Poor Playercey
Slug and not physical
Arguably Scotty Rab.
Then again, many hearts fans including paolo Sergio rated him as a decent player.
I was thinking of him and he was why I said 'properly prove us wrong'. He's had a decent career, in fairness, but if the best example of us letting a player go and him going on to have a career is him being okay for Livi then we've probably not done too badly.
It's easy to just feel blanket rage at times like this, but for the most part we've not been regularly letting players go who came back to bite us (possible exception for guys we've let go earlier on, e.g. Cummings). Although again, that's arguably an indictment of the youth system in itself - we bring through guys who are okay for Falkirk.
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Cummings is a good shout aye. Keeping dross and letting go Cummings because he got an injury and deciding we couldnt be fucked rehabilitating him. Hibs snapped him up immediately and he was in their team less than a year later.
I don't really rate Josh Doig from what I've seen of him but it seems like he'll be another one who has a decent career after leaving. Liam Smith and Liam Gordon could probably count too but that's only because we're so shite rather than them being that good.
Hotel Scorpio
The Priority
Doig is one that looks like we made a huge mistake with in hindsight as well.
Are Henderson and Irving the only youth products (not including returning vets like Gordon, Walker, etc) that have had meaningful game time? I dont rate Henderson or Moore that highly, but I don't see why we felt the need to spend money on players like Frear or pointless loans like Gashtaneer instead of them.
I also think Cochrane and MacDonald would have thrived in this league.
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Charlie Kelly
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Liam Gordon seems to have done alright for himself at St Johnstone.
We had McFadden as a youth, but papped him out after a trip to Ireland. He was a nutcase of a laddie though.
We’re not letting Irving go though, we want to keep him and are going to lose him to another club for pennies.
Did the same not happen with funk where he went for pretty much nout but he made sure we got a sell on fee? We let these contracts run down and puts us in a difficult situation where we should be getting money for in demand players from our system.
I know he didn’t come through their academy but look at hibs with Kevin nisbet. They’ve identified he’s a talent, gave him a 5 year deal and then are in the position to turn down a 3m bid. I’m not saying Irving is worth that but if he’s got other options outside hearts then he’s worth something to someone.
The Great Naisy
Morph is a wee wank
Walter Sobchak
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Irving is clearly a good footballer.
Our youth system is a shambles; we don't give players a run out in games where they can achieve anything (away to ibrox - start. Home to hamilton - not even on bench). Players sent out on loan with no apparent structure. Contract fuck ups. it goes on.
Walter Sobchak
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