Academy & U21s

[bluebruce]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

Curzon Ashton gave us a pennant at the toss up. 

We have them nowt.

Is this a thing? Exchanging pennants at kickoff in friendlies?

[arbitro]

9 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Is this a thing? Exchanging pennants at kickoff in friendlies?

Although not cast in stone it is usually done when the visiting team are from a senior league. And that is usually reciprocated by the visitors. There are some pennants I believe on display at Ewood from friendlies past.

[bluebruce]

4 minutes ago, arbitro said:

Although not cast in stone it is usually done when the visiting team are from a senior league. And that is usually reciprocated by the visitors. There are some pennants I believe on display at Ewood from friendlies past.

Fair enough, I was oblivious to this. Although I'm not sure the u21s could be expected to provide one. It's a bit hard to say it's a senior league when it's not even senior football.

[riverholmes]

On 31/07/2025 at 14:29, Hasta said:

Bizarre competition.

You'll be telling me next we don't get than much-desired trip to Wembley if we got to the final.

 

The National League teams play second strings, if the cup was not odd enough. With no relegation from PL2 and other dubious cup competitions (there's the European one Rovers entered where the U21s seem to play U18s from Spain etc) the whole system looks a mess.

[Upside Down]

17 hours ago, KentExile said:

We really are tinpot these days aren't we?

This doesn't need to be framed as a question.