with some of the recent talent from the first division seeming to improve be gaining a huge deal of interest who do you see as other satrs of the future? at saints im really happy to see mooner and jackson finally getting games and blossoming!

Marvyn Wilson.

Ruari MacLennan is doing quite well for us considering his age, one to watch, and Div McGowans OK ON THE WING

Roddy MacLennan is apparently quite special, but is far too lightweight to try right now.

Mooner for me. Class act in the making. Heard it here second.

We've got a few actually.
Keeghan Jacobs, Cammy MacDonald( Full debut on Saturday ), Leigh Griffiths and Steven Weir - Brother of that fat p***k that played for Queens last season. Not to mention Mark Torrance, Gary Miller and Murray Davidson.

you mean you're allowed youth players in this league?

hmm then i wonder why at the beginning of the season morton got rid of theirs and cancelled all the players contracts.

next someone will tell me douglas rae and jim mcinally dont have a clue what theyre doing.

Grant Evans,Ally Crawford and James Gibson are three of the current crop just bubbling below the first team.Plenty others behing them as Accies have some of the best under 13-15 players in the country.

I hate it that our youth system is soo crap (except moon, jackson and a few others) because all of the good players in perth and the suroundings are picked off by celtic and rangers,etc cuz knew a few who have endded up there when they should hav been at saints!

Heard good things about Bobby Barr at the academy of dreams.

all the young players from our area get picked up by aberdeen, its embarrassing that somewhere so far away scouts our area but we dont.

this is a reason for the downfall of home grown talent as so many young players go to other teams and end up rotting away instead of getting games and playing for there local clubs

it may be the reason everywhere else in scotland, its not the reason in greenock. most young players here would love to play for morton but we dont take youth seriously, dont scout the area at all, and released all but two youth players in the summer.

they have no choice but to go to places like aberdeen.

Kevin McDonald

he will be playing for Scotland one day surely, and probably in the Premiership

no pressure on him then

but in all honesty he will be a big player at somepoint in his carear

just now he is too good for Dundee and far too good for the 1st division

None

no one is too good for dundee!

nah he's the best player in the league by miles....excluding stuart greacen.

aye from your team

im not sure weather your comment about McDonald was sarcastic or genuine

the part about him being the best player in the league was genuine, the stuart greacen bit was sarcasm.

i like to mix things up a bit, keep people on their toes.

Aye I meant my team.

Can add Euan Lindsay onto that as well.

is there a boy Finlayson at you ? he is a good player so is Shields

the thing with McDonald is he has pace, skill, strength, great vision, eye for goal etc - next season he will be gone im sure of it and the annoying thing is we'll get no more than 150,000 for him

Greg Ross and Nick Phinn hopefully!

Ah, the sarcasm keeps flowing tonight.

im not being sarcastic tho , when he plays against us he has been one of your better players so has Shields

our only stand outs this season our Samson, Palenik, McDonald, Robertson and Mchale

Hopefully our young keeper will do well - mind you our last keeper that left to go to everton doesnt get a game.

We dont have a 17's or a 19's.

We have a couple of boys out playing for SoS teams this year, 16year old Mark McGinley is at Threave and looks quite good for a young lad.

who ?

dont let morton fans see you say this.

i actually like finlayson, he isnt fantastic but he does a job at this level that no other player in our team can do, until we get someone to replace him im happy with him in the team.

shields isnt that good at all, he's fierce in the tackle but the only problem is his 2nd touch is always a tackle.

oh poor you, i'd settle for having one standout player this season

we actually have 4 or 5 standout players, just they standout for being complete and utter pish!

Finlayson's an average Second division player.
He's what, 28?
And he ain't getting any better.
Brian Graham has an eyue for goal but needs a lot of work to really specialise his game.
McAllister can be unplayable on his day and really drives the team forward when too many are letting us down, eg Captain calamity.

Ruari McLennan is a very good player but needs a break out of the team for a wee while. Shame we don't have a similar "forward-thinking" midfielder to replace him.

Ricky Little.

Both look decent prospects. Would like to see both given a chance in the middle of the park soon, Phinn especially.

Another exciting prospect would be Greg Paterson, the Scotland under 19 goalkeeper.

Stephen Howarth has just been picked for the Scotland under 18s team , Roddy Mclennan and Jordan Murch .

fraser eaglesham, michael robertson, ricky little and pedram ardalany are our young prospects.

the maclennan brothers look good. Just hoping they can add to the physical side of their game a bit cos they're light weight to say the least.

I'll also say Hutton cos he's still young for a goalkeeper at 22 so he has his best years ahead of him.

i think i have the maclennan brothers album. definetely stars of the future.

Jim Thomson, Jamie McQuilken, Steve Tosh, and John O'Neill.

Our club couldn't give two shits about youth players which I find disgusting but saying that the recent ones we have brought through (Willie Gibson aside) have ended up in the SoS league at best. With the woeful Scott Robertson the most recent addition the future looks bright

Thirdeded here, he's fookin great, can see us makin a few bob from him in a few years time. Not that i want to, just u know, natural progression an the like

Got to agree i no of at least 7 youngsters that come from perth and have been
picked up by cowdenbeath fc.

Is John McGoldrick no longer considered a prospect?

He's no longer at Thistle.

Who's he with now?

To be honest no one from Thistles youth set up has made any great impact yet. Or in the last 20 years for that matter. Which when you consider our catchment area, is a disgrace.

Seen him play for your 19s on Sunday looks quite good.

Alan Archibald? Kenny Arthur?

Two players I have a lot of time for, but its not much is it? Kenny is plying his trade with Accrington Stanley and Archie is playing 1st division football with Thistle. We have 1/4 million folk within 3 miles and apart from those two Isaac English, Kevin Mcghee and Adam Strachan are the cream of what we've produced. Scary.