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Everton Youth Teams Thread

Nymzee said:
We can have the best kid in the country and still not make the final. It's football.

Are Coventry and Man United the best teams in the country? (Last season's FA Cup final)
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….no idea, Nymz, just saying FA Youth Cup finalists tend have one or two that turn out to be very good players. Some achievement for Coventry, I bet the scouts are looking at them closely.
 
blueloon said:
That interview covered so much , yet it seems to have passed almost unnoticed re discussion in this thread. There are so many things in there, you’ve mentioned the “ people will be judged on their behaviours and how they develop players , not results “ , there’s the structure of how they will play etc. One point I wasn’t aware of was “ a return to the full time training model that the club moved away from a couple of years ago “ . I’m not clear exactly how the current “ hybrid model” works but apparently we are not permitted to recruit nationally from the age of 14 like PL rivals who run full time programmes. It’s an area they’re looking to address, presumably the old model was the one that allowed us to move kids a certain distance and put them in a local school.
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That was the really worrying bit for me. That's not the behaviour of a Cat 1 academy and something I can only presume came from extreme costcutting measures.
 
Nymzee said:
Aye the part time thing confused me too. I think it's just because the interview was behind a paywall so maybe not everyone read it. Had a lot of waffle in it but also a few good tidbits.
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Yep to the waffle, the good bits were good but a cynical me might think someone suggested “ let’s get a friendly reporter in to showcase what we’re doing to TFG so we can show what all our jobs are.” 😉
 

Eggs said:
….no but historically some top players were in FA Youth Cup final teams. Times might have changed with the influx of foreign youngsters and the dominance of a few clubs.

If Everton get to the latter stages, I’d be very encouraged we have a decent one (or two).
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We might have a couple in this years competition Eggs, the first round for Everton kids is next week v Notts Forest I hope it’s at Goodison and I can have a good look at these lads, Graham, Clarke and a few more, playing in front of a big crowd and ground can tell you a lot about some kids as well although these days the crowds are not very good in the early rounds.
 
Cameron Manning said:
We might have a couple in this years competition Eggs, the first round for Everton kids is next week v Notts Forest I hope it’s at Goodison and I can have a good look at these lads, Graham, Clarke and a few more, playing in front of a big crowd and ground can tell you a lot about some kids as well although these days the crowds are not very good in the early rounds.
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….spot on. When we’ve won it or got to a final we’ve usually had a very decent player or two. I think back to Husband and Hurst in ‘65 but I was an avid watcher of that Osman, Hibbert team and we also had the likes of Jeffers, Cadamarteri, Dunne, Rooney et al.

Graham and Clarke look the part, it’ll be great if they join that list.
 


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