Depleted Everton U18s held by Newcastle Utd

I'm assuming we'll be a little depleted for this one with some of the lads away on International duties?

Hopefully you haven't activated the very accommodating tradition of Everton helping out teams on a bad run Michael!!

Standard question as I can't see anything on the official website unless I'm missing something obvious, but is this going to be available to watch?

I was a little worried about that, Danny. But the proverbial cat is now out the bag!

I don't think there'll be any live stream of this one, but we might get lucky with some highlights after the fact.

It's all Everton in the first fifteen minutes, with Lawrence having a couple of chances one saved, followed up with two chances from Sherif both saved and then Tim Cahill's son Shea, having his first game, having another chance saved,I hope it doesn't finish like the first teams game at Palace last Sunday, having all the game in the first twenty minutes then fading away.

A nice sprinkling of 3 schoolboys starting, and 3 on the bench ( Bates, Maher, Ebere ) good that we are continuing this trend, hopefully a good crop for next season.

A couple of newish names on the bench: it appears Callum Bates was awarded a 2-year scholarship back in November, this would be a first sighting of him. And Maher, can't find a first name for him.

Interesting that the Official Everton Website is denying their existence, and only naming 3 subs of the normal 5. Gotta love the honesty and transparency of the Everton system.

For sub keeper Seb Jensen, this is only the second time he's been listed all season. Dylan Graham is away with Northern Ireland. Is Pat Nash away too?

Michael, the official site seems to have Roman Dixon starting not Quintyne?

Some of the 'regulars' who are not playing today:

Campbell... maybe elevated to the U23 squad
Mallon... been missing since January; injured?
Tierney... out since February; injured?
Heath... involved in every game until today
Metcalfe... another mainstay, third match out
Barker... he's become almost a regular
Okoronkwo... stopped scoring, now he's stopped appearing.

There's this silly game going on, Brent, where the Official Website started listing this lad, Roman Dixon new this season. But the season before, it had been Roman Quintyne.

Whereas another website which tracks the Academy games continued to call him Roman Quintyne, just for an element of consistency, I guess. Well, in solidarity, I've continued to list him as Quintyne in these pages. Maybe we'll get an explanation one day...

Ooops... red card for Ed Jones on 70 mins!

Ah, now that rings a bell, Michael. Should have remembered that.

Think Maher's first name was Aiden.

Alan (12),

That will be Aiden's grandson if they are related.

Good player Aiden Maher, Dave. Shows how good a team we had in those days that he hardly got a look in.

Was Aiden a left winger in the mid to late sixties?

Just looked up Aiden Maher as he was a little before my time and wasn't familiar with his name. Found this heart warming story of him saving a baby's life.

Link

So further to #6 above, the Official Website records that Martin Sherif was substituted on 74 minutes by... [blank] – Who? The Invisible Man!

Sorry, no, can't give his name – although other sources list him as being Daniel Maher, a schoolboy making his first appearance at this level. This club are so utterly bizarre at times...

[Tempted to make a tasteless remark about him possibly being a young sex offender – an established reason for player anonymity at Everton – but immediately thought better of it.]

Dave..yeah, that's the badger
( love that expression)

Aiden Maher was a very good left winger in the youth team. I played against him in the late fifties and early sixties, played in the Catholic League, Liverpool.

Aiden played for Saint Switherns School and left later onto Saint Tereses. My school was Saint Francis Xavier.

I think he went to Plymouth and maybe Tranmere. Aiden Maher and his Dad, we went to Walley's Cafe after the match, talking about the game over an hour.