Robbie Neilson today spoke of why he felt Scotland, in particular, were lagging behind the continent in terms of youth training schedules.
"Young players come into the first team and after six months they fall back out of it again," he said. "It's an issue we've had over the years but I think it is changing."
Speaking about his own side, Hearts, "We've got a very young team that still needs to develop," he said. "They still need to learn the game. They've still got a lot of things they need to work on. The afternoon sessions are mostly group sessions or we split them up and put them into different areas of the pitch."
"The more you train the better you'll be. It doesn't need to be two-hour sessions, it can be 45 minutes as long as it's specific things."
"Last week we geared up for the Rangers game in the morning and in the afternoon we worked on technical things. I think it's important they do that."
"A lot of the time a player will come through a youth team training double sessions, then 19 and 20 they think they've made it. They go into the usual first team training programme where you come in at 10 and you're away for 12."
He continued, "For a young player you won't develop like that. Certainly up here and down in England as well we're starting to look at the European side of things. But, I think in Scottish football and British football we're still 10-15 years behind the continental teams for the workload that they put on players."
Neilson and his Hearts side will face off against Edinburgh rivals Hibernian this Sunday afternoon at Tynecastle.