An experienced Everton Reserves side finally beat our young Newcastle Reserves side, 1-0 last night at the Halton Stadium in Widnes. Richard Money - urged the Reserves on late in the game The Toffees included first-team regulars Leighton Baines, Tony Hibbert and Victor Anichebe, and Newcastle had the talented 17 year-old youngster Kazenga LuaLua back after injury. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United Academy Director and Reserve team coach, Richard Money, is looking forward to his young charges turning in another good performance at Everton Reserves this evening, and make it five games on the trot without a defeat. His Under-18 side have had 6 wins in a row.    Nile Ranger - 17 year-old striker [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United Reserves will be back in action on Tuesday night, when they travel to Widnes to face Everton Reserves at the Halton Stadium. Kazenga LuaLua - back at last from ankle injury And the young Reserves side have almost as good a record as our Under-18 side with 4 games unbeaten, whereas our youngsters have 6 [. Click to continue reading...

Dallas blog, 3rd Degree has an interesting rumor posted on it's blog today about the status of the reserve league. Rumor is that the reserve league could get the ax by the league due to the travel costs needed to take the entire team to an away game instead of just having to take the game day roster. Click to continue reading...

The appearance of David N'Gog last Tuesday as a second half substitute was a surprising one, yet it says much about the quality of Liverpool's squad.

In explaining the substitution, Rafael Benitez said that he wanted to change things up front, to put on a striker who could perhaps add something different. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United Reserves, who are made up of a lot of our youngsters these days should really have made it four wins on the trot yesterday against Hull City, but had to settle for a 1-1 draw. Carroll - scored one last night but could have had a brace We say we should really have won it, [...] Click to continue reading...

Shola isn't the only member of  the Ameobi family currently scoring goals, as his younger brother Sammy last night scored two second half goals for Newcastle United Reserves, as they came from behind in the Central League Cup, with a solid 2-1 win at Hartlepool. Sammy Ameobi - two goals for the Reserves last night Early in [. Click to continue reading...

The Swope Park Rangers won their final game of the reserve league season, defeating the New England Revolution 3-0 last night after the first team's game. The reserves got goals from Ivan Trujillo and Lance Watson in the first half, before Michael Kraus finished out the scoring in the second half.

The win put the Rangers in a position to win the reserve league title if the Houston Dynamo reserves failed to win today against Chivas USA. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserves, aka Swope Park Rangers, close out their season this weekend in New England. The question about their canceled match against DC United has finally been answered. The game will not be made up, and the rumors of there being a forfeit will not be fulfilled. Instead, the reserve league title will be decided by points-per-game. Click to continue reading...

Joey Barton has just been named in Newcastle's reserve side to face Middlesbrough tonight, as the midfielder attempts to get some real match practice in, following his long lay-off out of the game. Joey Barton - plays for Reserves tonight Barton completed his six-match ban last night, that was handed down to him by The Football Association, [. Click to continue reading...

It has been a tough couple of months for Paul Anderson with a tigh injury holding him back from playing for Nottingham Forest, the club he joined on loan at the start of the season.

The winger had a superb loan spell with Swansea last season, helping them to promotion and winning their young player of the year award. Click to continue reading...

Stevenage Reserves are up against Luton Reserves tonight at Broadhall Way. Updates from the game will be live here. LIVE SCORE: Boro 2-0 Luton BORO: Bayes, Wilson, Anaclet, McDevitt, Albrighton, Vincenti, Drury, Mills, Black, Willock, Thomas SUBS: Anderson, Balderson, Burke, Brinkman, Martin LUTON: Brill, Deeney, Wood, Barker, Roper, Biggi, Farthing, McVeigh, Andrews, Charles, Owusu SUBS: Hogarth, Fletcher, Watkins, Da Silva 1 min: [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United's promising young Dutch Under-21 international goalkeeper Tim Krul admits he would be keen to go out on loan again this season to get some games. Tim Krul - will probably go out on loan again this season The Hague-born youngster, who said during the summer that he just loves being at the Newcastle club, spent [. Click to continue reading...

Stevenage will have to beat Ryman Premier side Horsham if they are to progress into the first round proper of this season's FA Cup. Horsham beat Paulton Rovers by 2 goals to 1 on Saturday to advance to the 4th qualifying round. They will be looking for a similar run to last season when they [...] Click to continue reading...

Niles Ranger, our 17 year old striker, signed quietly from Southampton in the summer, was a a handful all night against Wigan, but he still ended up on the losing side tonight for Newcastle Reserves. Niles Ranger - one for the future? Steve Harper and David Edgar were given run-outs to ensure their match fitness, in case [. Click to continue reading...

Summer signings Amaury Bischoff and Mikael Silvestre are set to make their Arsenal debuts tonight - in a reserve game against Stoke City. Bischoff, 21, signed on a free transfer after his contract expired at Werder Bremen while former Manchester United defender Silvestre, signed towards the end of August after agreeing a move. Click to continue reading...

Summer signings Amaury Bischoff and Mikael Silvestre are set to make their Arsenal debuts tonight - in a reserve game against Stoke City. Bischoff, 21, signed on a free transfer after his contract expired at Werder Bremen while former Manchester United defender Silvestre, signed towards the end of August after agreeing a move. Click to continue reading...

Two first half goals by Ryan Pore were enough to lead the KC Wizards reserves to a victory over the Chicago Fire this evening at Community America Ballpark, after the first team game against the Fire. Thanks to a season ticket holder perk, I was able to watch the game from the "expensive" seats field side, and sample the Wizards' Drop Kick Ale that they have. Click to continue reading...

