Youth, Reserves and Ladies 2015-16

[Legion]

Boldmere 1-1 Villa U21 – HT: It’s all level in this pre-season friendly at the break. Villa have dominated proceedings and took the lead on nine minutes as Callum O’Hare fired home from close range to finish off a crisp attacking move. The home side were level five minutes later. Stuart Capaldi’s fierce drive gave stopper Charlie Bannister no chance from 25 yards. Villa had opportunities to regain the lead through Jerell Sellars and Corey Blackett-Taylor.

[PeterWithe]

Ended 3.1 to Villa.

Stand out player for me was Sid's lad who was neat and tidy in most things he did, Kinsella the left back also looked promising. Of the rest no one really stood out and the lack of the ability to keep posession was disappointing.

[Kevin_Brum12]

Ladies are in action tomorrow at Sutton Town FC, Coles Lane, against Millwall, kick of 2 pm.  Entrance £3 adults £1 concessions.



Perfect if you like football and hate tennis....

[cdbearsfan]

Nice Cuddly Lionesses 2 Racist Cockney Lionesses 1.

[Villa in Denmark]

Nice Cuddly Lionesses 2 Racist Cockney Lionesses 1.

OK, so that narrows it down to 2 clubs, although I guess we talking about those that have their own Den.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, sorry. Didn't make myself clear!

They lost 2-1 today to London Bees. Apparently that's not a rugby team.

[OCD]

Sounds like we have some good young players, going by pre-season. Besides Jack, does anybody expect anyone to feature regularly in the first team squad this season or do you think a good few will be going out on loan?

[paul_e]

Sounds like we have some good young players, going by pre-season. Besides Jack, does anybody expect anyone to feature regularly in the first team squad this season or do you think a good few will be going out on loan?

If Green is as quick as I've been led to believe I think he'll break through before long.  Not sure after that, we seem to have a lot of players who are on the cusp of being too good for reserves but not ready for the premier league. I think we might see a lot of loans out in August, hopefully with a fair few going to the championship.

[OCD]

Green's one I've not heard mentioned this pre-season. I think there will be a lot of loan moves, as Sherwood did that at Spurs, but his previous work suggests that one or two might breakthrough quite quickly.

[paul_e]

Green's one I've not heard mentioned this pre-season. I think there will be a lot of loan moves, as Sherwood did that at Spurs, but his previous work suggests that one or two might breakthrough quite quickly.

No he's not been involved, I wonder if he's injured because it would be odd to bring a kid into the squad at the end of the season and then have nothing to do with him in pre-season. From the reports on here, and from friends who went to Swindon, Calder seems to be the one taking his chance so far, I'd be happy with that, our midfield has been full of midgets for far too long.

[OCD]

Calder and possibly Sellars.

[Legion]

Borussia monchengladbach u14s 1-1 aston villa u14s cameron with the villa goal

[Larry Duff]

Villa U18 2-1 Southampton

Very nice performance from this years youth team in their first game of the new season.  Played some lovely football at times.  Two goals from Corey Taylor gave us a well deserved Half Time lead.  He dribbled around three players and finished with his left foot for his first and then was taken down in the area and got up to bury a penalty for his second.
As the club have stopped handing out Team Sheets (which saves them about £3) even us regular Youth Team watchers are struggling to know who is playing for us, with a new batch of players this year.

Callum O'Hare was very good in the number 10 (as I like to call it) roll.  I liked the left footed midfield player who might be called Clarke or Clark.

The Team played some lovely football.  Always hard to judge because we don't know how good Southampton will be this year but I think I am going to enjoy this season.

[OCD]

The U18's have both a Clark and a Clarke - like there's not enough confusion over the spelling of Ciaran Clark's name.

[Legion]

Borussia monchengladbach u14s 1-1 aston villa u14s cameron with the villa goal

Our U14s won their tournament in Holland. Cam bagged six goals. Dead proud of him.