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If he is leaving then good luck to him. He'll need it. Yes he has shown potential but in reality he's achieved the square root of f*ck-all. The road out of FP is not paved with gold. It has been well-trodden by many before him and only a really very select few have ever gone on to so-called better things. If he seriously thinks his future footballing career can be best served by joining any of the clubs that have allegedly shown interest in him, then he should crack on as soon as possible and make way for others. MFC won't crash and burn on the basis of him or anyone else leaving to go elsewhere.

Aye and it worries me that some folks are writing Accies off. A 2-0 win at Pittodrie will give them a boost. Think we will win but not as easily as some suggest Sent from my SM-A320FL using Tapatalk

Absolutely....it strikes me that exciting as Jake is, (and I watched him also in the reserves), he has been something new for opposition to contend with. Now he has had exposure our opponents will no doubt be working on ways of nullifying him as Celtic and Killie did to a large extent. The acid test for him is coping with that greater exposure and opposition attention. Then we will know if we truly do have a star in the making. As others have said the clubs record re young players shows far more rights than wrongs. IF we have got this wrong and Jake does move on for a development fee only, then sobeit, I certainly won't be critical towards those entrusted with these calls. Life (and football) ain't a game of perfect Sent from my SM-A320FL using Tapatalk

The club is in a no win situation, no one knows for sure if Hastie will carry on improving, its very, very early days and he’s had a few decent games since returning from his loan move. No club our size is going to retain every player, we’ve done pretty well overal. I think it’s frankly unfair to have a go at the club on this one and we might do well to remember that he could still sign. All this is, is paper talk, let’s wait and see before we make judgements.

It wouldn't be the worst option - we could bring back Joe Chalmers - but it would still be incredibly stupid. We need fullbacks who can distribute the ball. Tait can't do it on the left and Grimshaw can't pass to save his life.

I’m just going to wait until anything is confirmed.

Disagree. Hastie himself was as surprised as anyone when he came back from Alloa and made such an impact in the first team. Maguire has been promising but nothing more. Turnbull very talented but untried - maybe I'll give you that one. You can't dish out long well paid contracts to every promising youngster in the youth ranks as we cimply can't afford it. We're not the Dundee United of years ago who simply threw cash at their youth set up. Look at the likes of Luke Watt and David Ferguson and Dom Thomas to name but three. If we did that our squad ranks would be filled with young 20 something players who weren't going to make it and a fair chunk of our budget would be used up. As Robbo has said recently its not all about talent its as much about attitude and you can only test that in first team football somewhere. Dom Thomas and Paul Slane? For older fans we had the likes of John Gray and Jim Beaton. These guys had/have amazing, really amazing, talent but just couldn't do it on the park at a senior level. Its a fine balancing act not always easy to get 100% right. I remember talking to Jim Leishman 5 or 6 years ago and he told me that its one of the hardest things in football to predict which talented youngsters would make it and which would not. He said they were all talented otherwise they wouldn't have signed them in the first place.

Did we really sign him or did I just dream the whole episode,