Absolutely zero idea who any of this lot are but they'll still probably manage to have about 70% possession:



Fun fact: one of the lads who started for them in the trophy when we beat them on penalties last season was sold this summer to Ajax for £17m (ffs!)

Heskey...????   Son of, or relative ?

Have to say I'm really excited for this one - there will be few better chances than this to witness some of the future stars of the Saudi Premier League grace the hallowed Blundell Park turf.

That said, 58-year old Murray Jones in goal for City once again makes a mockery of this competition.

Murray - Jones must be getting on a bit surely not an u21

You beat me to it Poojah

Heskeys son.

Decent start. Both teams keeping the ball down playing some good stuff

1-0 down  :(

intercourse me what a excrement show

Hunt  and Michee gives a goal away.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Absolutely zero idea who any of this lot are but they'll still probably manage to have about 70% possession:

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Fun fact: one of the lads who started for them in the trophy when we beat them on penalties last season was sold this summer to Ajax for £17m (ffs!)

So do all of these Man City players play for York City? Junior team?

Hopeless defending, 1-0 down

Great assist Mr Effete.
:) :) :) :) :)

That’s why Hunt and Efete aren’t starting.

Doh! Your City - apologies

Quoted from 123614

Hunt gives a goal away.

You're somewhat underplaying the roles Efete and Cartwright played in that goal there. None of the three of them came out of that well.

Quoted from acko338

Heskey...????   Son of, or relative ?

Son

In other family news, Max Alleyne is the son of former Gloucestershire cricketing legend, Mark Alleyne.

Quoted from 123614

Hunt  and Michee gives a goal away.

Crap back pass by Efete.

excrement goal to conceded. excrement competition anyway so move on and keep playing as we did first 10 minutes.

Scabs

Cartwright really isn't very good

2-0 down, easypeesy.

Jesus, who was it that scouted Cartwright?

Efete leaving the winger unmarked again.

Man City are an absolute pleasure to watch, teaching us a thing or two about playing football here

Firewood. Couldn't beat an egg!

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Think Hurst has told the players who his first 11 are…….

I had not realised the gulf between our first 11 and this lot.
I’ll leave RH to others and go watch Salford v Leeds on sky

Can I go in goal next cup game?
I assume it is someone from on here in goal?

All joking aside that is poor goalkeeping, I'd like to see another angel of it. It looked to me that it was going wide and he hit it towards the goal.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Think Hurst has told the players who his first 11 are…….

think the players are showing Hurst what his first XI are.....


red card for city centre half

City down to 10 men

Bit embarrassing Town not putting up a fight against kids

That was a lovely ball from Khouri to Pyke which led to the missed tackle and red card

Quoted from Garth

Bit embarrassing Town not putting up a fight against kids

Hardly just kids.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Think Hurst has told the players who his first 11 are…….

Some of these playing tonight would probably struggle to get in our 3rd XI, and it could be the 'last chance saloon' as to whether any of them are farmed out by the end of the window.

Quoted from Garth

Bit embarrassing Town not putting up a fight against kids

These are not the local scout troop these are the under 21 side of one of the most richest clubs in the world. A club that attracts players we can only dream of. Plus they’re not kids they are highly talented young men and therefore to call us an embarrassment is at best an unnecessary knee jerk reaction at worst completely unrealistic.

Quoted from GrimExile

These are not the local scout troop these are the under 21 side of one of the most richest clubs in the world. A club that attracts players we can only dream of. Plus they’re not kids they are highly talented young men and therefore to call us an embarrassment is at best an unnecessary knee jerk reaction at worst completely unrealistic.

But it does emphasise the point that the competition is a bastardised version of what used to be a decent competition…

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Son

In other family news, Max Alleyne is the son of former Gloucestershire cricketing legend, Mark Alleyne.

'legend' doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

I wonder that if Hurst is suitably impressed by any of their players tonight that he puts a sneaky loan bid in for one or more of their players.

Quoted from GrimExile

These are not the local scout troop these are the under 21 side of one of the most richest clubs in the world. A club that attracts players we can only dream of. Plus they’re not kids they are highly talented young men and therefore to call us an embarrassment is at best an unnecessary knee jerk reaction at worst completely unrealistic.

Absolutely so, City have won their Academy U18’s and U21’s for 3 consecutive seasons.

