The way I look at it is that Young is a squad utility player who can be played with varying degrees of succes in a number of different positions. This makes him valuable in an era where squads are much smaller and budgets are tight. His presence in the squad does not preclude any talented youngster from breaking through into the team, if they are good enough. To hold the view that his presence in some way does halt the progress of youth has to be based on the belief that Calderwood would somehow always play a journeyman squad player over a genuinely talented younger player who would be a superstar were they just given their chance. In my opinion this just doesn't happen and it is in fact the lack of quality coming through our youth ranks, not the lack of opportunity, which is the crux of the matter.