U20's Thread

[The Cockney Don]

SFA Youth Cup 4th Round Draw

The draw for the Fourth Round of the 2017/18 Scottish FA Youth Cup was made on Monday afternoon at Hampden Park by Scottish FA President, Alan McRae:

Match
1. Hamilton Academical v Aberdeen
2. Stranraer v Motherwell
3. Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Hibernian
4. Kilmarnock v Heart of Midlothian
5. St. Johnstone v Rangers or Partick Thistle
6. Celtic v Raith Rovers
7. Stirling Albion v Ross County
8. Greenock Morton v St. Mirren

Ties in the Fourth Round are scheduled to be played on or before Sunday 26 November.

[The Cockney Don]

Due to play them away in the league on the 28th as well.

[ollie1903]

Horrendous draw

[StandFree1982]

A pretty dominant display. United had a bit of a go at the start of the second half but once they weathered that the young Dons were always in control. No failures on the pitch tonight in my opinion. Sam Roscoe did brilliantly for the first goal and unfortunately had to come of with a knock as he was doing well. Thought Deano, Joe Mcpherson, Seb and Ethan Ross were in total control of the midfield and Danga had a strong game up front. Sam Robertson also cane in from the cold and had a fine game at right back. Deano on a decent run of goal scoring form but nothing compared to Seb Ross. Loon is on fire and hopefully some first team squad recognition will be round the corner for him.

 

How come Celtic have only played 3 games? Bizarre.

[BWG]

How come Celtic have only played 3 games? Bizarre.

 

Something to do with playing in the youth UEFA cup thing.

[The Cockney Don]

No uefa youth league game for the tims this week, yet their spfl league game was postponed.

Same thing a couple of weeks back.

[ollie1903]

No uefa youth league game for the tims this week, yet their spfl league game was postponed.

Same thing a couple of weeks back.

They have quite a few of their squad in Luxembourg for Scotland U19s Euro qualifiers. Should be the time to challenge boys up an age group but thats not the way Celtic do things

[1903Fitba]

We got any in the under 19s? Armenia look far better atm. 1-0 them

[mcdougall(4)]

They have quite a few of their squad in Luxembourg for Scotland U19s Euro qualifiers. Should be the time to challenge boys up an age group but thats not the way Celtic do things

And as usual no one holds them to account

[RUL]

Brutal results for Scotland u19s and u21s.

[V for Vendetta]

Scores RUL?

[Sonoftherock]

Scores RUL?

 

U21's drew 1-1, at home, to Latvia.... Scotland equalising 3 mins into injury time, through a dodgy penalty.

 

U19's drew 3-3, at home, to Armenia.

[V for Vendetta]

Crikey.

 

Makes you wonder if we are really doing all we can to help our kids develop.

 

No doubt the SFA are busy implementing things better organised nations did 25 years ago and well still be decades behind even if their most aspirational outcomes are met.

[ollie1903]

 

U19's drew 3-3, at home, to Armenia.

Not strictly true, as they were playing in Luxembourg, the second of three Euro qualifiers after beating the hosts on Wednesday night. But the point stands, with the quality at that age group they should be beating Armenia.

[Sonoftherock]

Not strictly true, as they were playing in Luxembourg, the second of three Euro qualifiers after beating the hosts on Wednesday night. But the point stands, with the quality at that age group they should be beating Armenia.

 

I just saw Scotland listed first and assumed it was at home.

 

No idea how the game went, but the lads that scored the Scotland goals have both appeared for the Celtic first team - so you'd think they'd have enough quality to see off Armenia U19's.

 

@@ollie1903 Incidentally, I see the lad from Arsenal came off the bench for the U19's... is he any good, or overhyped? I'm assuming the latter, since he's obviously defected back to Scotland...

[graham]

Good win lads! Hopefully Deano & Co getting a taste for beating the Arabs!

 

Incidentally @@ollie1903 .... a couple of players you used to single out for praise regularly - Tyler Chicken and Zack Ellis - I've noticed they've dropped off the radar? Or are they still in the U17's?

A few weeks ago Zack Ellis was in goal for East End in the Scottish Junior cup against Blackburn United at New Advocates Park.Same day as Aberdeen beat Ross County 2-1 at nearby Pittodrie.It finished East End 0 v Blckburn United 6.A harsh early sending off ruined any chance East End had against good Blackburn team,some with SPFL experience.Zack did fine and games like that will do the very young East End team good in long run. Yours truly watched the first half and thus missed the two early goals at Pittodrie !

[The Cockney Don]

Monday 13th November 2017

18:00 MotherwellP-PCeltic

Another one.

[ollie1903]

@@ollie1903 Incidentally, I see the lad from Arsenal came off the bench for the U19's... is he any good, or overhyped? I'm assuming the latter, since he's obviously defected back to Scotland...

Charlie Gilmour? Ive never seen him play in the flesh to be honest. Watched him against Luxembourg the other day on telly. He was pretty good to be fair.

[ollie1903]

Dons Under 17s have just beaten Celtic 2-0 this afternoon with goals from Deano and Nath Meres. Pretty comfortable throughout and Archie only had one save of note to make. The under 15s also comfortably won 4-0. Not been a good few weeks for the Celtic Academy. Shame that

[BWG]

Dons Under 17s have just beaten Celtic 2-0 this afternoon with goals from Deano and Nath Meres. Pretty comfortable throughout and Archie only had one save of note to make. The under 15s also comfortably won 4-0. Not been a good few weeks for the Celtic Academy. Shame that

Are the Celtic youth players/coaches/families as intolerable as their senior counter parts?

[The Cockney Don]

U20's due to play Kilmarnock at Glebe Park on tuesday 2pm.

Win could take us top if Hibs & Dundee draw their game.

[RowZ]

So what's the U17's record now?

[graham]

Dons Under 17s have just beaten Celtic 2-0 this afternoon with goals from Deano and Nath Meres. Pretty comfortable throughout and Archie only had one save of note to make. The under 15s also comfortably won 4-0. Not been a good few weeks for the Celtic Academy. Shame that

Great wins Ollie. Good to see.

[GDON21]

I see Ball, Reynolds & Maynard all starting today for the under 20s.

[mcdougall(4)]

Dons Under 17s have just beaten Celtic 2-0 this afternoon with goals from Deano and Nath Meres. Pretty comfortable throughout and Archie only had one save of note to make. The under 15s also comfortably won 4-0. Not been a good few weeks for the Celtic Academy. Shame that

Seen the goal min fae dean

Golazo

[The Cockney Don]

I see Ball, Reynolds & Maynard all starting today for the under 20s.

No fear Cockney's ere !

 

Craddock, Harrington, Harvie, Campbell ©, Ball, Reynolds, McLennan, Virtanen, Maynard, F Ross, S Ross.

Subs – Wells, Anderson, Roscoe, Dangana, E Ross, Antoniazzi, Mair (GK).

[The Cockney Don]

Still 0-0 after half-hour.

[The Cockney Don]

Yaaaaaaaaaaas, 1-0 up.

[The Cockney Don]

McLennan with the goal (41 minutes).

[The Cockney Don]

HT : 1-0 dons.