arabchanter wrote:

Whoever it is I hope he ditches this " the score is irrelevant it how we play that matters " shite.
Skill and talent are only parts of the make up of good/great players , hunger, desire and passion need to be harnessed from an early age, isn't that the common denominator for fans, players and management team....a winning team?
The Dutch teams over the years have been great on the eye but massive under achievers, total football IMHO doesn't work there has to be a bit of steel,a bit of grit and determination not to let yourself or your team mates down, but if you keep telling young lads the score doesn't really matter i think it can become a mindset

I hope that there is a defined instruction and link to how the first team play. Remember hearing on the zone that youth coaches liked being able to do their own thing without being influenced by JMac and crew and had a free reign.

Surely if you want youth to step into the first team successfully it's a help to be practiced in the big teams style and tactics.
 

I'm sure he's just passed his degree in Sports Science but also going through his coaching badges, agree he had the winning mentality but remember he was coached by wee Jim, Walter Smith, Archie Knox et al who certainly wouldn't tell him the score was irrelevant.

This could be totally made up but I'm sure I saw something about John potter as being the favorite to replace Campbell currently at Dunfermline and won the youth cup or league with them

Surely not Potter now, since his acquaintances are away from the club. Arabnophobia is right about the Development League, it's another Scottish football failure and the format needs altered.

Regarding the winning doesn't matter, it doesn't necessarily, but the winning mentality does, and this is partly where we go wrong.

Yet there's Andy Robertson in the papers today http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/robertson-rise-shows-clubs-value-of-playing-long-game-1-3945976
 saying quite a bit about his support of the present system. I'd say he's an exceptional player rather than a product of the Scottish system however.

I mind Jim McLean saying in a Q+A that he wanted all his teams playing the same system, from boys right through to the first team, and all understanding how to give and receive passes. To cut a long story short on the 'passes' stuff, no pass was to go directly to another player's feet in an attacking situation, if you can visualise that. Jim actually got out his chair to demonstrate this point, and said all his teams had to understand this.

So we probably don't want the thinking of the levels below the top team being any different, we need someone on Mixu's wavelength. 

At national level, we maybe need to bring back reserve sides,rather than the failing development leagues.

I hear our neighbours across the street are 'going Dutch' in a bid to attempt to transform their ailing youth set-up.

Should we consider something similiarly radical or should we appoint someone local?

It seems to me the past year or two our Youth Academy has seen a real downturn in the quality of player coming through the ranks.

 

Investment wise I don't expect any change. Expect that what Arabtrust and others contribute will continue to be the main(?) funding.

If anything is to improve it might be helped by be bringing in a well connected and respected youth coach that can broaden our geographical pull.

Someone that can tap into areas outwith Britain and Ireland where the mentality is more about being determined and getting stuck in, in any weather or financial surroundings.

Nae idea where that is, Mixu has that covered in areas surrounding Finland I'd think so mibbies a respected coach fae areas like the former Yugoslavia type climate.
Oor reputation for youth is on the verge of being undone.  Something can be done to save it.

I'm nae expert but I'm sure what still has credit can be used to propell us into a new successful way of doing what seems to be broken.