Zak Lovelace

[ElBufalo20 7,894]

Clearly still very young but has come up here with a huge reputation.

He’s already played in the English Championship which is on par with the league here so surely good enough in our league.

I’ve not seen enough of the B team. I’d like someone who watches on a regular basis if he’s a standout.

We’re not a club who has a great history of throwing in youngsters but I think he’s a player who could be good enough to be involved in and around the first team.

What’s everyone else’s thoughts 

[Bearsden bear 2,376]

Not sure what age he is, but if Spain can play a 18 yr old & boy who just turned 20 in the World Cup. Then i dont see why we can't play a young guy in the spl.

[bluenoz 30,848]

Big DJ was sixteen and this boy is built like DJ

[OrangeRab 2,745]

Probably because the amount of thugs in our league that would relish the opportunity to snap any youngster for us with potential.

Probably better that he is playing weekly and developing with the B team till he’s ready. Still only 16.

[STEPPS BOY 73,929]

Early yet but the lad has a chance.

Ironically, imo, the two standouts for the B team/under 18’s are 2 x 16 year old lads.

[ForeverAndEver 71,511]

6 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said:

Early yet but the lad has a chance.

Ironically, imo, the two standouts for the B team/under 18’s are 2 x 16 year old lads.

Rice one of them?

[Davy Vandenbroucke 26,165]

David Edgar saying he’ll likely be announced tomorrow as well:

 

[ForeverAndEver 71,511]

Just now, The FF Snitch said:

David Edgar saying he’ll likely be announced tomorrow as well:

 

Cool story bro, what about Lovelace?

[STEPPS BOY 73,929]

7 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Rice one of them?

Lovelace and Rice.

[Amokachi 3,013]

4 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Cool story bro, what about Lovelace?

Lovelace for assistant player manager. 
Wilson masterstroke. 

[Davy Vandenbroucke 26,165]

10 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Cool story bro, what about Lovelace?

Big fan of Linda

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,751]

Coming off the bench 4 times in the championship dopesn;t mean you're good enough to play for Rangers at this level

[The Godfather 71,899]

The new John Fleck

[Loyal72 11,053]

Looks good, but can't really form a judgement based on the level he's played against so far.

Really should get some game time for the first team so we can all see.

Don't think Gio wanted to experiment too much when it all started going to fuck.

[LegendofCoop 17,313]

Did he actually get games for Millwall? I thought he only made 1 sub appearance for 15 minutes or something like that!

[billscott 2,463]

i have watched the b team quite a lot. the lad is big strong quite fast and with a eye for goal. ok you can argue the lowland league is not a great standard but to me he would be worth a place on the bench in certain games and maybe brought on for the later stages. lets be honest he cannot be any worse than matondo wright or sakala who are all mince

[NorthernLights 2,526]

13 minutes ago, billscott said:

i have watched the b team quite a lot. the lad is big strong quite fast and with a eye for goal. ok you can argue the lowland league is not a great standard but to me he would be worth a place on the bench in certain games and maybe brought on for the later stages. lets be honest he cannot be any worse than matondo wright or sakala who are all mince

What’s his best role? Through the middle going after through balls or is he more or a target man? Obviously a teenager will be less effective holding it up against two maulers at centre back but how does he play?

[RoboBearToo 376]

Playing in the Lowland League does nothing for the development of our players.

This can be seen in how they perform in cup games against higher league opposition.

Gubbed 3-0 by Hamilton, on the other side of the city, they got gubbed by Dunfermiline.

Young players would develop better by playing alongside more experienced players, not just playing in a team of boys against men.

We need a reserve league where youngsters can play alongside fringe first team players and regular first team players getting a run out after injury.

Then we might know how good Zak and others are, and might see them get better.

[WWTC 2,247]

15 minutes ago, RoboBearToo said:

Playing in the Lowland League does nothing for the development of our players.

This can be seen in how they perform in cup games against higher league opposition.

Gubbed 3-0 by Hamilton, on the other side of the city, they got gubbed by Dunfermiline.

Young players would develop better by playing alongside more experienced players, not just playing in a team of boys against men.

We need a reserve league where youngsters can play alongside fringe first team players and regular first team players getting a run out after injury.

Then we might know how good Zak and others are, and might see them get better.

Aye Spanish football as well as other have it all wrong Pep.

[mitre_mouldmaster 21,509]

27 minutes ago, RoboBearToo said:

Playing in the Lowland League does nothing for the development of our players.

This can be seen in how they perform in cup games against higher league opposition.

Gubbed 3-0 by Hamilton, on the other side of the city, they got gubbed by Dunfermiline.

Young players would develop better by playing alongside more experienced players, not just playing in a team of boys against men.

We need a reserve league where youngsters can play alongside fringe first team players and regular first team players getting a run out after injury.

Then we might know how good Zak and others are, and might see them get better.

So our kids get turned over by a fully professional Hamilton team and that shows how our set up is not working?

It might you know be because Hamilton are better than our juniors...

Some of our kids will go on to carve out careers for themselves, but no matter if we play lowland, reserves, under 21s or whatever else, many if them just won't ever progress to being anywhere near good enough to play consistently for a team like Hamilton.

Youth development is a game of numbers. If for every 20 failures you have, you can produce one decent prospect, then you are doing well.

[Brackley 1,401]

16 hours ago, The FF Snitch said:

Big fan of Linda

Now there's a blast from the past. 😁😁😁

[Helmutschone 450]

1 hour ago, RoboBearToo said:

Playing in the Lowland League does nothing for the development of our players.

This can be seen in how they perform in cup games against higher league opposition.

Gubbed 3-0 by Hamilton, on the other side of the city, they got gubbed by Dunfermiline.

Young players would develop better by playing alongside more experienced players, not just playing in a team of boys against men.

We need a reserve league where youngsters can play alongside fringe first team players and regular first team players getting a run out after injury.

Then we might know how good Zak and others are, and might see them get better.

I would argue they will learn more from a 3-0 gubbing from Hamilton in that team of boys than a 6-0 victory against East Fife for the first team. 

[RoboBearToo 376]

2 hours ago, mitre_mouldmaster said:

So our kids get turned over by a fully professional Hamilton team and that shows how our set up is not working?

It might you know be because Hamilton are better than our juniors...

Some of our kids will go on to carve out careers for themselves, but no matter if we play lowland, reserves, under 21s or whatever else, many if them just won't ever progress to being anywhere near good enough to play consistently for a team like Hamilton.

Youth development is a game of numbers. If for every 20 failures you have, you can produce one decent prospect, then you are doing well.

It's fuck all to do with our set up. It's to do with the league set up that says we can't have over 21s in the lowland league.

I might be wrong, and I'm not a football manager, so I probably am wrong.

However I think our young players would benefit more if they were playing alongside some of our senior players

[GOAT 30,449]

4 hours ago, WWTC said:

Aye Spanish football as well as other have it all wrong Pep.

Spanish teams play against professionals not part time junior level shite.   He’s bang on the button.  

[The Dude 20,026]

13 hours ago, GOAT said:

Spanish teams play against professionals not part time junior level shite.   He’s bang on the button.  

In La Liga 2 maybe. Once they drop into the third tier or below (where the majority of Spanish B teams play) most of them are part-time.