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Not the number of months we've been under embargo over the past 4 years (which is almost 30 months), but the number of months since our U18s won the 18/19 League title, after beating an Arsenal side featuring Bakary Saka 5-2 in the Final. The young Rams also finished 8 points ahead of a Manchester United side which contained Mason Greenwood.
 
From that squad, 11 have played for our first team making a combined 419 appearances.
Those still with us and are in and around the first team:
McDonald - 8 first team apps.
JBrown - 4 first team apps.
Cashin - 3 first team apps.
Buchanan - Still only 20 but has already played 60 times.
Bird - With him making 97 appearances for the Rams, he'll be hoping to make his 100th app for the club in Feb
Thompson - Missed just 12 minutes of football since coming into the side against Bournemouth, the first of his 11 appearances.
Knight - An almost ever present in the first team since the start of the following season. He has already made 100 apps and scored 11 in the process.
Sibley - Still only 20 but has 7 goals and 4 assists in his 65 first team apps.
Festy - Already a fan favourite after 23 appearances.
Stretton - Limited to just 15 appearances given his injury troubles.
Some are still with us but are yet to play for the first team:
Dixon - Named on bench twice.
Wilson - Named on bench twice.
Matthews - yet to feature in a matchday squad.
Notable players who have since departed the club:
Whittaker - 32 appearances for Derby before moving on to Swansea where he scored 5 in 22 apps. He's currently on loan at Lincoln City where he has scored 1 in 3.
Delap - Left the club in summer 2019 for Man City, he has played for their first team on 3 occasions scoring once.
And the handful of others who have left:
Charles - Joined Mansfield and played twice, who loaned him out to York City where he made 4 apps
Archie Brown - Move to Switzerland in the summer just gone to play for Lausanne-Sport. Has made 2 apps, and a further 2 out on loan.
French
Foster
Minkley
Nto
Splatt
Greco

Ebiowei and Robinson are the two from that team tonight who I have high hopes for. Lots of potential in those two 

Williams is ill, Owen Bradley said on RamsTV.

What we do have, is a proven academy and probably the best outside the Premiership. Any young talent that is looking to make in football would look at Derby County if their parents had any sense.  Those who went to an Academy side in the Premiership were always up against more competition and its been proven with Luke Plange being released by Arsenal and Louie Watson at West Ham, then improving at Moor Farm.
We have created a top class youth academy that will continue to attract young talent for years to come. The man to take the credit is Darren Wassall.  The manager that brought him to Derby from Burton was Nigel Clough, so he must also take some credit, Nigel was sacked in September 2013 but had stated in the March of 2013 "The Academy should almost be ring fenced and whoever comes in next, I hope they have the sense to leave it alone and let it continue working".  I'm not going to list the players that have made it from academy status to either Premiership, Championship or lower proffesional leagues. The list is quite big, but I will mention one player who I thought could have made it with the Rams, Timi Max Elsnik who made only the 1st team in the Carabao cup but went on loan to a few clubs before being released and is mow playing for Olimpija Lujbljana in the top flight of Slovenia and recently made his debut for Slovenia in Octoberthis year.

The point being those players should have been there as emergency backup in their positions. Sort of like the roles Wes Brown, O'Shea, etc had at Man Utd. Capable of filling in, but not good enoigh as a regular starter - as evidenced when they eventually moved on.
In 15/16, we had Pearce, Shotton and Buxton as 4th, 5th and 6th choice CBs, playing for a total of 261 minutes in the league. Rawson could easily have stepped in as 4th choice instead, and showed he was capable enough based on his loan out to Rotherham. Hanson didn't look out of place in the team yet hardly featured again in following seasons.
16/17, Blackman, Camara and Weimann 4th, 5th and 6th choice wingers played for less than a combined 1000 minutes. Those should have been given to Bennett (who only played for 23). Lowe was exceptional when he came into the side in 16/17, including a memorable man of the match display vs Wolves. But, he had Forsyth and Olsson on senior player wages so shived down the pecking order.
17/18, Shackell 0 minutes, Butterfield 157, Palmer 426 and Anya 302. Are you telling me Rawson, Hanson and Elsnik couldn't have played those roles and not been just as good? We owned Vydra, Martin, Jerome, Nugent and Bent plus Winnall on loan. We only needed 2 of them, with Jacobsen as backup.

I asked Ryan's agent and he said "yes". Not sure about Eze, as he's not been with us long anyway. We signed him from Chelsea I think.

Looks like these are the U18 trialists:
 

Here's the team: 
 

I’m told the stream should be sorted now if you want to try again! 

I’m trying to remember how I set it up, as I have several accounts with work and personal, and can’t remember if I had to pay to set up my personal account. I don’t think I did. I think it’s just attached to my Hotmail account. 
so if you have any kind of free Microsoft account - hotmail, outlook, I’m not sure if there are any others - you can just go to OneDrive.com and sign in and it will talk you through installing one drive. 
that will add an extra folder to your file explorer. Save anything you want to share in there. Then when it comes time to sharing it, you can right click on the file, then go to share (next to the cloud). 
then you’ve got options to only share it with specific people, or if you click on that, you can share it with anyone with the link, but you can set a time limit and/or a password. 
you can then email the link directly from here, or copy it to paste it in an email or another document later. 
you can also log into one drive at any time from anywhere. Handy if you want to see these files and you’re away from the computer. But it’s also the only place you can see what you’ve shared, or what’s been shared with you, and can play around with the settings (like revoking access to people, or changing passwords). 
hope that helps, but let me know if you get stuck. 

MS OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox. All pretty much the same thing really.  How to do vids below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business-video/securely-share-files-externally?view=o365-worldwide
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-share-files-on-google-drive?r=US&IR=T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNmNcaLEQs&ab_channel=ResearchMasterminds
 

@Owen87ITK Not sure if you are working the U23 game but it seems none of us can watch, any idea why? Thx

And who would they play against?

Same here.

I use microsoft one drive. 

Good shout 

Hopefully we will get to see them in the FA Cup third round.

And who would they play against?

Pay Lyons said both him and Stretton have knee injuries 

Sorry, not a clue. He just said he was hoping to be back soon on his Instagram! 

Looks like our U18s beat Stoke U18s 2-1 yesterday. Goals from Malcolm Ebiowei and Sam Sebagabo. No idea who the Trialist on the bench was. Quite a few U16s in the match day squad.
https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2021/11/20/england/premier-academy-league/Derby-county-fc-under-18-academy/stoke-city-fc-under-18-academy/3587750/

Stretton looks the part at under-23 level but has generally looked out of his depth when promoted to the first team. I think that probably why he's been stepped down again. I agree he might benefit playing in a pair up front with an experienced striker like CKR, but not convinced at this stage Stretton is going to make the grade at Derby.

Liverpool U23s 3-1 Derby County U23s
https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2021/10/30/england/premier-league-2-division-one/liverpool-u23/Derby-u23/3583744/
I assume #13 Josh Baines is Josh Barnes

Judging by his Instagram he’s also been ‘ill’
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaDkCMIVpK/?utm_medium=copy_link