WE have been a club that promotes youth but over the past few years they have not been integrated into the first team at the right rate i agree that the only way to progress and see the if the player has got it is to play them and usually after a dozen games or so you can tell if they are going to make it. Or need to be moved on to a lower level.
Just look at the recent real successs they all looked well out their depth in the first few games but quickly developed into proper players. McFadyen, Turnbull, Campbell.
Lower level happy to let go Scott ( left too early but we got a decent transfer), Cornelius, Erwin.
Max Johnston was a strange one we were happy to loan out without really giving him a run in our firsts team have to feel had he been managed differently he would still have been our player or we would have a few million in the bank