Shrewsbury Town U18 V Morecambe U18 (Shrewsbury Sports Village 28/08/2021)

Shrewsbury Town U18 V Morecambe U18 – EFL Youth Alliance Under 18 North West (28/08/2021)

This was my first youth team fixture in quite some time, but thought the chance to watch two games in one day was too hard to say no too. I met up with my old mate Crouchy (he’s 6 foot 7) at Shrewsbury train station as I was staying in near by Wellington with friends and we then walked back to his motor a few streets back from the station. Then made the short drive to Sundorne where the Shrewsbury Sports Village is situated, stopped off at Robsons Shop to grab a drink and a chicken and bacon slice.

I’d never been to the Sports Village before and to be fair it bettered my expectations as it’s a proper good little set up there with a stand behind the home dugout and some terracing behind the one goal, unfortunately for some reason they didn’t allow fans into the stand or terracing due to Covid although you were lucky if there was more than 50 people there so it would have been easy to socially distance. Instead we were behind a 8 foot tall metal mesh fence which ruined the view a little to be fair but I can’t complain as it didn’t cost me anything to watch.

It was good to see ex Salop midfielder and a favourite of mine Stewart Drummond taking charge of the Morecambe side, even managed to have a brief chat with him before the game kicked off. Town dominated the early goings and after Jenson Cooper missed a sitter from close range, he redeemed himself with a neat snap shot just inside the box that easily beat the keeper to take the lead. Morecambe’s Sandle caused Town some trouble as he hit the bar when the Salop keeper was far off the line, some good vision from the Morecambe lad. Cooper then doubled the Salop lead with a header which he got up well for.

Salop went in 2-0 up at the break and it was much deserved, they had most of the ball and threatened more than Morecambe. I said to Crouchy that Salop looked more of an established team who have played together for a while as Morecambe looked like they were still trying to get as a team. I needed a leak at half time but as we’re not allowed in the pitch side area there was nowhere to do said leak, so we walked across the other pitches towards a wooded area and I relieved myself behind a tree as the portaloo I was told was by the pitches was nowhere to be seen.

After a nightmare at the back by the Morecambe centre half, Salop’s Louis Lloyd nodded the ball over him and ran onto his own flick to hit a tidy first time finish past the keeper to make it 3-0 to the Shrewsbury Town youth team.

To be fair it was a good game and played at a great pace, a bonus to see the Town youth side get the win too. A nice way to start a two game day of football, I think in the future if I’m attending a Shrewsbury Town game I will be checking if the Under 18’s are playing in the morning and definitely attend again. I’m hoping next time I’ll be allowed into the stands or on the terrace.

So onto my ratings…

Ticket Price – £0

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Stadium Facilities – 1/10

Getting To Stadium – 8/10

Stadium Rating – 5/10

Thanks for reading my thoughts on Shrewsbury Town U18 against Morecambe U18.

Daz Carding