WoodStein Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 1 hour ago, BCram said: fixed that for you. Messi is just 5'7", Gordon Strachan was 5'6" Neil McCann was 5'9", Bobby Cox was 5'7" and Jinky Jimmy Johnston was 5'4" so minimum height would seem to be about 5'6" and upwards! McCann 5’9”???? Did he shrink by 3” or more, with the weight of all our expectations on his shoulders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edin_Dee Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 1 hour ago, Only me said: Yes but you gotta allow them to make there own mistakes and learn from them and tbh the players getting picked ahead of them make them week in week out . I'm not against playing youth players if they are better than what we've got. If they are good enough then they will take their opportunity when they come into the first team. Yes most youngsters will make mistakes but they also need to be making a contribution. I can't think of too many youngsters who have looked better than what we've got currently in the first team. We need to make a decision - do we run with a very small first team squad and play the youths or do we have a larger first team squad and ditch the youths. We can't afford to have both (which we currently do). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkBlueKnight Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 How much does youth set up cost to run a year? And how much of that is funded via dee promotions ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Blue Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 42 minutes ago, WoodStein said: McCann 5’9”???? Did he shrink by 3” or more, with the weight of all our expectations on his shoulders? 5'10" according to Wikipedia but Neil would probably argue he was taller than that once you took into account his platform studs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Lovejoy Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 1 hour ago, Only me said: Didnt twist anyones words m8 Thats the comments they made If i were craving attention theres things i could have said that would have most responding . I think you've taken them out of context. McIntyre seems to like big players. I think most, if not all, agree that you don't have to be tall to be good. I think that a big ordinary player will cancel out a small ordinary player 99% of the time. We, mostly, sign ordinary players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliedee Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 the problem with pro youth teams is that the majority of them are just shirt fillers in the vain hope that 1 decent player makes the breakthru,,,,I think we developed better youth players when they were still allowed to play competitive games with their mates on a sunday and school during the week....the system we use in Scotland just aint working. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkblue Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 22 hours ago, Reverend Lovejoy said: Somehow I thought you were. Would've killed two birds with the one stone if you were though as the ex-director I thought you maybe were is definitely sitting on something. And that too is my understanding as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue4evr Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 Is anyone else confused with new team setup for reserve/dev team/under 18 etc. We have under 18 's playing later this week, yet we have an under 16 player captaining the reserve team, who lost today to Motherwell. Are reserves mainly 18/20 years old? Used to go to all Dev team games a couple of years ago, but now other commitments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliedee Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 to me the development team should be scrapped and any of them who look like they can maybe make it should play in the reserves with senior pros....and when the under 18s become too old for that age group they either go into the reserve squad or released...there is just no need for clubs our size having 100's of youngsters on the books hoping 1 makes us some money in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wattie Rojas Posted 16 April 2019 Author Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 I'm not sure who we have out scouting however we're getting as many kids from Fife, Perth and Aberdeen as we are from the Dundee area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Lovejoy Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 52 minutes ago, charliedee said: to me the development team should be scrapped and any of them who look like they can maybe make it should play in the reserves with senior pros....and when the under 18s become too old for that age group they either go into the reserve squad or released...there is just no need for clubs our size having 100's of youngsters on the books hoping 1 makes us some money in the future. There's no development team anymore I don't think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCram Posted 16 April 2019 Report Share Posted 16 April 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, WoodStein said: McCann 5’9”???? Did he shrink by 3” or more, with the weight of all our expectations on his shoulders? Wiki says 5'10" mea culpa. Edited 16 April 2019 by BCram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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