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Don’t believe everything you hear... and for the record another offer has been made to retain him.

Yep, literally wore that shirt til it fell apart. I liked all the pony kits

Regarding the whole debate giving promising youth players longer contracts. Surely it's possibly cheaper and less risky tying down the promising youth players hoping to sell them on than possibly paying higher wages for a guy in the English lowers and hoping we can make a profit from them? I was just wondering if it's better to try and use youth players as backup instead of signing bench warmers like last summer.

What I've found very interesting in the youth contract debate here is that the theory many have put across is absolutely sound and I completely agree. In short, where we have a promising youth player, do not let them enter the last year of their contract without at least an offer on the table early doors that they will accept, and certainly before they hit the ground running in the first team, unless we have no intention of keeping them anyway. It's the application of the theory that I've yet to see any realistic suggestions as to how it can be applied to 100% success each time at a club with our budget. If we had the money of a bigger team, youth players would be renewed well ahead of time to protect the chance of losing them and the fee that goes along with them. We'd accept the risk that we will pay out an extra season or two in wages perhaps to the majority of the youth squads ongoing to ensure we don't lose on the value of that special 1 or 2 where we could sell on for big profit. But, in reality we don't, and it's a balancing act with a small overall football budget. The football staff in the club need to find that sweet spot where they pretty much know a youth player is going to make it and an early, and extended contract offer is a worthwhile investment. That's hard and they won't get it right every time. It's easy to talk about the players currently in the headlines and how the club should have, shouldn't have, or were lucky or not lucky. What about the current youth players...views? * Adam Livingstone - due up in May 2019 - going by the argument, he's a promising youth player kept back from loan to push for the first team like Turnbull so should already be on a renewal. *Peter Morrison -due up in May 2019 - on loan to Albion for games. SPFL team of the week last week. Renew to 2021? Other goalies now pushing up though. Do we safeguard our investment and give him a 2 year deal? Or gamble that he wont actually make it and invest elswhere. *Shaun Bowers, Liam Brown, Jamie Semple - all up in May 2019. All looked great in the reserves. Couple more years? *Broque Watson - up in May 2019 - looked good in the reserves. Not really kicked on out on loan at East Fife. Also not a long term youth so not much compo due. Do we renew him? Or is ti purely about protecting our youth investment? ...and that's just a handful. Not an easy task.

Or, the club got it right two out of three times in this situation? Or are we operating on the basis that when they manage to get a player to sign a new deal we're "lucky," but when they don't manage to convince them we're "amateur?" The bottom line is, regardless of fans liking or not, that we'll never be in a position to cover all bases, especially when it comes to the unpredictability of youth football. The very fact that we've managed to retain two of our three highest-rated prospects (including the top prospect of the three in my opinion in Turnbull) is an accomplishment. Would it be great if Hastie stayed? Absolutely, but that's how the cookie crumbles. I'd be more concerned if we had lost all three, or if we were regularly shipping out players for nothing who then went on to have great careers elsewhere. The club, for the most part, has gotten it right over the years.

Hibs thoroughly deserved their win on Saturday...we were dugmeat, all over the park. The singling out of Main for criticism is farcical though. Our full-backs played their poorest game in months, our midfield 3 were totally dominated, while our wingers were just garbage.

Personally i’m still not convinced Scott is close to being a starter next season, still a way to go for me.

its deffo a pleasure to see him playing well, and annoying the life out of you yodo hahahahah long may it continue