Lovelace
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Brian_Fantana
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The fact that Derek Johnstone keeps getting used as an example shows how rare an occurrence it is.
For me, a 16 year old is too young to push up into the top team. They're still growing into their body / mind and you could absolutely burn a player out playing them too fast too young.
I think you have to nurture the talent you have with a view to having them contribute at 18/19
For me, a 16 year old is too young to push up into the top team. They're still growing into their body / mind and you could absolutely burn a player out playing them too fast too young.
I think you have to nurture the talent you have with a view to having them contribute at 18/19
Bluebear72
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Willie Henderson was 17 and playing regularly with us
Hateley's Barnet
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If we can show him a pathway into the first team then we could re-sign him on a longer deal.
By all accounts he knocked back a few clubs to sign for us so he must see some kind of future here.
MainStandLoyal
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We were allowed to offer him a 3 year deal.
Bluebeard
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We won’t though. He won’t see first team football aged 16 or 17 and probably not 18 either. We just don’t do it.
The fact people are having to go back 50 years to big DJ is all the evidence you need.
Hateley's Barnet
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If he is a stand out in the B team then he will get involved with the first team similar to the way King, Lowry & McCann all have been recently.
He's only 16 but he is built like a grown man. I could see him being involved in the 2nd half of the season.
Millger
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Said it before his got big ambitions but that's why we need to start nursing him in to the first team other wise he will definitely look to go asap
Egt
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Leon King made his debut at 16.
Highway Star
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You're talking about the best 2 young players ever to come through our youth ranks and the most recent of them was 52 years ago.
That shows you how rare an occurrence it is.
I like the look of Lovelace, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and give Gio and his staff time to assess him and work out a plan for him.
It may well be a loan, or joining the 1st team squad.
It's very unlikely he'll be staying with the B team much longer imo.
I’m talking Rangers. Not Scottish football, not crap.
Highway Star
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He's still a good bit away from our 1st team and may have struggled to make the bench on Saturday, had Davies been fit.
If we're being realistic, all of King, Lowry and McCann are still a fair bit away from regular 1st team football.
There's a good few better options still ahead of them, in their positions.
It's not easy to break into a side like our's, with so much depth of quality in every position.
It's a gradual development process, unless you're really special.
Egt
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Exactly. Think it’s quite clear already that unless Lovelace suffers an injury or regresses in some other way then he will at least make an appearance for the first team – very likely this season.
You make it sound like King wasn’t highly sought after, before signing a new deal in January.
We don’t know what he thinks his development path will be or what his expectations for game time over the next couple of years are.
I’m hopeful he will follow the same path as Lowry/King/Patterson, but there’s no guarantee he will.
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Hipster Dashie
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That's mature.
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