Morton

[JamesMcClean]

The youth system restructuring is actually probably the best news of the lot in the past month. Something has gone badly rotten in the state of Tannadice since Campbell was driven out when it comes to youth development. Bringing on young guys and developing them into first team players has always been the way back to the days of Wee Jum. This has currently ground to a halt and looking at the timing and the ages of players who should now be breaking through, this can be directly traced back to Campbell’s disgraceful hounding out. For future reference thereafter, once this is hopefully up and running again in the medium term, the salient lesson to be learnt is, for sure, sell the odd player now and again to keep the finances ticking over but never EVER engage in the greedy, mass multi player clear out in the short term that was directly responsible for where we have currently ended up.

[TerryTheTerror]

You say that but our current owner has already said he's in this to make profit. That doesn't look like what your are suggesting to me.

[JamesMcClean]

You say that but our current owner has already said he's in this to make profit. That doesn't look like what your are suggesting to me.

You can make profit Terry, but that must always be balanced against continuing success on the park as if you put that in jeopardy then you risk killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. We’ve ended up losing more money than ever in the long term due to short term decisions. Yes, the new owners are here to make money but I’d like to think the long term development of the Club would heavily influence future selling decisions. As with everything, this is of course crystal ball stuff and nothing in life is guaranteed, but the decisions already taken so far already would appear to have long term benefits as the priority.