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Swindon v Yeovil Youth starting at 7 at the County Ground tonight ..anyone going ? Winner plays home to Burnley in Round 5

nah not if your going to be there Fatters  :wink:

didnt say I was going

I didn't say I was going either, but it doesn't mean I'm not!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


I'm not going by the way.

I have an exam in the morning, so no.

I still don't have a car.

So no.

Lame quote by the way  :-))(

how much is it to get in?

thats a bloody good question ... just checked £3 for adults and £1 for concession

hmmm maybe i'll go... but probably not.

Meet in the merlin at 4pm?

tempted...

I'll be there. Might be the last time we see Jutkiewicz  :cry:

to be honest gaz I dont think hes quite enough of the finished product for a bigger league team to come in for him.....just yet.

He wont get exposure to first team games at a higher leauge club and it will do him good to get more games under his belt, if he does go it wont be till the end of the season for me.

Where as I agree, Its a shame as many "bigger clubs" will see his potential and if he scores again tonight it will alert biggers teams, The adver claims scouts from spurs, chelski and ManUre were at the game against Swansea....

Okay!

And you believe everything the Adver say.  :roll:

No just saying, end of the day Jutkiewicz hasnt started even though he was scoring. Maybe it was because he is knackered but?

I wanted to go... but I have to stay at home and apply for a mortgage instead  :cry:

Town 1-0 up after 5 mins......Alex Rigley the scorer, no idea who he is.

Jukebox starts to

2-0 now Chris Allen from 25 yards

how are you getting these updates?

hhhmmmmmm sounds interesting, come on town

radio swindon, and the official site

3-0 and it included a Chris Allen "wonder strike"

Hands off Premiership scouts!

Rigley with the third goal..........3-0


scorers:
Rigley x 2
Allen

Half time:  Swindon 3   Yeovil 0

Come on the Yoof!

Anybody actually know much about this lot? Other than Jutkiewicz, who else are we likely to see in the first team before long? Chris Allen's name seems to pop up now and again, as well as Rigley - any details on them? Seem to remember past youth teams, especially the Campagna/Culbertson/McAreavey one getting loads more press than this one - fat lot of use it did them mind...

Scott Doe is a central defender and was signed with Theo Walcott wasn't he and at one stage considered to have more potential than Walcott.

Jon Stewart is a big lump in goal but doesn't inspire me with confidence.

Mustaffa Carayol I think could be a useful player, other than that I don't really know much about the rest.

I've got the highlights of the QPR game on my PC and it's not protected content like stfc world but wouldn't have a clue how to put it up on here

I've heard Scott Doe's someone who could maybe break into the first team in the future.

No sign of Carayol tonight - i remember we (or rather Tuttle/Lee) got him from Woking in the summer

Always a bit wary of talking up the kids - remember when Alan Young and a centre back (name escapes me) went up to Celtic on trial - then they made little or no impact on the first team.

We seem to have very successful youth teams but the 'conversion rate' to pro seems to be low in comparison.

QPR highlights...put them on youtube and link it?

4-0 up now

Another one was Chris Taylor, he was considered a hot prospect making his debut at 16 but disappeared off the scene very quickly

4-0 now, jake hyde with the 4th

I'll try the youtube thing then

didnt young and holcroft/hulbert go up to newcastle for a trail around the same time?

Taylor looked class when he came in - but then when you get man of the match 2 games from 3 and are plastered all over the local rag the next day at 16, you probably think you're the boy about town, rather than knuckle down (or he did...)

scored for basingstoke at the weekend

No, Hulbert preceded Young by at least 2 or 3 years. Holcroft was a kid we picked up from Everton - and never really did anything. Hulbert did go on trial to Newcastle but nothing came of it - wonder if he'd have kicked on with us if we didn't have to sell him because of that bloody clause.

At one point Hulbert was rumoured to have been subject to a £250k bid from Villa?

Of all our young players Mildy and Sol Davis have really been the only ones to make a good career for themselves, off the top of my head in recent years.  Its a miracle that Hulbert dragged his career out, he was so ineffective and lightweight IIRC.

