Lee Johnson has the new Hibs golden generation next season to kickstart Easter Road revival - Tam McManus

Quick question. Who was the last Hibs academy product that was sold for big money?

It's a tester, I've racked my brain and the best I can do is come up with Steven Fletcher who went to Burnley for over £4million.

That was 12 years ago and Jason Cummings also moved for around £1million to Nottingham Forest but that's small change in today's market.

The golden generation of Garry O'Connor, Derek Riordan, Steven Whittaker, Kevin Thomson, Fletcher and the pick of the bunch, Scott Brown are all spoken about with bygone day nostalgia.

Whisper it, but I believe there's some new kids on the block who could well be about to change all that.

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The truth is that there hasn't been a great influx of quality coming through from the youth set-up at the club for a number of years.

Ryan Porteous is the exception and the flag bearer as Josh Doig didn't come through the academy as he was at Hearts.

Hopefully having no less than five kids from the under-18s making their first team debuts this season is a statement of intent and a sign of the club having a genuine conveyor belt of talent coming through.

We had Josh O'Connor, Murray Aitken, Oscar MacIntyre, Jacob Blaney and Robbie Hamilton all getting a taste of first team