‘Cardiff City this evening were totally outplayed ‘

Hull City U23’s give Cardiff City U23’S a hammering this season and outplayed Cardiff for the majority of the game, that’s only 2 wins now from Cardiff’s last 10 games after an amazing first-half of the season, which looks likely to cost Cardiff promotion to a higher quality league


U23’s manager Darren Purse has only won 2 in 10 games.





The two sides come into today's clash both sitting in 3rd position in their respective leagues; the Bluebirds are third in the PDL South behind Bristol City and Ipswich Town, whilst the Tigers are chasing Sheffield United and Coventry City in the PDL North.

Cardiff need to win these games if they are to go to a higher standard next season, originally the Bluebirds were running away with this league, but with only 2 wins in their last 9 games under Darren Purse, a win is needed tonight.



U23s Manager Darren Purse offered his pre-match thoughts, hoping that his team can utilise the experience they gained from playing at Cardiff City Stadium last week.

"It's a game that we should be looking to go and try and win," he began. "You can see the improvements in the boys every week, even though we are a young side. Hopefully the stuff we've worked on this week will come out in the game, and we'll improve on the performance from the Barnsley game.





HULL CITY U23’S 3 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 0
H-T 1-0
5:30pm


A strong Cardiff City U23 team named with a few of these will join the Cardiff first team squad next season:

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“ CARDIFF CITY’S U23’S 2021-22 “





Played 21. W13 D 2 L 6





CARDIFF CITY U23’S 1 WIGAN U23’S 0


CARDIFF CITY U23’S 3 PETERBOROUGH U23’S 1


SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY U23’S 0 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 3


CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2 SHEFFIELD UNITRD U23’S 0



CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2 MILLWALL U23’S 0


CARDIFF CITY U23’S 4 CHARLTONS U23’S 1




IPSWICH TOWN U23’S 1 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2




SWANSEA CITY U23’S 1 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 3




QPR U23’s 1 CARDIFF CITY U23’s 3






CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2 COLCHESTER U23’S 0




CARDIFF CITY U23’S 4 WATFORD U23’S 0




MILLWALL U23’S 2 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 0


CARDIFF CITY U23’S 0 IPSWICH TOWN U23’S 2




CARDIFF CITY U23’S 1 SWANSEA U23’S 1 hmmmm




BRISTOL CITY U23’S 3 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 3






CARDIFF CITY U23’S 0 QPR U23’S 2




CARDIFF CITY U23’S 1 BRISTOL CUTY U23’S 3




WATFORD U23’S 0 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2




COLCHESTER UNITED U23'S 2 CARDIFF CITY U23'S 1



CARDIFF CITY U23’S 2 BARNSLEY U23’S 0



HULL CITY U23’S 3 CARDIFF CITY U23’S 0

A strong Cardiff City U23 team named with a few of these who will join the Cardiff first team squad next season:

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17th min:
Siyabonga Ligendza has the ball in the Hull net, but the linesman’s flag is up


Hull are all over Cardiff.

24th min:Hull take the lead. Jarvis nets the opening goal of the game. (1-0)

Hull City U23’S


H-T 1-0

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- The Tigers double their lead. (2-0)

Hull are battering Cardiff

3nil Hull

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“ CARDIFF CITY’S U18’S 2021-22 “






PL21 : W5 D5 L11







HULL CITY U18’S 3 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 2
H-T 0-1



COVENTRY CITY U18'S 0 CARDIFF CITY U18'S 0
H-T 0-0


WIGAN U18’S 7 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 1




COLCHESTER UNITED U18’S 3 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 3 Hmmmmm



CARDIFF CITY U18’S 3 CHARLTON ATHLETIC U18’S 4



CARDIFF CITY'S U 18'S 6 IPSWICH TOWNS U18'S 1




SWANSEA U18'S 0 CARDIFF CITY U18'S 2


SWANSEA C U18’S 0 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 3
PDL Cup



MILLWALL U18'S 3 CARDIFF CITY U18'S 0





CARDIFF CITY U18’S 1 WATFORD I18’S 2 FA CUP 3RD RD




CARDIFF CITY U18’S 1 WATFORD U18’S 1




BRISTOL CITY U 18’S 1 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 4



WATFORD U18’S 0 CARDIFF CITY U18’S 0




CARDIFF CITY U18'S 1 BRISTOL CITY U18'S 1





CARDIFF CITY U18’S 1 SWANSEA CITY U18’S 2




WIGAN U18's 4 CARDIFF CITY U18'S 3



CARDIFF CITY U’S 2 COLCHESTER UNITED U’S 3




CHARLTON U18'S 2 CARDIFF CITY'S U18'S 1





CARDIFF CITY U18’S 3 MILLWALL U18’S 5



CARDIFF CITY U18’S 5 CREWE U18’S 1



BARNSLEY U18’S v CARDIFF CITY U18’S

Almost a pointless league (U23)

Handy for half or a full season for graduating the decent U18's we are keeping on as pro's. But by 19 they need to be knocking on the door or out on loan at whatever level getting first team football.

The chances of a club like ours having a good enough squad of U23 to make it at the higher level is remote. Its a proving ground and we have been guilty of keeping kids in there too long (Tommy O'Sullivan springs to mind)

Bellers got us where we are now with the influx of talent by culling nearly all of the U23's a few seasons ago and got the U18's playing in the U23's

Almost a pointless league (U23)

Handy for half or a full season for graduating the decent U18's we are keeping on as pro's. But by 19 they need to be knocking on the door or out on loan at whatever level getting first team football.

The chances of a club like ours having a good enough squad of U23 to make it at the higher level is remote. Its a proving ground and we have been guilty of keeping kids in there too long (Tommy O'Sullivan springs to mind)

Bellers got us where we are now with the influx of talent by culling nearly all of the U23's a few seasons ago and got the U18's playing in the U23's

I totally agree, Bells cleared all the dead wood and revamped us top to bottom.
Did a great job.

Any idea why George Ratcliffe wasn't involved today? I noted the other U23 GK was on the bench against Reading. Ratcliffe was seen as someone mooted to make it to the first team at one stage but I heard that this may not now be the case. He could of course be injured or ill but as said, I noted his ommision on Saturday and now today and thought someone may know why.

A strong Cardiff City U23 team named with a few of these who will join the Cardiff first team squad next season:

If that’s a “strong side” then one must have been drinking something?

It’s a young side which I’d expect this time of season.

A strong Cardiff City U23 team named with a few of these who will join the Cardiff first team squad next season:

If that’s a “strong side” then one must have been drinking something?

It’s a young side which I’d expect this time of season.

I totally agree with you. No way this can be described as a strong side. I checked the date of birth of the players on duty for the game. There were 2 out of the 15 that I couldn't find and obviously we don't know who the trialist was. The average age of the rest was 18.4 years. Personally I think that's very young for an U23 team.

Do we not need to be in the top academy status for any chance of promotion anyway?