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.
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 football as a reward for winning their under-18 league.
The winners of that league gain entry into next season's UEFA Youth League so that's going to be a fantastic experience for all those young Hibs players. They will get a chance to face European opposition and for five of them to make their debuts this season is great to see.
It's a clear sign that there is obviously talent emerging from the academy and that's great credit to Gareth Evans who's the under-18 coach.
They will all come back for pre-season with a determination to push on and try to win a place in the team.
There's a new manager to impress and Lee Johnson will have an added bonus of getting a group of hungry academy players to give him food for thought.
It's about Hibs starting to bring through their own young players, give them an opportunity and then sell them on.
Selling them on has to be the way for a club like Hibs if they are to be sustainable and they have always had a tradition of bringing through their own young players but it's been a drought over the last decade.
I've watched the under-18s a few times and they have some really gifted kids and there's nothing better for the supporters to see one of their players coming into the first team. I was lucky to have been able to do that myself and the fans get right behind you.
Now these five boys have had a taste of it, it's all down to them to continue progressing and making a name for themselves.
The hardest part of getting into that team and making themselves a regular.
My first ever start for Hibs was against Hearts at Tynecastle on the last day of the season.
I'd just returned from a positive loan spell at East Fife and Alex McLeish started me in the derby, I did well and won man of the match. The game was live on Sky Sports and I was up against Gary Naismith and gave him nightmares, even if I do say so myself.
That was me off and running but Big Eck didn't tell me I was starting until the morning of the game as I would have been a bag of jaggies. When he read the team out I had to double check I'd heard him correctly.
It was also the last Hibs game for big John Hughes. Yogi pulled me aside before the game and told me if I hid then he'd kick the ****** out of me. That was more terrifying than the game so I kept asking for the ball.
I was off and running and became a regular.
Here's a stat to finish. There were 12 of us who all signed our first full-time contracts at Hibs when we were kids.
Only two of us made our debuts. When opportunity knocks you need to take it.
