The official EDS and academy thread 2011/12

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1-0 celtic after 40 mins

 

[LoveCity]

2-0, this NextGen is just becoming a huge embarrassment to the club, especially considering it gets press coverage.

 

[Shands]

Celtic are passing the ball far better than we are, not being flashy but making sure they find the man and move the ball at a good tempo. Their first touch seems better too.

 

[LoveCity]

I'm watching it and we're being completely outplayed. The interplay between Suarez, Roman, and Rusnak is really nice when they have a chance but Celtic currently passing us off the pitch.

We have plenty of promising flair/creative players but defensively we're not very good and look as shaky as the first team did off set-pieces the other day.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

been tweeting live updates, woeful at the back, decent on the ball.

 

[LongsightM13]

2-0, this NextGen is just becoming a huge embarrassment to the club, especially considering it gets press coverage.

Hysterical overreaction of the night.
It's about producing players with a chance of developing to the first team, not winning poxy meaningless youth trophies.
The FA Youth Cup winning team got some great press but only Sturridge has made it to the big time, and that's with someone else.

 

[CelticBhoyCityBlue]

2-0

Goals here.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DlDh2okSk&noredirect=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DlDh2okSk&noredirect=1</a>

 

[LoveCity]

2-0, this NextGen is just becoming a huge embarrassment to the club, especially considering it gets press coverage.

Hysterical overreaction of the night.

I know exactly what youth teams are about and have said much the same about the FA Youth Cup team down to making a Where Are They Now? post - but the NextGen is the most highly publicised youth event European football has seen for a long time, if not ever. It gets coverage in all the international newspapers and our club has always preached the quality of our youth system so the successive defeats (5 if we lose tonight) will be an embarrassment to them because we were considered one of the big dogs going into it and have been shown up.

 

[bluecityboy]

2-0, this NextGen is just becoming a huge embarrassment to the club, especially considering it gets press coverage.

Perspective, mate.Perspective.

 

[LoveCity]

2-0, this NextGen is just becoming a huge embarrassment to the club, especially considering it gets press coverage.

Perspective, mate.Perspective.

I follow our club's youth system pretty closely so have a sense of perspective and there is no learning experience to be had from chasing the ball around for 80% of the game as Celtic pass us off the park. Bit of a reality check really, our U18 team seems better than this hybrid team coached by a different person to the U18 side.

Meanwhile the stream has died it looks like.