City in the CheckATrade Trophy

[gavin]

https://www.mancity.com/news/eds/eds-news/2017/june/man-city-to-enter-checkatrade-trophy

Should be good experience for the kids to play lower league teams

[bluebrendan]

I'll be hoping our kids get drawn away to Blackpool or Fleetwood for convenience. 

[gavin]

City won on penalties in their first match in the competition at Rotherham. It went straight to pens after a 1-1 draw after 90 mins. Garre scored for City. We don't play in it now until the 24th October at Bradford. Difficult to know what to make of it.

[goat]

is this the old auto windscreens thing?

[gavin]

Yes, it is

[bluebrendan]

A decent result considering the side we put out was more like an U-19 than an U-23 team.

[gavin]

Looks like it was mainly Rotherham reserves also though.

[bluebrendan]

Looks like it was mainly Rotherham reserves also though.

I notice their goal was scored by ex-City academy graduate David Ball, another in the long list of ex-players to score against us. 

[gavin]

Goals and the winning pen are at the link below, we're about the third game shown.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/manchester-city/10990869/checkatrade-trophy-goals

[Paddy]

Anyone know why we stopped sending youth teams to the compete in the Milk cup in Coleraine NI

[goat]

Yes, it is

fucks sake, when we having a team in the zombie  anglo-italian cup?