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You'd think so, but we've always had alternatives in the squad or from the development side. The problem has been that McCoist refused to give anyone else a chance, no matter how badly his first choice players were performing, and McDowall has shown few signs of altering that policy beyond dropping Black for Hutton. Will Newcastle's youth get any more of a chance than our own? And if a group of youth players on loan get straight in the team we can expect the exodus of our own talented youths to continue - and who could blame them for getting out when they stand no chance of ever making the step up with us no matter how good they might be.

I agree we need change in the team, I'm just not sure we'll see it yet.

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Speaking of our youth players, we gave Hearts a doing in a Development League match. The Hearts side included 4 guys from the Hearts team that beat us in our first Championship match. Predictably this just highlights where we've been going wrong all season.