The co-commentator seems a decent and knowledgeable chap, who is he btw?

Can see exactly why Cartwright glennon vernam hunt khouri efete Pyke not in the first 11 🤦🏻‍♂️

Quoted from Garth

Bit embarrassing Town not putting up a fight against kids

That’s a ridiculous statement. For a start, most of these ‘kids’ will be on substantially more money than our squad. They are the cream of the crop - it’s what foreign money gets you.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Absolutely so, City have won their Academy U18’s and U21’s for 3 consecutive seasons.

The co-commentator seems a decent and knowledgeable chap, who is he btw?

Former Grimsby Town assistant & caretaker manager Stuart Watkiss

Harvey Cartwright looks way way off the standard

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Absolutely so, City have won their Academy U18’s and U21’s for 3 consecutive seasons.

The co-commentator seems a decent and knowledgeable chap, who is he btw?

I believe it's Stuart Watkiss

How much longer are we going to persist with a formation which is invariably leading to the lone striker completely isolated, and with hardly an attack worthy of the name?

ok terrible ball by hunt but the backpass by michee wow then mullarkey ball watched while their man ran passed him, as for the 2nd i think keeper needs to stop that

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

How much longer are we going to persist with a formation which is invariably leading to the lone striker completely isolated, and with hardly an attack worthy of the name?

For as long as we only name one striker in the whole match day squad hopefully. 🤞

Quoted from Mendonca1995

Can see exactly why Cartwright glennon vernam hunt khouri efete Pyke not in the first 11 🤦🏻‍♂️

much as it hurts me to say it ,I can't disagree (apart from Glennon, who I think has done alright)

NB Glennon seems to have done quite well, once again against better quality opposition)

ps Can't imagine Hurst was impressed by Andrews just then. Got tackled, player went on the attack and Andrews just jogged all the way back

I think Khouri has done ok. Efete going forward as usual is good but not defensively. Hunt has done some decent first time forward passes but that's it.

Vernam has been taken off at half time. Is that tactical or was he really bad again?

Quoted from mariner91

Vernam has been taken off at half time. Is that tactical or was he really bad again?

He didn't make any major mistakes or anything and certainly wasn't one of town's worst performers in that half, but he didn't really have any impact on the game either. Hard to say if it was due to injury or tactical.

Quoted from lukeo

I think Khouri has done ok. Efete going forward as usual is good but not defensively. Hunt has done some decent first time forward passes but that's it.

Khouri seems to be playing almost as a second striker, which is baffling really.

Our squad is nowhere near as good as thought it would be on this showing.
Only the new bloke looking to push for the first 11

Quoted from mariner91

Vernam has been taken off at half time. Is that tactical or was he really bad again?

I didn't realize he was playing.

Quoted from Garth

Bit embarrassing Town not putting up a fight against kids

Sweet jesus they are elite youngsters against a set of division 4 players .

Heard it all on here this week

Shocking lazy tackle attempt from Maher there and then Efete completely asleep to the man running in behind him. Very lucky to still just be 2-0 down.

Efete has been really poor.

Very fortunate that he didn’t put us 3 down by randomly leaving the ball 8 yards from goal

the passing has generally been shiite - that ball from Maher summed it up.
Really disappointing, loads of possession but doing nothing with it.

Can’t read anything into friendlies…

Quoted from Mappers

Sweet jesus they are elite youngsters against a set of division 4 players .

Heard it all on here this week

11 men vs 10 kids

please have a shot on target

Quoted from BenBB

11 men vs 10 kids

Hopefully the ref sends another off to give us a chance

Quoted from Mappers

Sweet jesus they are elite youngsters against a set of division 4 players .

Heard it all on here this week

Not saying we should be winning but MK Dons have just thrashed Chelsea U21s 4-1.

Quoted from forza ivano

the passing has generally been shiite - that ball from Maher summed it up.
Really disappointing, loads of possession but doing nothing with it.

Not much changes

Toothless in the final third. Pyke completely anonymous.

Quoted from Mappers

Sweet jesus they are elite youngsters against a set of division 4 players .

Heard it all on here this week

I know what you mean but last season we beat man City u21s with a side that wasn't our first 11. I believe simmonds, a player sent back as not good enough for our squad, scored against them. Did the City u21s progress in the tournament, I genuinely don't know.

