Wales victory sheild squad

[jonesfach]

Originally Posted by GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo

The squads have been selected for the 2018 Cymru Cup, the annual tournament that sees 60 of the best Welsh qualified 14-year-old boys compete for a place in the season's first Wales U15 squad.

This year, the National Football Development Centre, Dragon Park, Newport, will host the prestigious tournament, which sees three squads, North Wales Regional, South Wales Regional and a Combined Regional team play over two days.

The action kicks off with a match between the Combined Regional Boys and North Wales Boys at 4pm on Tuesday July 24 before North play South and Combined play South the following day.

COMBINED REGIONAL SQUAD

Kian Jenkins - Swansea City

Joel Cotterill - Swansea City

Evan Watt - Swansea City

Tyler Evans - Swansea City

Morgan Williams - Wimbledon

Damian Widdas - Bristol Rovers

Jack Karadogan - Swansea City

Cameron Congreve - Swansea City

Ruben Davies - Swansea City

Cian Ashford - Cardiff City

Benjamin Purcell - Reading

Ben Hammond - Nottingham Forest

Daniel Morris – West Bromwich Albion

Aaron Bennett – Preston North End

Kai Evans – Stoke City

Jamie Whitworth – Blackburn Rovers

Zak Williams – Crewe Alexandra

Joel Green – Newcastle United

Murphy Bennett - Manchester City

Iwan Roberts - Liverpool

NORTH REGIONAL SQUAD

Liam Sykes - Llandudno

Josh Williams - Connahs Quay Nomads

Regan Jones - Connahs Quay Nomads

Euan Rowlandson – Bala Town

Gruff Ellis – Bala Town

Owain Price – Bala Town

Dylan Owen – Bala Town

Rhydian Williams – Bala Town

Wil Griffiths – Bala Town

Alex Ward-Jones - Bangor City

Iwan Jerman - Newtown

Adam Tunnadine – The New Saints

Daniel Burnett - The New Saints

Joseph Smith – Chester

Josh Green – Blackburn Rovers

Fenn Davies - Nottingham Forest

Sam Jones - Bangor City

Josh Stanley - Connahs Quay Nomads

Tom Henson – York City

Caio Evans - Wrexham

SOUTH REGIONAL SQUAD

Zak Jones - Risca

Cian Trollope - Risca

Iestyn Phillips - Cambrian & Clydach Vale

Ryan Bassett - Carmarthen Town

Leighton Otterson - Afan Lido

Joe English - Afan Lido

Ben Thomas - Afan Lido

Lewis Ridd - Afan Lido

Sam Demery - Pontardawe

Kenzie Clayton - Pontardawe

Gabe Kirkhough - Pontardawe

Tyrone Cadeau - Pontardawe

Ronnie Hollingshead - West Bromwich Albion

Kyle Kenniford - Cardiff City

Morgan Wigley - Cardiff City

Joel Colwill - Cardiff City

Harrison Bright - Cardiff City

Ryan Holmes - MK Dons

Jordan James - Birmingham City

Josh Carey - Chester

Our scouting in Wales can't be good enough or our training of young players not up to scratch. This list is embarrassing for a club of our stature ( 1 lad in those squads!) who put in more cash than a lot of these clubs.

Time for the board to wake up!

I take it you know the north and south squads have to come from Welsh academies!

[GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo]

Originally Posted by jonesfach

I take it you know the north and south squads have to come from Welsh academies!

More rubbish, you must try harder as this wasn't the case this year.

[GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo]

Originally Posted by Royal welsh red

Nice way to derail a positive thread with your own agenda.

Of course, our club slaos away moans about not funding the CoE properly because other clubs take our lads and it's not worth it, so they decide to do the same to the likes of Bala & Bangor who are doing a better job with less.

The hypocrisy and logic of the board at times is unfathomable.

[dixienormous]

Originally Posted by GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo

Well done to those lads.

Also highlights how quickly WPL clubs have caught up in the past 10 years since a big push for them all to have structured academies. Not bad considering those clubs rely heavily on volunteers and some put in as little as £30k a season which comes from a Welsh FA grant.


Just highlights the excuses a little more.

WPL caught up? I don't think it has. I'm fairly confident most WPL would get spanked if they played National league level. Don't get me started on their pathetic academies, stealing six year olds from their local clubs to play for these so called 'academies'- They're a joke mate.

[GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo]

Originally Posted by dixienormous

WPL caught up? I don't think it has. I'm fairly confident most WPL would get spanked if they played National league level. Don't get me started on their pathetic academies, stealing six year olds from their local clubs to play for these so called 'academies'- They're a joke mate.

I was taking in terms of academies, yeah they must be that pathetic that we've 'stolen' lads from Bangor, Bala, Gap Connahs Quay, Airbus and Cefn Druids over the past 3 years that I know of.

We're a joke mate.

[dixienormous]

Originally Posted by GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo

I was taking in terms of academies, yeah they must be that pathetic that we've 'stolen' lads from Bangor, Bala, Gap Connahs Quay, Airbus and Cefn Druids over the past 3 years that I know of.

I'm talking about local teams like Mold, Buckley, Flint etc....My lad plays for mold under 7 and they've got a brilliant team, all of them local lads. Now Connah's Quay and Airbus 'academies' are sniffing about, three have joined 'Airbus'. It's a joke and goes against the whole idea of playing for your local team. Football is ruined from grass roots up.

Fair enough if Everton, City or Liverpool come knocking but Airbus, Connah's Quay, Bala or Rhyl? You're having a laugh aren't you? Even the big clubs should leave the youngsters until they're about ten/eleven imo

[GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo]

Originally Posted by dixienormous

I'm talking about local teams like Mold, Buckley, Flint etc....My lad plays for mold under 7 and they've got a brilliant team, all of them local lads. Now Connah's Quay and Airbus 'academies' are sniffing about, three have joined 'Airbus'. It's a joke and goes against the whole idea of playing for your local team. Football is ruined from grass roots up.

Fair enough if Everton, City or Liverpool come knocking but Airbus, Connah's Quay, Bala or Rhyl? You're having a laugh aren't you? Even the big clubs should leave the youngsters until they're about ten/eleven imo

The number of lads who've moved from those clubs you've mentioned to Everton, City and Liverpool even ourselves is impressive and is good for Welsh football and gives them an opportunity to make a living out of the game. Although I agree on your point about leaving them until they're in secondary school.

Anyway, you seem to hate everything WPL for some reason.


The best bit is, we could have joined the structure temporarily while down in non league and had access to the same grants. Now we hear that some teams are facing explosion or had to leave leagues because we're non league.

It's nice to know we have so many with a finger on the pulse, with them giving people incorrect information too.

[jonesfach]

Originally Posted by GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo

More rubbish, you must try harder as this wasn't the case this year.

You Sir need to keep up. Just double checked with my man in the welsh camp.

[GiggityGiggityGiggityGoo]

Originally Posted by jonesfach

You Sir need to keep up. Just double checked with my man in the welsh camp.

How come a lad from Wrexham is named in the North regional Squad and another from Chester in the South regional Squad?
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It was the case in the past, it isn't anymore.