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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 01 Feb 23 9.17am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

I think this one slipped below the radar. Apparently we have signed this young lad from Cork City.

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Since that report there are tweets that he has signed but Like Dylan Reid no official confirmation from the club.

Perhaps they are delaying the announcement until today to give the lads some visibility?


 


One more point

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 01 Feb 23 9.35am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Haven't we got enough good 18 yr olds of our own?

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View MrRobbo's Profile MrRobbo Flag Purley 01 Feb 23 9.49am Send a Private Message to MrRobbo Add MrRobbo as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

Haven't we got enough good 18 yr olds of our own?

Obviously not!

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 01 Feb 23 9.57am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by MrRobbo

Obviously not!

Ah, you say that, but.......If you're right he must be very, very good.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View MrRobbo's Profile MrRobbo Flag Purley 01 Feb 23 10.19am Send a Private Message to MrRobbo Add MrRobbo as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

Ah, you say that, but.......If you're right he must be very, very good.

He doesn't need to be very very good, he jsut needs to be better than what we have.

If he was much much worse we wouldn't have signed him.

I think people lose sight of the fact that jsut because our youth teams seam to be doing well, they are all amazing and first team players in the making. In reality, the best 18-20 year olds in the country are not playing youth football, they are playing men's football.

Franco has obviously showed that he can compete at a first team level, and is also in the Ireland national youth teams.

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 01 Feb 23 11.22am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by MrRobbo

He doesn't need to be very very good, he jsut needs to be better than what we have.

If he was much much worse we wouldn't have signed him.

I think people lose sight of the fact that jsut because our youth teams seam to be doing well, they are all amazing and first team players in the making. In reality, the best 18-20 year olds in the country are not playing youth football, they are playing men's football.

Franco has obviously showed that he can compete at a first team level,and is also in the Ireland national youth teams.

I don't deny you make a fair point MrR, we must assume our scouting staff have decided he's worth a punt. On a personal level I'm not convinced when I look at some of the players we've brought in.

I've now started to fantasise about a match between the Irish youth and Palace's youngsters. Not sure that's a strong point in favour of Umeh, but it would be fun to test it out.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View ASCPFC's Profile ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 01 Feb 23 11.25am Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

I don't deny you make a fair point MrR, we must assume our scouting staff have decided he's worth a punt. On a personal level I'm not convinced when I look at some of the players we've brought in.

I've now started to fantasise about a match between the Irish youth and Palace's youngsters. Not sure that's a strong point in favour of Umeh, but it would be fun to test it out.


Palace would win. I'd heard about this guy though. Can't remember what but there was certainly promise. I think West Ham were linked, possibly Liverpool.

 


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View ASCPFC's Profile ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 01 Feb 23 11.26am Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Delaney was Cork.

 


Red and Blue Army!

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 01 Feb 23 11.31am Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by MrRobbo

He doesn't need to be very very good, he jsut needs to be better than what we have.

If he was much much worse we wouldn't have signed him.

I think people lose sight of the fact that jsut because our youth teams seam to be doing well, they are all amazing and first team players in the making. In reality, the best 18-20 year olds in the country are not playing youth football, they are playing men's football.

Franco has obviously showed that he can compete at a first team level, and is also in the Ireland national youth teams.

Jude Bellingham maybe an outlier but he's 19 and has 22 caps.

 

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View MrRobbo's Profile MrRobbo Flag Purley 01 Feb 23 11.49am Send a Private Message to MrRobbo Add MrRobbo as a friend

Jude is quite the outlier, its ridiculous the level his is playing at for his age.

I guess the point was about not getting too carried away with the U18/21/23 performances.

If they are really good (even at 18/19) then they aren't in the youth teams, they are out playing Men's football.

 

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View sydtheeagle's Profile sydtheeagle Flag England 01 Feb 23 12.41pm Send a Private Message to sydtheeagle Add sydtheeagle as a friend

These signings are throwing s*** against a wall and hoping some of it sticks. We've had one after another over the years...Scott Banks (now starring at Bradford City) was the latest Celtic messiah a couple of years ago but it goes all the way back to Rory Ginty and Brian Launders and beyond. I've nothing against this sort of deal; it makes sense and is always worth the gamble hoping eventually one of them comes good but let's be honest, it's nothing to get excited about.

 


Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

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View doombear's Profile doombear Flag Too far from Selhurst Park 01 Feb 23 12.43pm Send a Private Message to doombear Add doombear as a friend

Originally posted by MrRobbo

Jude is quite the outlier, its ridiculous the level his is playing at for his age.

I guess the point was about not getting too carried away with the U18/21/23 performances.

If they are really good (even at 18/19) then they aren't in the youth teams, they are out playing Men's football.


And, usually on loan to a lower division.

 

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