Notts' youth team have started the season as they traditionally do these days - slowly!

 

With only one league win in their first five games it is hoped the team will get stronger as the season progresses as they have done over recent seasons.

 

This morning the youth team were up against a Scunthorpe team who had started the season so much better than Notts with only a single defeat in their first six games and were sat fourth in the table - so with three players out with injuries the Notts youth team were going to have a tough game on their hands.

 

From the start Notts battled well with the teams appeared evenly matched but on the 26th minute Notts fell behind with a goal from George Barmby, brother of our loanee Jack and son of ex England player Nick Barmby - which obviously explained his presence on the touch line. 

 

Scunthorpe had the best of the remaining first half but failed to add to the scoreline.

 

The second half saw Notts step up the intensity and they began to get more into the game.  This pressure paid off when Kieran Blaney took advantage of a goalmouth scramble to bundle the ball over the line to equalise on 55 minutes.  Only three minutes later Yohan Rutty-Smith hit a 25 yard drive into the bottom corner of the net to give Notts the lead 2-1.  A keenly contested game was finally ended just before the end when Montel Gibson nodded in from a corner to secure all three points.

 

A really good battling comeback from the young 'Pies after they went behind.

 

As the first team are playing tomorrow the whole playing staff were just leaving the training ground as we arrived down there.  A few of the senior pros stayed and watched some of the youth game, with Alan Smith staying to watch the whole game as he chatted with Nick Barmby.

 

Ricardo Moniz, looking for all the world like he had arrived on a flight only a few minutes earlier, smartly dressed and dragging his suitcase behind him, didn't watch any of the game and was whisked away by his chauffeur - well actually it was a big white van driven by Dean Yates!

   

Here's hoping for a similar result tomorrow.

 

COYP!

 

 

 

 

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yohan rutty smith is impressing played in reserves a few times only 17 looks a good defender and that Jordan agahstie the other centre back we signed

Thanks for the report @[member="shepshedpie"] well done the young pies.

Was this played at Highfields? I heard Dave Regis made his way down to watch them? This may have been the academy though, not the youth team.

Thanks for sharing Dave, appreciate your help as always.