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Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:07 pm

Is there any coincidence in Neil Harris statement when he mentioned the football ethic to the area being very important to the fans.I believe Moore will get better backing because he is in the Welsh set up than maybe other players even if he starts off slow.
I for one love a Welsh player in a City shirt and vice versa.
Ampadu on loan anyone?

Cue the Bale and Ramsay comments :laughing6:

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:26 pm

Ampadu would be a great loan signing

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:40 pm

cardiff 74 wrote:Ampadu would be a great loan signing


It would also be a good loan for him too, not just us.

From what I've seen he's got everything he needs to succeed as a holding midfield player and, despite Bacuna having a great season, we could do with strengthening in there. Ampadu is now at the stage where he needs to get regular games under his belt :bluebird:

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:11 pm

Inaki Williams would be another amazing, Welsh loan signing from Liverpool. In a position we need to strengthen too, right back.

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:38 pm

Adama Traore is from Bargoed

:)

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:42 pm

cardiff 74 wrote:Ampadu would be a great loan signing


Looks like United want to loan out Dylan Levitt. Bit of an unknown quantity but wonder how he’d get on here.

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:55 pm

Foghorn 65 wrote:Adama Traore is from Bargoed

:)



Not getting mixed up with Bilboa are you :laughing6:
Be a good back for Mendz Laing :laughing6:

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:36 pm

theclaw wrote:
Foghorn 65 wrote:Adama Traore is from Bargoed

:)



Not getting mixed up with Bilboa are you :laughing6:
Be a good back for Mendz Laing :laughing6:



Not confusing Bilbao with Bargoed. Though it is hard not to :bluebird: :D

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:12 pm

Pity with the Liverpool thing of the past - Harry Wilson on loan would have been another ;)

Neco Williams and Ben Woodburn another 2 at the Pool .

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:17 pm

I think at least half of our team should be Welsh like the old days to give us our Welsh Identity but it’s not going to happen unless we get our Academy developing local players. At least with Keiffer we have two members of the Welsh team in our squad!y

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:16 pm

HarriRhys22 wrote:I think at least half of our team should be Welsh like the old days to give us our Welsh Identity but it’s not going to happen unless we get our Academy developing local players. At least with Keiffer we have two members of the Welsh team in our squad!y



when did in the old days happen ?

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:50 pm

At one point we had Margetson, Gabbidon, Collins, Weston, Ledley and Parry in the first team.

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:54 am

r_lecrass wrote:At one point we had Margetson, Gabbidon, Collins, Weston, Ledley and Parry in the first team.

don’t forget jason Bowen and Andy Legg as well at same time

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:33 am

r_lecrass wrote:At one point we had Margetson, Gabbidon, Collins, Weston, Ledley and Parry in the first team.


My memory is a bit dodgy but I'm sure we had games in League 1 cancelled due to international call ups.

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:58 am

Tony Blue Williams wrote:
r_lecrass wrote:At one point we had Margetson, Gabbidon, Collins, Weston, Ledley and Parry in the first team.


My memory is a bit dodgy but I'm sure we had games in League 1 cancelled due to international call ups.

we did

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:32 pm

r_lecrass wrote:At one point we had Margetson, Gabbidon, Collins, Weston, Ledley and Parry in the first team.



yes indeed, though Margetson is stretching it a bit, he did play games but was never what you would call 1st choice... and in the big scheme of things having a large contingent did not last very long.... going back to our very first league game and the 27 cup final , Scottish manager and teams full of non welshmen.. Wales does not and has not produced enough of roughly the same quality to have a decent sized core at a club... you end up sort of with above.. a couple good enough to play at a higher club who will be snapped up and a couple you think you can improve on who you replace and who then go in the other direction..

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:50 pm

Me too, certainly makes a bit more sense singing welsh songs to welsh players, welsh flags when we travel away , we absolutely must have some welsh players out there, even if quite a few of them these days are as Welsh as a zebra. I agree with the poster who says that we can't produce enough good players to have a welsh heavy squad, even Klopp said recently his dream is a squad full of scousers, that won't happen , all clubs want a team of their own kind, a true representation of where your from, and in a perfect world there would be rules in place to make it mandatory, if that was the case teams like West Ham, Southamptonetc would be playing in Europe. Difference with us welsh teams, we don't want just players from our area, but our country

Re: Love having Welsh in our team.

Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:02 pm

tangledupinblue wrote:Me too, certainly makes a bit more sense singing welsh songs to welsh players, welsh flags when we travel away , we absolutely must have some welsh players out there, even if quite a few of them these days are as Welsh as a zebra. I agree with the poster who says that we can't produce enough good players to have a welsh heavy squad, even Klopp said recently his dream is a squad full of scousers, that won't happen , all clubs want a team of their own kind, a true representation of where your from, and in a perfect world there would be rules in place to make it mandatory, if that was the case teams like West Ham, Southamptonetc would be playing in Europe. Difference with us welsh teams, we don't want just players from our area, but our country




yep but its a small nation... if you look at Wales and England population combined we account for roughly 1/20 th... so if all was level and even a premier team full of welshmen.. only the prem squads are half foreign, so half a team of welshmen at that level... which is where we are i think...
i keep reading academy complaints but the reality is as a nation let alone a club apart from a couple of clusters we have never produced numbers...