duncan's pigeon
Player Valuation: £950k
Yeah in "Scholar years" ( 1st Sept birth date) they are in the same one as Brewster, Broadhead, Yarney , Yates plus Walsh , Connolly and Holland. It mixes up at International level ( 1st Jan D.O. B.) e.g. Davies u 18, Connolly u19.
The pleasing thing is the young age of the team. Of last nights starting 11 only the four mentioned above ( Brewster, Broadhead, Yarney , Yates ) wont be eligible for the u 18 s next year and the impressive Denny is 15 and still to even become a Scholar. The likes of Evans, Lavery , Feeney and Bramall are also still eligible next season , plus a new intake of Scholars and its looking good for us to continue building on our crop of good U18 teams.
It all needs to be put into perspective of course, hard to tell just how young or good the other teams were and for some last night may have been the pinnacle of their career, but I'm still buzzing just happy that we were the best ! And when Martinez made his "Golden Generation" comment not one of last night's player were in my 7 or 8 I thought he meant.
Jeez forgot about Liam Walsh in the same age group and Evans.
Agree on the Martinez golden generation comments, the only lads I'd heard about from that team were Brewster and Yates and there were plenty ahead them in the thought process as to who he meant.
Always interested in the development right back to likes of ossie, bally, Dunne ando Jeffers and a even further back with Rob Wakenshaw, Paul Lodge etc.
This lot seem an abundant talent pool, let's hope we get a fair few of them into the professional game!!