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[J-C]

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McGregor is suspended and Porteous is meant to be going out on loan

Didn't realise McGregor was suspended, maybe that's why Porteous's loan hasn't been finalised until after the 1st game, probably be Efe and Fontaine to start with Porteous on the bench.

[BoomtownHibees]

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Didn't realise McGregor was suspended, maybe that's why Porteous's loan hasn't been finalised until after the 1st game, probably be Efe and Fontaine to start with Porteous on the bench.

Yeah Daz and Sir David are both out so leaves us pretty bare at the back for that first game

[Ray_]

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Alli made his spurs debut at 19, Raheem Sterling was 17, Wilshere was 16, Aaron Lennon 16, Rooney 17, Ronaldo 16 and Messi was 16.

These may all be top players but proves the point that age is nothing and talent is everything.

There is nothing more satisfying than watching young players come through your club and seeing them succeed. We have had some great U21 teams lately, winning honours, but, since the golden generation, precious few made the grade in Hibs first team.

I coined the phrase "golden generation", because that was an exceptional period. Over the years, before that we had the likes of the superb John Collins and extremely good players like Mickey Weir, Brian Rice, Paul Kane come through. But nothing to compare with the period when players such as Stanton, Cormack, Stevenson, O'Rourke, Stein, Blackley, Marinello, Cropley & Brownlie, came through on a seemingly never ending conveyor belt. We complimented our own young players by buying in youngsters like Neil Martin, Erich Scheadler & Arthur Duncan from other clubs and watching them flourish.

We have also had players of outstanding ability, like Kenny Davidson, who skirted around the edge of the first team, much like Alex Harris in recent seasons, but never got to grips with the physical element of the game, although there is time for young Alex.

Again you are using exceptions, where in the past, most teams would have young players making a significant impact on the first team. Since the SPL came in to force during the 1975/6 season, when the top division was reduced from 18 to 10 teams, fear was used as the reason fewer youngsters were being blooded in to the first team. There is obviously still an element of that going on, but as well as obvious talent, the game is more athletic today and that is what I believe to be the reason that fewer of our successful youth players, achieve the level that is expected of them and it is also this reason that I believe, generally, players are older when they make that breakthrough.

[Pretty Boy]

Another bomb dropped, reaction gained and disappearing act carried out by the OP.

If I wasn't so sure you want banned so you can bad mouth us elsewhere I would have tipped you out the doors by now.