Academy update
10/31/2024 11:13 AM
The academy has experienced numerous changes following the club’s return to the Football League and academy manager Neil Cluxton offered an overview for the fans, focusing on the three main teams. "There's been some big changes. We're currently competing on about four or five fronts,” he said. "We've still got all the teams linked with the Trust playing in the National Education leagues and we're still accessing their players on a weekly basis. "Now we're back in the Football League, we're back in the EFL Youth Alliance League, which is an U18 league. "The games are predominantly on Saturday mornings, but we're playing quite a lot on a Friday morning down at Sheffield Hallam University. "We're doing okay, we had a tough start with a couple of heavy defeats but we've found our feet a little bit and become really hard to score against. "We can play three over-18s as well (in the U18 league) and that's really helped us.” The U18s currently sit eighth out of 25 teams in the north division, are unbeaten in the Youth Alliance Cup group stage and are into the second round of the FA Youth Cup after a 1-0 victory over Walsall in […]
