THE rising stars of Wanderers academy are getting the Premiership treatment.

The under 18s put on an impressive show when they beat FA Youth Cup semi-finalists Newcastle United at the Reebok last Saturday.

And each move they made was captured on ProZone, the computerised match and player analysis system Sam Allardyce and his backroom staff use to monitor the performances of the first team.

The match was originally scheduled to be played at Euxton but academy officials took the opportunity to switch the fioxture to the Reebok, where the ProZone sensors are fitted, to log the progress of some of the club's brightest young talent.

They caught the kids on top form too with Robert Sissons, Mark Ellis and Sam Sheridan scoring in a 3-2 win that confirmed Wanderers' status as one of the leading teams in Group C of the academy league.

Off the field, Sissons, Matt Cassidy, Les Thompson and Michael Roddy have all scored highly on the academic front with a string of successes in A-level examinations.

Thompson and Roddy study at Preston College while Sissons and Cassidy attend Kirkham College.

The academy's head of education and welfare, Fran Walsh, said: "This is quite an extraordinary set of results from all of our boys considering they attend college/school for only one and a half days per week."