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It was a similarly youthful Bournemouth XI and they drew 2-2.
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It was a similarly youthful Bournemouth XI and they drew 2-2.
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Guy Butters believes that all teams should follow Brighton & Hove Albion's ethos on football.
Butters, now Winchester City's manager and Brighton's community officer, has legend status on the South Coast and after watching his current side play out a 1-1 draw with the Seagulls, he felt that many of the youngsters on display could easily push for the first team.
He said, "Brighton have the right attitude on football. They use the ball very well, the team there don't worry too much about results as they concentrate on playing football the right way."
"All of those players there today could easily slot into the first team, and at Brighton they get every team through all levels to play this way. It's a very good thing."
Brighton's development squad, consisting of youngsters and trialists, took an early lead through the impressive Leon Redwood, when he slotted in George Barker's centre.
Winchester equalised just before the break through Tom Dunford after he exchanged passes with Dan Reeve down the right.
Butters was again pleased with his side's effort and resilience after fighting back from a goal down.
He said, "It was a good game, I knew that they would be better than Bournemouth [last Thursday] and that's why we played five in midfield to accommodate their movement.
"We took ten minutes or so to adjust to the system; but after they scored, we became much better and made our impact on the game."
After Redwood's fifth minute strike, City regrouped well and could have equalised a few minutes later but Dunford's shot flew narrowly over.
New capture Chris Mason lifted the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper Daniel East but the ball bounced off the post for Jamie Strong to clear. East, making his debut for the Seagulls after signing from Wolves last week, required stitches and was promptly substituted.
His replacement, Mitch Walker, was immediately called into action, having to save high to his left from Dunford's 25 yard free kick.
Dunford, troubling Albion all afternoon, slotted home after exchanging passes with the advancing Reeve to bring the score level. He buried the ball in the bottom left hand corner.
Alex Przespolewski, playing as the spare man in midfield, combined well with Lindsey but the striker was foiled at the feet of 'keeper Walker to stop Winchester going ahead.
The second half saw a flurry of substitutions and even an old-timer got a run out. Paul Watson, an ex-Brighton player, made a cameo appearance replacing Strong at right back.
Brighton's assistant physiotherapist almost gifted Daryl Phillips an opening when a weak header back to Walker was capitalised on. The striker was unable to convert as Walker rushed out to push the ball away for a corner.
Brighton had chances to win it late on but George Barker failed to convert Redwood's knock down before Redwood's mazy run ended up with him shooting straight at Ryan Gosney as the game ended in a draw.
City: Anderson (Gosney); Reeve (Adeniji), Embree (Hayes), McCarthy, Mills; Dunford (Parke), Mason (Kabir), Smeeton (Easton), Screen (Allen), Przespolewski; Lindsey (Phillips).
Seagulls: East (Walker); Strong (Watson), Sherriff, Branco, Sampayo (Vickers); Simmonds, Rodgers, Hayward, Redwood; Barker, Cummings-Bart (Balazs).
Butters, now Winchester City's manager and Brighton's community officer, has legend status on the South Coast and after watching his current side play out a 1-1 draw with the Seagulls, he felt that many of the youngsters on display could easily push for the first team.
He said, "Brighton have the right attitude on football. They use the ball very well, the team there don't worry too much about results as they concentrate on playing football the right way."
"All of those players there today could easily slot into the first team, and at Brighton they get every team through all levels to play this way. It's a very good thing."
Brighton's development squad, consisting of youngsters and trialists, took an early lead through the impressive Leon Redwood, when he slotted in George Barker's centre.
Winchester equalised just before the break through Tom Dunford after he exchanged passes with Dan Reeve down the right.
Butters was again pleased with his side's effort and resilience after fighting back from a goal down.
He said, "It was a good game, I knew that they would be better than Bournemouth [last Thursday] and that's why we played five in midfield to accommodate their movement.
"We took ten minutes or so to adjust to the system; but after they scored, we became much better and made our impact on the game."
After Redwood's fifth minute strike, City regrouped well and could have equalised a few minutes later but Dunford's shot flew narrowly over.
New capture Chris Mason lifted the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper Daniel East but the ball bounced off the post for Jamie Strong to clear. East, making his debut for the Seagulls after signing from Wolves last week, required stitches and was promptly substituted.
His replacement, Mitch Walker, was immediately called into action, having to save high to his left from Dunford's 25 yard free kick.
Dunford, troubling Albion all afternoon, slotted home after exchanging passes with the advancing Reeve to bring the score level. He buried the ball in the bottom left hand corner.
Alex Przespolewski, playing as the spare man in midfield, combined well with Lindsey but the striker was foiled at the feet of 'keeper Walker to stop Winchester going ahead.
The second half saw a flurry of substitutions and even an old-timer got a run out. Paul Watson, an ex-Brighton player, made a cameo appearance replacing Strong at right back.
Brighton's assistant physiotherapist almost gifted Daryl Phillips an opening when a weak header back to Walker was capitalised on. The striker was unable to convert as Walker rushed out to push the ball away for a corner.
Brighton had chances to win it late on but George Barker failed to convert Redwood's knock down before Redwood's mazy run ended up with him shooting straight at Ryan Gosney as the game ended in a draw.
City: Anderson (Gosney); Reeve (Adeniji), Embree (Hayes), McCarthy, Mills; Dunford (Parke), Mason (Kabir), Smeeton (Easton), Screen (Allen), Przespolewski; Lindsey (Phillips).
Seagulls: East (Walker); Strong (Watson), Sherriff, Branco, Sampayo (Vickers); Simmonds, Rodgers, Hayward, Redwood; Barker, Cummings-Bart (Balazs).
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I've no idea what those letters mean. Can't be Roman numerals, so something Latin perhaps, like SPQR?