{"id":14688,"date":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=14688"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"a-good-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2007\/09\/05\/a-good-few-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Few Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>A Good few weeks&#8230;..<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>It has been a decent few weeks for David Moss, with his under 18 team starting the campaign in winning fashion against Cheltenham Town, winning 3-0. Joe Allen was given his first start in the First Team which eventually led to a 3 year contract being signed. Allen also scored in his Wales U-21 debut with the Welsh winning 4-3. Callum Hawthorne has been involved as well, training with the first team and being included in a match day squad.Moss:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was the perfect start to the season, but it was nearly called off because of the poor conditions<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I said to them before the game that in conditions like this let&#8217;s just make sure defensively we are well organised and fully focused because due to the conditions any mistakes will be capitalised on if we&#8217;re not careful. If we got that side of the game right our ability will take over in the end and that proved to be the case.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Moss was also been very pleased with the attitude of his squad in the build-up to the new season. &quot;We have got a great set of boys here. Physically they are very strong, fit and good technically.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I took the boys on personally, so i know what their characters are like. There are no bad characters in the team, they are all excellent boys and I think it showed (against Cheltenham).&quot;<\/p>\n<p>One of the key roles as Head of Youth Development is to ensure that you help your players progress into first-team football and Moss has been delighted with the progress of Joe Allen.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m very proud to see him playing at that level; it&#8217;s a really great achievement for him and he fully deserves it. He&#8217;s a great boy and wouldn&#8217;t care what level of football he&#8217;s playing; he&#8217;ll have the same attitude and some work rate &#8211; and that&#8217;s where it has got him today.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s nice to win games, but winning games is not so important at this level. But the progression of players is, and it was topped off with Joe&#8217;s performances against Walsall and for Wales.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Centre of Excellence teams are back in action tomorrow afternoon after the summer break and Moss says that the kids havehad plenty of preparation.&quot;They have been back in pre-season training for nearly two months,&quot; he said. &quot;All of our age groups have been involved in competitions against Premiership and foreign teams and have just been fine tuning and getting ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We need to make sure that we give them good facilities, good training and a good education in order to give them the best possible chance &#8211; and that is what we are aiming to do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> INTERVIEW: Owain Johns<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts? Share your views on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.planetswans.co.uk\"> Message Board<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>150,000 visitors creating 3 million impressions a month can&#8217;t be wrong&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Good few weeks&#8230;.. It has been a decent few weeks for David Moss, with his under 18 team starting the campaign in winning fashion against Cheltenham Town, winning 3-0. Joe Allen was given his first start in the First Team which eventually led to a 3 year contract being signed. 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