Everton Youth Teams Thread

[Zatara]

That P.T Gordon is with has bagged himself a few more players too out of it.

Any of ours?

 

[Ring master]

Everton u23s v southport

Tyrer, John, Ouzounidis, Astley, Anderson, Hunt, Iversen, Onyango, Hughes, Dobbin, Simms
Subs: Quirk, Hansen, Cannon, McAllister, Small, Higgins, Kouyate

 

[catcherintherye]

Everton u23s v southport

Tyrer, John, Ouzounidis, Astley, Anderson, Hunt, Iversen, Onyango, Hughes, Dobbin, Simms
Subs: Quirk, Hansen, Cannon, McAllister, Small, Higgins, Kouyate

Really interesting to see McAllister, Small, Higgins and Kouyate involved as 1st year scholars. Also 2 under 18s in the starting 11. Seems a marked shift from recent years. Perhaps the Brands influence?

 

[Ring master]

Dobbin has gone close early on

 

[Tin-Tin]

Any of ours?

Nope not yet, hope he does soon though

 

[mightymoyes]

Really interesting to see McAllister, Small, Higgins and Kouyate involved as 1st year scholars. Also 2 under 18s in the starting 11. Seems a marked shift from recent years. Perhaps the Brands influence?

Mcallister and Higgins 2nd years

 

[Ring master]

1-0 Everton on 31mins

Ellis Simms makes no mistake as he's played through one-on-one and sidefoots the ball around Hanford.
hes gone close 2 other times as well

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Everton u18s play Man city u18s in a friendly next saturday as well

 

[Tin-Tin]

Really interesting to see McAllister, Small, Higgins and Kouyate involved as 1st year scholars. Also 2 under 18s in the starting 11. Seems a marked shift from recent years. Perhaps the Brands influence?

Rightly so. Nice winning the U23's and all that but its pointless if they are all 22-24 and never going to make it. May as well try and introduce the younger players to a higher level earlier - if we end up coming 11th or whatever who cares, as long as players come through.

 

[mightymoyes]

Rightly so. Nice winning the U23's and all that but its pointless if they are all 22-24 and never going to make it. May as well try and introduce the younger players to a higher level earlier - if we end up coming 11th or whatever who cares, as long as players come through.

We won it with a young team 4 years ago so you can do both

 

[Ring master]

Its 1-0 at HT,sounds like Everton could have had a few more than this 1

 

[blueloon]

Everton u23s v southport

Tyrer, John, Ouzounidis, Astley, Anderson, Hunt, Iversen, Onyango, Hughes, Dobbin, Simms
Subs: Quirk, Hansen, Cannon, McAllister, Small, Higgins, Kouyate

Not far off our expected “ best team “ with Branthwaite and Nkounkou to be added , as it seems Beni is going on loan , maybe Adeniran too. It’s interesting that Small is the only out and out defender, though Higgins can play right back. It’s quite a leap for Small , he’s obviously caught someone’s eye in training , but early days yet to make too many assumptions.

 

[blueloon]

Rightly so. Nice winning the U23's and all that but its pointless if they are all 22-24 and never going to make it. May as well try and introduce the younger players to a higher level earlier - if we end up coming 11th or whatever who cares, as long as players come through.

This last season, before lockdown we had both our youngest u18 and youngest U23s teams for some years . A combination of Brands watching u16/u18/U23s has been the driver together with potentially our most talented youngsters for years. I’d say the average age of that starting 11 is about 18 1/2 years, with the bench average 17 years . Theyll likely take a few beatings at U23s level but I can live with that if they’re coming through young.

 

[Ring master]

Watching the Game

 

[Zatara]

Not far off our expected “ best team “ with Branthwaite and Nkounkou to be added , as it seems Beni is going on loan , maybe Adeniran too. It’s interesting that Small is the only out and out defender, though Higgins can play right back. It’s quite a leap for Small , he’s obviously caught someone’s eye in training , but early days yet to make too many assumptions.

Perhaps were seeing if small can slot into u23s so Nkounkou can come straight into the first team squad. Then we dont need to replace baines

 

[Tin-Tin]

We won it with a young team 4 years ago so you can do both

Agree, that would be fantastic. But given a choice i'd rather finish mid table playing the youngesters than finish top with 22-23 year olds who are never going to make it here.

This last season, before lockdown we had both our youngest u18 and youngest U23s teams for some years . A combination of Brands watching u16/u18/U23s has been the driver together with potentially our most talented youngsters for years. I’d say the average age of that starting 11 is about 18 1/2 years, with the bench average 17 years . Theyll likely take a few beatings at U23s level but I can live with that if they’re coming through young.

Exactly. Maybe Brands thought the same, get the older players gone or out on loan and bring through some of the better kids. They may take a few beatings but the experience and step up in quality should see them develop more than playing U18's.