Under -19s

[donnyh]

Remember lads and lassies, our under 19 team have 3 important games coming up in the european championship qualifiers over the next week.
They playthe Faroes at Somerset park Ayr,2pm kick off on sat25th October .
Then Turkey on monday at Dumbarton
Lastly Macedonia on Wednesday at Hamilton.
Surely this is a great chance to take youngsters to see the future stars of a hopefully great Scottish team, so no excuses get along and give the lads your support.
Admission prices are £5for adults £2 for kids, although Safeway are doing a promotion at local stores wherby if u spend £10 in the store they will give u a voucher allowing free addmissionto 2 kids when accompanied by an adult. The kick off times for Mon and Wed are 7.30pm

Just back from sunny but cold Somerset park , where an impressive display by the Scottish team resulted in a 3-1 win for the youngsters.

[donnyh]

The Scotland u-19 score from Dumbarton against the Turks was 1-1. This now means that if our young team are to qualify they will need to get at least a draw against Macedonia at Hamilton on Wed night, although the Macedonians can also qualify if they beat us.
There was almost 2 thousand supporters at Dumbarton last night, and i think we should all try to get to Hamilton an give our youngsters the support needed to see them qualify.

[donnyh]

Well done the under 19s, the score at Hamilton tonight was Scotland 2 Macedonia 0, in front of a crowd of 1,069. this victory assures our youngsters of a place in there European championship

[Marky]

Donny where will the finals take place as we may be looking for alternative holiday arrangements by the end of next month.

Marky

[donnyh]

Marky, sorry mate but that information is not yet known. Although the u-19s have qualified from there group they now are placed into another one of 7 groups, with only the winners going foward to tournament next year.

The under 19s will start their next stage of the campaign between 1st January and 31st May 2004,

And the final tournament will take place between 1st -31st July 2004.

If the youngsters make it i will post as soon as i find out the location of the finals

[donnyh]

The hosts for the under19s next summer are Switzerland

[Steaky]

Switzerland - sounds about right. Are their under21's in the playoffs-if so we have lost that battle to them aswell.

[Marky]

BRAW DRAW

SCOTLAND'S Under-19s missed big guns Italy, Germany and Spain in the draw for the second round of the European Youth Championship.

The Scots have been paired with Poland, Austria and Finland as they bid to reach the finals in Switzerland in July.

Northern Ireland, Belgium and Belarus will be the opposition for the Under-17s.

Marky

[MIFTHEBINO]

Great draw,so lets hope we can go far. ;D