There's only so much you can learn in training. They didn't get match experience in the right way at all - it was either thrown in at the deep end or never played at all. Also our dressing room sounded absolutely poisonous, a terrible environment for young players, and with most of the damage done McLeish comes in to compound it with a football style built on fear and misery and spends most of his time blaming the young players for our problems.
I think they will come good in the long run, but they need a change of scene. There are so many variables in youth development, and if a few small things go wrong that could be the line between success and failure. They need to rebuild their careers Steven Davis style, I think, and I think a few can certainly do it.
