Reserves and Academy 2025-26

[Percy McCarthy]

Iconic Villa Name gets an assist on his debut for Scotland’s under-19s.

From reading the match report, I think Fletcher Boyd assisted a goal as well.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Iconic Villa Name gets an assist on his debut for Scotland’s under-19s.

From reading the match report, I think Fletcher Boyd assisted a goal as well.

Think it was a quickly taken corner, caught Ireland out.

[Percy McCarthy]

Iconic Villa Name gets an assist on his debut for Scotland’s under-19s.

From reading the match report, I think Fletcher Boyd assisted a goal as well.

Think it was a quickly taken corner, caught Ireland out.

Good goal inside 20 seconds and a great assist for Jack tonight as Scotland went 2-0 up v Poland.

[Percy McCarthy]

Our under-16s won 5-0 against a local team in a tournament currently taking place in China. Arsenal won their game 1-0.

[Percy McCarthy]

Under-21s won 2-1 at Blackburn, Burrowes (pen) and Brannigan with a 94th minute winner.

[dcdavecollett]

Yet another goal for Burrowes!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Penalty for Burrowes and a deflected strike for Cole Branigan.

[paul_e]

Yet another goal for Burrowes!

He really needs to be getting minutes ahead of Bailey soon, that's 16 for the season now.

[eamonn]

I used to work with a guy called Brannigan, his nickname was Spanky. I never questioned why but he did look a bit simian. He emptied the bins on the shopfloor, lurked at the recycling area by the underground carpark where cardboard was flattened and prepared for a new life and where food returns, including heavy-duty butchery binbags of gone-off meat, were fucked into the compactor - a large beast of a machine that groaned at the weight of its metallic claws mashing the assorted foodstuffs into pulp.

He also did the offertory collection at mass at the weekend, making sure the coppers proffered by the congregation were safely put away. He was one of those terminally middle-aged looking people but was probably under 30 when I first encountered him.

He'd often be attempting to chat-up the young ones from neighbouring retail outlets when they disposed of their comparatively meagre scraps of rubbish. It would only take seconds for them to dispose of it but in a lonely job, he wanted them to linger a while. Even then, I was struck how their lives as university students, with weekend parttime jobs and exciting, unwritten futures; were a world away from Spanky's reality - a dogsbody, generally ignored but for the occasional piss-taking by the storemen. A reluctant bachelor then and I imagine probably still is, twenty five odd years later.

[Percy McCarthy]

Oscar Johnson, Cole Ramsey & Markie Meade all scored for the under-18s in a 3-3 home draw with Fulham.

[dcdavecollett]

U18s beat Farage FC 5-1 yesterday.

[OCD]

Why does a football forum keep resorting to politics just lately? Isn't that what off topic is for?

[cdbearsfan]

The football team resorted to politics. Why shouldn't it be mentioned? Weird post.

[paul_e]

With a couple more for Meade taking him to 10 goals and 5 assists in 15 in the league for the U18s, which is pretty decent, he's well worth keeping an eye on.

[PeterWithesShin]