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1 minute ago, McKissock said:

You only need to look at how people write off Middleton to see we don't really learn any lessons in this sense. That isn't to say he should be above criticism, there should just be a level of understanding where if a youngster starts to struggle then they need some time out of the limelight (as Gerrard has done with Middleton).

Having read that article, it's easy to forget too that last season was McCrorie's first. 

It's like if you have apprentice's they think they know it all but you need to watch and help them along and that's without 50,000 experts watching and criticising. 

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58 minutes ago, grant_rfc said:

Dunno Ajax are already selling/about to sell players who aren't even 20 yet for £70million plus per player...

De Ligt is only 19 and yet is competing for them in the latter stages of the Champions League. 

Ultimately if you are good enough, you are old enough.

So maybe our youth players aren't quite going to achieve the similar levels of the players at Ajax's youth academy or our club/fans have a complete lack of faith in the youth to actually come in and 

I dont expect or think any of our youth will get to the same level as these Ajax guys 

But anybody who saw any of the tournament they won in Qatar or the 7s tournament before xmas will see a kind of player that is far better technically than what we usually have .

I saw an interview with Mullholland a couple of years ago and he was talking about the work they were doing with the young guys that was aimed at getting players ready to make the jump from youths to the adult game .

By some accounts the level of young player in Scotland is grtting better and it looks like we have some of the best ..

If we can get them to make the jump to first team we will have 2 or 3 really good additions to the squad .

Also noticed today that the youths are playing in the hong kong 7s again in may .that will give us another look at them in international club level 

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