Haven't put it to them as yet, but the consensus about where we'll finish seems to be around midtable. Some excitable folk are proclaiming Europe is in our grasp and some self-flagellating maniacs are proclaiming relegation, doom, rack and ruin.
Doesn't bother me at all. Of course seeing a local lad pull on the shirt and do well is great, but it's the modern Premiership where the inflated costs of English players is prohibitive and you can pick up the likes of both Ben Arfa & Cabaye for less than the cost of James McCarthy...
We still have some decent youngsters coming though. Trouble is, we haven't the strength in depth to get away with starting our kids in the league & we're not in the cups long enough to play them more than once, so we have to send them out on loan. Vuckic (good player but a bit of a crock), Abeid (impressive but needs to mature), Sammy Ameobi (raw talent and got to avoid comparisons with his brother), Ferguson (not convinced by him at all), Good (see nothing in him) have all been farmed out and have had fair to middling success. Two or three are getting a lot of attention though; Adam Campbell up front, Paul Dummet at full back. The former is very highly rated up here, he won the same award Messi did (MVP at the Nike Premier Cup Tournament) and in his brief appearances has looked assured. The latter played for St Mirren last season and got decent reviews. However, we've seen too many lads show promise and do nothing to get our hopes up. For every Steven Taylor there's a James McClen.
Course I'd love to see new versions of Beardsley, Gascoigne, etc. but lets be honest how likely is that?
