Academy 8th October

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The club web site has confirmed this weeks FA Youth Cup second qualifying round game is on Thursday 8th October, ko 7.45, against Hamworthy at the Silverlake. Spectators welcome and entry is £5.

This will be the second year scholars, as it is an u18 competition. They play in the National League u19 Youth Alliance in Division E as Eastleigh u19 Yellows. So far this year they have won 4-1 at Aldershot, drawn 1-1 at Dover and beaten Sutton 4-0 at home, all in the league. Eastleigh have been exempt to this round of the FA Youth Cup. From the games I have seen this year I have been most impressed with the team captain at that age group, Jack Mann, but there are also a host of others that look very decent players.

Opponents Hamworthy beat Gosport 6-0 in the preliminary round and Havant & W 3-1 in the first round.

So should be a decent game and well worth the, FA mandated, entrance fee.

The EDS  (u19) squad drew 0-0 away at Oxford City on Wednesday whilst the Yellow (u18) and White (17) National Youth Alliance sides, who were both playing Whyteleaf, had their games postponed because of tonight's FA Youth Cup and the fact Whyteleaf also playing in this round. 

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We are 3-2 up in the dying minutes. We led 3-0 at halftime.

[taylov]

Finished 4-2 to the Spitfires. 251 in attendance.

Mangotsfield in the next round.

[nkc]

It was a game where Hamworthy can also take a lot of pride from their performance despite being three down at HT. Their second half fightback meant it was an edge of your seat last ten minutes with Eastleigh hitting the bar, home keeper Bartram making a very good save, a 90th minute headed equaliser from a corner being disallowed for a push and Barrow wrapping up the win three minutes into stoppage time.

Decent entertainment for the 251 and a trip to Mangotsfield in the third qualifying round (week starting 19th Oct). They beat Keynsham 8-0 in round one and Yate Town 10-0 in round two.

Both the EDS squad (v Dover) and this U18 (Yellows) squad (v Maidstone) are due to be home next Wednesday (14th). So likely to be a 12 o'clock and 2pm kick off at Stoneham Complex next week. As I have said before worth a trip out if not working on Wednesday (free to get in). The Academy twitter feed will update the exact details early in the week, see link below

mobile.twitter.com/Eastleigh_Acad?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


Follow the details of the three Eastleigh Academy sides in the National League U19 Youth Alliance via link below. EDS are in National South, Whites (u17) are in Division D and Yellows (u18) are in Division E

fulltime-league.thefa.com/ProcessPublicSelect.do;jsessionid=7127AE7A71494DE9F6273002D775AC0D?psSelectedSeason=58579364&psSelectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=4&psSelectedDivision=86586371&psSelectedCompetition=0&psSelectedLeague=209426463

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Good to progress as a youth policy is important to the club. Mangotsfield first team are not having the best of starts having lost their first three league games, but they are a young team and I think it is very possible that some of the first team could be playing for the youth team.

[nkc]

Looking at the Mangotsfield first team that lost at Winchester there were three playing, or coming on as sub, that played in their academy 10-0 win against Yate, including the keeper.

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Considering Yate are in mid-table of the division above in which Mangotsfield play and are currently bottom of it is probably surprising that their youth team were beaten 10-0 by Mangotsfield's youth team.