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Maybe because he didn't want to be #2 to Cedric.

If you were picking a central defender Wesley Hoedt wouldn't even be on the bottom of the list.

All squids are damp, they live in the sea. Squibs on the other hand... ☺️

But what's the point of a loan, they will never be good enough.

MLG will be along shortly to tell you it's irrelevant. :-)

They have, but just keep the perspectiive that they are doing very well in the 2nd division of the u23 league, where they are because the management of the academy in the last couple of seasons has been so bad. The players can't help this but they are not being tested against the best.

Hasn't been training, now is back in training and hence concern that problem will reoccur.

Twitter, St Mary's Musings. Its the blister problem still apparently. Hasn't been training.

So now Ings is a doubt as well.

Its not obvious at all, you have 20 outfield players (thats 2 per position) and 3 keepers. It was something that got added a few tournaments ago and is totally pointless, especially when only playing 2 internationals in a week - can sort of understand it in a full 6 or 7 game tournament. Its overkill, how many times does the 3rd keeper get to play. There are so many keepers these days that earn a living in football without ever playing a first class game.

Unlikely, you really don't need 3 goalkeepers for training. i always wonder why teams consider it necessary to have 3 keepers in a squad.

If you actually read what is being said, it actually suggests that there will be an extra 16 teams in the "league" or group stages of the competitions, i.e. an extra 16 teams will be guaranteed a number (probably 6) of home and away fixtures. It looks like this is a way of guaranteeing that the G14 (?) clubs will be guaranteed to be in the top competition regardless of whether they qualify (the whole thing is being pushed by the group of big clubs, not UEFA). It could be that very few additional clubs, perhaps none at all, would qualify for the qualifying rounds. I would be surprised if the end result of all this is any significant expansion of the number of teams that have a route into Europe (via the qualification stages) but simply that 16 teams will be guaranteed a longer run in the competitions. I don't think we should hold our breath that there will be any additional route into Europe.

He "doesn't get near the team" because he was injured for a large part of the tail end of last season. People seem to forget this. Its also why he hadn't played for NornIron for nearly a year. He's going to struggle to break back in now because Hughes has other options (not forgetting Armstrong has been bought quite clearly as his long term replacement).

Except he wasn't done for speeding (and definitely no mention of reckless driving). Someone else was speeding, but they don't know who, might have been his bro or hos cousin.

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FF was in the squad in 2013 though, he was at Celtic but we knew he was coming from our feeder club.

Marcus Barnes

Correct, but as we now only have 2 U23s, the others are on loan, it doesn't make much difference.

Injured, withdrawn from Ireland squad.

Benteke has only scored 3 times in over a season. He doesn't get neutralised, he is just absolute crap at scoring.

You are kidding, right? Why would we want him to coach? We also already have 3 keepers as coaches. Why would a poor keeper make a good coach? We can always just terminate his contract, expensive but at least it would get him away from the place.

So he would play Yoshida then, Maya is taller than Hoedt according to the stats (1.89 v 1.88). Bednarek is also taller than Hoedt (1.89). Hoedt 50% aerial duels won, Yoshida and Stephens both 60%. Any other theories?

To be fair, you just need to be English to be England quality. Not many regular English players in the PL don't get a call-up. But yes, you're right. The FA/PL need to do something about it, not for sake of England but for sake of young players and the future.

So who are the one or two in the last couple of years who have come through and cemented a place in the first team? Stephens, possibly though some will argue (wrongly) that he is not Academy, and also not sure he has cemented a place. Who else? Last one might be JWP, that was about 6 years ago. The Academy is near pointless these days, really wonder why we bother be abuse no one will give them a chance.

Unlikely to loan Rose, no need to loan Barnes, just don't name him in the PL squad (same as Rose). If we can get Forster out we can even name them in the squad.