Scotland feeling the Blus
Scotland have fended off England and Australia for Watford prospect Sonny Blu-Lo Everton.
The striker will make his international debut for Brian McLaughlin’s Under17s squad in Spain this week when they take on France and Hungary.
And he’ll be joined by 6ft 4in Manchester City keeper Cieran Slicker.
Both qual ify through grandparents and are the products of a trawl through the English academy system that has thrown up 30 possibles for Scotland’s youth set-up.
McLaughlin has, however, lost out on his captain Jensen Wei r – son of Scotland and Rangers legend David – who has opted to play for England.
Meanwhile, moves are still being made behind the scenes to persuade Che Adams and Harvey Barnes.
MailSport revealed last year the pair were being targeted by senior team manager Alex McLeish.
Southampton keeper Angus Gunn remains on the radar. His father Bryan, also a keeper, played six times for Scotland.
The winger scored either side of Curtis Main’s first strike since November 11 as three goals inside 21 minutes made it four Premiership wins on the bounce.
Academy product Hastie put in a stellar performance, as did fellow 19-year- old midfielder David Turnbull and 20-year-old Allan Campbell, as Motherwell closed the gap on the top six to seven points.
Fir Park boss Robinson said: “We’ve played better this season and lost.
“Any game against Livingston is going to be a battle but we outfought them.
“The young boys have no fear – they’re not frightened of anybody and they give us a real freshness.
“They don’t care if the crowd give them a little bit of stick and they are not scared of the first-team players.
“Jake is like a new signing for us, he has been a breath of fresh air for this club and he will improve.
“We were a threat up top all day long and that is the difference between us now and before Christmas.
“I’m also delighted for Curtis because I see him put chances like that away every day in training. He doesn’t get the credit for the work he does because it can be a lonely job in a 4-3-3 system.
“It’s a scrap but he never hides and that’s what fans don’t see sometimes. He got his reward today.” Well only took six minutes to move in front with Turnbull – who signed a new two-and-a-half year deal last week – the architect.
He floated over a free-kick and Hastie nipped in first to head past Liam Kelly, scuppering the Livingston keeper’s hopes of a first clean sheet in five games.
Well doubled their lead in 12 minutes when Campbell beautifully slid in Main and the hitman coolly lofted over Kelly to take his tally to six for the season.
The Lions would have levelled had it not been for Mark Gillespie’s fine reaction save, clawing away a Ryan Hardie cross that had deflected off Richard Tait.
Craig Sibbald then battered an effort wide before Scott Pittman wriggled free only for his low drive to be parried away.
Less than 30 seconds later it was 3- 0 as Hastie picked the ball up 40 yards from goal then shrugged off a couple of defenders to crack an effort under Kelly.
Livi new boy Chris Erskine slashed one into the side-netting when it looked easier to score before making way at half-time in one of three changes by boss Gary Holt.
Despite the new faces, it should’ve been four when Campbell’s shot was headed off the line by Declan Gallagher before a deflection took Hastie’s follow-up over.
Being denied a consolation when Scott Tiffoney’s curled effort came back off the post in 89 minutes proved it wasn’t to be Livi’s day as their winless streak in the league stretched to six games.