Wow Updated: ‘ Cardiff City Today ‘

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Wow what a game.


92nd min: Cian Ashford is shown a red card for an off-the-ball incident.





Darren Purses U21’S play away to Charlton’s U21’S Today:

City are able to put a good U21 team.



CHARLTON U21’S 5 CARDIFF CITY U21’S 5
H-T 2-3



Cardiff City U21 fixtures for the 2023/24 PDL campaign are as follows:

Tue Aug 15 Fleetwood Town 4 Cardiff City 1
Tue Aug 22 CARDIFF CITY 3 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 3
Sat Aug 26 Burnley 2 Cardiff City 2

Fri Sep 1 CARDIFF CITY 2 BARNSLEY 1
Tue Sep 12 Sheffield United 6 Cardiff City 2
Tue Sep 26 CARDIFF CITY 0 MILLWALL 1

Tue Oct 3 Ipswich Town 5 Cardiff City 2
Tue Oct 17 AFC BOURNEMOUTH H
Tue Oct 24 Watford 2 Cardiff City 2
Mon Oct 30 Queens Park Rangers 3 Cardiff City 2



Tue Nov 7 CARDIFF CITY 3 BRISTOL CITY 0


Tue Nov 21 COLCHESTER UNITED H
Mon Nov 27 Charlton Athletic 5 Cardiff City 5

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The Under 21 set up need to be re looked urgently. We are going backwards with Darren Purse. The style of football has not been the best and the players being sent to non league clubs are not benefitting their development.

I would be expecting players to be sent out on loan to at least league one or two. At the same time, these players should be pushing for first team football, especially at the age of 18 and 19. If there no signs of this, I would simply release the players.

Bulut and the hierarchy need to look at this urgently.

CCFC TEAM:

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H-T

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56mins: GOAL!! CAM ANTWI!

A brilliant low strike from the edge of the area beats the keeper! (2-4)

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Dam:

Goal for Charlton. Patrick Casey finds the bottom corner for his hat-trick. (3-4)

68th min: Goal. Casey strikes again. (4-4)

78th min: GOAL!!

Cian Ashford's cross is turned home by a Charlton defender! (4-5)

81st min: The Addicks level the score once again. (5-5)

92nd min:

Cian Ashford is shown a red card for an off-the-ball incident.

The Charlton player involved goes un-punished. (5-5)

U21 | What a game!

Goals galore, with the contest eventually ending level.

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What a game by the sound of it.

But we were 3-1 up and then 4-2 up at one point so disappointing they dropped two points.

Means our U21s have only won one of the last seven games.

Still convinced that Purse is not the right person for the job.

Didn’t Charlton beat us 5-4 when we went up to the Premier?

Didn’t Charlton beat us 5-4 when we went up to the Premier?

Was at that game at The Valley.

We went 2-0 up really early on, they then went on to lead 5-2. We got two very late goals to make it 5-4.

That was a crazy night down there.

The Under 21 set up need to be re looked urgently. We are going backwards with Darren Purse. The style of football has not been the best and the players being sent to non league clubs are not benefitting their development.

I would be expecting players to be sent out on loan to at least league one or two. At the same time, these players should be pushing for first team football, especially at the age of 18 and 19. If there no signs of this, I would simply release the players.

Bulut and the hierarchy need to look at this urgently.

was at an event last night with Darren talking to Cardiff fans, genuinely lovely bloke and he spoke about some of the issues facing the u23s league i think it is.

regards to loans, he said so because its "Wales to England" loans they're classed differently to normal loans, so clubs cannot have a player for 3 months, it is a minimum of 6 month only, the club do approach league clubs, but their attitude is, we don't want to have to have a player in for 6 months that hasn't got first team experience in men's football. he used Tom Davies as an example, saying he went to the Welsh league last year, had a few games of first team football against men, and Kilmarnock said, they were willing to take him in on loan this year because of it.

he also said about he could have a team set for the weekend to play, and then 3 or 4 players are called up to train with the first team and won't be available, the under 23s train in the same place as the first team, but the under 18s and lower train elsewhere, so he has to get referrals regarding who's training well.

he did say his remit by the club isn't results based, its development but the issue he is facing he said is some players are being challenged enough by playing under 23s, they need that next step to really push on and develop but its hard getting clubs to take them on. did say you could have 18-20 players, and maybe 2 of them go on and really develop break into a first team where as others might make a career in the game lower down.

really changed my view and perception on how i view the academy players to be honest.