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Surprised to see Arsenal in Div 2.

 

They basically split last year's league in half, then bumped two teams up to make room for Derby and Brighton (new Level 1 academies). I knew Arsenal didn't do well last year, but I'd forgotten about Villa. We were pretty much the best team the year before, but were in the middle last year and only went into Div 1 because of the two new clubs.

 

In our case, we pretty much loaned out everybody who would have been in the U21s. I presume Villa and Arsenal were the same. It's difficult to judge from results, because you can play three overage players too.

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An NUFC XI will play Blyth Spartans at Croft Park on Friday night, ko 7.30 and admission £5 / £2.

 

Likely to be a young line-up but wouldn't be surprised to see a few fringe players thrown in there as well.

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You can see how bad our system is by how many of our youth and reserve players have completely dropped out of league football after being released by us, the northern league seems to be the norm for most of them.

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Aye. The batch that had Forster, Edgar, Huntington, Taylor, Ramage, Carroll, Troisi, Kazenga etc were often written off as crap and it's easily the most successful crop of youngsters we've had in fucking ages based upon where the ones that left ended up.

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Shared flights with the SAFC u18 squad both ways between Newcastle and Amsterdam, on our way to the Schalke tournament. One of the cabin crew lasses was going through the plane with a bag asking "Any rubbish"? I said there's about 25 of them up the back.

I see we've got them away in the morning. 1st game of the season.

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Shared flights with the SAFC u18 squad both ways between Newcastle and Amsterdam, on our way to the Schalke tournament. One of the cabin crew lasses was going through the plane with a bag asking "Any rubbish"? I said there's about 25 of them up the back.

 

:lol: Mint.

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