Rovers Youth v Shrimps FC

[Bristol Red Rover]

Am looking forward to this game

[glosterred]

Listening to it now - sound a bit on the damp side

COYR

[Bristol Red Rover]

Lineup is

Aaron Busby
Jacob Dawson    Jordan Binns   Scott Brown    Mitchell Lund
Billy Whitehouse    Joshua Meade   Harry Middleton (c)   Evan Finnegan
Ryan Burnyeat   Alex Peterson

Subs ?
Jack McKay
Paul McKay
Jack Steadman
Ben Askins
Spencer Lund
Chris Whincop
Lewis Ferguson
Callum Terrell

[Bristol Red Rover]

1-0 Josh Meade 

[graingrover]

Finnegan the  new McIndoe .....who would be your choice as best ever product of our youth teams .I show my ' seniority ' and nominate Alick Jeffrey ahead of ian Snodin. 

[Bristol Red Rover]

Dis Jeffrey play for the youth team then? Not straight into the first team?

[graingrover]

I can't honesly recall ... was only about 8 or 9 yrs at time but I will look in my old Rovers programmes .. I know he played for the Reserves at  age 15 and broke into first team at 16.

[graingrover]

the best Donny Boys team got to the English schools final ( against Brierley Hill) and they all joined the Rovers Juniors in the Northern Intermediate League the year after . I was lucky enough to play in that team with them in 1958 and 59. The best of those players were Johnny Billings and Fairhurst . Rovers coaches at the time were very poor and they developed nobody.

[dumbroofer]

dont think that counts , as in that era you left school at 6 years old n went straight downtpit ,so being 15/16 made king AJ rather old ....sorry to many e numbers tonight lol

[RedJ]

does it sound like the lads are playing well?

[Bristol Red Rover]

That E-byheckerslike is good for you!

Sounds okay, a bit like listening to the current first team - we sound like a panther ready to pounce.

[DonnyOsmond]

What's the attendance like?

[RedJ]

ended up getting roped into bloody trick or treating duty with the nephew so didn't make it - I wish I'd used the match as the trick (or treat!)

good stuff - be interesting to see what Willie's boys are like, could end up making us a few bob yet

[Bristol Red Rover]

Said there looked to be a couple of hundred.

Jake McKay at least doing great in the under 16's.

[Bristol Red Rover]

Will we power on in the second half? Hope we up a gear

[DonnyOsmond]

Why haven't we tapped up Callum Saunders up from Crewe yet?

[Bristol Red Rover]

Does Dean live that way? Maybe partly why he's there. Better not to play for your dad anyway!