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Southend Utd v Brighton & Hove Albion U23s Roots Hall Checkatrade Trophy 30th Aug 19.45 ko
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AZ Gull
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Eh? Southend didn't play "a lot of youngsters".
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- Jan 31, 2008
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Apologies. I was listening to those Southend commentators rabbiting on about how well all their youngsters played and how tthey would have benefited by the experience. Appears they could have only been speaking about Goalie Smith 20 and Kyprianou 19. Teach me to jump to conclusions
mona
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Impressed by Will Collar who got through a lot of work in midfield.
What about Ward?
saafend_seagull
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Apologies. I was listening to those Southend commentators rabbiting on about how well all their youngsters played and how tthey would have benefited by the experience. Appears they could have only been speaking about Goalie Smith 20 and Kyprianou 19. Teach me to jump to conclusions
Since when has a lot been two? It was 80 percent of Southends first 11. Not a bad result probably means our u21s are a bottom half league 2 side.
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albionalbino
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Did he shoot or score?
Taybha
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Pretty much agree with that and with a target man we would be a hell of a lot better , we played some nice stuff and had 2 clear cut chances to score , i love the outrageous flicks and attempted passes that i could only dream of , that the youngsters were trying , the most important thing about last night was game time for Goldson and Uwe and from what i witnessed they both came through ok though Connor came off early .
Results
http://www.skysports.com/football/competitions/checkatrade-trophy/results
U23 teams did not do very well, apart from Norwich
http://www.skysports.com/football/competitions/checkatrade-trophy/results
U23 teams did not do very well, apart from Norwich
Strange analysis, there were twelve U23 teams competing.
4 outright winners (Leicester U23 0-0 then winner on pens) ( Everton U23 win 2-0 ) ( Norwich U23 win 6-1 ) ( Reading U23 win 3-2 )
8 losers (Southampton U23 0-0 then lost on pens) ( 3 games lost 1-0 ) ( 2 games lost 2-0 ) ( 1 game 4-2 loss ) ( 1 game 3-0 )
Nothing to suggest it wasn't competitive every single game, although I would think that it was a particularly nice development environment for many hardened lower league players to play within, similarly an insight for many young U23 players too.
So THREE 'outright winners' then. A 'win' on penalties in this competition is NOT a win.
I'd say three winners from eleven, backs up the statement that they 'didn't do very well', tbh.
Any u23 win is a good result. So you can include Everton and Reading.
If there were results like 4, 5 and 6-0's then maybe, but clearly there isnt, take a look at the results.
Bit like saying saying teams beginning with the letter 'S' didnt do very well, there isnt anything in-particular that makes it a damning night for U23 teams.
Sure. I'm not damning anyone. But loony Perseus' assertion that they 'didn't do very well', when only 3 of 12 (not 11, my mistake) actually won, is hardly damning, either. They didn't.
Seaford by the sea
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weren't most u23 teams playing away? As the rules stipulate. Would the win % be roughly in line with the norm?
I've seen a lot of dev squad games and the tempo of that game and the pace/power/high balls they had to deal with was nothing like an Dev squad league game. Tremendous experience for them and a great example of the levels they need to reach if they want to cut it in the football league.
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The point must be an overview of the legitimacy of having the U23 competing in the competition, it is clear most lost but not all did and nothing to suggest they are not qualified to compete.