Millwall next

Quoted from GrimPol

Lets hope the team can play at BP again.

Was told it’s a requirement of the competition that games are played at the club’s stadium not the training grounds

Quoted from acko338

Good luck in their cup progress !

I hope that over the next couple of years, the Academy set up can find and develop more "of our own" players with good scouting, better conditions with any new training facilities ongoing for all player levels.

Combine Artell's previous Crewe experience with Woods current work, and hopefully there could be parental and young player trust to send them here to get a fair chance to make a career at our level, instead of obscurity in higher levels who are just scooping up everyone, regardless of cost, to be cast out whenever convenient !.

The man we need to keep hold of is Callum Lester.. Artell n 1878 really need to keep him on board n give him some career progression

Quoted from Les Brechin

Maybe not! Their tie says Reading or Rotherham United or Hemel Hempstead Town so they've probably only got to the round 2 rounds before the one we've just won.

its Hemel Hempstead mate, what tier are they in again, yet have a youth team doing better than some.

Should be a decent crowd for this game I hope.

Quoted from forza ivano

The man we need to keep hold of is Callum Lester.. Artell n 1878 really need to keep him on board n give him some career progression

Callum is a great guy, very family orientated and very settled in the area. I expect he'll take the role of Woodsy or a role in the first team in the future.

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Callum is a great guy, very family orientated and very settled in the area. I expect he'll take the role of Woodsy or a role in the first team in the future.

I hope you're right

Quoted from forza ivano

The man we need to keep hold of is Callum Lester.. Artell n 1878 really need to keep him on board n give him some career progression

I took a role coaching the Academy some years ago and was assigned to work with Callum in the U9s. I ended up being there for 2 weeks at the threat of divorce (I had three football teams on the go taking up every evening and all weekend.... something had to give and at the time it was the sensible option to give up, with hindsight I should have binned the others off), but in those two weeks I possibly learned more from Callum than I had in the previous 5/6/7 years I'd been coaching. Very detailed, very good communicator, sets himself high standards and expects those around him to meet them and a very knowledgeable and competent coach too. Despite it only being two weeks and not really having a deep and personal conversation during that time it hasn't surprised me how he has progressed through, it was immediately apparent that he has a future in the game.

Quoted from Meza

its Hemel Hempstead mate, what tier are they in again, yet have a youth team doing better than some.

Same as Slough, National Lge South.

Quoted from Poojah

Thanks Bedders. Appreciate that.

We played Millwall U18s pre season on tour in Italy.
We lost 2-1 but didn’t have Abo or Cribby then as hadn’t signed and also Cam Gardner, Cam Walsh wasn’t fit to play.  All four of those are in starting 11 if fit and an integral part of youth team this season.

The U18s won there Youth Alliance Cup group today beating Wrexham in 2nd 5-1. Only the winners of the 5 northern groups progress to the quarter final where all the regions combine.
Great season so far 2nd in the league 4th round of FA Youth Cup which I’m told is the furthest Grimsby have been, should they progress it will be the furthest a Grimsby team have been in the prestigous cup. Quarter Finals of the Youth Alliance Cup.

I think that’s 15 unbeaten today.