They are no doubt a very talented set of young players but they are hardly invincible and certainly not with 10 men they aren't.

Quoted from davmariner

Toothless in the final third. Pyke completely anonymous.

That’s because he can’t tell them his name…

Quoted from davmariner

Toothless in the final third. Pyke completely anonymous.

I mean he has scored 13 entire goals in his 165 game professional career, i'm not entirely sure what we expected from him.

we scuff one in (harry?) ,so might be an interesting last 15

Never seen such a lack of reaction to a town goal in a fishy match thread before lmao

Quoted from toontown

I know what you mean but last season we beat man City u21s with a side that wasn't our first 11. I believe simmonds, a player sent back as not good enough for our squad, scored against them. Did the City u21s progress in the tournament, I genuinely don't know.

They are no doubt a very talented set of young players but they are hardly invincible and certainly not with 10 men they aren't.

Fairly sure we only drew in normal time. And we went through with a win on pens

Oh we’ve scored

khouri hits the bar

Well, it's 1-2 but not convincing against 10 men this half.

It's coming...

Quoted from GrimRob

It's coming...

Christmas?

Quoted from toontown

I know what you mean but last season we beat man City u21s with a side that wasn't our first 11. I believe simmonds, a player sent back as not good enough for our squad, scored against them. Did the City u21s progress in the tournament, I genuinely don't know.

They are no doubt a very talented set of young players but they are hardly invincible and certainly not with 10 men they aren't.

No they lost to Mansfield and us. There next tier below the prem squad play in the Prem reserves League. They probably have 60 players in the club in advance of these

Quoted from DB

Well, it's 1-2 but not convincing against 10 men this half.

I've thought we have done quite well, got plenty of decent crosses in just a shame we couldn't get on the  end of them

With bringing Amos on and moving Glennon further forward I would rather seem him play ahead of Vernam.

pyke equalises , khouri with the assist

pyke gets a third, but its offside

2 2 going better than I thought

2-2 pyke

Quoted from arryarryarry

I've thought we have done quite well, got plenty of decent crosses in just a shame we couldn't get on the  end of them

With bringing Amos on and moving Glennon further forward I would rather seem him play ahead of Vernam.

Glennon and Amos down our left was decent last year and quite frankly, Vernam would’ve been more effective serving pints in the trust bar for his contribution so far…

incredible comeback! well done lads!

Don’t tell them who scored Pyke! 😉

Get in!!!!!
Go on town!!!!
We're going to win the cup!!

Quoted from aldi_01

Glennon and Amos down our left was decent last year and quite frankly, Vernam would’ve been more effective serving pints in the trust bar for his contribution so far…

😂😂😂



Has Eisa not been playing on the left though? Surely cant change that

Quoted from Hagrid

😂😂😂



Has Eisa not been playing on the left though? Surely cant change that

I’d push Eisa inside behind Rose…

Quoted from GrimRob

It's coming...

Well done

All joking aside. Man city have collapsed and they look tired and lost of footballing ability. Fair play to us for getting at them more 2nd half but I think it's more them dropping their levels.

Quoted from aldi_01

Glennon and Amos down our left was decent last year and quite frankly, Vernam would’ve been more effective serving pints in the trust bar for his contribution so far…

😂

Quoted from aldi_01

I’d push Eisa inside behind Rose…

I would keep Eisa doing whatever he is doing and not mess with his game.  Right wing is totally up for grabs though.

Quoted from lukeo

All joking aside. Man city have collapsed and they look tired and lost of footballing ability. Fair play to us for getting at them more 2nd half but I think it's more them dropping their levels.

To be fair they’ve been playing with 10 men for the majority of the game. Town have just muscled in to the game, good second half in the end

Did Watkis just say this is the 11 that will play on Saturday!

Quoted from 123614

Did Watkis just say this is the 11 that will play on Saturday!

No. He said it will be the 11 that is playing against Barnsley.

A bonus point up for grabs. Their keeper looked terrible but will probably have a blinder now lol.

Ahh ok.

Quoted from aldi_01

But it does emphasise the point that the competition is a bastardised version of what used to be a decent competition…

Yes I totally agree with that.

Last 20 mins it literally looked like men against boys and is probably why no U21 side has won this competition.

