Aidan bell

I'm really pleased McGhee gave McLean a Start. It seems Mcmillan and Ferguson did ok aswell considering. Hopefully they can kick on from this.

Has there been any update on Mchugh, Blyth and Kennedy fitness wise?

I wonder if Jackie McNamara would be interested in taking some of our young players to York right now? Having said that he's taken Rooney & Whittle from Dunfermline plus Connolly from Dundee United and they don't appear to be doing much.

Hopefully Thomas and 2 or 3 more get a loan deal sorted in order to continue their development. It seems that a few are too good for the development league and not quite ready for full 1st team starts. With this being the case they need to be loaned out or end up being another mchugh, leitch or carswell.

As the weeks go by the signing of Belic becomes stranger and stranger.

I don't think it's idealistic at all to be honest. In fact I think it's a good footballing philosophy / business model for a club like ours to have. I'm not advising flooding the 1st team with loads of young players just 2 or 3 more that would compliment the more experienced pro's we have.

Ultimately I would rather see players from our development team stepping up than signing Lucas on a 6 month deal? Faddy as assistant manager/player? and Clay? Previous posts are certainly correct in pointing out the step up from development league to 1st team but we don't need young players as the finished articles before they're put in. I personally would much rather see a Campbell, ferguson,Turnbull or Mackin out there making the odd mistake than average players from England's 5th tier. It's not that I think the players we have signed are way sort of the required standard it's just that I believe they're not any better than some players in our development team.

I'm not saying to fill the 1st team with young players but certainly 2 or 3 that I think could do at least as good a job, namely Campbell, McLean and Turnbull. I feel Dom Thomas is a good prospect but badly needs a loan to help him bulk up. Neither Cadden or Hall were the finished article when they were dropped in to the 1st team but both, particularly Cadden has grabbed the opportunity and really kicked on. If McGhee in discussion with Craigan feels they are not ready then get them out on loan otherwise they all end up going down the Dom Thomas route and not developing further?

I'll certainly support any player in claret & amber but having watched a few of the u20 games recently I think there's a few who should be getting a 1st team chance. I personally worry that McGhee has a reluctance to play young players?

This is my first post on the site so hi all. I was interested to get folks opinion on the lack of Young players who are being given 1st team game time at the moment. McGhee seems to prefer bringing in players from the English 5th tier over throwing in our own young players. We have certainly had a degree of success with this (Moult & Johnson) however there seems to be a lot of very average players coming in ( Clay, Tait & Lucas). Has this been picked up by any regulars at the games?