Dons youth

[Jute]

Development team won 3-1 against Banks of Dee last night.

 

[Jute]

Another of the youngsters away. Ellis Clark leaves Dons for Burnley. 
 

https://www.afc.co.uk/2025/08/22/young-midfielder-departs-youth-academy/

[DantheDon]

On 22/08/2025 at 23:49, Jute said:

Another of the youngsters away. Ellis Clark leaves Dons for Burnley. 
 

https://www.afc.co.uk/2025/08/22/young-midfielder-departs-youth-academy/

Are any of these young guys actually getting anywhere down south? I’m sure the Academies are great down there but it seems like the chance of actually progressing into the first team is little to none?

[manc_don]

4 hours ago, DantheDon said:

Are any of these young guys actually getting anywhere down south? I’m sure the Academies are great down there but it seems like the chance of actually progressing into the first team is little to none?

Would be a good study for someone to do tbh. But I guess the issue we have at the moment is that we’re not exactly a clear pathway for anyone either.

had a look at Lewis Pirie who was highly rated and moved to dirty Leeds 2 years ago. Has played 3 mins of EPL2 this season, nothing else to report and deal expires in June.

[RicoS321]

It'd be a difficult thing to guage. The chance of progressing into our first team is very slim too. If the academy system is better down south - and I'm not convinced it is - then they'll have better overall careers despite not getting minutes for the team they go to. You'd have to look back on someone like Lewis Pirie in ten years and see how he's done. The difficulty is getting a comparison. Bavidge in ten years might be something to compare to, but I think Pirie would have been seen as a better prospect regardless. Looking back the way, you'd look at someone like Jack Grimmer and maybe compare to Ryan Jack (Fyvie would have been a better comparison, but for his injury)? Jack definitely had the better career by quite a distance, even discounting for the fact that he's a dirty Judas hun ratface. 

Anyway, the dirty English clubs picking off our young lads is a problem. Just a difficult one to quantify.

[Slim]

That Timothy Akindineli defender that QPR signed was on the bench for them at the weekend and has been allocated number 19 shirt. From the sounds of it he was quite far from getting into our first team.

[RicoS321]

1 hour ago, Slim said:

That Timothy Akindineli defender that QPR signed was on the bench for them at the weekend and has been allocated number 19 shirt. From the sounds of it he was quite far from getting into our first team.

The Dons > Queens Park Huns

[Jute]

B team playing Inverness tonight.

 

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1-1 at half time. 

[RicoS321]

Hope they get tanked 

[Jute]

30 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Hope they get tanked 

Agreed we should not be devaluing lower league cup by polluting it with our youth teams. 
 

ICT 2-1 up. 

[Jute]

3-1 ICT now.

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4-1 ICT full time. 

[wee toon red]

As far as I can see, there are four currently selected men’s Scotland squads: full side, 21s, 19s and 17s. Cooper Masson and Fletcher Boyd in the 19s are our only representatives. That’s a grim state of affairs.

[Jute]

Development team playing up in Buckie tonight in Aberdeenshire cup final.

 

 

[Jute]

Frame, Gyamfi and Lazetic all playing tonight. 

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Lazetic with a penalty to put Dons 1-0 up. 

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Dons 2-0 up. 

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Dons 3-0 up at half time. Lazetic double and Lobban. 

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Buckie have game back to 2-3. 

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Dons win 4-2

[OrlandoDon]

Anyone at the game? Keen for some info on the new boys.

[Jute]

From what I have seen online Gyamfi played 45 minutes and impressed. Lazetic got 60 minutes and 2 goals. Lobban and Stewart also apparently played well. 

[Jute]

Match report here.

 

[OrlandoDon]

54 minutes ago, Jute said:

From what I have seen online Gyamfi played 45 minutes and impressed. Lazetic got 60 minutes and 2 goals. Lobban and Stewart also apparently played well. 

Read that frame impressed too. Lazetic scored a panenka penalty haha!