I was impressed with Clifton (again) and Efete for Town.

Town under strict instructions not to celebrate

Not watching because I’m a man of principle. Do our players have to take theirs stood on their knees cause we’re playing against kids?

Lost 4-2 on pens

Embarrassing

Feel for Cartwright as a young lad who is local, but he’s just out of his depth.

Quoted from Garth

Embarrassing

What is?

Basically that was Clifton vs Man City under 21s.

Back to the training ground - must be some lessons to be learnt against these 10 young lads

Gutted…

…some fresh mackerel. I only sing when I’m gutting.  Decapitated the feckers as well and then gave them a right grilling for breakfast.

Well one things for certain now, Glennon cannot take a penalty

Good effort to come back into it, with these stupid rules we get a point and City get 2 is that right?

Quoted from davmariner

Feel for Cartwright as a young lad who is local, but he’s just out of his depth.

Bit early to be saying that. There’s no doubt he’ll be disappointed with how things have gone so far; finding himself second fiddle (after probably signing with hopes if not expectations of being first choice) and then making errors in the minor games he’s featured in, but you don’t make GK appearances for England at youth level without having something about you.

He’s making his first handful of senior appearances in the game. More time needed before writing him off; imho.

Forgot we were playing tonight so just read this entire thread without knowing the score. It completely sums up the fishy and a lot of town fans in general, hilarious!

slowly but surely got better in the 2nd half - khouri, efete & hunt much better, and Pyke became more involved the longer it went on.
Clifton motm, even though he was only on for 45 mins! Thought Glennon (once again, against better opposition) had a decent game as did Mullarkey

Quoted from Poojah

Bit early to be saying that. There’s no doubt he’ll be disappointed with how things have gone so far; finding himself second fiddle (after probably signing with hopes if not expectations of being first choice) and then making errors in the minor games he’s featured in, but you don’t make GK appearances for England at youth level without having something about you.

He’s making his first handful of senior appearances in the game. More time needed before writing him off; imho.

Given how much confidence plays a part in goal-keeping, it must be 'wonderful' for him to read the comments on Twitter slagging him off when he's hardly played a game for us.  Our fans are truly pathetic at times.

After watching that on Mariners TV I'm even more convinced we need to switch to wing backs. Efete and Glennon are both excellent going forward but are pretty poor defensively.  I'm thinking something that looks like this;

                                       Eastwood

                     Mullarkey     Rodgers  Maher

Efete                                                               Glennon
                               Conteh      Clifton
            
                                          Eisa

                               Rose         Pyke (or striker signed this week!)


I thought Mullarkey looked really good with that freedom to move forward from CB against 10 men tonight, with Rodgers and Maher in a 3 he can still do that, and we can maximise what we can get out of Efete. He just gets caught out defensively far too much to be trusted as an out and out full back. Same goes for Glennon, miles better as a wing back and we saw the best of him in the second half tonight.

I accept the problem with this idea is that we move Eisa in from the left where he's been so effectively, but this way we get a second striker closer to Rose, Eisa dropping in just behind and fit Efete and Glennon in who are big threats going forward whilst mitigating against their defensive flaws with covering centre backs.

Quoted from gtfc98

After watching that on Mariners TV I'm even more convinced we need to switch to wing backs. Efete and Glennon are both excellent going forward but are pretty poor defensively.  I'm thinking something that looks like this;

                                       Eastwood

                     Mullarkey     Rodgers  Maher

Efete                                                               Glennon
                               Conteh      Clifton
            
                                          Eisa

                               Rose         Pyke (or striker signed this week!)


I thought Mullarkey looked really good with that freedom to move forward from CB against 10 men tonight, with Rodgers and Maher in a 3 he can still do that, and we can maximise what we can get out of Efete. He just gets caught out defensively far too much to be trusted as an out and out full back. Same goes for Glennon, miles better as a wing back and we saw the best of him in the second half tonight.

I accept the problem with this idea is that we move Eisa in from the left where he's been so effectively, but this way we get a second striker closer to Rose, Eisa dropping in just behind and fit Efete and Glennon in who are big threats going forward whilst mitigating against their defensive flaws with covering centre backs.

I would not have Pyke or Efete in my starting X1 let alone together! If we are going long late in a game then perhaps throw Efete on in attack. Pyke is one paced and reactive rather than creating space.

