One of the decisions to be made as a football manager, and actually, even higher at club level, is how much appetite you have to give game time to players who aren't currently good enough but you think have potential to be. Or you think have potential to make money and need exposure (Gallagher). Or as part of cloth cutting (Pressley).
That's also to be balanced against what can be gained by putting them out on loan, versus the possibility of leaving yourself thin on numbers.
The whole thing has many different facets and it's a perfectly viable position from a Falkirk FC fan to say I want to see them get minutes in the first team for various reasons and I am prepared to accept X Y or Z consequence as a result.
Loads to discuss re the development strategy for young players. On a wider scale, the development strategy for young players is absolute key to the Scottish game. Refusal to accept anything but fully ready players into first team squads is why we got the ludicrous B teams idea, and why our game is riddled eith foreigners and promising youngsters stuck on thr Bigots Brothers subs benches