Ressies V The Nike Academy?

[Yorkshire Saint]

Whats all that about? ..Our Back 5 is strong enough for League 1

 

Bart

 

Frazer

Dicko

Martin

Saville

 

I thought we were supposed to be playing stronger oposition by ditching the reserve league

[Nexstar]

Maybe a chance to eye up some talented youngsters

[trousers]

Dickson must be really chuffed....from League 1 'team of the year' to Saints reserves playing Nike Academy (Who??)

[Yorkshire Saint]

Yeah, thats sort of my point ..... Just noticed one of the Directors a certain Huw Jennings ....

[trousers]

Saints 1-0 up after 11 mins; Ben Reeves.

 

COYS!!!

[a1ex2001]

Nike Academy (Who??)

 

Huw Jennings is involved so I would expect them to be of a decent standard and be well organised and prepared.

[saintjay77]

I dont understand how its billed as the under 21 side but has Wotton in the starting line up! I dont think all the others are 21 or under either?

 

Think as there is no worthwile reserve league available for us to join the Development/Under 21 side will end up playing all sorts of teams. Maybe we are taking a look at 1 or 2 of these Nike boys?

[trousers]

2-0; Reeves 2nd goal

 

And here was me thinking they'd miss Pulis.... ;-)

[Yorkshire Saint]

2-0 14 Mins ? This seems pointless bar for Frazer

[Yorkshire Saint]

3-0 ...we want 10 !

[iansums]

We're gonna walk this league!

 

(if we were playing in one, of course)

[Saint_clark]

4-0 Chamberlain

[trousers]

4-0; Chamberlain

[trousers]

Half Time

 

oh happy days

[SO16_Saint]

think it's a practice match for ref Dermot Gallagher!

[trousers]

6-0

[iansums]

Wotton misses pen! LOL

[trousers]

Wotton misses pen! LOL

Then scores with head from the rebound....anyway, that was 2 goals ago....now 7-0

[Saint_clark]

So far -

Reeves

Reeves

Holder-Spooner

Chamberlain

Wotton

Chamberlain

Holder-Spooner

 

7-0

[Saint Fan CaM]

Err 7-0

[Nexstar]

7-0, maybe the talent I mentioned earlier isn't on show today...!

[SnailOB]

are we playing Nike academy or Nikes accounts department ?

[Saint_clark]

Look forward to seeing the highlights of this one.

[Saint Fan CaM]

I think they're playing Nike under-16 girls team.

[buctootim]

So far -

Reeves

Reeves

Holder-Spooner

Chamberlain

Wotton

Chamberlain

Holder-Spooner

 

7-0

 

Reeves has faded badly

[RonManager]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the Nike Acadamy and where is it based?

[buctootim]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the Nike Acadamy and where is it based?

 

Swooosh

 

 

 

ps Ive no idea but didnt want to miss the opportunity to make a crap joke

[Nexstar]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the Nike Acadamy and where is it based?

 

I think it's just an opportunity for young talent that hasn't yet been picked up by professional clubs. I didn't know it existed, or where it is based mind.

[JRM]

Just looked up Nike Academy on the web, hard to find out much about who plays for them, i notice their physio is ex-footballer Ian Andrews, presume he is the same keeper who played for us as reserve to Tim Flowers around 89-90 season. This game sounds no better than a training ground kick-about.

 

Didn't they say we would play presitge freindlies against other premier league reserve teams, and even European? Hopefully they will give us a bit more notice to book flights for Real Madrid Deveopment XI away.

[Yorkshire Saint]

.....hard to understand why this young talent has not been picked up

[once_bitterne]

The U21s are just the reserves, but playing in friendlies and not the reserve league. I can't really see the point in the name change as non-first team players who are older than 21 such as Bart, Wotton and Holmes still feature regularly in the U21s.

 

I bet it made Wotton smile. Footballs must have still had laces the last time he played in a U21 game.

[Saint_clark]

Nike Academy get one back, boooooo.