Vernam needs to knuckle down and rebuild his game. Same with Gnahouha, trying to beat a man in tight situations usually surrenders possession. Both have more tricks than Clifton but only half his energy and persistence. We will have to be patient with our out of form players as Khan and Wilson need another preseason.

Ironically, Freddie Draper for Walsall has all you want from an U21 loanee, Quick, strong, hard working, two footed and full of confidence. Gave our defence plenty to think about.

I haven't seen an announcement of the attendance.

Have I missed it, or is that a new policy by the club for this competition?

Quoted from Captain Sensible

I haven't seen an announcement of the attendance.

Have I missed it, or is that a new policy by the club for this competition?

1101, 110 away.

Quoted from Les Brechin

1101, 110 away.

Thank you.  More than I expected.

That’s way too many.

Quoted from Les Brechin

1101, 110 away.

Is that binary code for the real attendance?

Glennon looked a real threat when Amos came on at LB with him in front.In my opinion we need that extra attacking threat whenever possible due to the extra quality he can deliver  Motm Clifton with Khouri and Hunt both getting better the longer the game went.Gnaoura and Vernam both woeful and Cartwright needs a lot more experience before he's ready for the EFL.

Quoted from Captain Sensible

Thank you.  More than I expected.

I think he's given you the binary attendance figures

That's 13 home and 6 away in a more inclusive decimal figure.

Quoted from Croxton

I would not have Pyke or Efete in my starting X1 let alone together! If we are going long late in a game then perhaps throw Efete on in attack. Pyke is one paced and reactive rather than creating space.

Vernam needs to knuckle down and rebuild his game. Same with Gnahouha, trying to beat a man in tight situations usually surrenders possession. Both have more tricks than Clifton but only half his energy and persistence. We will have to be patient with our out of form players as Khan and Wilson need another preseason.

Ironically, Freddie Draper for Walsall has all you want from an U21 loanee, Quick, strong, hard working, two footed and full of confidence. Gave our defence plenty to think about.

I think you have it there - sign a full back before Friday, that will have PH beaming, he loves collecting full backs like old mini coopers. Then unveil our new striker - Michee Efete. His conversion rate must be really good, cool as owt slotting them away…

Quoted from Croxton

Ironically, Freddie Draper for Walsall has all you want from an U21 loanee, Quick, strong, hard working, two footed and full of confidence. Gave our defence plenty to think about.

He’s on loan from The Imps, who rate him highly. Not seen enough of him myself but he appears to have started well at Walsall.

No matter how good the City “kids” were, it’s noticeable that not one of the premierships U21 teams have ever made the final of this competition, probably as Alan Hansen said many years ago,” you don’t win nothing with kids”.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

He’s on loan from The Imps, who rate him highly. Not seen enough of him myself but he appears to have started well at Walsall.

I thought he looked decent against us - physically powerful and capable of playing against physically developed players . Would have been a good option for us on loan imo.

Quoted from 1mickylyons

Glennon looked a real threat when Amos came on at LB with him in front.In my opinion we need that extra attacking threat whenever possible due to the extra quality he can deliver  Motm Clifton with Khouri and Hunt both getting better the longer the game went.Gnaoura and Vernam both woeful and Cartwright needs a lot more experience before he's ready for the EFL.

The problem is it's Eisa's best position , Glennon never plays over Eisa realistically.

Funny how there has been 127 comments about the game yet nearly everyone said they weren't interested in it.

Does anyone who posts on the match thread regularly actually ever been to a game 😂😂

Quoted from Les Brechin

1101, 110 away.

110 Man City fans- wrong night for the blue moon

Quoted from Teestogreen

110 Man City fans- wrong night for the blue moon

Some travelled from as far away as Barnoldby  - Le - Beck

Quoted from HerveJosse

Some travelled from as far away as Barnoldby  - Le - Beck

And possibly Hatcliffe

I feel a bit for Efete on the first goal, the ball to him was awful and then you can see on the highlights Mullarkey telling Efete to play the pass back.  I assume Efete thought Mullarkey could see more than him after he’d just bust a gut to keep the pass in and played it blind.
He still should have played a better ball, or ignored Mullarkey but some mitigation.  Cartwright had no chance with the ball back, should have kept the second one out though.