DAVE Hockaday is hoping to continue Saints' proud traditions of producing superb young players.

The 49-year-old who was responsible for developing £10m striker Ashley Young for Watford, has taken over from Georges Prost at St Mary's.

Hockaday, who quit his first team coach post at Leicester City to move to Saints after less than a month at the Walkers Stadium, has large shoes to fill.

But he insists he will respect the long traditions of the club's youth policy trying to do so.

He said: "Southampton have an excellent track record for finding talented kids and pushing them through.

"I want to continue and improve on that."

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