[Saint Fan CaM]

7-1 now - Cortese out FFS! (;

[doughnutman]

Where did you guys find about this game and how are you getting the score?

[iansums]

I'm at the game. I also provided the oranges at half-time.

[buctootim]

Where did you guys find about this game and how are you getting the score?

 

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2180690,00.html

[dubai_phil]

I think it's just an opportunity for young talent that hasn't yet been picked up by professional clubs. I didn't know it existed, or where it is based mind.

 

Doesn't that also describe the Glenn Hoddle Academy?

 

Any co-incidence?

[Nexstar]

Doesn't that also describe the Glenn Hoddle Academy?

 

Any co-incidence?

 

I also thought of this, but the GH Academy is made up of players released by professional clubs, whereas I think Nike is as yet unsigned players.

[saintjay77]

So far -

Reeves

Reeves

Holder-Spooner

Chamberlain

Wotton

Chamberlain

Holder-Spooner

 

7-0

 

You would think a team scoring 7 goals would at least include a hat-trick hero........

[Matthew Le God]

Didn't they say we would play presitge freindlies against other premier league reserve teams, and even European?

 

No they didn't.

[JRM]

No they didn't.

 

have you got the news story from when they announced the reserves would be withdrawing from the league and playing friendlies instead?

[Matthew Le God]

have you got the news story from when they announced the reserves would be withdrawing from the league and playing friendlies instead?

 

They didn't release one officially. It was only in other media, which all guessed what was happening, with no quotes from the club.

[JRM]

They didn't release one officially. It was only in other media, which all guessed what was happening, with no quotes from the club.

 

yeah, must have just been the BBC report that i saw - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8711010.stm

[Matthew Le God]

yeah, must have just been the BBC report that i saw - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8711010.stm

 

It is believed

 

This is the key phrase in that report and is basically journalist speak for "I don't have a ****ing clue but will write it anyway".

[Saint Mikey]

Just looked up Nike Academy on the web, hard to find out much about who plays for them, i notice their physio is ex-footballer Ian Andrews, presume he is the same keeper who played for us as reserve to Tim Flowers around 89-90 season. This game sounds no better than a training ground kick-about.

 

Didn't they say we would play presitge freindlies against other premier league reserve teams, and even European? Hopefully they will give us a bit more notice to book flights for Real Madrid Deveopment XI away.

 

Last time I checked, Ian Andrews was physio at Team Bath. Is it something to do with them?

[moon monkey]

It would be nice if they would tell us about these games in advance, it would be good to go down and watch.

[Kingsland Nick]

What is the point of the under 21 team? It would be better to send players on loan to League 2 or the Conference.

[trousers]

What is the point of the under 21 team? It would be better to send players on loan to League 2 or the Conference.

 

I believe the theory is that if they play together at this level rather than being farmed out to different clubs then they will get a better understanding of how eachother plays and it therefore allows them to hit the ground running collectively when it's time to go up to 1st team level.

 

Fits it with Cortese's aim of 50% of the first team being home grown.

 

Pros and cons of both approaches I guess.

[RonManager]

Holmes dead leg.

 

Nike Academy is made up of released EPL players.

 

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2180690,00.html

[VectisSaint]

Just looked up Nike Academy on the web, hard to find out much about who plays for them, i notice their physio is ex-footballer Ian Andrews, presume he is the same keeper who played for us as reserve to Tim Flowers around 89-90 season. This game sounds no better than a training ground kick-about.

http://www.nike.com/nikefootball/academy/about?locale=en_GB

Details of the Nike Academy can be found here (took some finding Google came up with a aite that was crap, but eventually found this link on about the last page). Academy is for unsigned aspiring young players, supported by Nike and Premier League. They played several games last season and now a new intake is on board and hoping to impress. By the way they lost one game 8-1 last season so perhaps 7-1 isn't the walkover we think it is. Some of the players earned pro contracts last term. Profiles of the players involved can be found on the site, and it is all headed up by Huw Jennings. Wouldn't surprise me if Huw hasn't recommended us to look at one or two of the youngsters.