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2024/25 SUFC SEASON REVIEW / SCHOOL REPORT: Part 8 Summary / Conclusions and Awards To conclude, this past season started with a lot of uncertainty (the disaster of last season/the points deduction, the ownership being in limbo and even there being real doubts over the retention of Chris...

Eva Butler, FWD, RWB – 23 appearances, 2 goals Butler’s breakout season was a bit stop-start, as the free-scoring U21s striker found herself playing a mix of roles both offensive and defensive. I thought it was a missed opportunity to not use her further forward as a wide attacker where she...

Esther Morgan, RWB, LWB, CM – 8 appearances, 0 goals Morgan signed in January and was a regular starter, although it felt like she was slightly misused on the left (unless I’m making a big mistake, I’m sure she’s right-footed). She was steady without impacting a game, which was a slight...

Sian Rogers, GK – 19 appearances, 1 clean sheet A consequence of United’s shoddy summer was that they got worse in almost every single position across the pitch. I say that without meaning disrespect to the 2024/25 side; more that the 2023/24 one possessed a lot of very good Championship...

--- SUFC Women Please subscribe to Ben Meakin’s (BladesPod) excellent Women of Steel on Substack for in depth analysis and deep dives into the going on with the women’s team – indeed I have stolen/borrowed with his permission the end of season ratings/review –detailed below which is far more...

4 - Over Age Pros The Premier League returned to its default position of allowing up to three outfield players and the keeper to be over age in U21PDL and PLC games. This followed a two year transitional period, following the switch from U23 to U21, where a higher number of over age players...

2 - Scholars: U18 and U17 Age Groups 25 players from the U18 and U17 age groups were named as Blades scholars during the season. All made appearances in matchday squads: Jevan Beattie (U18) - Attack March - Made first international appearance in U19 friendlies (Scotland). Brother of...

Antwoine Hackford (U21) - Attack See First Team for Notes. August - Loaned to Port Vale. U21PDL: Apps 1-1-0 MIns 105 Gls 0 Owen Hampson (U20) - MIdfield See First Team for Notes. August - Made first start in EFL Cup. October - Made first international appearance in U21 friendlies (Wales)...

Player Summaries Players As with previous seasons, the types of players appearing in matchday squads could be placed into five groups. Across the groups and for each of the five competitions the following information is provided: Apps (match day squad involvements - set out as...

U18 Player Statistics Goalkeepers Goalie Starts Sub Clean Sheets Conc Tommy Betts 10 0 1 22 Ben Grainger 7 0 1 15 Coby Hewitson 20 0 3 29 Trialist 1 1 0 5 Alfie Venners 1 0 0 1 Outfield Player Starts Subs Goals Keehan...

U21 Player Statistics (not including playoffs) Goalkeepers Goalie Starts Sub Clean Sheets Conc Luke Faxon 11 0 5 15 Coby Hewitson 14 0 5 18 Henry Molyneux 12 0 4 11 Trialist 2 0 0 2 Outfield Player Starts Subs Goals Todd Alcock 1 0 0...

U18 Professional Development League Cup (“U18PDLC”) The Blades were placed in a group with fellow Category 2 academies Burnley and Wigan Athletic as well as invited Category 3 academy Preston North End. The Blades and North End beat both of the other academies with the latter having the better...

Premier League Cup (“PLC”) The Blades were placed in a group with two Category 1 academies: Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers, together with Category 3 academy Huddersfield Town. The Blades stormed through the games, first beating Sunderland away at Eppleton Colliery Welfare before...

2024/25 SUFC SEASON REVIEW / SCHOOL REPORT: Part 7 Academy / Development side A huge thanks to @goodpinch (twitter handle) for his help in most of this section and as always has helped me a fair bit to fill in the gaps etc and indeed without him I would really struggle! Indeed, a...

Others (not played/gone on loan/young players) Antwoine Hackford Seems an eternity since he made his debut under Wilder at Crystal Palace as a 16-year-old but still only 21. He lost his way for a few years after that with a couple of really bad injuries and wondered if he would remain at the...

Tom Cannon Cannon had come through at Everton, being an Aintree lad, and had been prolific at their youth levels. He went on loan and scored 8 goals in 20 at Preston in half a season in 23-24 before signing for Leicester City but due to back issues and assortment of other injuries, he only...

Rhian Brewster The last few years my notes on Brewster have been much the same. Not played enough games due to injury – not scored many (any in some cases!) goals and not done anywhere near enough and overall been a big waste of money. A signing that had been pretty much a disaster and a real...

2024/25 SUFC SEASON REVIEW / SCHOOL REPORT: Part 6 Attack Tyrese Campbell If I had thought I would be leading off the striking review with Tyrese Campbell as the main man – I would have wondered what happened for us to be in such a situation but this is more an inditement of how well...

Ismael Coulibaly Coulibaly’s career trajectory had risen dramatically at Beerschot, to the extent that teams like AC Milan were supposedly interested in taking him for big money. United of course owned his playing registration after signing him from Sarpsborg in Norway and then placing him with...

Ben Brereton Diaz Included him in midfield in this review (he played more forward/centre forward last year and our formation was different). When he went to Southampton in a permanent deal from Villareal, we were all disappointed as we felt he would have been an excellent signing, after he did...