Apologies if it's been posted elsewhere but I was reading an interview with Sheffield United winger Stefan Scougall. In it the article mentions he was freed by Hibs at the age of 16 for being too small but later in the interview he says he doesn't want to talk about Hibs letting him go.
anyone wonder what happened to him? And what is the size criteria for players who are 16?
Just wondering!
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12-04-2014 05:48 PM #1
Stefan Scougall
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12-04-2014 05:54 PM #2
Interesting. I heard from someone whose going down to Wembley on a bus with Scougall's friends and relatives that it was Hearts who released him. Guy who told me is a Jambo.
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12-04-2014 05:58 PM #3
Think there as a thread about it a few months ago . Sure it was hibs that let him go .
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12-04-2014 05:58 PM #4
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12-04-2014 06:28 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A la Gordon Strachan?
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12-04-2014 06:33 PM #6
The Decca boy that rejected the Beatles tho was right - what a bag of doo-doo they were. (I much prefer the Stones ;)
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12-04-2014 06:56 PM #7
Every club will have players they rejected as youngsters who made it elsewhere.
Scougall is on the bench at a League 1 club. He's still to prove himself."Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.' - Paulo Freire
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12-04-2014 07:00 PM #8
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12-04-2014 07:52 PM #9
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12-04-2014 09:37 PM #10hfc rdLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Agree. He's done well down there but still a long way to go.
Mate at work who is a Sheffield Utd season ticket holder has been raving about Stefan Scougall. Was stunned when I told him he was released by Hibs at the age of 16 for being too small. Scougall would easily walk straight into our first team.
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12-04-2014 09:45 PM #11
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13-04-2014 06:16 AM #13
Who's to say that getting released by Hibs wasn't the best thing that's ever happened to him, giving him the drive and determination to make something of himself? No guarantee if he stayed at Hibs he'd have made it.
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13-04-2014 07:40 AM #14
I dont believe he was released for being too small. It will be because we didnt think he was good enough to compensate for his lack of height/strength.
If we had messi on our books we wouldnt have released him because of his size so to suggest thats the only factor isnt the case imo
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13-04-2014 10:17 AM #16
A decent player perhaps helped by getting first team games at live rather than in hibs reserves?
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Personal tastes in music differ just as in choice of the football team we support, i suppose.
Me i preferred the Beatles myself but loved the Stones music too!
anyway this is a football forum and we are talking about a lad getting released from Hibs at 16. This happens a lot to youngsters but as another poster says. Sometimes it gives them the determination to go else where and prove them wrong.
Gordon Strachan and Keith Wright were let go by Hibs not because they were to wee though.
Mickey Weir was ready to give up football at a young age as he kept getting told he was too wee. Luckily for us he was persuaded to get back out on the field and let his ability speak for itself.
Its hard on these kids being told they are not good enough for a club sometimes it makes or breaks them.
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13-04-2014 10:49 AM #18
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Hibs are still releasing youngsters based on size. Seems crazy to me. But we've had threads on here about we are a team of midgets in the past
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13-04-2014 11:11 AM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
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13-04-2014 11:26 AM #20
Tbh him and Sean Welsh are the only two hibs youngsters I can think of that were let go and have went on to do something.
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13-04-2014 11:39 AM #22
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The trick is recognising their potential before we release them for whatever reason. The proportion of players released to those that we do release and come back to bite us is minimal. Given the amount of folk that go through the system, and not just here, it is bound to happen. Some you win, some you don't.
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13-04-2014 11:39 AM #23
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13-04-2014 12:24 PM #25
Oh yeah forgot leigh was a hibs youth player. Always thought he was a livi youth. Was Ian Black one of our youth players as well?
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I blame the housekeepers that look after these lads when they're in club digs...if they fed them properly they wouldn't be so small and Hibs wouldn't have to release them
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