Hurst starts his clear-out

Quoted from smokey111

Fill the team will local lads, Celtic won the European Cup with 11 players born within 6 yards of the ground, get scouting at Bradley pitches,  blah, blah, blah.

It isn't a charity. Good enough, old enough.

Not quite!

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The Lisbon Lions is the nickname given to the Celtic team that won the European Cup at the Estádio Nacional near Lisbon, Portugal on 25 May 1967, defeating Inter Milan 2–1. All but two members of the 15 man squad were born within 10 miles of Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland ( Bobby Lennox, who was born 30 miles away in Saltcoats, and Tommy Gemmell, who was born in Motherwell 11 miles away, who were both in the starting XI).

Quoted from 123614

Really??  I find that very hard to believe.

No, honestly!?!?!?!

Without decent quality reserve team/u23 fixtures I get the impression that this will happen up and down the leagues. The lad was probably not given a chance as we’re not in the right place in the league to give young  players game time. It’s a shame as we all want to see local/youth players do well.

Good luck to the lad and all the others that will no doubt be released

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Lets face it, Hurst will offload every U19 pro at the club unless they are first team ready, back to the days of signing journeymen who if they have a good season will leave the club at the first hint of a better contract having no allegiance to anything but their wallet

Hurst is known for being pragmatic but he does play youngsters. He did at Ipswich if I remember right. But if the challenge is instant success then he will have to look for first team players not developing players and waiting for their maturity. So it will be out with any player young or not who will not fit that bill.

I always think young players are more likely to get a chance in a mid-table team where there is much less pressure.

Feel for any of the young lads who get released but at 18/19 for me they have to be 1st team ready at this level. Also with only 5 subs in conference think its gonna be a 21/23 man squad next year  and we've got quite a few with deals for next season already signed up.

Quoted from Ruston AT

    Feel for all the lads who get released, if GTFC go as previous years nears all the youth will be released, its a tough tough life/world to get into.

Just seen this on the  BBC site. Very apt for this thread. I know it only refers to the premiership but in the lower leagues even down to conference level its still tough to make it. I know from talking to people in professional  youth set ups at lower level eg league 1 down to league 2 on average very few will make it .

It simply read ‘0.012%’ and was a reference to findings that only 180 of the 1.5m boys playing organised youth football in England will ever play a single minute in the Premier League

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/hfe5e1289y/The-Impossible-Dream

Quoted from Les Brechin

Not quite!

Whoosh.........just trying to add a little humour. I will get my coat.

I love this thread, 1 youngster gets released and it sparks off how sh1t Hurst must be because he doesn’t play youngsters.

He may night have played them apart from the odd appearance here and there but he was clearly in charge when Clifton & Max came through the system that as manager he would have been ultimately accountable for even if he didn’t assume day to day responsibility.

I stated on here weeks ago that the youth players should start to look elsewhere, and that includes Mattie Pollock, under Paul Hurst. No snide remarks about Mattie Pollock please.
Paul Hurst has never had faith in youngsters.
Paul Hurst should start to look at his own recent signings to release, Payne, JLL, Habergham.
I know this won't be well received by the Paul Hurst lovers, but I doubt any of them have witnessed the good times, and I don't mean Non League play offs.