The Notts Youth team completed its pre-season preparations on Saturday with a 2-3 defeat at Port Vale when only a late penalty stopped the young 'Pies from claiming something from the game.

Of the five games played, all away from home, they managed only one victory a 5-3 win against Central College at Basford United plus a 0-0 draw with Northampton Town and defeats at both Watford and Coventry City.

Having said that they have played some good football and with eight players progressing from last years' team to become this years' second year scholars - the team looks to have a sound basis for the coming season.

As always the youngsters are well drilled, get the ball down early and always try to play good football and have a trialist up front, scorer of both goals against Port Vale, who looks a real handful and I am looking forward to seeing more of this season.

@Shepshedpie2 Did you lose your password to your previous account? I'll fix your account by changing the password if you message me, then I will merge this one into the older account.

Thanks for sharing.

PS. Good to meet you yesterday.

Hi notts-Joe,

 

Good to meet you on Sunday too.  Thanks for introducing yourself - it is always good to put a face to a name - thanks.

 

The problem with my password was that I wasn't at my PC.  My PC gets me in automatically.  Yes please merge if you can but please keep the original one (this one). Thanks.

@Shepshedpie2 thanks for sharing, as an exile this information is useful.

thanks for sharing this, i also like reading about the youth team.

@shepshedpie if you have an android phone, there is a app inside the play store called tapatalk. you will find that will keep you logged in and its quick to navigate the forum here.