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U23s were really poor 1st half. Moved the balla round slowly and generally looked like they couldn't be arsed, as if they had no idea who Blyth Spartans were or what the Senior Cup final was. All goals conceded were inswining crosses/corners with a header. Second was an own goal but credited to Robbie Dale direct from a corner. 

 

Second half when the u23s played 1-2 touch and zipped the passes around they scored. In comparison in the first half they switched the play from the left back to the right back with 3 passes with every member of the back four touching the ball twice. It was really poor stuff. Blyth were the better side and deserved to win. 

 

Fairness to Santiago he came on and scored with his first touch, he seemed to show for the ball a lot (even if some of the passes would have to have been drilled into his feet between two defenders). 

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Yeah Dylan Stephenson is decent. That was the u23s last game of the season (friendly against Glasgow Rangers aside), so itsssssss crunch time for a lot of them.

 

Also, your mate's phone number is visible and I've already sent him a picture of Mike Ashley. 

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Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if him and Elliot Anderson get much game time together next season before going off on different loans. 

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Newcastle United's Academy has confirmed its retained list for the 2022/23 season.

At Under-18 level, second-year scholars Harry Barclay, Kyle Crossley, James Huntley, Jamie Miley, Michael Ndiweni and Joshua Stewart have all been offered professional contracts, while Piotr Banda, Liam Chrystal, Joel Green, Josh Nicholson and Nathan Robertson will leave the Academy this summer.

In Elliott Dickman's Under-23s squad, offers have been made to Matthew Bondswell, Niall Brookwell, Will Brown, Lewis Cass, Joe Oliver and Dylan Stephenson.

Leaving the club will be Tom Allan, Ryan Barrett, Brad Cross, Oisin McEntee, Mo Sangare, Regan Thomson, Jake Turner and Adam Wilson.

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Part time Galway United fan here, been an open secret that he was heading to Newcastle for a while. Is a big move for the kid and for Galway Utd, he's been scouted by a few relatively big clubs including Brighton and Celtic in last few months. He is good getting forward from left back, solid defensively and strong enough in the air but very one footed. Has progressed rapidly in space of a year and has been one of best players in a team that has done well this season with a call up to Ireland U19s recently but is still very raw and second tier of League of Ireland is probably comparable to bottom end of the National League in England. Hopefully it all works out well for all concerned anyway.

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How many players have we had in the England youth setup recently? We always seemed to have a couple of players dotted about between the U17s upto 21s but seems like the last 10 years we’ve had very few. Woodman then I’m struggling? Hopefully the young players we’re signing this summer will put an end to that and the Academy itself starts producing.

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9 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

How many players have we had in the England youth setup recently? We always seemed to have a couple of players dotted about between the U17s upto 21s but seems like the last 10 years we’ve had very few. Woodman then I’m struggling? Hopefully the young players we’re signing this summer will put an end to that and the Academy itself starts producing.

It’s been ridiculously sparse - Woodman you mentioned, the Longstaffs, Steven Taylor, before that Neale McDermott, James Beaumont and Ross Gardner. Villa probably have as many in the England youth teams this year as we’ve had in the last 30.

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Alex Murphy's last match for Galway United next week and a replacement left back been signed today. As per my previous post, still lots of areas he needs to improve on and hard to gauge his current level but fairly certain there's the makings of a very good player there, be very interested to see how he develops with a more professional setup.

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