Leigh Mills is another one, often captains Spurs reserves now and has represented England at every level upto under 18's.....we made a right mess of that transfer deal.

Matthew Mills his brother is at Southampton now I think and is another hot prospect

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10699

hulbert is still playing at port vale

Matthew Mills is at man city now isnt he?

Nope, went to Man City for £1.2million during the summer. Regularly on the bench.

That is correct.

Does Hulbert count as he joined us from Everton?

yeah think your right actually, went for a fair amount of money as well if I remember correctly

Wasn't Matt Collins at Swindon as well?

Went to Fulham as a record fee for a 15yr old or something like that IIRC.

i remember watching fraser mchugh trying to break into theteam, he certainly put effort in. even made a bit of acome back at bradford and then notts county a few years later didnt he?

yep Collins was, what happened to his brother Chris, didn't he go somewhere as well?

Not playing according to Soccerbase.

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=32615

Full-Time: Great result for the kids and well done to the staff too.

£3 isn't exactly going to affect your mortgage. I thought you earn a packet?

Hulbert, sort of...because he was released from ther youth team and we grabbed him and he played in ours prior to senior football - so it was youth scouting.

Matthew Collins was another who went off to Fulham for a six-figure sum - and has since done bugger all. (so I suppose we did quite well out of it)That's an example we have to use to kids who want to leave now.

But it seems that as a rule, we get a load of kids through who leave if they're cut out for it, and stay if they're not. Pook gets a hard time on here, but does show flashes of decency.

No, you misunderstood. I had my adviser round to complete the application and everything. Signed my life away about an hour ago.

I wouldn't say I earn a packet, just enough to get by and have a bit of fun every month. Nothing on the scale of what some people on here earn. Although hopefully I'm going to do my full CEMAP this year so I can do Macca out of a job  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdj2antY2Jg


try that link for the QPR highlights I think....still processing at the moment  :roll:

It's sad really because all these kids want to do is play football but they don't receive the most sensible advice from their parents et al.

Of course, a kid will want to play for a Premiership academy but as Dave Byrne mentions in his article the odds are they'll have more chance breaking into the STFC first team.

I dont think its true.

Premiership youngsters go out on loan if they are good enough so have as much chance of first team football even if its not their actual club,plus they get developed by better class coaches.

The flip side is that they'll receive better coaching (debatably) at bigger clubs and therefore be a better player when it comes around to senior level - if they get released, they getreleased, but can get picked up then by a lower league club.

youth cup highlights work now lads

How'd you get hold of them? Will you have tonights?

They were on STFC world a while back, if they do the same for tonights game I'll put them up to

Looking at them again though, they might have been done by QPR so not sure whether we'll do our own for tonight

4-0 good result and good performance.

First 20 minutes was total football, we scored twice and hit the bar twice. It was a joy to watch.

Calmed down a bit after that, but some good football....

no idea who scored...ran out of team sheets before I got there.

Alex Rigley twice, Allen with a long range and Hyde I think.

Those highlights are funny as - not least because that bloke shouldn't have been sent off, but more that his reaction, and that of their bloke who missed the decisive pen was the same....whip your shirt off to show your 'ard. Tossers.

QPR did us good and proper by the look of them too!

FYI Leigh and Matthew Mills aren't related.

We did have Jamie Mills here at one point, older brother of Matthew.

Isn't Jamie the JP Mills that plays at Supermarine?

I just saw the goals on ITV, some good strikes - Allen's and Hyde's were excellent.

No, JP is older than Matt, but younger than Jamie. They all have another brother who is on Southamptons books... bit of a footballing family!

I once knew a family with a couple of kids in Football Academy's - Both the parents and kids were completely arrogant. Both of those kids are now playing Western League football now... They're no longer so smug.

That is all.

Date set for the next round :)
http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~966342,00.html

Should be a decent turnout for that one. A few more scouts too...

The mills family all went to my old school. There was one in the year below me who I think is with Southampton.