The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[City123]

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Four call-ups for the Wales under-19s squad; Rob Tankiewicz, Jac Thomas, Mannie Barton and Jake Davies. They travel to Spain to play the USA on Saturday. Even if we win 4-0 then USA will claim they won. Or is it just one guy who does that?

According to Yeovil, Dakarai Mafico has pulled out of the u-21s squad and is back with us, for now, getting treatment on an achilles problem.

U19 Euros in north Wales thise year so we've already qualified & why there's weirdly 2 u19 squads at once. Hopefully strong City representation

[City123]

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0-0 draw for Wales u18/19s vs France

Impressive seeing as Wales were down to 10 from the 30th minute

[Loramski]

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0-0 draw for Wales u18/19s vs France

Impressive seeing as Wales were down to 10 from the 30th minute

Good result, yes. Must be the first time we've had three first teamers starting for the Wales under-18s side. Noah Williams was captain, Jack Sykes got 68 minutes and Axel Donczew was sacrificed after the early sending off.

Talking of sending offs, Troy Perrett was red-carded for Yeovil tonight in their 2-0 win at Wealdstone. Straight red for use of an elbow although there seems to be some doubt about it. Shame if he misses games now, he's started the last couple.

[Loramski]

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A good 2-1 win against the hosts, Switzerland, for the Wales u-18s side as they continue their qualification group for next year's u-19 Euros. Noah Williams was captain, Paul Moreno and Hayden Allmark started, Axel Donczew and Jack Sykes came on as subs. Hungary next up.

Not so good for the u-19s as they lost a friendly 4-0 to USA. Jac Thomas and Jake Davies played the first half, Mannie Barton the second. Rob Tankiewicz didn't travel. A USA spokesman said after the game 'it was great to totally obliterate those deranged scumbags. Cuba is next'. Steady on mate, it's only a game.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Wales u21s kicking off against Denmark at 5pm. Ashford starting, Giles on the bench.

[City123]

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Donczew & Williams start for Wales u18s

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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U19s and u21s both lost 4-0 today - not good.

[Loramski]

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U19s and u21s both lost 4-0 today - not good.

Indeed, especially following on from the 'senior' u-19s losing 4-0 on Saturday. The u-18s/19s result today was weird considering their previous two results in the group. They finished third, I don't think it affects much but the rules are so complicated it makes the Belgian play-offs look like noughts and crosses so don't take my word for it.

This summer's u-19 Euros are in North Wales in June/July. The other teams through are Germany, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Denmark and Spain. England didn't qualify, despite beating Portugal 6-0 today with Max Dowman and Chris Rigg playing. I wonder if Kpakio will get parachuted in for the finals? I'd expect Isaac Davies to play but there's no sign of him for us or Wales lately.

[Loramski]

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Herbie James got 28 minutes for the under-21s yesterday in a 4-0 defeat at top of the table Brentford. Revenge for them as we won 4-0 down here (they didn't have a keeper for the last 87 minutes that day which may have had something to do with it).
We've dropped out of the play off places for now with three games left.

[Loramski]

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A 2-1 win for the u-21s today at Hillsborough. Trey George with both the goals, starts for Axel Donczew and Paul Moreno.

While we're saying George got the late winner, Sheffield Wednesday are saying that Jake Davies got it and then got sent off for breaking the corner flag in his celebrations. The truth will out.

[the other bob wilson]

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A 2-1 win for the u-21s today at Hillsborough. Trey George with both the goals, starts for Axel Donczew and Paul Moreno.

While we're saying George got the late winner, Sheffield Wednesday are saying that Jake Davies got it and then got sent off for breaking the corner flag in his celebrations. The truth will out.

Jack Kingdon not involved i notice - is he in contention to be either a starter or, more likely, a sub today I wonder?

[AdrianAlston]

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Jack Kingdon not involved i notice - is he in contention to be either a starter or, more likely, a sub today I wonder?

Do you think he should be ahead of Debono?

[the other bob wilson]

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Do you think he should be ahead of Debono?

No.

[Loramski]

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Jack Kingdon not involved i notice - is he in contention to be either a starter or, more likely, a sub today I wonder?

Very likely he was part of the squad, yes. It would've been interesting if Lawlor hadn't been fit to play today but I don't think Kingdon would've made the starting eleven. We'll see whether lads like him, Donczew and Tankiewicz pop up on the bench when promotion is secured though.

Kingdon just won player of the season at u-21 level and is captain, I'd say he's significantly ahead of Debono for now in the club's reckoning but I feel he's gone backwards, if anything, from what I've seen. His passing, long and short, has become very erratic and Debono has been at least his equal but I'm only going off a limited sample size so I'm happy to trust the club's judgement for now.

A 4-0 loss for the u-18s at Wigan today. Not sure what side they had out but it's a poor result, even allowing for Wigan being top of the Northern section in that league.

[the other bob wilson]

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Very likely he was part of the squad, yes. It would've been interesting if Lawlor hadn't been fit to play today but I don't think Kingdon would've made the starting eleven. We'll see whether lads like him, Donczew and Tankiewicz pop up on the bench when promotion is secured though.

Kingdon just won player of the season at u-21 level and is captain, I'd say he's significantly ahead of Debono for now in the club's reckoning but I feel he's gone backwards, if anything, from what I've seen. His passing, long and short, has become very erratic and Debono has been at least his equal but I'm only going off a limited sample size so I'm happy to trust the club's judgement for now.

A 4-0 loss for the u-18s at Wigan today. Not sure what side they had out but it's a poor result, even allowing for Wigan being top of the Northern section in that league.

I an understand why Kingdon is regarded as the closest to the first team among our under 21 centrevacks if he is, but Debono has been the best in that position at that level since the Christmas/ New Year break for me.

The under 21s’ win on Friday is on the club website and it confirms that Trey George got both goals with the winner being somewhat unusual and Jake Davies did play a prominent role in it - nothing to indicate either he or George were sent off as a result of their celebrations though.

I couldn’t find the under 18# result anywhere when I was writing my blog, so thanks for that - if Wigan’s under 28s are that good, they should’ve fielded them down here instead of their appalling first team.