Last week I was critical of the current situation with the reserves and how the over-crowding there was preventing promising academy players from making the step up. Thankfully there's since been some excellent news in that Nathan Eccleston has been promoted to the Melwood set-up. Here's what the official site had to say:

Nathan Eccleston has become the latest Academy graduate to make the move to Melwood on a permanent basis.

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Daryl McMahon could be out for longer than was first feared as Phil Wallace said in his programme notes that X-Rays had confirmed that McMahon has broken his ankle. This all stems from the Altrincham game where Boro ran out 3-0 winners. Chris Lane, who else, made a tackle near the East Terrace and only got a [. Click to continue reading...

Games with Chelsea tend to be quite memorable and hyped up. Little, however, was made of the most recent encounter between the two clubs. Admittedly it was the two sides' reserve teams that met yet, given that they play in different sections of the league, it was an unusual encounter nevertheless.

It may still turn out to be a memorable one, however, as the friendly featured the first reserve team appearance of Lauri Della Valle. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserves took care of business in their friendly today, defeating William Jewell College 3-0 out at the training complex this morning. Goals by Ivan Trujillo, Michael Kraus, and Ryan Pore led the team to the win. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday's team selection against York underlined Boro's lack of depth at the back. With Luke Oliver missing after picking up a knock against Grays, Graham Westley opted to play Michael Bostwick alongside Ronnie Henry in defence. Instead of moving Albrighton to centre half and bringing in Anaclet, Westley unsettled both the midfield and defence and paid [. Click to continue reading...

There were many dissenting voices to my article about the academy and whether players coming through it are being ostracized both in the comments on this blog as well as on the forums that picked it up.

The main arguments were that, if good enough, players will come through and, even though I've got my reservations about that (would Jamie Carragher have made it at Liverpool if he'd come through now? Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle Reserve side suffered another defeat at Whitley Park last night, when they were beaten 3-0 by an experienced Sheffield United side. Richard Money - pleased with young Reserves display But Richard Money, who is now in charge of the Reserves after the Board sacked local coach Adam Sadler, believes his young Reserve players will benefit [. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's reserves lost in the league for the first time in over a year last week, a record that brings back happy memories of an era where the second string used to routinely win the Pontins League under the guidance of future first team manager Roy Evans.

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The KC Wizards reserves had no problem taking down the Toronto FC reserves this morning out at the Wizards Swope Park training complex. Ivan Trujillo had a hattrick as the reserves beat Toronto 6-0 today. The first half for the game was fairly quiet, as the Wizards and Toronto didn't have many great chances. Click to continue reading...

Stevenage entertain Watford tonight at 7pm in their 3rd match of the reserve season. 3 trialists are set to play for Boro tonight. Trevor Benjamin, formerly of Leicester and Cambridge is in the starting eleven. BORO TEAM STEVE SMITH, Anaclet, McDevitt, Vincenti, Willock, LESLIE THOMPSON, Upson, Mills, L Cole, TREVOR BENJAMIN, Thomas WATFORD TEAM Loach, Hodson, Parkes, Bangura, Avinel, Bennett, Yildrim, Jenkins, [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle's outstanding young goalkeeper, 20 year-old Tim Krul will make his first competitive appearance for Newcastle United in nearly two seasons, when he turns out for the Reserves at Bolton on Wednesday evening. Tim Krul - starts for Reserves tomorrow night The young Dutchman has made only one senior appearance for Newcastle, but was the star man [. Click to continue reading...

Crawley went top of the Blue Square Premier table, beating then leaders Mansfield 2-1 at the Broadfield Stadium. Goals from Adam Quinn and Jamie Cook were enough to give the Sussex side the 3 points. The point at Broadhall Way between us and Crawley, when we weren't particularly playing well now looks like 1 point [. Click to continue reading...

Earlier this week, the Wizards reserves game with DC United's reserves was canceled. This game was originally supposed to take place on the opening weekend of the season, but was canceled then due to United's play in the CONCACAF Champion's Cup. While the Hillcrest write up linked above says that no make up date has been announced, DC is saying that the game will in fact not be madeup at all this year. Click to continue reading...

Boro Reserves were beaten 3-0 at London Road this afternoon by Peterborough United Reserves in their second reserve game of the season. Boro drew their first reserve game of the season 1-1 at home against Wycombe Wanderers. First team players like Callum Willock, Ed Upson, Peter Vincenti and Michael Jordan were in the team, but couldn't help prevent a [. Click to continue reading...

Arsene Wenger told Sky Sports News that he has no interest in letting any more players leave the club and won't recruit any more bodies into the paper-thin Arsenal squad before deadline day ends in the next 4 hours. The 58-year-old Frenchman was speaking before the Arsenal Reserve side took on Chelsea at Undehill - a [. Click to continue reading...

WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 31, 2008) – The D.C. United reserves defeated the New York Red Bulls reserves 2-1 Sunday morning at the RFK Training Complex on the strength of two goals by Ryan Cordeiro. With the win, United moves to 5-4-1 (16 pts.) while the Red Bulls dropped to 2-5-0 (6 pts.) in the MLS Reserve Division.

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D.C. United's reserves are in New Jersey this morning, playing the New York Red Bull's reserves in their ninth reserve game of the year. United is 4-3-1 (13 points) on the season. We'll provide you with periodic updates below and bring you the full match summary when we receive it.

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