U21s - 24/25

[jono_t2000]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

 

[Irv]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

Beattie has only just moved up to the U21s! No way is he ready for the first team.
One has been on the bench but again, he’s not starting a game any time soon!

 

[Birdwell Blade]

Has anyone seen the goals from today’s game? Dear oh dear! Never seen anything like it. I’d say at least 6 of them were from Crewe trying to play out from the back. What were they thinking? If you watch the goals you’ll see what I mean.

 

[S64 Blade]

Won Sheffield FC 11-2 in Matt Rodney’s testimonial on 2018.

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Has anyone seen the goals from today’s game? Dear oh dear! Never seen anything like it. I’d say at least 6 of them were from Crewe trying to play out from the back. What were they thinking? If you watch the goals you’ll see what I mean.

This is the entire point of Development Football. Give players a chance to learn and develop without focusing on the result.

 

[John Cutsbushes]

Has anyone seen the goals from today’s game? Dear oh dear! Never seen anything like it. I’d say at least 6 of them were from Crewe trying to play out from the back. What were they thinking? If you watch the goals you’ll see what I mean.

The standard is a joke, gives a skewed view of how strong we are
Albeit we are a very good side
Roll on Cat A, and some real tests

 

[programmechap]

I seem to recall we beat Donny 10-0 in the County Cup in the 80's. Or did I dream it?

You dreamt it We beat Barnsley 9-0 in 1969.

 

[ATL Recs]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

You’re kidding right ?

 

[Birdwell Blade]

This is the entire point of Development Football. Give players a chance to learn and develop without focusing on the result.

Confidence also needs development. Crewe can’t have much of that.

There is a huge gulf in quality between our U21s and most of the rest in our category. I just hope the move to Dore happens asap and we become Category A (or 1, whichever it is).

 

[TJ blade]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

Fuck transfer values!

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

He’d need a time machine to give 16 year old Beattie a first team start.

 

[Keen Blade]

Has anyone seen the goals from today’s game? Dear oh dear! Never seen anything like it. I’d say at least 6 of them were from Crewe trying to play out from the back. What were they thinking? If you watch the goals you’ll see what I mean.

Playing out from the back is feckin ridiculous unless you are Man City - I wish our first team wouldn't do it - never gets us over halfway if pressed.
Every team tries to do it these days and it's not only boring but risky too.

 

[Keen Blade]

Will Wilder be brave enough to give only just turned 18 year old One' or 16 year old Beattie a first team start this season?

Be nice to see and do wonders for their future transfer values.

Antoine Hackford played in the Prem for us and he's worth about 10 bob

 

[Keen Blade]

Strong line up for today’s game against Crewe. There’s no live stream, unfortunately.

Four first teamers in there

 

[Keen Blade]

RND, Brooks and Davies all off at H-T

Not realistic with Men v boys but I suppose these needed match minutes

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Confidence also needs development. Crewe can’t have much of that.

The very fact that they persisted even when it was costing them repeatedly is a measure of the confidence they have in the way they have been told to play.

They will make mistake after mistake and let in goal after goal, and over time they will continue to learn.

Wilder said it himself in his interview before Stoke, in fact he says it repeatedly in press conferences: "We want players to take more chances. Risk and reward."

Against Stoke, Burrows was cornered and surrounded deep in the left back position but he didn't take the safe simple option and hoof it into the stands, instead under severe pressure he found a logn diagonal ball out to Gilchrist which led to a very promising attack. Risk and reward. Development football.

That time when Cooper nearly gifted them a chance. Risk and reward. Development football.

If teams like Crewe are well managed - and I bet they are - then the players will see the result as entirely, completely, totally, and utterly irrelevant. They will keep looking for passes, they will keep looking to turn defence into attack, and they will develop into better players because of it.

 

[bornablade]

If we now have to accept the 'Pep playing out from the back' is the future then let's at least mix things up durng a game.

Moore is often seen looking to make those runs into the channels when the opposition defence has pushed up further. He appears a frustrated figure when the ball remains in our midfield or at the back being passed square or back.

It was pleasing last Saturday to see some long balls (from Souttar in particular) that were hit diagonally over to JRS. We now have a 'footballing' goalkeeper. Let's use his abilities to our advantage.

Liverpool mix it up. Salah sitting on the shoulder of the last defender waiting for a Van Dyk long ball. Those channels are where we could create so many chances.

 

[ATL Recs]

The very fact that they persisted even when it was costing them repeatedly is a measure of the confidence they have in the way they have been told to play.

They will make mistake after mistake and let in goal after goal, and over time they will continue to learn.

Wilder said it himself in his interview before Stoke, in fact he says it repeatedly in press conferences: "We want players to take more chances. Risk and reward."

Against Stoke, Burrows was cornered and surrounded deep in the left back position but he didn't take the safe simple option and hoof it into the stands, instead under severe pressure he found a logn diagonal ball out to Gilchrist which led to a very promising attack. Risk and reward. Development football.

That time when Cooper nearly gifted them a chance. Risk and reward. Development football.

If teams like Crewe are well managed - and I bet they are - then the players will see the result as entirely, completely, totally, and utterly irrelevant. They will keep looking for passes, they will keep looking to turn defence into attack, and they will develop into better players because of it.

I’ve seen many a talented footballer broken and lost to the game thanks to development football
To learn and develop it must be enjoyable fun and measurable getting stuffed every week can stifle that
And what development did our team get, bugger all.

 

[Ned the Donkey]

I’ve seen many a talented footballer broken and lost to the game thanks to development football

And presumably many more lost to the alternative. Which is why there has been root and branch reform over the past 20 years.

To learn and develop it must be enjoyable fun and measurable getting stuffed every week can stifle that

They won't be getting stuffed every week, maybe you're thinking about non-Academy junior football, which is different.

And what development did our team get, bugger all.

This is exactly the point FFS. Superficially, "We won 10-0! That'll show em" (or whatever the score was), but there's every chance Crewe got more out of this game than we did.

Maybe the best we can say we got out of this is recovering players getting game time, and that is not nothing.

Again. The result is irrelevant.

The aim of the game is for Crewe to persist in passing the ball. The aim of the game for us is to get some players a runaround.

The result is irrelevant.

This is not first team football.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Trialist signing it seems

'Next Rio Ferdinand' set for Championship move after quitting Man City in summer

Former West Ham prodigy Jamal Baptiste is close to a move to Sheffield United after opting to leave Premier League champions Manchester City at the end of last season

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[anglian blade]

I seem to recall we beat Donny 10-0 in the County Cup in the 80's. Or did I dream it?

I had the same dream

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

 

[Greystones Blade]

1-0 up - Boyes after 3 mins ..says sofascore

 

[Addison]

Baptiste, Blacker, Hampson, Tinsdale, Eason not included. Assume will be part of squad for FA Cup game. Waldron and Dovy back from loans

 

[Greystones Blade]

HT 1-0 up

 

[Bath Blade]

On the subject of U21s, Preston have got a promising young striker playing for their U21s tonight, and he’s just scored.

 

[Greystones Blade]

FT won 1-0

 

[Greystones Blade]

Report here

Burnley 0-1 Under 21s - report

United's Under 21s returned to winning ways in their first game of 2025, sealing an important win away at Professional Development League North rivals Burnley to re-establish a six-point lead at the top of the table.

www.sufc.co.uk

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

How come they didn't play for a month?

 

[Silent Blade]

How come they didn't play for a month?

The U21s seasons usually have a long break around xmas