STEPHEN McGOWAN: It's not protection our young players need ... it's managers who will play them
Daily MailYou are the chairman of a Scottish Premiership football club. Scots boss Clarke says he needs to protect Ben Doak, above right, and bring him in slowly Young talented Scots are not getting a chance to play for either Celtic or Rangers Lennon Miller is an exception among young Scots in playing regularly in top flight A strategic partnership would see Hibs send their boys to Larbert to study at the University of Ochilview. During a Zoom meeting to explain the concept to other clubs, former Stenhousemuir chairman Iain McMenemy recalls one Premiership counterpart warning him there was no way he’d ever loan a young player to a lower league team unless they paid for him. The plan is to make it easier for young academy players to move between their parent club and a lower league feeder team outwith transfer windows. While players like David Watson, Lennon Miller and Lyall Cameron offer hope, they’re the exceptions in a league where English loan signings and overseas journeymen routinely block the first-team ambitions of young hopefuls.
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