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FA Youth Cup
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Beat Eastbourne Borough 6-0 tonight, with a hattrick from Samuel Ayolie, plus goals from Lenny Brown, Ryan Doherty and Frankie Impey.
Ties our biggest ever win in the FA Youth Cup proper.
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Beat Merstham 2-1 tonight with a late penalty to progress to the Third Round.
Big boys now enter.
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The big boys may have entered, but it will be a trip to either Gillingham or Forest Green Rovers for us in the Third Round.
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They have followed it up by beating Cheltenham 10-1 today in a league fixture, with Lenny Brown bagging six of them.
It seems we have a genuinely talented crop of scholars at the minute, which can only be helped by them regularly training with our first team. Just imagine the difference in levels training with guys like Pidge versus training with a bunch of fellow kids. Not to mention the extra confidence it will give them, alongside the physical difference in the intensity and levels during training.
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That's really encouraging that we operate like that.
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Met one of these bunch yesterday on train just as we were pulling in the St Pancras , said he played in the cup game on Tues and travels up from Kent ,so seems the Academy is now attracting lads not from just locals.
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There was a rule that you had to live within a set distance of the club academy.
Obviously not anymore. Unless helicopter travel is the method used to time the journey.
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Yep think the Thameslink sponsorship helps as they pay the train travel for players from afield.
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Merstham at home in R2.
Their men's team plays at Step 4 of non-league.
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Good draw.Shame Ladies just went out last week, good game.
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Wonder if Doherty will go out in loan. If yes needs to be a worthwhile one though, no lower than Conf S , perhaps though Revs thinks just better here and training with first team ?
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He’s too young I believe. Don’t think he can go out on loan until he is 17 without a whole lot of hoops being jumped through by us and the club that would loan him.
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He was 17 in Aug hence allowing him to sign a pro contract.
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My bad. Thought he’d just turned 16!
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You're thinking of Freestone.
(You'll only get that if you follow me on X and haven't muted me)
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I do follow you, alas I’ve not been on X since it was known as Opal Fruits Twitter.
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He could play in league two quite comfortably from what I’ve seen.
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Put him in our FA Cup match?...
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It's a tough one on Saturday.
You want to give those who have played almost every league game a little break and also reward others who are training well and performing in the FLT matches, but at the same time Chesterfield are a decent side and it is the FA Cup so you absolutely don't want to risk getting knocked out by going too weak (not that the drop-off from our first XI as you may term it to our second XI is much of a factor, with many positions arguably level between the two competing players).
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Full strength, it’s the FA Cup. The trophy and league cup are for rotation.
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I’d go pretty much full strength.
Maybe give Orford a start.
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Indeed. I'm looking forward to Saturday.
Interesting to see what team Revs puts out.
It's the FA Cup baby!
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Strongest 11 possible should start, accepting if a player is tired or carrying a knock he gets a rest.. don't take risks.
But Kemp, Houghton and White should all start, which means Ryan D and Lewis O shouldn't.
Winning is a habit and the FA Cup is still a bit special. As Chuds says, they're not a bad side, it isn't a NL outfit full of plucky postmen and PE teachers.
Take a decent lead to kill rhe contest and make 4 changes at 65 minutes.
Ideally.
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