Ah bolloxs missed this with a stupid hangover, any further news on Bradys injury? Morrison and Petrucci are genuinely fantastic prospects
Academy versus West Brom
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Wow this is going well..
Penalty for a foul on Ajose saved by the keeper to deny Petrucci his hat trick
Great save by the keeper, not a bad penalty from Davide at all.
Not that it matters at this stage but paddy power did a full market on this mornings match and betting in running, havent see that before for the academy
No it was actually in the corner very good save. Its amazing how often players on a hat trick miss penalties. Tom Thorp will be black and blue after this the amount of blocks hes gotten in.
Crap! Would that not have been his 1st Hat trick? How much time is left?
Yeah would have been first hat trick. Its just finished now 4-1
feck me just saw Petrucci's goal, stunner!!! The kid is gonna be a superstar
5 goals now in 12 starts and 1 sub appearance for him and I'm sure more will follow now he's hitting his stride. Very impressive
I rate Petrucci.
Was fantastic today.
Was fantastic today.
Man my internet connection is not fast enough so streams are no good.. and barely ever are there highlight online.. Life sucks..
Davide Petrucci has so much to his game and can play in a few positions, could really go far. Both goals demonstrated something different in his technique; the first was a beautifully curled effort that dipped into the far top corner while the second was a straight power drive into the near corner. Excellent performance by him all round and the side as a whole really turned it on today.
Sounds like it was a cracking game, will their be highlights anywhere of this does anyone know?
It's impressive how well this team is doing - especially as Macheda and James now apparently have left the academy-team permanently!
And to be quite honest - I really can't see how long a player like Petrucci should play here either. He is reaching the point where he is too good
There are some great midfielders/attacking midfielders coming up from the academy/reserves now - Cleverley, James, Drinkwater, Petrucci, Norwood, Tunnicliffe, Rodrigo, Gibson - I ll leave Hewson out as I think his days are numbered.
And most of these players are so good that we realistcally can expect to get a decent transfer amount for quite a few of them even if they don't make it.
And to be quite honest - I really can't see how long a player like Petrucci should play here either. He is reaching the point where he is too good
There are some great midfielders/attacking midfielders coming up from the academy/reserves now - Cleverley, James, Drinkwater, Petrucci, Norwood, Tunnicliffe, Rodrigo, Gibson - I ll leave Hewson out as I think his days are numbered.
And most of these players are so good that we realistcally can expect to get a decent transfer amount for quite a few of them even if they don't make it.
I stuck Petruccis 2 goals on youtube for anyone who wants to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgoAKltJ6ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgoAKltJ6ks
Highlights:
Damn Petrucci is good.
Anyone about morrison performance???
Was on the pitch about 25 mins and again looked very classy every time he got the ball. The lad is a really incredible dribbler and beats at least 1 or 2 men every time he gets the ball looks a real prospect
Thorpe and Petrucci the men of the match.
Petrucci with those 2 wonderful strikes - but also for some of the stuff he showed in addition to the goal. He has a great vision and his skills with the balls can only be matched by Morrison
Thorpe basically got in the way of everything WBA threw at us - he reminds me a bit of Gary Pallister when he first joined us. Very good at getting his body in the way - and reads the game exceptionally well.
Norwood also had a very good game - he seems to have improved significantly since James joined the reserves. At times he was a bit anonymous when James played - but now he is running the show and he seems to like it. A super match against Liverpool before christmas and another good game today.
Petrucci with those 2 wonderful strikes - but also for some of the stuff he showed in addition to the goal. He has a great vision and his skills with the balls can only be matched by Morrison
Thorpe basically got in the way of everything WBA threw at us - he reminds me a bit of Gary Pallister when he first joined us. Very good at getting his body in the way - and reads the game exceptionally well.
Norwood also had a very good game - he seems to have improved significantly since James joined the reserves. At times he was a bit anonymous when James played - but now he is running the show and he seems to like it. A super match against Liverpool before christmas and another good game today.
Yeah Thorpe was fantastic again hes really shored up the defence the last couple of games. The three lads from the under 16s have been very good since coming into the side
For some reason I am very excited about our current youth team, there's going to be some very good players I reckon 
lizard has a new younfster with a foreign name to tug himself silly over
No - I am sure he can do a pretty decent job at good teams - but he turns 21 this year and I don't think he deserves to be a regular for the reserves. Drinkwater, James, Cleverley, Gibson to name 4 have all been better than Hewson this season. And when we also have Tunnicliffe, Norwood, Petrucci and Rodrigo in addition to the first-team players - nah!
Sam Hewson has had his chance - and unless he turns brilliant over night at Hereford - I think he will leave in the summer!
has norwood lost weight ?
Thanks for the highlights...