Reid to miss two games as school work has priority
St Mirren youngster Dylan Reid will miss the next two weeks' action to sit exams at school.
The 16- year-old midfielderbecame the youngest ever player to feature in the Scottish Premiership when he came on for his debut as a late substitute against rangers at Ibrox last month and he has stayed in the squad since.
Ahead of the trip to Ross County tomorrow night, when the Buddies will have a depleted squad, manager Jim Goodwin said: "Dylan Reid has to go back to school, he is not allowed to travel.
"He is not able to train the next two weeks, he is actuallyback at school because he has exams coming up. That is a first for me.
"It is an important year for him and obviously his education is very important. It is something that we want to encourage, so he has been given time away to complete those exams and he will join back in with the group in a couple of weeks' time."
An "horrendous" injury list leaves Goodwin with selection headaches. He said: "I'm really struggling for bodies for the game. We will be travelling with about 13 or 14 outfield players. Not ideal but hopefully we will have enough thereto get the job done.
"Ethan Erhahon missed out on Friday night with a hamstring strain, Wednesday will be too early. Collin Quaner and Eamonn Brophy are just making their way back, we maybe try to rush one of them and add them to the squad.
"Ryan Flynn, Jake Doylehayes, Marcus Fraser and Jonathan Obika will miss out. (But) We still have a good enough squad to put a decent starting team on the park."