or whatever it’s called these days

All the matches played by the U-21 sides in the group phase will be away games, but that doesn't persist into the knockout rounds. Wolves U-21s and Everton U-21s hosted matches in last season's competition, for instance.
On this occasion, it appears that Albion didn't WANT to host the tie, for reasons known only to them.

 

[AZ Gull]

Anyone know attendance tonight?

990