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I assume we will have signed him permanently. Note he's come to us from Stockport Town in the 10th tier as opposed to Stockport County

It was me who wrote the existing bios on there but with Rob Esteva leaving the club I don't know who's running the website now. I'll try to chase it up and get it updated.

I don't think we've got the squad balance right at all. We seem to have made quite a few pointless signings without making much effort to really plug the holes. This business of only having one forward on the books was always going to come back to bite us. Just looking at the substitutes yesterday says a lot. We were flat and lifeless and only made a single sub, because we had no one on the bench capable of making an impact or changing our game. I don't understand why we faffed about signing people like Liam Goulding and Josh Langley just to never use them.

Also where was Harrop yesterday, did I miss something?

Its quite strange how our reserve team works. There seem to be a few players who hang around for years on end without any hope of breaking through. Joel Swift has been with the reserves since they were established made appearances for us in the Conference Premier but doesn't seem to be anywhere near contention!

To win in the FA youth cup against School of Excellence or Academy teams a non league youth team needs to be exceptional. (No disrespect meant here). It is usually a team that is put together over a few seasons with a good considerate manager and a group of players which comes around every blue moon!

Usually, school of Excellence teams / Academy teams are led by an ex pro who does not like losing! (After all its their job)

I can remember a number of years ago Nantwich Town youth team (Josh Hancock was part of that team). (Speak to your own George Heslop for a reference about how good Nantwich's youth team was) were drawn against Wrexham in the 1st round of the FA Youth Cup. A certain Joey Jones (ex Liverpool defender) was their manager at the time. We beat them 2 1 and Mr above was not best pleased to say the least!!!

Round 2 saw Nantwich draw a home tie against your favourite foe Macc Town ha !!!!!!

The game drew 429 fans and Nantwich came out on top again 2 1 . Prior to the game we went to watch Macc in a school of excellence game and they had a really tall black lad as Centre Forward who was really good. We spent hours in training defending corners and free kicks and guess what he didn't play ha!

Round 3 was an entirely different opposition. It was Everton away at Goodison!!!!!!!!!!!!    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

In between the game at Goodison 2 of our players signed for Crewe Alex so they could not play against Everton. Such a pity!

The town rallied and coach loads of Dabbers made the trip to Goodison Park. There was over 1,000 there. Despite bossing the game for 70 minutes in front of David Moyes we lost the match 2 0..............

The sad thing is most of those Everton academy players today do not play in league football or probably not even non league football.

A moment in history!! Silent But Ledley

Nope, that's not even remotely correct. I'm bored at work and just looked it up. All but three of that team are still in football, most at professional level. As follows.

Connor Roberts – In the Welsh Prem with TNS
Lee Mcardle – Suffered a career ending injury, now coaches for Everton
Jake Bidwell – QPR
Moses Barnett – Caernarfon Town
Shane Duffy – Brighton
Hope Akpan – Bradford City
Tom Mcready – Colwyn Bay (briefly played for Alty shortly after his release from Everton)
James Wallace – Fleetwood Town
Lewis Codling – Skelmersdale (think he had a trial with us a way back)
Conor Mcaleny – Fleetwood Town
Nathan Craig – Caernarfon (scored a hattrick for them last week)
Subs
Aristote Nisala – Ipswich Town
Gerard Kinsella – Warrington Town
Karl Shepphard – Cork City
Luke Powell - Fitness coach at Curzon Ashton
Georg Krenn - Coaches in Austria

Quote from: Andrew Flynn on November 06, 2018, 11:03:36 AM

I'd expect all of the players named on Saturday's bench to start tonight (Wynne, Densmore, Scott, Richman, Gabidon) with Reserve and Youth Team players filling in around them.
Anyone's guess. Are Harrison and Goulding's loans actual loans, or just dual-reg? We could maybe see them get game time with us if it's the latter although that is speculation.
Names like Tom Westall, Harry Sheridan, Rhain Davis, Callum Harris, Joe Thompson, Ross Woodcock spring to mind this evening.
Altrincham 2-3 Congleton

I think Witton are playing Stalybridge tonight & I suspect Goulding would be better served playing in that game - a truer test. I don't think Trafford have a game, so Harrison might possibly be a candidate to play - but as you say it's all speculation.
I imagine the bulk of the side will be reserves/promising youths - the problem is that if you don't win these matches (& my suspicion is that we won't win tonight) you don't get opportunities to test out younger players against more robust opposition than they would normally face. By the by - I don't think Harry Sheridan is on the books now, but I could be wrong. Who is Ross Woodcock, please?

Harry Sheridan was last seen being released by Trafford about a month ago although I'm not sure if he returned to us. Woodcock is a fullback we signed off Crewe who played for the reserves and was dual registered with Trafford at one point but has been injured and not seen in a while.

I'll be there tonight hoping to see a mix of squad players and promising youngsters.

One thought: I hope it doesn't take any local interest away from our ladies' teams.

I'm sure it won't. If anything, we're helping to raise the profile of theadies' game and encouraging interest.

Has come out of retirement and is playing in the Welsh Prem for Aberystwyth tonight. They appear to be deploying him at centre back so obviously not interested in clean sheets!

They've also got Wes Baynes at right back!