Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:24 pm  

Super cas wrote:

You can't take the rise out of someone and then get it wrong yourself!! Rob played for the travs in fev from a very young age as i can remember playing against him for Stanley from u9s and then going to play for the travs myself ut u12s with players like James Ford ex cas, James Houston ex fev. I don't remember him ever playing for Cas Panthers or (Pointers as they were then) so i suppose you could say you are both right, he played his school rugby in cas and junior rugby in fev but hey ho dont let the truth get in the way of ridiculing someone. Doh.

I guess I must've been seeing things when I watched Rob play for Cas Panthers in the same team as Kevin Till (Cas Academy & Gateshead) and Aaron Gornall (Leeds Academy). Silly me

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:23 pm  

Your right, quite a few went from Cas Panthers and Lock Lane to Featherstone Lions. Did'nt Rob play in the same team as Tommy Saxton,Jonny Presley and Jonny Hepworth!

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:58 pm  

Bethman wrote:

Of players currently in Super League
101 players produced overseas
34 by Wigan
28 by Leeds
26 by Bradford
24 by Castleford
23 by Saints
21 by Hull FC
20 by Catalan
16 by Wakefield

Not sure of the criteria used in those figures - I can count at least 40 produced from the Wigan Academy system with probably more I've not remembered (half of them in the current Wigan side, half playing elsewhere).

Current squad (21):
S. Tomkins
Charnley
Goulding
Thornley
Prescott
McIlorum
Mossop
Hock
O'Louglin
Hansen
Hughes
Tuson
Farrell
Marsh
Mellor
Russell
L. Tomkins
King
Spencer
Burke
Crosby

Other clubs (19):
O'Carroll
Davies
Brown
Robinson
S. Briscoe
Melling
Ainscough
Veivers
S. Gleeson
Colbon
T. Coyle
Hargreaves
Johnson
Clarke
Allen
Kavanagh
Aspinwall
Wild
Howarth

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:47 pm  

Stuart Jones started at Wigan too didn't he?

Thomas Coyle is in SL too?!

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:49 pm  

Gronk! wrote:

Stuart Jones started at Wigan too didn't he?

Thomas Coyle is in SL too?!

He did! I knew I'd forgotten some! I got Tommy Coyle in there already , though.

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:02 pm  

Geoff wrote:

He did! I knew I'd forgotten some! I got Tommy Coyle in there already , though.

That was more surprise that Coyle is in SL

Someone is hard up for squad players!

Re: fill in the gaps : Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:47 pm  

Gronk! wrote:

That was more surprise that Coyle is in SL

Someone is hard up for squad players!

Yep! I think Widnes hold the record now for ex-Wigan players. At the Wigan game at the DW a few weeks back, I had my son with me, and he got fed up of me pointing at a Widnes player and saying "he used to play for us..."

Re: fill in the gaps : Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:15 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Pretty sure that we signed him from York?

Maybe, maybe not. To be fair, it wasn't a big history on Brough - more just pointing out that we never brought him through in any way.

Re: fill in the gaps : Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:48 am  

Geoff wrote:

Not sure of the criteria used in those figures - I can count at least 40 produced from the Wigan Academy system with probably more I've not remembered (half of them in the current Wigan side, half playing elsewhere).

Current squad (21):
S. Tomkins
Charnley
Goulding
Thornley
Prescott
McIlorum
Mossop
Hock
O'Louglin
Hansen
Hughes
Tuson
Farrell
Marsh
Mellor
Russell
L. Tomkins
King
Spencer
Burke
Crosby

Other clubs (19):
O'Carroll
Davies
Brown
Robinson
S. Briscoe
Melling
Ainscough
Veivers
S. Gleeson
Colbon
T. Coyle
Hargreaves
Johnson
Clarke
Allen
Kavanagh
Aspinwall
Wild
Howarth

Don't know the criteria but not included on the wigan list were Kavanagh, Howarth, Vievers, Johnson, Mellor, King and Burke.

Re: fill in the gaps : Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:43 am  

Fully wrote:

Maybe, maybe not. To be fair, it wasn't a big history on Brough - more just pointing out that we never brought him through in any way.

No maybe abou it, signed from Sacked from Wakey, think he even played AMA before going to York and then to hull.