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Everton Youth Teams Thread

Eggs said:
..I always think it’s an advantage for a schoolboy to be born in September. Being a few months older invariably means you are bigger and stronger. If you see one of our academy players born April-August I always think they’ve done well to progress in their age group.
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I was thinking similar the other day about two of our 16 year old centre backs. Ryan Astley has done really well , but so too without the fanfare has Elliot Richards who’s July born and only about 3 months older but the youngest in his year. You would believe that these age differences disappear as they play senior football, but it could mean the difference of being given a contract or not at 18.
 
Timak said:
It is - someone did stats on it this week. Basically 50% higher chance of making it if September born than August born.

Read recently in Ireland that they are arranging groups by BMI rather than age and, as a result, have picked up players they would otherwise have disregarded.

And as an August born person I happily attribute my failure to date of birth rather than skill.

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..cheers, that’s brilliant. I’ve been right all these years. I’m September born and I always thought it a big advantage in schoolboy and youth football.
 
Timak said:
It is - someone did stats on it this week. Basically 50% higher chance of making it if September born than August born.

Read recently in Ireland that they are arranging groups by BMI rather than age and, as a result, have picked up players they would otherwise have disregarded.

And as an August born person I happily attribute my failure to date of birth rather than skill.

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blueloon said:
I was thinking similar the other day about two of our 16 year old centre backs. Ryan Astley has done really well , but so too without the fanfare has Elliot Richards who’s July born and only about 3 months older but the youngest in his year. You would believe that these age differences disappear as they play senior football, but it could mean the difference of being given a contract or not at 18.
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Eggs said:
..cheers, that’s brilliant. I’ve been right all these years. I’m September born and I always thought it a big advantage in schoolboy and youth football.
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It has a similar effect in Education as well. Even more so I would imagine, as they are entering at 4/5, when a year makes a big difference relatively.
 
Man utd u18s extended there lead over us at the top to 9 points, after they just beat wolves u18s 2-0, with 2 injury time goals,we have 2 games in hand though,wolves were down to 10 men for the last 10mins as well.

Man utd 39 points from 18 games
Liverpool 32 points from 16 games
Everton 30 points from 16 games
Man city 26 points from 15 games
 
Where do we actually rate our academy in terms of elite standard output?

I think we churn out a [Poor language removed] load of potential but how many actually have a career at the top level?

I'm hopeful that this is turning a corner though... or could it just be the way English football is going in general? We're certainly not the only ones...
 


LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Have the U23s gone a bit crap of late?
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mightymoyes said:
inconsistent. only to be expected when the team changes every game and is completely different from last years league winning team. to still be in with a small chance of winning league again at this stage is good going.
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Yeah, most of our best u23s are in the first team or on loan, and from what I've read on here it's a pretty young team. Then you have guys like Garbutt, Baxter and Connor who have returned and been in and out.
 
summerisle said:
Presently in injury time.

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It looks like a mainly U17s team we put out. Nathan Baxter started at right back , he came to us in a mini-blaze of glory from Vitesse Arnhem about 18 months ago. I’d forgotten all about him, and this is the first mention in quite a while so either he’s been injured or not as good as we first thought.
Three schoolboys were on the bench. Bobby Carroll has been mentioned here. Josh Hosie is one of the Wales U17s who has signed a Scholarship for July, he’s had a mention here at u16 level before. Mackenzie Hunt scored the goal and is a new name to me. It looks like he came to us from a football Development school in Dubai.
 

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