Reserves and Academy 2021/22

[nigel]

Information/help request!!

Does anyone know a decent place to park near VP for U23 games?

We're going on Monday, but the Villa Park North Stand area appears to be off limits.

Any assistance appreciated!

For first team games I always park by Mansfield School/Park on Albert Rd.
it’s a 5-10 min walk.
There are houses on one side only, so I should imagine parking would be quite easy.

[Chris Smith]

Information/help request!!

Does anyone know a decent place to park near VP for U23 games?

We're going on Monday, but the Villa Park North Stand area appears to be off limits.

Any assistance appreciated!

For first team games I always park by Mansfield School/Park on Albert Rd.
it’s a 5-10 min walk.
There are houses on one side only, so I should imagine parking would be quite easy.

It’s a good few years since I’ve been to one but I used to park right outside the ground on Trinity Road.

[dcdavecollett]

Thanks for these replies, lads.

[dcdavecollett]

In the end, we parked behind the North Stand after all, but thanks for the advice anyway.

[Ad@m]

Delaney has got the chop according to the Athletic.

[jwarry]

Interesting.  U23 record has been pretty dire this season but it seems rough when the best players are all out on loan.  Maybe they think he doesn’t fit the culture and style Gerrard is looking for?

[cdbearsfan]

Under 18s drew 2-2 at Small Heath. We led twice and Villa players scored all four goals.

I know the main thing is producing players for the first team, and we have a good few youngsters out on loan but, nevertheless, it has been a pretty woeful season, results-wise. Five wins, five draws, sixteen losses.

[Lastfootstamper]

I'd rather it functions as it does now, producing first team players for Aston Villa, than it used to when it was all-conquering but was an end in itself.

[Risso]

I'd rather it functions as it does now, producing first team players for Aston Villa, than it used to when it was all-conquering but was an end in itself.

Exactly. If the best young players are in and around the first team, that's much more promising than them romping home in the kids league.

[dcdavecollett]

Agreed. So why sack Mark, then?

[JD]

It seems a very strange decision if true.

As others have pointed out the idea of the U18's and U23's is to bring players through who have potential to play for the first team. Given the numbers that are now in the first team squad, or who are on loan in different divisions is proof it has been working.

The U23's is more like an U18 team given the age of a lot of the players. 

[pooligan]

If Mark Delaney is deemed not good enough then surely Carla Ward will be following in his footsteps  As soon i heard Small Heath women had failed to keep a single clean sheet this  season away from home we knew what was coming Even the goal we conceded was a blunder by the keeper who makes quite a few  of them

[dcdavecollett]

I went to Monday's U23 game, where Villa lost 2-1 due to a couple of goalkeeping blunders.

It was a very young side again. To make the point, Kayden Young was the best player on the pitch, scoring Villa's goal and beating the full-back whenever he wanted to.

At the w/end, he scored one of the goals in the 2-2 draw with Blues in the U18s match.

If this is the club's policy to really push the young players then that's fine. But when you send out so many, how is that compatible  with consistently good results?

[pooligan]

Does anyone know what has happened to Lamare Bogarde ? i have not seen anything about him since around christmas time, did he go out on Loan

[Legion]