05-10-2016, 22:09
(05-10-2016, 16:17)Salopbaggie Wrote:(05-10-2016, 11:08)4evaabaggie Wrote: We can't progress, that's true, but I did not expect anything else. We have been playing 16, 17 and 18 year olds against grown men who play regular league football. It is great experience for our academy players but the opposition experience was always likely to prevail. The kids appear to have done pretty well, two two nil defeats away from home against first team players. Not to downhearted.
Not strictly true 4eva our team that played Luton was;
Myhill, Fitzwater ©, Olsson, Donnellan, McCourt, Sweeney, Gardner, Harper, Smith, Tulloch, McManaman.
and we had Morrison on the bench.
Though most of the team was U23
I am not sure you should get too carried away by your "youngsters", Luton made 11 changes from their last league game and fielded a team with 8 players under the age of 21. Their manager Nathan Jones has stated that he will personally pay the fine the team may get for not abiding by the rules of fielding a required number of first team players.