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does that mean that we run teams off their feet at this level too? (or at least like the first team used to)

We have 24 players in Academy years 1 and 2, and the only player to appear in all games is the captain Armando Sashoua and whilst there are number of players who have appeared in most of the u18 fixtures, including todays match when Pedder made his debut from the bench, other than Skipp (who has played exclusively for u21's or travelled with first team) all the other 23 players have made one or more appearances for the u18's. And there have been about 15 different scorers for the u18's underlining the squad rotation

In short Wells has rotated the squad, so no two teams are identical, and this would usually lead to some inconsistent results.

Instead of which we have won 7 of the 8 games played (including todays) drawing the other versus Reading despite dominating in that game. And we have a goal difference (including todays result) of 40-9 meaning we are averaging scoring 5 goals a game. So results this season are excellent.

But looking at the south table we are hotly pursued by both Woolwich and Chelsea (who we have beaten 2-0) who have lost or drawn a game more than we have. And in the north table Everton lead with similar results (although fewer goals scored) with Liverpool and ManU in hot pursuit. 2018-19 Under-18 Premier League - YouthHawk. So whilst ahead of the rest of the pack, its not like there is necessarily a big gulf in difference between our results and those of our closest rivals.

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So whilst I think we have an excellent crop of players, with maybe half a dozen stand out stars, given the squad rotation there has to be a lot of credit to Wells, the coach, and his team in getting all the players to play in a consistent manner, allowing individual players to seamlessly slot into the team, and simply outplay/overwhelm the opposition continually with Spurs players generally seeming to be a lot fitter than the opposition. Very Poch like ?
 
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Didn't I hear Poch doesn't particularly rate Roles?

All he can keep doing is playing well, scoring goals and creating and Poch will have to take notice and hopefully allow him time to train with the first team etc.
 
Didn't I hear Poch doesn't particularly rate Roles?

All he can keep doing is playing well, scoring goals and creating and Poch will have to take notice and hopefully allow him time to train with the first team etc.

Possible

But after he was scoring a shed load of goals at u16 he was doing pretty well in u18's (but not as outstanding as u16's) so think he might have been seen as plateauing a bit in Academy (as some kids do) and didn't do much last season in his first u21 season - a shame as we could have done with him in pre-season but after a lack lustre season that was not likely to happen. So if anything it was u21 coaches last season not Poch ?

Think this season Poch may have been surprised by Roles u21 performances.
 
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In general is there a way to watch Spurs youth team games online? Are there regular streams for games?
Sadly Spurs do not broadcast games, but a few other clubs do so look out fir games against ManU, Southampton etc and you can usually see the games broadcast from the other club - just need to watch on mute sometimes as some commentary is unbelievably partisan and inaccurate in the judgements on the game
 

Plenty of talent coming through from the academy, but Spurs in the last couple of years has not made anything of it, sadly.

Walker-Peters has hardly played in the last 3 years despite being considered better in England youth circles than TAA who has played at Liverpool and is now becoming a regular in the England squad. Coming back to more recent academy graduates, Oliver Skipp did well in US pre-season but has yet to play any time for the first team, and others who played well in pre-season who deserve more involvement probably include TJ Eyoma, Japhet Tanganga, and (although young) Jamie Bowden should start to become involved whilst Tashan Oakley-Boothe did well in 2017 pre-season but was hardly seen after that whilst training with first team but playing no matches, other than one brief first team cameo (partly down to injuries) whilst players such as Jack Roles and Paris Maghoma maybe should be training more with the first team based upon their u21 performances this season.
 
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