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[RoyMac5]

1 hour ago, IlsonDerby said:

Well they said they wanted the academy playing like the first team 😂

Second half was better as GofC said. 🙂

[Guest]

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Second half was better as GofC said. 🙂

First half wasn’t great but second half the cohesion seems better. I like that they mix the distribution by Playing out and going long dependant on the situation.

We look exposed at Full back again this year and we are struggling for goals but Oseni has been scoring at this level so him going out on loan hasn’t helped.

Brown is being used as a target man and in my opinion would be better used running on to a ball through the channels or over the top as he did at times last night. If we want to use him as a target man our 10, 7 and 11 all need to get beyond him which last night they didn’t do.

Still a young team though, let’s not forget Cox and Brown are both scholars, Evans, Robinson, Moore, Fapetu, Moloney are all first year Pro and we have 2 loan players in the starting 11… and of those last night Evans and Brown were the two best players we had on the pitch. 

They have played better than last season but are very much a work in process.

[RoyMac5]

 

[ramsdale]

[Guest]

Brighton for the u21s on Thursday up at Alfreton. Will be another tough test…

[angieram]

19 minutes ago, ExiledinDerby said:

Brighton for the u21s on Thursday up at Alfreton. Will be another tough test…

Friday?

[Bald Eagle's Barmy Army]

On 26/09/2023 at 23:00, ramsdale said:

I’ve been saying for a while now, Gill at LB is one of the best in the country. 

[Guest]

12 hours ago, angieram said:

Friday?

Yes Friday… losing my mind I think 😳

[AZSeagull]

Hi - Brighton and Hove Albion fan here. Is there any prospect of the U-21s fixture between our two clubs being streamed this evening? (There seems a distinct lack of acknowledgement on the Rams' twitter feed and website that the match is even taking place!).

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, AZSeagull said:

Hi - Brighton and Hove Albion fan here. Is there any prospect of the U-21s fixture between our two clubs being streamed this evening? (There seems a distinct lack of acknowledgement on the Rams' twitter feed and website that the match is even taking place!).

If Brighton aren’t streaming it then if it’s not been advertised we definitely won’t be in afraid. We don’t seem to offer live feeds anymore. 

[AZSeagull]

31 minutes ago, ExiledinDerby said:

If Brighton aren’t streaming it then if it’s not been advertised we definitely won’t be in afraid. We don’t seem to offer live feeds anymore. 

Thanks - there's no way Albion would stream an away fixture so it won't happen then. Oh well.

[RoyMac5]

 

[Ghost of Clough]

Kavanagh (on loan with us last season and played in 5 games) starting at CB for them.

 

16 mins, 0-1 to them.

Edited September 29, 2023 by Ghost of Clough

[angieram]

It's 2 -0 now.

Edited September 29, 2023 by angieram

[Foreveram]

22 minutes ago, angieram said:

It's 2 -0 now.

I was going to go but I didn’t get back from a family meal till 7 o’clock.

[Ghost of Clough]

Both goals assisted by their left winger (Barrington). He's now on 2 goals and 4 assists in 6 games and someone to keep tabs on as a loan option in the future.

He had 6 goals and 8 assists in 24 games at a 17/18 year old last season, as well as 10 goals and 7 assists in 22 games for Man City at U18 level the year before.

[RoyMac5]

Better second half again apparently, what is being changed?

[Ghost of Clough]

Interestingly, we've had 33 dangerous attacks and 11 shots to their 25 and 7.

Gibson-Hammond just came on for Moloney at LW.

Edit: it took just 2 minutes for Gibson-Hammond to smash one into the top corner. 

Wheeldon came on for Richards prior to the goal too.

Edited September 29, 2023 by Ghost of Clough

[Guest]

We don’t look dangerous in the final third and the cross field diagonal has done us twice. 
 

We don’t look bad just something not clicking..

 

[Guest]

2-2 I take it back…😂