Stephen Robinson says St Mirren youngsters will have to earn first team shot and talks up club's role models
dailyrecord.co.ukSt Mirren boss Stephen Robinson insists he won’t be afraid to put his trust in youth next season. The Buddies manager built a reputation for promoting promising prospects into the first team at Motherwell, with the likes of Chris Cadden, Allan Campbell and James Scott all developing into strong first team players before earning big moves.
Robinson is delighted with the standard of players the Saints academy, which achieved elite status at the start of this year, is producing.
And while he admits they will only make the step up if they earn it, he can’t wait to introduce some of the most talented youngsters into the St Mirren first team squad.
Robinson told stmirren.com: “My squad will be made up with five or six young, young kids next year. That’s a real credit to the academy.“We have to embrace that and bring these kids into the first team environment and give them opportunities to show how good they are.“There’s boys that would have played in my team already, but because of the loan rules we weren’t able to do that.“We have to combine them and we won’t put them in if they’re not ready.
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