Development players promoted to first team
With the announcement of some development players being pushed into the first team, What impact if any can we expect?
Would be interested to hear views on people who see them regularly and have a bit of knowledge on them.
Ben Stirling - 22 Next month and never been on the bench in a competitive game. Albeit Iv been impressed with him when Iv seen him pre season and the winter break game against the Dutch team. At 21/22 though you expect him to have played a lot more competitive football.
Innes Murray - Another 22 year old that hasn’t even made appearances in friendlies. Will he have a chance?
Kevin Dabrowski - Heard good things about him and supposedly impressed at Cowdenbeath, could be be our back up? Again he’s 22 so needs to be playing games
Ryan Shanley - 19 year old striker who signed a 3 year extension in January so someone must rate him, is he ready?
Callum Yeates - 18 year old left back who I don’t know much about at all, any good?
Josh Doig - Appeared very calm and assured in pre season and got rave reviews and compared to Robertson which I feel is unfair pressure on the lad. I’m sure I read hibs see him as a centre half however not a full back?
Although we’re ‘promoting’ players to the first team, the majority are 22 and should have been training/ making appearances years ago if they had anything about them. Especially when you consider Murray, Mackie, Gullan, Shaw and Porteous are all similar age or younger and are (were for Shaw) ahead of them, with the jury still out on the majority of them.
Can we realistically see the younger players make a meaningful and impressive contribution this season?
For me id like to see our youngsters exposed to first team football at a much, much younger age.