Young Queen’s Park players in First Team by Design

The youngsters are all involved by design and not accident as Queen’s Park’s Director of Football Operations Marijn Beuker explained: “Lewis Reid started alongside Alex Bannon and then we had Lucas McCormick coming on before Zach Mauchin and Alex Fairlie made their debuts as substitutes. When you add in Callan McKenna, Cameron Bruce, Lennon Connolly, Ricky Waugh and Liam McLeish, who have also been involved this season, it is great to see so many players coming through.

“All these boys have been working really hard in our program, where they are spending hours and hours on understanding our way of playing and also getting physically ready for modern football.

“Most of it is new to them and it’s great to see how well they are picking this up. Of course, their coaches Charley King, Tam O’Ware, Paul Nuijten and Sam Malone are a very important source of support.”